S3 Ep143: Who Do You Believe When Experts Disagree? with Tamsen Fadal

Update: 2024-08-29

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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