If you’re considering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to treat your menopause, this is the reference for you. Dr. MaryBeth Lewis-Boardman stopped delivering babies in 2021 in order to concentrate on menopause treatment full-time, and she’s very enthusiastic about how much the medical community has learned and how committed it is to keep learning.
We cover a wide spectrum of menopausal symptoms (dementia? itchy ears?!) and discuss the initial questions that determine whether you’re a viable candidate. Then she outlines how the treatment starts, how and when to adjust it, and how it works compatibly with other medications (and not with others).
Magda continues her passion to debunk the flawed Women’s Health Initiative that wrongly correlated HRT with breast cancer, praises the efficacy of vaginal estrogen cream, and makes the case that menopausal accommodations in the workplace are an easily defensible investment in better productivity.
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We also talk about the best ways women can advocate for themselves by finding the best caregiver through Menopause.org, becoming as informed as possible before meeting that caregiver, and recognizing that women are “dynamic structures” who don’t need to tolerate the pain they’ve been told to tolerate.
Other links:
* The rules of the pickleball kitchen
* The dark, impenetrable Fangorn Forest
* The petition to remove the boxed warning label on local vaginal estrogen
* The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter
* Come As You Are by Dr. Emily Nagoski
* A Tired Women’s Guide to Passionate Sex by Dr. Laurie Mintz
* The Episode 26 discussion with Jackie Piasta:
