Me and hormone therapy
In this episode, host Ann Marie McQueen tries to explain her long and convoluted relationship to and quest for hormone therapy. This is an episode about her experiences, made more complicated by living abroad, reluctant doctors and by years spent wandering in a wilderness of emotional and physical symptoms no one could explain. Until everything blew up. And let's not forget the gut issues. In it you will see that even with all her resources, and a global platform all about menopause and midlife, Ann Marie is still trying to find the right recipe for her. The search continues.
Journalism, my mom, and the search for health harmony
I'm giving a talk at the Organic & Real show in Dubai and this is my test run. I talk about the intersection of my 30-year journalism career, which launched around the same time as my mother's death from pancreatic cancer.
10 things I’ve learned from 100 epiodes
My 100th episode! Take a listen as I break down some of the things that other people aren't talking about. Because asking questions about uncomfortable things? That's what I do.
CBD 101: Dr Junella Chin knows pain inside and out
Dr June Chin knows about pain and how to treat it on the deepest levels: from her own experiences that started in her teens years and through to that of patients. She’s an integrative medical cannabis physician and has spent more than20 years working in holistic medicine.
Perimenopause “down there” 101 with Dr Karyn Eilber
Dr Karyn Eilber is board certified in urology (only nine percent of which are women) and female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, as well as an associate professor teaching, training and working in administration at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Dr Vikram Talaulikar: Straight facts about hormone therapy
Dr Vikram Talaulikar nails the confusion many women feel on this subject, and in episode 97 of the Hotflash inc podcast, point-by-point gives us the answers.
Hot Flashes & Cool Topics x Hotflash inc
When Colleen Rosenblum talks about starting the Hot Flashes & Cool Topics podcast with her partner Bridgett Biagi Garratt in 2019, you kind of want to stand up and cheer.
Lara Briden: The stages of perimenopause
The first encore guest on the Hotlflash inc podcast is the naturopathic doctor (and evolutionary biologist) Lara Briden, who is a calm, cool, collected and highly knowledgeable voice in the women’s health space.
Don’t get FUDed
This is a special solo episode on the eve of Menoapuse Awareness Month to talk about the current situation that exists where people are trying to scare women into taking hormone therapy, whether they need it or not.
Compounding pharmacies are not meth labs
We hear this message all the time: compounding pharmacies and the bioidentical hormones they produce are dangerous and unregulated.We hear this message all the time: compounding pharmacies and the bioidentical hormones they produce are dangerous and unregulated. But, are they?
Why Paula Rastrick wants you to go low and slow on HRT
Paula Rastrick is a British psychotherapist who was prescribed too-high levels of hormone therapy at a private clinic in the UK, which ended up causing more physical and emotional problems than she originally sought treatment for.
My big big big big news!
A quick update and Solo episode this week on where I am at right now, and how I feel about it, and what I think it means.
What’s your DNA got to do with menopause?
If you, like me, thought that DNA testing was something to avoid, because you don’t want to find out what diseases you are going to die of, then this conversation with Kashif Khan, founder of The DNA Company and author of The DNA Way, will be very eye-opening.
Tania Elfersy: Do we really need HRT?
Tania Elfersy is a transformative coach, speaker and award-winning author specializing in midlife women's health.
Andrea Donsky knows her menopause supplements
Andrea Donsky is a Canadian nutritionist who turned her own terrible and epic perimenopause into a movement – and a company. Now a Menopause Educator and Researcher with 300,000+ TikTok followers, she is on a mission to change the conversation around perimenopause and menopause.
HRT + heart disease: 'We don't believe it's going to protect you'
Kathryn Lindley, an MD and clinical investigator in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and one of the authors of the paper is my guest on the podcast this week to break down these findings.
Dr Maria Luque: "Muscle is life"
Dr Maria Luque is an Austin, Texas-based, United States Air Force veteran (she was a fitness program manager) and health science professor who studied fitness in menopause for her doctorate.
More menopause vagina stuff with Dr Burt Webb
Arizona ob-gyn Dr Burt Webb he gets into all the different treatments, hormone therapy and otherwise – that he uses for the entire pelvic region. With almost 30 years in practice treating women, he is one of the most switched-on mainstream practitioners to appear on the podcast.
Menopause vagina stuff with Dr Burt Webb
Arizona ob-gyn Dr Burt Webb tells the Hotflash inc podcast why dry vaginas aren’t always dry vaginas due to menopause, and how he takes everything into account – including the health of the gut microbiome, food insensitivities and nutrient deficiencies – in coming up with treatment plan to lower inflammation and get the blood flowing.