Unlock Your Menopause Type with Heather Hirsch, MD (Episode 148)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Menopause is not a monolith. We all experience this stage of life differently and require unique care. So this week we sat down with Dr. Heather Hirsch, author of Unlock Your Menopause Type to talk about the six basic types she sees in her practice, including premature, sudden, full-throttle, mind-altering, seemingly never-ending, and silent and the care they require. We also dig into the controversial topics of hormone testing and menopausal hormone therapy for perimenopause. Heather’s ultimate goal is to give all women the information they need to make fully educated decisions about their care. And we’re happy to support that mission on the show this week.

Dr. Heather Hirsch is board certified in internal medicine and completed advanced fellowship training in women’s health at the Cleveland Clinic. Her clinical work and research centers on inequalities and unanswered questions in the field of gynecology and women’s health, specifically in menopause and its role in chronic disease development. Heather was the founder of the Menopause and Midlife Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Massachusetts. She is also a private telemedicine practitioner at Heather Hirsch MD, PLLC. You can learn more about her and her work at heatherhirschmd.com

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The ABCs of MHT with Heather Hirsch, MD

Unlock Your Menopause Type by Heather Hirsch, MD, MS, NCMP with Stacey Colino

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.2	Hello, strong, feisty women. As promised, a few weeks ago, this week I'm bringing you my conversation with Dr. Heather
0:39.4	Hirsch.
0:40.4	I had Heather on the show just over a year ago now talking about the basics of hormone
0:45.5	therapy.
0:46.2	And if you missed that one, definitely check it out.
0:48.6	I'll link it in the show notes so you can listen back to it.
0:51.6	And since that time, Heather has become a bit of a celebrity in the menopause
0:56.8	space. She was recently invited onto the Oprah Daily to sit down with Oprah, Drew Barrymore,
1:03.1	Maria Shriver, and Gail King to talk all things menopause to a massive mainstream audience.
1:09.0	She's also been on live with Kelly and Mark, and she has about
1:12.6	140,000 followers on her informational TikTok channel. These days, she's also talking about her
1:18.9	book that is out. It came out this summer, and it's called Unlock Your Menopause Type,
1:24.4	personalized treatments, the last word on hormones, and remedies that work. And I really
1:29.0	enjoyed this one because it's really the only book that I've seen out there that attempts to
1:34.2	address the reality that we all know is that menopause is not a monolith. Women experience it
1:40.5	very differently and require unique care. So Heather categorizes the women she
1:46.3	cares for into six basic types, premature, sudden, full throttle, mind altering, seemingly never
1:54.8	ending, and silent. And she addresses those in separate sections in the book, providing detailed
2:00.5	hormone therapy and other medication recommendations, along with lifestyle and dietary interventions.
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