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On Point | Podcast

Rebroadcast: Your brain on menopause

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hot flashes. Brain fog. Sleep problems. Millions of women go through menopause each year. But what’s happening in the brain during this life transition? Lisa Mosconi joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:00.0

Funding for this podcast comes from Math Works, creators of Mat Lab and Simulink Software,

0:06.0

accelerating the pace of engineering and science. Learn more at Math Works.

0:11.0

Come. Support for this podcast comes from Math Works, a company accelerating the pace of engineering and science.

0:18.0

Stick around until the end of this episode for a special segment about how companies like Nuevara fuel cells use

0:24.8

Mathworks software to design engineered systems powering the clean energy

0:29.7

transition. This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. Menopause. Millions of women go through it every year.

0:39.0

I was having

0:45.0

having these weird mood swings and I had been sleeping.

0:47.4

I was having these weird mood swings and I called my OBGYN.

0:52.3

He listened and basically said I'm not going to give you a pill for this.

0:57.0

Most of my friends have either gone through this transition or currently going through it and they don't want to talk about it.

1:02.5

I had to ask the questions. I had to do the research.

1:06.1

This aspect of my health feels completely ignored in the medical establishment.

1:11.5

My mom never talked about it.

1:13.2

Primary care never set me up for this.

1:15.5

I feel like even society hasn't prepared me for this.

1:19.0

And what I'm going through, I feel absolutely invisible.

1:23.2

On point listeners, Lila Anna in Columbia, South Carolina, Andrea Hardy in Portland, Oregon,

1:36.0

Angela Everett in Arlington, Virginia, Sarah Vanall in Portland, Oregon, and Mara Martinez in Indian Head Park, Illinois.

1:45.6

Well, today we are going to talk about Menopause,

1:50.2

specifically what the latest science shows us about how it affects women's brains.

1:55.4

Lisa Moskoni joins us.

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