Menopause or Menstrual Shenanigans?
Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction
Danielle Belardo
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ ? minutes
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Summary
Twitter’s resident OB/GYN, pain medicine physician, best-selling author, and the medical misinformation sleuth of the internet, Dr. Jen Gunter is back for round two with Dr. Danielle Belardo for an eye opening conversation about menopause, hormone therapy, medical conspiracy thinking, parasite cleanses, and more. Tune in as Jen and Danielle get to the bottom of women’s health pseudoscience headlines and take the snake oil salesmen and so-called experts *cough*Goop*cough* head on.
Dr. Jen Gunter is the author of The NY Times instant best sellers The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto. She is board-certified in OB/GYN in both Canada and the United States, and in pain medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine and the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her blog, The Vajenda, is packed full of bias-free content about sex, social media, and science with a healthy dose of humor and feminism.
Myths and misconceptions discussed include:
- Bio-identical hormone therapy vs. menopausal hormone therapy
- Testosterone pellets, estrogen dosage, and synthetic hormones
- The relationship between parasites and PMS
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:09.2 | You know what they tell people to be worried about in their early 40s fertility? |
| 0:12.4 | It's all about, are you fertile? |
| 0:13.9 | You should, you know, and yeah, I mean, that to some people, that's important. |
| 0:17.5 | But you know what? |
| 0:18.2 | That's not the only thing going on. |
| 0:20.6 | And so I think that, |
| 0:22.5 | you know, you have to think about what is your value on women. And if you only value women as breeders, |
| 0:26.8 | then of course you wouldn't talk about menopause. |
| 0:34.3 | Welcome to wellness, fact versus fiction. I'm Dr. Danielle Bellardo and I'm a cardiologist who loves |
| 0:40.1 | evidence-based medicine and nutrition science. But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness |
| 0:45.2 | vads take over social media. It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top |
| 0:50.2 | expert physicians and scientists to help us determine what is fact versus fiction when it |
| 0:55.4 | comes to your health. It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it |
| 1:00.5 | comes to our wellness. |
| 1:08.1 | Hi, everyone. Back for part two of the conversation with the brilliant and amazing Dr. Jen |
| 1:15.4 | Gunter. Dr. Jen is a OBGYN pain medicine physician, the medical misinformation sleuth of |
| 1:24.6 | the internet who really helps to debunk tons of women's health misinformation. |
| 1:30.4 | If you didn't check out last week's first hour episode with Dr. Gunter, check that out first |
| 1:35.6 | because we covered a lot of ground. Today's episode in part two of Jen's interview, we cover tons |
| 1:42.5 | of info regarding menopause. and we're with the amazing author |
| 1:47.2 | of the Menopause manifesto herself, Dr. Jen Gunter. We cover common signs of menopause, bioidentical |
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