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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.
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If you haven't finished your holiday shopping yet, I've got you covered. In this episode, I have great gift ideas that also happen to be healthy.
There were two criteria to make it to this list. One, it had to be something I already own or would like to own. Second, there had to be a scientifically proven health benefit to using these items.
And if you have already finished your shopping, these are great gifts to buy for yourself.
For a transcript of this episode, including video demonstrations, go to Substack.com/@DrStreicher
· Mocktail Book
· Silk Sleep Mask
· Resistance Bands
· Foldable Bike Helmut
· Walking Pad
· Elixer Play Amathyst Vibrator
· Crave
· Lube Warmer
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube @DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is for education and information and is not intended to replace medical advice from your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
An “MD” after the name is no assurance that the person to whom you are about to bare your soul—and your vagina—is an expert when it comes to menopause.
In this episode, I am going to walk you through the steps to find someone you can trust to fix your flashes, foggy brain, and failing sex life.
Head over to Substack.com/@DrStreicher for a transcript of the episode, and bonus! I posted an article with specific questions to ask during a menopause consultation (and answers you might get) that will let you know if you can trust this person to help you manage your menopause.
If Your Doctor Doesn’t Have a Vagina
Specialists that may be menopause expertise
Advanced practice nurses and physician assistants
Why most doctors know very little about menopause
What letters mean after a doctor’s name
The difference between a license and board certification
What it takes to maintain board certification
What it means to be “double boarded”
Why Anti-Aging is not a recognized board certification
What academic titles such as “Professor” indicate
How I became a menopause expert
What it means to be a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner
Checking out publications
Physician Referral services
The problem with consumer referral sites
Red flags to look for on doctor websites
If you should educate your own doctor
If concierge doctors are worth it
Telehealth- and what to look for
Go to substack.com/@drstreicher for my list of specific questions to ask (and potential answers you might get ) that are pretty good indications that the person you are seeing is an actual expert.
Links
To verify that a physician is licensed
Federation of State Medical Boards website
fsmb.org
To verify that a physician is board certified
ABMS.org is the site where you can check out whether a physician is board-certified and find out what he or she is certified in.
To find a certified menopause practitioner
www.menopause.org.
To see if your physician has published any scientific articles
NIH National Library of Science- Pubmed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Substack/cm/@DrStreicher
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube @DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
If you would like to read a transcript of this episode along with some additional information, head on over to my substack- substack.com/@DrStreicher
Chances are you have heard at least one expert say that systemic hormone therapy will prevent heart disease. But you also may have heard other experts say, No- if you don’t have hot flashes or low bone mass, it is not recommended to take hormone therapy to prevent heart disease down the road. So, who is right? Why is this controversial? Isn’t the data, the data? In this episode, I explain why experts are not all on the same page when it comes to the long-term cardiovascular benefits of hormone therapy.
· The Difference between a Randomized Controlled Trial and an Observational Trial
· Why the WHI was an excellent study- and why it was problematic
· What we learned From the WHI about Hormones and Cardiovascular Health
· The Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN)
· What we learned From the SWAN about Hormones and Cardiovascular Health
· What we learned From the SWAN about Hormone therapy and Cardiovascular Risk
· What we learned From the SWAN about Hormone therapy and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
· If hormone therapy should be prescribed for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease- the view of the two opposing sides
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Substack/cm/@DrStreicher
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube @DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
The only thing predictable about perimenopause is that it is …unpredictable. My guest today is Dr. Steven Goldstein, a tenured professor at NYU's Grossman School of Medicine, the past President of the International Menopause Society, Past President of The Menopause Society, and one of the WORLD’S top experts on the science of perimenopause.
The problem with the standard definition of menopause.
Why bleeding and having a period is not the same thing
Why perimenopausal women bleed erratically
Why anxiety and other symptoms occur during
How to interrupt FSH and estradiol blood levels
The best treatment for perimenopause
Why birth control pills work so well during perimenopause
Myths about birth control pills
The concept of “suppression and substitution”
How long perimenopause lasts
What triggers perimenopause
Why fibroids often grow during perimenopause
How to know if symptoms are perimenopause hormonal fluctuations or something else
How long someone can stay on a birth control pill
When the 12-month rule doesn’t hold
When perimenopause and menopause hit before the age of 40.
When perimenopause hits before 40 why it needs to be treated
Options if someone can’t take birth control pills
When you can ignore irregular bleeding and when it needs to be evaluated
What Black women need to know about perimenopause bleeding
The likelihood of cancer if there is a uterine polyp and you are not bleeding
Link to John Rock’s Error Article
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Substack.com/@DrStreicherDrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube @DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Men have always had the clear advantage of being able to inspect their genitals with very little effort on their part. Women’s genitals are not quite as accessible, resulting in a lot more uncertainty about what’s normal and what’s not. No wonder women are frequently blindsided by not only the physical changes that occur with the onset of menopause but also symptoms like dryness, painful sex, itching, recurrent urinary tract infections, and that constant “gotta go” feeling!
Why the term VAGINAL ATROPHY is problematic
GENITOURINARY SYNDROME OF MENOPAUSE- What it is and what it means
The PHYSICAL CHANGES that result from a lack of estrogen
The genital and urinary SYMPTOMS that women experience because of LACK of ESTROGEN
Options to Treat GSM
Lubricants
Long-Lasting Moisturizers
Local Vaginal Estrogen
DHEA
Ospemifen
Dr. Streicher is now on Substack!
A transcript of this episode with related videos, podcasts, and graphics can be found on Dr. Streicher’s FREE Substack
https://substack.com/@DrStreicher
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Related Episodes:
Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 27: Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell
Episode 44 A Deep Dive into RECURRENT UTI
Episode 63 DHEA-An Estrogen Alternative for Vaginal Dryness
Episode 74 Ospemifene- A Pill a Day to Keep Dryness Away
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner.
While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Studies reveal that 70% of women experience a sense of being overlooked socially and professionally once they hit 50. The term for this phenomenon is Invisible Woman Syndrome. In this episode, I am joined by Christine Morrison, who writes about the social constructs in the fashion, beauty and wellness industry that inform the way society views women, and the way women often feel about themselves as they get older. Christine Morrison’s writing has appeared in print and online vehicles such as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Quality Edit and Margot Magazine, among others, and in advertising campaigns for Alastin Skincare, French Connection, Juicy Couture and more. Prior to focusing on writing full-time, Morrison held leadership positions in the fashion and beauty industries, including serving as Global Vice President of Beauty and Apparel Marketing for Calvin Klein.
Her forthcoming book, “Clothes Minded: Fashionable Essays About Finding Yourself,” – in which she reflects on the meaning behind, and the humor in, the relationship between her sartorial self and formation of identity – is slated to publish Spring, 2026.
This episode will change the way you think about aging
For information about my upcoming retreat with Dr. Ellen Gendler:
Information About the Mastering Menopause Retreat
Christine Morrison
Writing In Black and White
https://www.writinginblackandwhite.com/
https://writinginblackandwhite.substack.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writinginblackandwhite/
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Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube @DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
I give two to three lectures a week. No matter who I am talking to or what the topic is, the part I like the best is the Q and A. It’s always different and I never know what I am going to get. In this episode I answer 37 questions in a 45 minute webinar I did on behalf of Midi Health where I am the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach. If you are looking for in-depth explanations like I often give, you won’t get that in this episode. But, if you would like more detailed information I have listed some of the questions below along with past episodes that covered the topic in more depth.
Some sample questions that were covered...
· Can a woman over age 60 take HT? Episode 123 Hormone Therapy After Age 60 with Dr. James Simon
· I went to see my doctor and she only prescribes Prempro- is it OK to take Prempro ? Episode 124 All Hormones Are Not Created Equal with Dr. James Simon
· Is it OK to take a break in HT?
· What is the typical cost of HT?- How many types? Is it covered by most insurance?
· Is it appropriate to order blood testing to optimize treatment?
· Is it best to wait a full 12 months without a period to start HT?
· Will hormone therapy help my uterine prolapse get better? Episode 38 Pelvic Organs Dropping? How to STOP the POP!
· What are the chances that Testosterone will help my libido and what are possible side effects? Episode 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
· Why would a Dr. Prescribe Veozah instead of Estrogen? Episode 77 Fezolinetant! A New Non-Hormonal Hot Flash Drug
· What causes periods to be irregular in perimenopause? Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
· My hot flashes came back after a long hiatus. Should I start estrogen? Episode 53 Not All Hot Flashes Mean Menopause
· My Calcium score is Zero- can I take HT ? Episode 123 Hormone Therapy After Age 60 with Dr. James Simon
· I am still using Nuva Ring for Birth control- when should I transition to HT? Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
· Does Estroven work? Episode 95 Non-hormonal options to treat VMS- Herbs Spices &Wishful Thinking
· Is it normal for orgasms to get weaker and what can be done to make it stronger? Episode 15: Post Menopause Orgasm- Everybody Come!
About Midi Health
JoinMidi.com
Midi is a virtual clinic specializing in perimenopause and menopause.
Midi offers both hormonal and non-hormonal evidence-based care from experts.
The Next Midi Ask Me Anything Webinar
https://www.instagram.com/midihealth/p/DBwlpqkRYTv/
November 20, 2024 2:00 PM/3:00 PM ET
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube @DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It may also be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who are interested in and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Most women are very familiar with the concept of a moisturizer since they have been conditioned to constantly apply one to their face and neck to avoid dire consequences like wrinkles and fine lines While the tissue that lines the vagina is not the same as the skin on the rest of your body, when estrogen declines, both the skin on your face and the “skin” that lines the vagina, become dry and thin. Over-the-counter long-lasting vaginal moisturizers are intended to be used regularly in anticipation of sexual activity. Moisturizers hydrate and thicken vaginal tissue to restore natural lubrication. In addition, regular use of vaginal moisturizers may also help with non-sexual symptoms like burning, irritation and dryness.
· The difference between vaginal lubricants and long-acting moisturizers
· Why products are often labeled as moisturizers when they are lubricants
· The two categories of vaginal moisturizers that have been shown in clinical trials to change tissue
o Polycarbophil (Replens™ Long-lasting Vaginal Moisturizer)
o Hyaluronic Acid (Reveree™, Hayalo Gyn™)
· HOW these products work
· How well these products work compared to other products
· Why maintaining a healthy vaginal pH is important.
· How to best use a long-acting vaginal moisturizer.
· Liv-Ring™- a new vaginal ring that states it is both a lubricant and moisturizer.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
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Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
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You grab a product off the shelf—maybe it promises to help with bladder control, take off ten pounds, erase wrinkles, or boost orgasms. You assume it will do what it claims to do because it has the FDA seal on the package. Most consumers have no idea that most over-the-counter products have not been tested to ensure product claims are legitimate.
The history of the FDA
Why estrogen disappeared from face cream in 1962
The different FDA categories and what they mean
FDA Approved
FDA Cleared
FDA Listed
FDA Registered
What it takes to be FDA-approved
Why testosterone was never FDA-approved for women
Loopholes that allow products to get an FDA label
Other misleading labeling that is often used:
Doctor recommended
Doctor tested
Clinically proven
The difference between a marketing study and a scientific study
The problem with class labeling
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Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Managing menopause in the face of cancer can be complicated. Many women are made to think that they should just be grateful to be alive and not complain about their all day all night hot flashes, brain fog and sex that is excruciatingly painful. Many oncologists are not experts when it comes to menopause or sexual function and don’t bring it up or give information that isn’t accurate. Many women aren’t aware that hormone therapy may be safe, and if it’s not, that there are non-hormonal options to solve virtually every problem.
In this Q and A episode I am joined by Dr. Mindy Goldman, the Director of the Gynecology Center for Cancer Survivors and At-Risk Women at UCSF and the Chief Clinical Officer at Midi Health.
• Options to treat vaginal dryness when taking an aromatase inhibitor
• Options to prevent bone loss if estrogen is not an option
• Using testosterone to help libido with a breast cancer diagnosis
• If it is OK to take hormone therapy with an ER negative breast cancer
• If it is OK to take hormone therapy with a recent or remote diagnosis of an ER positive breast cancer
• Hormone therapy with endometrial (uterine cancer)
• Hormone therapy post lung cancer
• If estrogen will decrease the risk of colon cancer if there is a genetic pre-disposition such as Lynch syndrome
• If someone is at risk of breast cancer, are some forms of hormone therapy better to use than others
• Why you are asked about estrogen use when you have a mammogram
• Is it safe to use hormone therapy with a BRCA mutation
• Should a hysterectomy be performed along with ovary removal with ovary and tube removal
• If radiation from a mammogram increasesthe risk of getting breast cancer?
• If it is safe to use hormone therapy with dense breasts
• And much more…
Mindy Goldman MD
JoinMidi.com
Dr. Goldman is the Chief Clincial Officer at Midi Health and a Clinical Professor Emeritus in the department of OB/GYN at UCSF, where she is also the Director of the Gynecology Center for Cancer Survivors and At-Risk Women. She has worked with both the American College of Ob/Gyn (ACOG) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and is a nationally recognized expert in the management of women’s health issues, including menopause, for women with cancer or at high risk.
Other Episodes of Interest
Episode 92 Estrogen Cancer Conundrums?
Episode 114- Is Duovee the Ideal Hormone Therapy?
Episode 124 All Hormones Are Not Created Equal with Dr. James Simon
Episode 133 Best Breast Advice When it Comes to Hormone Therapy with Dr. Corinne Menn
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
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• Instagram @DrStreich
• Facebook @DrStreicher
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• LinkedIn @DrStreicher
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
• Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
• Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
• Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
• The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Midi Health www.Joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
• To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
• Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Episode149
The Menopause Society Meeting
Insights from an Insider
Once a year, the Menopause Society holds an annual meeting where thousands of experts gather to present their research and learn from each other. In this episode, I will discuss some of the most interesting research presented at the meeting…and explain why I didn’t attend the meeting.
· VOICE as a Predictor of HEALTH
· The impact of TESTOSTERONE on the VOICE
· How to find out if you have a GENETIC MUTATION
· How ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is being used to read MAMMOGRAMS
· How a MAMMOGRAM can predict HEART DISEASE
· How WORK can make your MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS worse
· Delaying OVARIAN AGING
· The impact of HOT FLASHES on the BRAIN
· A new approach to detecting ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE early
· HYPNOSIS to help HOT FLASHES
· How non-hormonal HOT FLASH DRUGS can help you SLEEP
· Continuing HORMONE THERAPY past AGE 65
· HORMONE THERAPY and DIABETES
· PLATELET RICH PLASMA INJECTIONS to treat VAGINAL DRYNESS
· GLP-1 INHIBITORS to combat MENOPAUSE WEIGHT
· The Best Way to Treat PERIMENOPAUSAL BLEEDING
For more information on these topics:
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 85 Estrogen and Alzheimer’s Disease
Episode 94 Menopause and Voice
Episode 123 Hormone Therapy After Age 60
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Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It may also be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who are interested in and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
You know what a Hack is…something that solves a problem, simplifies a task or reduces frustration. Who doesn’t love a good hack? This episode is loaded with GYNECOLOGIC HACKS ...your gyne never told you. Useful tips, tricks and solutions for frustrating gyne problems. Alternative uses for products that are intended to be used on your vulva or in your vagina. And if this does well, I’ve got plenty more.
· How to Easily Remove Your Estring™ Hack
· Hands-Free Vulvar View Hack
· Expired Birth Control Pill Hack
· Ditch Your Vaginal Estrogen Applicator Hack
· Silicone Lubricant Hacks
· Electric Toothbrush Vibrator Hack
· How to Use Silicone Lube with Your Silicone Toy Hack
Head on over to Tick Tock, Youtube or Instagram for a video.
https://www.youtube.com/c/drstreichertv
https://www.instagram.com/drstreich
https://www.facebook.com/DrStreicher/
https://www.linkedIn/DrStreicher
https://www.tiktok.com/@drstreicher
For more information:
o Erosscia Ceola- toothbrush vibrator extension
Episode 89 Faking Orgasm with Rachel Zar
Episode 96 Is your Lubricant HELPING or HURTING Your Vagina?
Episode 144 Estrogen and Skin? The Facts!
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
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Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Menopause Masterplan
Dr. Streicher offers one-on-one and group informational and educational Menopause Masterplan sessions. For more information: https://www.drstreicher.com/menopause-master-plan
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
There is a long history of women not only not knowing nothing about sexual pleasure but being made to feel as if there is something dangerous and wrong with them if they seek it. My guest for this episode is Dr. Laurie Mintz a professor, a therapist, and the author of “Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters- and how to get it”, the groundbreaking book that changed not only how millions of women, and men, think about female sexual pleasure, but how women can OWN sexual pleasure.
Why, HISTORICALLY, women have not been educated about the clitoris and its role in female pleasure and orgasm
Why Dr. Mintz wrote Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters
Why women often feel SHAME about the appearance of their genitalia
Why women still believe that orgasm will occur during intercourse
The anthropological explanation for why the clitoris is (biologically) is OUTSIDE the vagina
What is meant by “ORGASM EQUALITY”
The POLITICS of orgasm
Why it is important to have a SEX SCRIPT
Why PORN is problematic
MASTURBATION education
Why a vibrator is a TOOL, not a TOY
What a VIBRATOR and a RAFT have in common
MEN and Vibrators
The problem with SEX EDUCATION in America
Why MINDFULNESS is so important when it comes to sexual pleasure
LABIAL diversity
The purpose of PUBIC HAIR
Laurie Mintz, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Florida
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters
A Tired Woman’s Guide to Passionate Sex
www.drlauriemintz.com
Dr. Mintz’s Tedx Talk: A New Revolution for Orgasm Equality
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram @DrLaurieMintz
LINKS
OMG YES: The Science of Women’s Pleasure
The Labia Library
Gyno Diversity
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Episode 15: Post Menopause Orgasm- Everybody Come!
Episode 29: Has Your Hysterectomy Hijacked Your Sex Life?
Episode 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
It’s a common scenario. A woman is given a prescription for a local vaginal estrogen, or DHEA and uses it faithfully but continues to have painful intercourse. In most cases, the product is working just fine and there is another reason for the pain.
In this segment Dr. Streicher discusses:
The TOP 5 REASONS women have pain despite using estrogen
Why a WRONG DIAGNOSIS might be the problem
The importance of treating the VESTIBULE (the opening) of the vagina
Why a painful, tight PELVIC FLOOR might be the problem
The role of PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY
VAGINAL DILATORS- What they are, how they help, and how to use them.
Soul Source Dilators
https://www.soulsource.com/
How to Find a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist
Pelvic Floor Physical therapists trained by Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute www.pelvicrehab.com
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Section on Women’s Health www.aptapelvichealth.org/ptlocator
For further information:
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 63 DHEA-An Estrogen Alternative for Vaginal Dryness
Episode 83 Get the Biggest Benefit from Vaginal Creams, Rings and Other Things
Episode 130- Are You Ever Done with Menopause?
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Episode 1: Is It Menopause or Some Other Pause?
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
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 WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Put a group of menopause experts in a room, and there are certain things everyone will agree on. But there are other topics, that do not result in universal agreement. And, usually, when that happens, it’s the battle of the academic purists vs …everyone else. And in the menopause world right now, there is no more controversial topic than the use of testosterone as part of the standard hormone therapy cocktail.
So today, Dr. Kelly Casperson, the host of the You Are Not Broken podcast, and I will discuss WHY there is controversy and where that leaves us in advising women on what is in their best interest. Put two opinionated podcasters in the same room…well, all I can say is, strap in.
Kelly Casperson MD
https://kellycaspersonmd.com/
You Are NOT Broken: Stop “Shoulding” All Over Your Sex Life
You Are Not Broken Podcast
· Why testosterone is not FDA-approved for women
· The difference between hormone therapy and hormone replacement
· Who would most benefit from testosterone therapy
· Why “off label” does not mean “off limits”
· Proven benefits of testosterone
· Potential benefits of testosterone
· What is known about the safety of testosterone in women
· What we have learned from transgender men
· Appropriate labs to get before initiating testosterone therapy
· What to do if SHBG is elevated
· The Problem with Pellets
· Why it’s important to give women choices
· If testosterone should ever be applied to the clitoris
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
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Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Menopause Masterplan
Dr. Streicher offers one-on-one and group informational and educational Menopause Masterplan sessions. For more information: https://www.drstreicher.com/menopause-master-plan
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
Something happens to skin after your 40th birthday, and that something isn’t good. So is it just a coincidence that wrinkles and sags show up at the same time your periods disappear, or is it just one of those mid-life things? The answer is both. Post menopause skin without estrogen is dryer, thinner, blotchier, hairier, and wrinklier. So, is TOPICAL ESTROGEN the answer? And is it safe?
The specific impact of loss of estrogen on skin
Why bone loss impacts the way your face looks
Why you get increased facial hair post menopause
When estrogen was in over-the-counter facial creams.
Why the FDA stopped allowing the sale of over-the-counter estrogen
Studies that demonstrate that topical facial estrogen cream is safe and effective
How systemic estrogen benefits skin
Options to get facial estrogen cream
How to use it
Strategies to remove facial hair
For more information:
Episode 117 Top Tips for Terrific Skin & Hair with Dr. Ellen Gendler
Episode 139 Hair Today -Gone Tomorrow- Part 1
Episode 141 Hair Today -Gone Tomorrow-Part 2
Rzepecki A, et al. Estrogen-deficient skin: The role of topical therapy International Journal of Women's Dermatology 2019
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30997378/
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
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Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Menopause Masterplan
Dr. Streicher offers one-on-one and group informational and educational Menopause Masterplan sessions. For more information: https://www.drstreicher.com/menopause-master-plan
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
In a world where women are barraged with information when it comes to how best to manage menopause, it can be overwhelming and confusing. Between having their symptoms dismissed by their regular physician, and then being overwhelmed with information on social media, it’s hard to know what’s fact and hype. And what do you do when the doctor you trust, tells you that the social media expert you also trust is wrong?
In this episode, I chat with Tamsen Fadal, a menopause advocate who has made it her mission to help perimenopausal and menopausal women navigate through the information and disinformation to get the correct information when it comes to maximizing their health.
Tamsen’s own experience when she entered menopause
Why Tamsen switched careers to become a menopause advocate
How do you know an expert is really an expert?
The best way to find a menopause expert
The impact of telehealth on finding a menopause expert
What to do if your own doctor is not a menopause expert
Why women put relatability over expertise
Hot to figure out if a social media expert is an expert
What to do when a social media expert disagrees with your own doctor
Do healthcare clinicians need to act professionally in their private lives?
What I think when it comes to being strictly evidence-based
Tamsen Fadal
https://www.tamsenfadal.com/
Social Media-@tamsenfadal
For more information on this topic:
Episode 10: Dating After 50- Make it Awesome Not Awful- With Bela Gandhi
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Episode 124 All Hormones Are Not Created Equal with Dr. James Simon
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding 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 WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
It can be terrifying to have bleeding when you are post-menopause. It’s not just about making the midnight run for tampons, it’s that stomach-dropping fear that “blood equals cancer” that causes women to spend hours consulting Dr. Google for some reassurance. But, although most women imagine the worst, in most cases, postmenopausal spotting or bleeding is not, is not, an indication of anything serious.
How to know WHERE the blood is coming from
The 3 causes of Post Menopause VAGINAL WALL BLEEDING
What causes Post Menopause CERVICAL BLEEDING
Causes of UTERINE BLEEDING post menopause
Uterine POLYPS
Uterine FIBROIDS
Uterine ATROPHY
Post menopause “PERIODS”
Endometrial HYPERPLASIA
Uterine CANCER and Pre-cancer
The role of ULTRASOUND and saline ultrasound
The Why and What to expect of endometrial BIOPSIES
When and why a D and C /HYSTEROSCOPY is needed
Link to newsletter on hormone disrupters: https://mailchi.mp/drstreicher.com/august-2024-inside-information-newsletter-17984227
For more information on this topic:
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Episode 1: Is It Menopause or Some Other Pause?
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 57 Uterine Cancer: Reducing Your Risk
Episode 92 Estrogen Cancer Conundrums?
Ep 99 When Bleeding During Perimenopause is the Problem
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Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Menopause Masterplan
Dr. Streicher offers one-on-one and group informational and educational Menopause Masterplan sessions. For more information: https://www.drstreicher.com/menopause-master-plan
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
In Part 1 on Mid-Life Hair Loss, I covered hair care strategies, vitamins, and supplements. And pretty much every section ended with the equivalent of “Don’t waste your money.” This episode has useful advice to get those follicles to kick in and significantly increase the hair on your head.
TOPICAL minoxidil
ORAL minoxidil
FINASTERIDE
Dutasteride
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP Injections)
Low Light LASER
HORMONE THERAPY
Testosterone
Estrogen
Also of interest:
Episode 139 Hair When Your Hair Today is Gone Tomorrow
Episode 117 Top Tips for Terrific Skin & Hair with Dr. Ellen Gendler
Episode 122 Navigating Menopause Celebrity Style- Here We Go Again!
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Menopause Masterplan
Dr. Streicher offers one-on-one and group informational and educational Menopause Masterplan sessions. For more information: https://www.drstreicher.com/menopause-master-plan
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
LinkedIn @DrStreicher
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While everyone on this list has passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every clinician. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors who have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
The market for adult diapers in the US is almost as large as the market for baby diapers. Part of this trend is because birth rates have slowed and longevity continues to lengthen. Still, the other reason why almost 50% of adults experience some form of urinary incontinence is due to an increase in risk factors. Today, with my guest, urologist Dr. Rachel Rubin, I am taking on the taboo topic of urinary incontinence- why it happens and how to make it go away.
This episode originally aired during Season 1
We discuss:
The difference between urge, stress, and mixed incontinence
Risk factors for developing stress incontinence
Ways to manage incontinence.
Diapers and pads
Urine absorbent underwear
Pessaries and other vaginal support devices
The impact of local vaginal estrogen on incontinence
The impact of systemic estrogen on stress incontinence
Why it is important to have an exam when treated for incontinence
Strategies to treat a dysfunctional pelvic floor
Pelvic floor physical therapy
Kegel exercises- and why they rarely work
Over-the-counter devices
Why medications for overactive bladder do not work to treat stress incontinence
Urethral bulking agents as an option
When surgery is appropriate
If a hysterectomy increases the risk of incontinence
If Botox in the bladder will help
How to find an expert in incontinence
RachelrubinMD.com
Twitter: @DrRachelRubin
Insta: @DrRachelRubin
Other Episodes of Interest
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 6: Your Post Menopause Urethra and Why You Should Care- with Dr. Kelly Casperson
Episode 15 Need to Know Info About the Penis in Your Bed with Dr. Rachel Rubin
Episode 38 Pelvic Organs Dropping? How to STOP the POP!
Episode 39 A Personal Trainer for Your Pelvic Floor with Dr. Janelle Howell
To find a pelvic floor physical therapist
https://pelvicrehab.com/
https://specialization.apta.org/find-a-specialist
To find a specialist in urogynecology
American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS.org)
Society of Urodynamics, female pelvic surgery and urogenital reconstruction -sufuorg.com
Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information podcast is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement, not replace, care by your personal healthcare clinician. Dr. Streicher disclaims liability for any medical outcomes that may occur because of applying methods suggested or discussed in this podcast.
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society.
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.
Menopause Masterplan Sessions.
Dr. Streicher offers one one-on-one and group informational and educational Menopause Masterplan sessions. For more information: https://www.drstreicher.com/menopause-master-plan
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
· Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
· Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
· Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
· The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Come Again! A Guide to Midlife Libido and Orgasm (available for pre-order)
To Find a Menopause Clinician
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Midi Health joinmidi.com
Midi Health is a telehealth company that provides high-level menopause care and takes insurance in all 50 states. Dr. Streicher is Midi’s Medical Director of Education and Community Outreach and is familiar with their medical protocols, which are all regularly updated and set by the top academic menopause experts in the country.
The Menopause Society- Certified Menopause Practitioner List Menopause.org
To find a menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
Put in your zip code and designate NCMP or CMSP to get a certified menopause practitioner. While all people on this list have passed a competency examination, Dr. Streicher does not vouch for every one of these clinicians. Most are excellent.
Major Medical Centers
It also may be helpful to check with major medical centers in your area. Many have menopause clinics or lists of doctors that have an interest and expertise in menopause.
If you are in the Chicago area, the center founded by Dr. Streicher:
The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause Sexmedmenopause.nm.org
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