Menopause Whisperer - Dr. Jim Simon

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Meet the Menopause Whisperer – Dr. Jim Simon My listeners want the truth! And they are so hungry for it! Why did "we" scare everyone off of hormones, why are doctors so hesitant to be proactive on hormones. What the "actual" risks of taking hormones are. Set me straight on "progestins" including progesterone and all the others Breast cancer and the Women’s Health Initiative – we get the facts about hormones and breast cancer risk. Hormones protect your heart and bones, especially between ages 50-60. The myth of “you need to stop hormones at a certain age” Risks of hormone therapy compared to other medications. How to get smart about hormones? In menopausal women, the risk of alcohol is higher than the risk of hormones. What men should know about menopause and menopause hormones. “Menopause is mid-life” Dr. Simon The role of testosterone in mid-age. How the “rules of the game” are stacked against women in regards to getting a FDA approved testosterone medicine for women. https://intimmedicine.com/ Article on prescribing testosterone for women: https://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/action/showPdf?pii=S1743-6095%2820%2930982-6 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.
0:15.5	And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.
0:26.1	Thank you. board-certified female urologist, Dr. Casperson. Hello, everybody.
0:27.3	I'm so excited today to have clinical professor, Dr. Jim Simon.
0:31.6	He comes to us from Washington, D.C.
0:33.8	He is a clinical professor at George Washington University,
0:36.3	and he works at Intim Medicine Specialists.
0:38.5	He's the immediate past president for the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health or Ishwish.
0:43.9	I know you guys have heard me talk about that before.
0:46.0	And then he's the past president of the North American Menopause Society.
0:49.1	So he is at the top of the thought leaders on menopause and hormones and female sexual health.
0:55.9	And I couldn't be happier to have him on today. Thanks so much for joining us.
1:00.3	I'm really happy to be here, Kelly. Thank you very much.
1:03.7	Absolutely. So my women, they want the truth. They just feel like they've been in the dark.
1:07.9	Their doctors aren't helping them understand what to do in perimenopause and menopause. And they're really hungry for kind of how we got here and why
1:15.5	everybody's in this situation. So my first question is, why did we scare everybody with hormones?
1:20.9	Why do all these women come in just thinking estrogen is a bad thing?
1:24.9	You know, I think that's a fundamental question I'm not sure about. Here's what I think
1:31.3	happened. As in science in a lot of places and at a lot of times, we have a group of people that
1:40.5	feel very strongly about something. And in this particular case, in the early 1990s, the majority of doctors practicing,
1:51.6	regardless of their discipline, felt very strongly that hormones, menopausal hormones, were a good thing.
1:58.1	And they were giving them really without thinking, really nilly,
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