Redefining Menopause: Building The Blueprint for Women’s Health with Dr. Jessica Shepherd

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Dr. Jessica Shepherd returns to the WHOOP Podcast for this month’s episode of the How To Series. Dr. Shepherd joins WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance, Principal Scientist, Dr. Kristen Holmes to redefine menopause. Dr. Jessica Shepherd is an OBGYN, menopause expert, and author of Generation M, guiding women through the various stages and lifestyle changes that come with menopause and peri-menopause. Dr. Holmes and Dr. Shepherd bring attention to the symptoms to look out for, create an und...

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0:00.0	All these pages I had written was really this love letter to women that I'd seen in my practice,
0:04.7	to myself going through it. I see this transition of menopause is so much more than clinical.
0:09.6	It's this beautiful way in where we get to say, how do I want to restructure the rest of my life?
0:15.3	Because 40% of our lives have lived in the postmenopausal phase. I really think a woman's journey
0:19.7	has been so plagued with a lot of, like, expectations,
0:23.0	obstacles, stigma.
0:24.4	We get to redefine that in this next chapter.
0:27.0	I want women to approach menopause as something that they get to take part in and have advocacy
0:32.7	and awareness for themselves and self-love.
0:36.9	Dr. Jessica Shepard, welcome back.
0:39.5	Yes, hi.
0:40.2	It's so good to be here again.
0:41.8	I know.
0:42.3	Well, you know what?
0:42.9	Your podcast literally was ranked in that year in our top three.
0:46.8	Oh, I love it.
0:47.7	Let's try and do it again.
0:48.8	Well, exactly.
0:49.6	That's why we're going to repeat this.
0:51.9	Because I think, like, I mean, that conversation was so full.
0:55.8	But I really want to try to narrow this conversation down a little bit to kind of perimenopause,
1:00.8	menopause. That said, I really do want to talk about what do women in the 30s need to do
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