Welcome everybody to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore Show. Today we are talking all about

how to live a happy and productive life as we get older. Menopause is first up on the agenda.

And menopause is the permanent cessation of the mencies for more than 12 months. And it results from an estrogen

deficiency and is not associated with any kind of pathology. The problem is there is a cultural

construct around the idea of menopause and around aging that we are no longer as valuable as

we once were after we go through menopause. This is simply not true. Menopause is something

that happens to all women at some point in their life with the average woman going

through menopause around the age of 51. As I said, most of the symptoms are related to estrogen

deficiency. Vesomotor symptoms such as hot flashes are predicted to occur within approximately

75% of women. 60% of women experience urogenital symptoms such as vaginal atrophy, urethro atrophy,

and sexual dysfunction.

There are also psychogenic symptoms that can happen with 45% of women experiencing

psychogenic symptoms such as anger and irritability, anxiety and tension,

depression, sleep disturbances, etc. But there's a subset of women who simply ease their way

through menopause. If you think about it, if only 45% of women experience loss of concentration

and 60% experience that stress incontinence and the frequency and the urgency, and only 75% of

women experience hot flashes or migraine, there's a subset of women who glide through menopause

with ease. And today, we are going to be talking with two

people with very different perspectives on what life can look like after we go through menopause

or after our children have left the nest, et cetera. First up, I will be talking to Dr. Kieran Dunstan about how we can stop the menopause

madness and go through menopause with ease.

After that, I talk with Don Barry, who is a certified life coach who works with empty nesters

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