Hey friends, it's Kelly. Today I am bringing you one of two podcasts on menopause. This is by my friend

Dr. Heather Hirsch, who was trained at the Cleveland Clinic in internal medicine and then went on to do a

fellowship. And she did a menopause fellowship, well, women's health fellowship, actually, I'm calling it a

menopause fellowship. But because she's now an expert in menopause, and she is now at Harvard. So she has an amazing YouTube channel,

and she has her own podcast, which is Women's Health by Heather Hirsch. Check her out. It's all

about menopause. So menopause happens on average at age 51 in America to American women,

and about 20% of women in the American

workforce go through menopause every year. That was a statistic I found on the internet because I'm

like, this affects a lot of us. So either we are a woman who hopes to live longer than age 50,

or we are a man who loves a woman, lives with a woman, has a woman as a sister or a mom,

et cetera, et cetera. Menopause affects everybody. One of my favorite people in the hormone

health world is Dr. Rachel Rubin, and so I have to give her credit for this, but she says,

basically if testosterone fell off or testicles fell off a man at age 50, there'd be a national

vaccine. And that's what I

really feel about menopause and treating menopause. And I was thinking back to my medical school

and thinking about what I learned, I don't remember learning a darn thing about menopause.

What happened was there was this huge study called the Women's Health Initiative in the early

2000s and basically it scared the pants off of everybody

in this country and correlated estrogen with breast cancer so that to this day, women are still

very freaked out about supplemental hormones, and they really pay the price of the ignorance

by not knowing what to do when these symptoms arise. So I have this week and then next week, both with

Dr. Heather Hirsch. I broke it up because, as you know, I like small podcasts that can be

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