Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause

The Oprah Podcast

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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BUY THE BOOK! “Grown Woman Talk” by Dr. Sharon Malone, published by Crown Publishing, is now available wherever books are sold. The paperback version will be available on April 8, 2025. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722319/grown-woman-talk-by-sharon-malone-md/ Dr. Sharon Malone, menopause expert, Chief Medical Advisor Alloy Women's Health, and author of the New York Times bestseller, "Grown Woman Talk," joins “The Oprah Podcast” to explain everything you need to know about this natural stage of life that impacts 1 billion women worldwide. Actress Naomi Watts, who writes about her menopausal journey in "Dare I Say It," will also join the conversation to share how she has learned to navigate her marriage, career and motherhood while also dealing with perimenopause. Dr. Malone will give you a greater understanding of the science behind menopause including what it is, why it happens, when it starts and how long it lasts. She will also discuss why women experience such a wide range of symptoms, why hormone fluctuations happen and why hormone replacement therapy can help. Dr. Malone answers questions from women in the throes of menopause including how to deal with workplace bias, how to manage drenching night sweats, what causes those unpredictable mood swings and what we can do to prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s as we age. Alloy Women's Health is a direct to consumer digital healthcare company revolutionizing the way women age by offering education, expertise, and safe, science-backed solutions for perimenopause & menopause symptoms, skincare, sexual health, gut health and more. Treatment plans are customized and everything is delivered with free shipping. Alloy customers receive unlimited follow-up care with their menopause-trained physician through the duration of their active prescription and access to community through member support groups and more all from the convenience of their home. Alloy offers a fast, easy, and 100% digital solution to help women find guidance and treatments wherever they are. Being with Alloy is like having a menopause doctor in one's pocket. https://www.myalloy.com/ Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: https://www.instagram.com/oprah/ https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/ Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLI https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you all for joining the Oprah podcast and for watching us on YouTube.
0:03.8	I appreciate you taking the time to spend it here with me.
0:07.6	And I am just so appreciative of the conversations we're having about things that impact all of our lives.
0:14.0	And I'm guessing you all have been hearing a lot about menopause these days.
0:19.2	But the more I talk about it, the more I realize
0:21.0	we need a menopause 101 because there's still so much, there's so much confusion still out
0:27.3	there. And we need reliable information and we need facts. Minopause is not a disease or a disorder,
0:33.7	but a natural part of aging that all women born with ovaries will eventually experience.
0:39.6	Menopause occurs when a woman has gone 12 months without a period, which means her ovaries
0:45.6	have stopped producing hormones and her body is no longer capable of reproduction.
0:51.4	For most women, menopause occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, but before you
0:56.2	enter menopause, your body will go through a transitional period known as paramenopause, which can
1:02.6	begin as early as your mid-30s. Paraminopause can last anywhere from four to 10 years and may
1:09.6	include symptoms like hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings,
1:14.1	dry skin, dry everything, and low libido. To help us understand more about the menopausal
1:21.2	journey, I invited Dr. Sharon Malone to the podcast. Dr. Malone has been a pioneer and nationally
1:27.3	renowned expert in menopause for over
1:29.6	three decades. She is the chief medical advisor for Alloy Women's Health and the New York Times
1:35.0	bestselling author, A Grown Woman Talk. So happy to have you here, Dr. Malone. Thank you so much for having me, Oprah.
1:45.4	You know, it's what we were saying before, that I feel like I've been talking about it and talking about it and talk about it.
1:52.2	And you say you talk about it.
1:53.6	It's every day.
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