This is an I-Heart podcast.

Welcome to Decoding Women's Health.

I'm Dr. Elizabeth Pointer, chair of women's health and gynecology at the Adria Health Institute in New York City.

On this show, I'll be talking to top researchers and top clinicians, asking them your burning questions and bringing that information about women's

health and midlife directly to you.

A hundred percent of women go through menopause.

It can be such a struggle for our quality of life, but even if it's natural, why should we suffer

through it?

The types of symptoms that people talk about is forgetting everything.

I never used to forget things. They're concerned that, one, they have dementia, and the other one is,

do I have ADHD? There is unprecedented promise with regard to cannabis and cannabinoids, to sleep

better, to have less pain, to have better mood, and also to have better day-to-day life.

Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Pointer wherever you get your podcasts. Pushkin.

Halloween is my favorite holiday.

I love carving pumpkins and seeing my neighbor's goofy decorations.

I love seeing people in costumes and casually running into superheroes and fairies out on the street.

I love cider donuts and Halloween candy and pumpkin spice anything, and I love that feeling of cozy

nostalgia. But oddly enough, there is one big thing I don't get about spooky season.

The spooky part. You see, I'm a complete scaredy cat.

I can't handle haunted houses or horror films.

And as a professor who studies the science of happiness,

I struggled to wrap my mind around why people might enjoy this stuff.

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