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Hey everybody, I'm Jean Chatsky.

Thank you so much for joining me today on her money.

I want to just start by saying that I love all the episodes of our show and all of our guests.

But that today's show is a really special one.

It is one that I'm so excited about.

I am sitting down with Dr. Jen Gunter.

And she is an OBGYN with more than three decades of experience as a vulver and vaginal diseases expert.

She is routinely referred to as Twitter's resident OBGYN and author of the international bestseller, the vagina Bible.

Her new book, The Menopause Manifesto Just Hit Bookstore Shelves This Month.

Today, we're going to be diving into that new book all about menopause.

And what it means to go through it, not just to survive it, but to go through it in a better, more empowered way.

If you are one of our younger listeners, you may understand menopause's basics.

It's something that most women go through between ages 45 and 55.

Technically speaking, a woman is officially in menopause a year after her last period.

But I want to use Dr. Gunter's own words to sum up the real struggle with menopause that she has spent years trying to address.

This comes from an article that she wrote for Glamour.

We'll link to it in the show notes. And she writes,

what if I told you that something major was going to happen to your body?

Instead of accurate information, you'll receive a barrage of negative messaging and be slapped with depressing stereotypes.

That's menopause for many women. Menopause is simply puberty in reverse.

But while puberty is celebrated, menopause is ignored.

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