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When infertility and perimenopause collide with Oova founder Dr Amy Divaraniya

Dr Amy Divaraniya is the CEO and Founder of Oova, a leading women’s health platform known for its physician-backed fertility and perimenopause at-home hormone monitoring. Oova empowers people to take control of their hormone health from their first period and to their last and beyond. Prior to founding Oova, Dr. Divaraniya spent 10 years as a data scientist, leading and publishing research in personal genomics and biomarker discovery. 

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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.

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Dr Vonda Wright would like you to get moving

Dr Vonda Wright is an American double board-certified orthopedic sports medicine surgeon, who has spent a career working with high-level atheletes and immersed in clinical research. 

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4 women go through perimenopause and along comes Wile

I have two power players in this perimenopause space: half of the four-person team that founded Wile, “a plant-powered hormonal and emotional wellness brand for women 40+ that reframes midlife as a time of peak power”. (You will hear the word “tincture” a lot)

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The most inspiring mid-sex-life story ever

This is a very special podcast, because it’s with a person who is so authentic and honest about what she’s been through – a rare thing indeed. Deborah Porteous takes us back eight years to when she was 53, going through menopause – and had never had an orgasm. Through the love of a patient and attentive partner that soon changed.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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The latest on cannabis for menopause relief

It’s going to be interesting, looking back years from now when there is some sort of body of research on how cannabis works to improve our peri/menopause experience.

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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.

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