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.

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. 

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

I’ve been on my own journey for more than a decade, while not even realizing it until this last, most powerful year yet.

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.

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.

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.

In the summer of 2022 we were treated to new guidance from the North American Menopause Society for the use of menopause hormone therapy, aka MHT, aka HT (aka the treatment formerly known as but still often called HRT).

Tania Elfersy is a transformative coach, speaker and award-winning author specializing in midlife women's health.

The menopause transition is getting more and more press these days, but too often that coverage casually – and, it can be argued, irresponsibly – talks about antidepressants as a routine treatment option for mood issues.

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.

I interviewed the famous makeup artist and businesswoman Bobbi Brown the year she was turning 50 (I was 37). When I asked her how she felt about it, and expecting dread, or something negative, there was a long pause.

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.

Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition caused by a stiffening of the adhesive cap that covers the shoulder joint, causing pain, stiffness and immobility in one or both shoulders. It is a painful and movement-limiting condition, with three stages – freezing, frozen and thawing – that all told can add up to a two year arc.