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Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to I Choose Me, the podcast where we talk about the choices we make.

And today, how they'll help us live longer and stronger.

Thanks to modern medicine and technology, we are living decades beyond our ovaries.

And this means we are aging well beyond menopause, which requires intention and knowledge. My guest, Dr. Kelly Casperson,

a urologist and an author, is here to clear up some myths, talk symptoms, and stigma,

and show us how choosing ourselves in this stage of life can mean thriving into our 80s, 90s, and beyond.

I'm very glad to have you here finally.

Thank you for having.

I've been waiting for this moment.

Your book is out now, which is very exciting because everybody needs more information.

And I've had a few of your cohorts, your peers,

probably some people that you work with, I know, on talking about menopause. And there's,

I don't think there's just enough conversation around it. Yeah. You can never have to many.

No, it's like 50% of the population of the world. So like everybody needs to know about this.

Right. I mean, not a niche or it's like the largest niche ever. And it's such a cool time.

Don't you feel like because we're on this precipice? Like we're over the, kind of over the tip of the

mountain. Yeah. Like it's like we've crested. Even three years, because I've been doing this now, like my podcast, and I was not talking about metapods at the beginning of my podcast is like almost six years old. And like even three years ago, people are like, I don't know. Let's not talk about it. And now everybody's like, I can't get enough of this topic. And so it's moved so fast. It's crazy.

Yeah, it's crazy. I've been kind of on the roller coaster with it since, and I was like in

perimenopause for sure right when it started happening. And I was like, wait, you're explaining all my

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