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 about it, or even what menopause is. In fairness to moms everywhere, no one explained it to them. 

In this first episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

The frustrating disparity between help for mid-life men versus mid-life women

WHAT menopause is

WHEN it typically happens

WHY women enter menopause at different times

HOW long menopause lasts

Other Pauses such as Perimenopause, EARLY menopause, Premature menopause, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency  

How to Know if you are Officially in menopause

IF you should get a hormone test

Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a  certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 

Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGNMorningNews, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr.Radio,Nightline,Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.