Is Your Women’s Health “Expert” Lying To You? | Dr. Jen Gunter

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

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Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Huge thanks to Dr. Jen Gunter for joining us on this episode!

Website: https://drjengunter.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/drjengunter

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter

00:00 Intro

01:30 Blaming Reels

09:10 Her Journey

21:50 Hormone Tests

31:22 Taking Advantage Of Women

40:10 Women's Health Initiative

50:14 Menopausal Hormone Therapy

59:50 Testosterone Therapy + Estrogen

1:15:57 Birth Control

1:26:46 Working With Big Pharma

1:42:05 MAHA + RFK

1:59:21 Dr. Gundry Battle

2:06:00 Starting Her Own Supplement Company

2:08:32 Yeast Infections + Probiotics

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0:29.7	So do you think the internet scares women away from birth control unnecessarily? I think the
0:35.8	internet is both an amazing and a terrible tool,
0:38.3	and it depends where you end up. When you Google something, what comes up is on what's the most
0:44.6	scientifically valid, what comes up is the most popular. Do you think that not enough women are on
0:50.6	hormonal therapy? Welcome back to the Checkup podcast.
1:00.0	Lately, social media has been absolutely flooded with wellness gurus and even medical doctors making all sorts of claims surrounding women's health.
1:03.0	Based on what I've seen, there's been a lot of fearmongering and shaming regarding women's
1:07.2	bodies, usually done to encourage the purchase of some sort of quick-fix
1:11.7	supplement or product. This is why I'm so excited to host Dr. Jen Gunther, who's a board-certified
1:17.1	OBGYN and pain medicine physician, a two-time New York Times best-selling author of the Vagina
1:23.1	Bible and the Menopause manifesto. She also writes the substack newsletter, the Vagenda.
1:28.3	She's one of the most prominent critics of wellness pseudoscience and a widely cited
1:32.5	voice on women's health from almost every leading news outlet. In our conversation,
1:37.2	not only will she tell you the truth about when hormone testing is useless, how hormone
1:42.4	therapy is actually supposed to work, the truth
1:45.0	about how women are targeted with vaginal products, but she also opens up about her traumatic
1:50.2	experience in navigating the healthcare system in seeking answers to her children's serious,
1:55.7	serious conditions. Please welcome Dr. Jen Gunther to the Checkup podcast.
2:00.0	I think a good place to start would be the fact that I've been dying to have you on the show
2:03.5	for probably half a decade or not, mostly because I feel that the women's health space
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