Rapid Response: Menopause is having a hot moment, with Midi Health’s Joanna Strober
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Women are losing sleep, falling behind at work, suffering pain, and struggling in their relationships — all because we don’t talk enough about menopause or treat its symptoms. Midi Health’s Joanna Strober founded her company to tap the vast underserved market for this area of women’s health, which is finally getting mainstream attention. Strober shares with Rapid Response host Bob Safian the stakes of ignoring perimenopause and menopause, how she endured bias in fundraising to eventually secure $100 million, and why she isn’t shy about leaning into controversy.
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| 0:44.0 | Well, let's talk about sex, Bob. |
| 0:47.0 | Let's just go there, right? |
| 0:49.0 | As we age and estrogen goes down for about 80% of women sex becomes painful. What happens then then |
| 0:55.8 | women don't want to have sex anymore? Menopause means you have not had your |
| 1:00.8 | period for a year. Parimenopause is the period of time starting around 35. |
| 1:07.0 | What I want women to know is at a much younger age, |
| 1:10.0 | start thinking, |
| 1:12.0 | if I'm not feeling right, this be parymenopause and I |
| 1:14.6 | should be getting treatment for it because you don't have to suffer. |
| 1:17.4 | Honestly I think there's a huge acceptance in society of women's suffering. |
| 1:21.2 | The amount of money that's gone into erectile |
| 1:23.3 | dysfunction versus the amount of money that has gone into sexual wellness for |
| 1:26.2 | women is just totally unbalanced. That's Joanna Strober, CEO of Media Health, which has raised a hundred million dollars to help women with menopause. |
| 1:42.0 | The topics that Joanna and I discuss in this |
| 1:45.1 | episode aren't often explored in business media, but that's just the point. |
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