Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: Menopause, Midlife, and More
Hot flashes, vaginal dryness, leaky bladders, weight gain, hair loss, inability to orgasm? Nothing is off limits in these fact filled, solution-driven and often surprisingly funny podcasts that address the specific symptoms women face as they navigate perimenopause and post-menopause. Each segment is like having an in-depth consultation with Dr. Lauren Streicher, a nationally recognized menopause expert and the founding Medical Director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. Guests will include other experts on all things menopause. So strap in- it’s going to be quite the ride! This is THE podcast for accurate information about menopause but is not meant to be personal medical advice.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 138
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
S1 Ep36: How to Know You Are in Menopause If You Never Get Periods
Google, “when does menopause start" and you will learn that you are post menopause when you haven't had a period in 12 months. But the 12 months without a period definition is totally MEANINGLESS for…
00:10:56 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
S1 Ep35: Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It used to be that the term “bioidentical hormone therapy” referred exclusively to compounded hormone products. But today, the term bioidentical includes FDA approved commercial products and compound…
00:28:11 |
Wed 17 Aug 2022
S1 Ep34: Making the Most of Mid-Life and Beyond with Iris Krasnow
How is it that some women are sexier, more productive, more fulfilled, and even more relevant after the age of 50 than then when they were younger? In this episode, Dr. Streicher is joined by Iris Kr…
00:47:58 |
Wed 10 Aug 2022
S1 Ep32: Are Your Hot Flashes Making You Foggy? Forgetful? with Dr. Pauline Maki
If you are peri or post-menopausal and can’t remember the name of your next-door neighbor or why you walked in a room, you are not crazy, you are not heading towards dementia, and you are not alone. …
00:50:53 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
S1 Ep31: The Truth About Estrogen Therapy and Breast Cancer
The number one reason women give for not taking estrogen is fear of breast cancer. This fear is based on the 2002 study which has been reevaluated and shown to be flawed in a number of ways. Despite …
00:21:05 |
Wed 20 Jul 2022
S1 Ep28: The BEST approach for BREAST Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction with Dr. Lisa Larkin
It used to be so simple. Women were just advised to get a mammogram every year. But now we have not just x-rays, but ultrasound, MRI, digital breast tomosynthesis, screening mammograms, and diagnosti…
00:48:31 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
S1 Ep23: The Impact of Systemic Racism in Mid-life Women's Health
Relatively minimal research is devoted to menopause even though menopause affects literally 100% of women that live past the age of 50. For women of color, the situation is far more dire.. Not only d…
00:46:38 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
S1 Ep24: A Mid-life Manual If Your Kid is College Bound
With women delaying pregnancy, the year you start flashing just might coincide with the year you are sending your son or daughter off to college. If you are a mid-life woman who has college-bound kid…
00:45:37 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
S1 Ep23: Welcome to Peri-menopause!
Years before estrogen production completely shuts down, HORMONE LEVELS start to FLUCTUATE wildly during that special time of life known as PERIMENOPAUSE. Waiting out bothersome hot flashes, mood swin…
00:13:09 |
Mon 30 May 2022
S1 Ep22: Dreaming of SLEEP with Dr Stephanie Faubion
Overall, women are 40% more likely to experience insomnia than men and the numbers are even higher during perimenopause and menopause. There are many reasons for sleepless nights mid-life (beyond hot…
00:42:14 |
Thu 26 May 2022
S1 Ep20: Is Non-monogamy Having a Moment? With Dr. Wednesday Martin
Prepare to rethink everything you have been taught about female sexuality. One in five couples practice open non-monogamy, yet cultural and societal expectations are that a woman have only one partne…
01:12:38 |
Thu 19 May 2022
S1 Ep17: Menopause and Work
More than 60% of women say that their menopause symptoms decreased their productivity and quality of work and even though millions of corporate dollars are lost due to absenteeism, reduced quality of…
00:08:37 |
Mon 09 May 2022
S1 Ep14: Need to Know Info About the Penis in Your Bed with Dr. Rachel Rubin
Up to 70% of post menopause women have vaginal or vulvar changes which lead to difficulty with sexual function, but for many couples, that is far from the whole story. In this episode, Dr. Streicher …
00:34:28 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
S1 Ep12: Your Muscles on Menopause with Amanda Thebe
Vaginas are not the only part of the body that change mid-life! With age, muscles start to naturally atrophy- a condition called sarcopenia. Women can lose up to 10% of their muscles mass every decad…
00:44:55 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
S1 Ep9: Can Cannabis Help Your Sweats? Your Sleep? Sex?
More than 1 in 4 menopausal women report that they use some form of cannabis to alleviate hot flashes, insomnia, vaginal dryness, mood swings, and brain fog.
In this segment Dr. Streicher takes yo…
00:23:27 |
Sun 10 Apr 2022
S1 Ep8: When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationship s with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
Women who are dealing with PAINFUL SEX not only need to medically eliminate the cause of the pain, but also need to repair the PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT of either avoiding or enduring agonizing sexual act…
00:32:36 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
S1 Ep2: Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
The impact of hot flashes goes far beyond being miserable. We now have a huge amount of scientific evidence that it’s not just menopause, but hot flashes specifically, that increase your risk of deve…
00:11:54 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
S1 Ep1: Is it Menopause? Or Some Other Pause?
Unlike puberty, when your mother sat you down and explained what to expect with your first period, it is the rare mother who tells her daughter what to expect from her first hot flash, what to do abo…
00:20:27 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
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