How to Research Your Menopause with Leslie McClure, PhD (Episode 111)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Google is often our first stop when we want to understand a symptom we’re experiencing and find out what we can do about it. But the internet is a bottomless well of information–and disinformation. Even when we dig into actual research studies, the conclusions aren’t always reliable or consistent, which is why it’s hard to get a straight answer on complex issues like hormone therapy. It can be frustrating and confusing, but there are ways you can evaluate the information you find to determine how much confidence to put into any given conclusion, which is where this week’s guest biostatistician Leslie McClure, PhD, comes in. Leslie explains how to do your own research and how to assess the information you find, including what makes a good study, causation versus correlation, features of information you can trust, and much more. Leslie also talks about her own menopause experience, which started when she was 39 and has continued for 9 years and how it has impacted her own training and fitness.

Leslie is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, where she works with other scientists to help them better formulate, design, analyze, and present their science. She is currently the Director of the Coordinating Center for the Diabetes LEAD Network, and the Director of the Data Coordinating Center for the Connecting the Dots: Autism Center of Excellence. Dr. McClure is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Society for Clinical Trials, and of the American Heart Association.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.1	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:32.6	So we have a little bit of a different show for you this week, but one I think you'll all really enjoy
0:38.7	and get a lot out of, not just through menopause and athletics, but for life. It is with
0:45.1	statistician Leslie McClure. Leslie is the chair of the Department of Epidemiology and
0:51.2	Biostatistics at Drexel University's Doran's Life School of Public
0:55.4	Health, where she works with other scientists to help them better formulate, design,
1:00.2	analyze, and present their science.
1:02.7	Leslie reached out to me and offered herself as a guest because she's part of our
1:07.1	hip play, not pause, private Facebook community, and she recognized that a lot of us are out
1:12.3	here doing our own research, Googling symptoms, looking at menopause resources, and even accessing
1:19.2	medical literature. And she recognized that, one, there's a lot of sketchy information on the
1:25.8	internet. And two, even if you find a medical study,
1:29.8	not all studies are created equal. So she thought it could be helpful to do a show on how to dig
1:35.3	into your own research, including where to start, what makes a good study, what features of a
1:41.1	study make for research you can trust, causation versus correlation, and much more.
1:47.6	In addition to that, Leslie talks about her own menopause experience, which started when she was 39 and
1:54.0	continues to this day, nine years later, and how it has impacted her own training and fitness.
2:00.7	I really love this part of the story because when Leslie started noticing that her cycles were
2:06.6	becoming kind of a disaster, she consults her doctor who told her, you're too young to be going
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