Well, Now | More Than Hot Flashes: Breaking the Silence on Menopause

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

More than half the population will experience menopause if they’re fortunate enough to age. Yet so much of this full-body transformation remains a mystery. Journalist and filmmaker Tamsen Fadal is out to change that. Her new documentary The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause premiered on PBS earlier this year. In it, her team interviews patients and health experts worldwide about the lack of research into this important stage of life. On this week’s episode of Well, Now Kavita and Maya ask her what can be done to better care for the millions of women experiencing it now and in the future. If you liked this episode, check out: Michelle Obama Gets Health Advice From This Gyno. Now You Can, Too. Well, Now is hosted by registered dietitian nutritionist Maya Feller and Dr. Kavita Patel. Editing and podcast production by Vic Whitley-Berry with oversight from Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to wellnow@slate.com. Want to listen to Well, Now uninterrupted? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock ad-free listening to Well, Now and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/wellplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what that is.
0:04.0	An ice cold beer.
0:07.0	What's different?
0:09.0	It's Budweiser, a perfect beer for party season.
0:14.0	Best enjoyed with your best buds.
0:20.0	Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no way. Best enjoyed with your best butts.
0:22.3	Cheers to that.
0:25.3	Budweiser, like no other.
0:26.7	Please drink responsibly.
0:28.5	For the facts, visit drinkaware.com. UK.
0:33.5	You're listening to Well Now, Slate's podcast on Health and Wellness.
0:39.5	I'm Kavita Patel.
0:40.7	And I'm Maya Feller.
0:42.2	So, Kavita, I remember when I was teaching nutrition through the life cycle at NYU.
0:47.3	And we got to this section in the text where I was supposed to talk about the menopausal transition.
0:52.1	It was a really short section.
0:53.6	And I really remember that it was
0:55.5	like maybe five paragraphs tops. And the main takeaway was that as women who are going to go through
1:02.9	that menopausal transition, basically we just become more like our male counterparts. And once
1:08.8	we're postmenopausal, the risk of weight gain and heart
1:11.8	disease increases, like literally not much more. So, Kavita, I want to know what did you learn
1:17.3	in medical school? Oh, you're making me go way back at the time machine, Maya, but I remember
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