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15 January 2024: Haus & Haus Managing Director, Simon Baker gives us the rundown on where we should be investing our hard earned dirhams in Dubai. For your Legal Clinic today Scott Hutton is in to answer any property law questions. Ann Marie McQueen from Hotflash inc - covers the latest clinical studies, treatments, products, guidance and more via a weekly research letter, podcast and across social media about perimenopause. Dr Natalia Spierings, consultant dermatologist at King's College Hospital lets us know if our teens need that expensive skincare. Dr Jenna Burton from GMC Clinics shares the weird and wonderful uses of botox. 

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I'm taking a short break, and we are going to come back stronger than ever. 

Here I explain why! 

I also butcher Joe Pulizzi's name, and for that I am sorry. 

See you soon. AMx

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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. 

She is currently a professor at New York University and Syracuse University teaching Cannabis Health and Science, Vice Chair for the Cannabis Advisory Board for the New York State Office of Cannabis Management and Chair of the Health, Safety and Research Committee for New York State’s Office of Cannabis Management. She is the author of the book Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness and founded and operated seven bicoastal integrative cannabis medicine clinics in California, New York, and Connecticut.  

Her training includes studying nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University, osteopathic medicine at Touro University, medical acupuncture at Harvard University, and research at Columbia University, Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Women’s Health. 

Through her work as a clinician, professor, and author, she has created medical protocols for the industry and internationally accepted methods for cannabinoid formulations, research, education, and training programs. She is also the chief medical officer for NNABI. 

Highlights: 

• The personal experience that drew her to holistic medicine, and cannabis in particular
• The 101 on our endocannabanoid system 
• The different forms of cannabis – and how CBD is different 
• The interplay between CBD and hormone therapy
• The intersection between perimenopause and the endocannabanoid system?
• How specifically can cannabis and CBD help 
• Her work with the startup NNABI, which is providing a CBD solution for perimenopause
• Her take on some of the other alternative, plant-based medicines and psychedelics being developed to treat peri/menopause
• Her top advice for women in perimenopause

Where to find Dr Chin:

IG: @nnabi.life @drjunechin

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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. 

She is currently a professor at New York University and Syracuse University teaching Cannabis Health and Science, Vice Chair for the Cannabis Advisory Board for the New York State Office of Cannabis Management and Chair of the Health, Safety and Research Committee for New York State’s Office of Cannabis Management. She is the author of the book Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness and founded and operated seven bicoastal integrative cannabis medicine clinics in California, New York, and Connecticut.  

Her training includes studying nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University, osteopathic medicine at Touro University, medical acupuncture at Harvard University, and research at Columbia University, Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Women’s Health. 

Through her work as a clinician, professor, and author, she has created medical protocols for the industry and internationally accepted methods for cannabinoid formulations, research, education, and training programs. She is also the chief medical officer for NNABI. 

Highlights: 

• The personal experience that drew her to holistic medicine, and cannabis in particular
• The 101 on our endocannabanoid system 
• The different forms of cannabis – and how CBD is different 
• The interplay between CBD and hormone therapy
• The intersection between perimenopause and the endocannabanoid system?
• How specifically can cannabis and CBD help 
• Her work with the startup NNABI, which is providing a CBD solution for perimenopause
• Her take on some of the other alternative, plant-based medicines and psychedelics being developed to treat peri/menopause
• Her top advice for women in perimenopause

Where to find Dr Chin:

IG: @nnabi.life @drjunechin

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Dr Karyn Eilber is board certified in urology 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. She’s a mom of three, co-founder of the clean, luxury intimacy company Glissant, founding medical partner at Doctorpedia and co-author on the awesomely title book A Woman’s Guide to Her Pelvic Floor: What the F#*@ is Going On Down There?”

Over her years of practice, she’s also become open to alternative approaches to medicine and all the new – and old – things that can help. “No pun intended,” she says. “You gotta think outside the box.” 

Highlights: 

Why vibrators are important in perimenopause
How to choose a vibrator
Why kegal exercises are not one sized fits all
The very important role of a pelvic floor physical therapist 
The intersection between our urinary tracts, pelvic floors and overall vaginal health 
Vaginal estrogen is safe! (Even if the packaging makes you think otherwise)
Why systemic estrogen may not be enough for your vagina 
The latest tech: lasers, sound waves and O Shots 
Bioidentical hormones and testosterone pellets
Our rapidly advancing understanding of the vaginal microbiome
What’s going on with all the infections? (Hint: It’s about the lactobacillus)
Boric acid for BV: the doctor’s Rx (and what you have to watch out for)
Goop, vaginal (vulvar) steaming and jade eggs
Falling bladder: what it is and how to treat it
Glissant and the importance of using clean lube (and some CBD)
What young women are doing differently at the gynecologist 
Is vaginal estrogen mandatory? 

Where to find Dr Eilber:
Web: Glissantlove.com
LinkedIn: @KarynEilber
Instagram: @dreilber

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This week we get down to basics, and basics are exactly what we need in this confusing world right now. This is THE podcast to listen to if you are confused about all things to do with taking hormone therapy.

Dr Vikram Sinai Talaulikar is a specialist in reproductive medicine at University College London Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust and an associate professor in Women’s Health at the University College London. He graduated in medicine in India in 2003 and completed a postgraduate degree in obstetrics and gynecology in 2007. He is a certified menopause specialist by the British Menopause Society, a menopause trainer and he is constantly educating others on this transition as well, via online webinars, events and through social media. 

He is also part of the trio who established the Menopause Research Education Fund, alongside medical journalist Fiona Clarke and groundbreaking menopause campaigner Diane Danzebrink.

Highlights of our discussion: 

• Hormone therapy (HT) 101
• WHI: good, bad and what we can learn from it 20 years on
• Estrogen in the pill vs estrogen in HT 
• All the kinds of estrogen and what they are used for strogen too ethinyl estradiolEstrone, Estriol, Estradiol, and Estetrol.17 beta estradiol
• Getting to the bottom of body simila, body identical and bioidentical – and why that varies from country to country 
• Pharmaceutical company produced HT vs compounding pharmacy versions
• the big “Catch-22” with compounding pharmacies that keeps their bioidentical hormones out of official recommendations
• the pill, HRT and breast cancer risk
• why problems with the pill don’t get flagged and HRT does 
• Evidence over estrogen and breast cancer risk (and randomized trials versus observational data)
• What’s what: progesterone, progestin and progestogens (how they work and which one carries a slight risk for breast cancer)
• how long you really need to take HRT to see if it’s working
• why HT works for some people and not others
• Dr Talaulikar’s favourite non-hormonal treatments

Where to find Dr Talaulikar:

X: @VikramSinai 

Web: Menopause Clinic London

Menopause Research and Education Fund

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“Just put it out there. No one expects you to be perfect.”

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. These Nashville-based friends – Colleen is an attorney turned pilates instructor, Brigit is a former elementary school teacher –  are two of the most clear-headed voices in the North American midlife sp, all the things that happen in midlife and how we get through them. 

They also just had their first IRL Hot Flashes & Cool Topics with Prime Women event this month, where they talked about menopause, midlife and a lot more. 

Highlights: 

• Navigating politics  in the menopause space 
• Doctors private public 
• Doing scary new things in midlife 
• How backward it was (and still is) that midlife have the purchasing power but are left out of media coverage
• Shining a light on the positives of midlife 
• Growing through the grief and loss in your empty nest 
• Starting over and deciding what you want to do with the rest of your life
• What they’ve learned interviewing doctors
• The most controversial topic they’ve come across – testosterone pellets – and Bridget’s own experience with them
• Why we don’t want to change doctors – even when ours knows nothing about perimenopause 
• How being scared of menopause can make it harder 
• Colleen and Bridget look back on their own perimenopause experiences
• Why they left their careers behind and how they feel about it now 
• What it felt like when they launched their podcast – and why women need to stop underestimating the experience they have in life 

NB: For an alternative view about  testosterone, check out episode 58 with Nashville, Tennessee-based nurse practitioner Brooke Faught and for testosterone pellets, listen to episode 79 with Phoenix, Arizona-based integrative physician Dr Angela DeRosa. 

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The first encore guest on the Hotlflash inc podcast is the women's health ND Lara Briden, who is a calm, cool, collected and highly knowledgeable voice in the women’s health space. 

She is the author of two books, period repair manual and hormone repair manual, is  a sought after speaker and guest, has her own podcast and helps 171 thousand people on Instagram sort fact from fiction. 

She’s also a student of the endocrinologist, Dr Jerilynn Prior, who she mentions several times in the podcast, and a passionate advocate for shifting some of the focus during this transition onto progesterone from estrogen, which gets all the attention. 

We discuss why perimenopause might seem like chaos, but it really isn't, and why. And a portion of the podcast is dedicated to the evolutionary aspect, which Lara is passionate about because she's also an evolutionary biologist!

Highlights: 

• Why ‘the four phases of menopause’ is unhelpful
• Recap on our menstrual cycle 
• The real four phases – of perimenopause
• What menopause really means (and why it’s going to be okay there)
• How the “chaos” is temporary – and what’s causing it
• Why there are really just 9 symptoms of perimenopause 
• The one symptom of menopause that does linger
• Why do much of perimenopause is about other things, but is also about perimenopause
• Why everyone gets the history of menopause wrong – and why understanding it (and seeing it reflected in the animal kingdom) tells us so much about what it really is
• The one thing that makes it all worse

Where to find Lara:

Larabriden.com
The Lara Briden Podcast
IG: @larabriden
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The Hotflash inc podcast is the #1 podcast in Women’s Health on Goodpods and in the top 1.5 percent on Listen Notes. Thank you for making that happen! 

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.

An entrepreneur with more than 23 years of experience in the health and wellness industry, Andrea hosts the weekly ‘Menopause Reimagined’ podcast, and appears as a menopause expert on television across North America. To date, Andrea has appeared in over 400 TV segments and has been featured on every major network across the U.S and Canada.

Her newest venture, Morphus, (which signifies ‘metamorphosis’ + ‘us’ as a community), empowers women over the age of 35 to “Reimagine Menopause” as a journey of empowerment so they feel heard, supported, and validated. Morphus empowers women to take control of their symptoms and health with nutrition, resources, and science-backed supplements. 

Andrea and her business partner Randy are also my partners in the Menopause Shift Summit, which is returning next year! 

Highlights: 

• What launched her into becoming a menopause researcher and entrepreneur (hint: A horrid, epic perimenopause)
• Why she focused on symptomology
• Starting to understand supplements through ingredients 
• The big problem she had with one of the most common menopause ingredients 
• Why you need to know about guar fiber 
• Pycnogenol: What it is, why she loves it and how much you really need
• The one thing you need to know before you take a supplement (hint: It’s super-simple but most of us miss it 
• Toco-what? 
• The two things you need to address early in perimenopause 
• Her one golden rule about supplements 
• The scoop on black seed oil – and why it’s magic for menopausers
• What to watch out for when it comes to supplement additives (and why they could be the reason what you tried isn’t working)
• Why too many ingredients is a big supplement red flag 
• The benefit of new supplements vs older varieties 
• Why perimenopause is like updating your cell phone’s software
• The goodies of menopause (stay tuned: there are MANY and they are AMAZING)
• The magnesium-stress loop 

Learn more at wearemorphus.com

Find Andrea: 

• Podcast: Menopause Reimagined
• TikTok: @andreadonsky
• IG: @andreadonsky @wearemorphus
• FB: /wearemorphus

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The Hotflash inc podcast is the #1 podcast in Women’s Health on Goodpods and in the top 1.5 percent on Listen Notes. Thank you for making that happen! 

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.

An entrepreneur with more than 23 years of experience in the health and wellness industry, Andrea hosts the weekly ‘Menopause Reimagined’ podcast, and appears as a menopause expert on television across North America. To date, Andrea has appeared in over 400 TV segments and has been featured on every major network across the U.S and Canada.

Her newest venture, Morphus, (which signifies ‘metamorphosis’ + ‘us’ as a community), empowers women over the age of 35 to “Reimagine Menopause” as a journey of empowerment so they feel heard, supported, and validated. Morphus empowers women to take control of their symptoms and health with nutrition, resources, and science-backed supplements. 

Andrea and her business partner Randy are also my partners in the Menopause Shift Summit, which is returning next year! 

Highlights: 

• What launched her into becoming a menopause researcher and entrepreneur (hint: A horrid, epic perimenopause)
• Why she focused on symptomology
• Starting to understand supplements through ingredients 
• The big problem she had with one of the most common menopause ingredients 
• Why you need to know about guar fiber 
• Pycnogenol: What it is, why she loves it and how much you really need
• The one thing you need to know before you take a supplement (hint: It’s super-simple but most of us miss it 
• Toco-what? 
• The two things you need to address early in perimenopause 
• Her one golden rule about supplements 
• The scoop on black seed oil – and why it’s magic for menopausers
• What to watch out for when it comes to supplement additives (and why they could be the reason what you tried isn’t working)
• Why too many ingredients is a big supplement red flag 
• The benefit of new supplements vs older varieties 
• Why perimenopause is like updating your cell phone’s software
• The goodies of menopause (stay tuned: there are MANY and they are AMAZING)
• The magnesium-stress loop 

Learn more at wearemorphus.com

Find Andrea: 

• Podcast: Menopause Reimagined
• TikTok: @andreadonsky
• IG: @andreadonsky @wearemorphus
• FB: /wearemorphus

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BIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. 

Thanks so much for making that happen! 

While Hotflash inc takes a break, we are replaying a popular and confounding episode here: 

With so much hype surrounding menopause hormone therapy today, it’s very hard to know what or who to believe. 

There is a big push to portray HRT not only as helpful for menopause symptoms, but also as a preventative for cardiovascular disease. But does this bear out in the research we have so far, most of which lumps bioidenticals and synthetic hormones into one basket? That was the question of the latest literature review published  American Heart Association’ journal Circulation this past Valentine’s Day – Rethinking Menopausal Hormone Therapy: For Whom, What, When, and How Long? – that looked at 96 papers, articles and studies. The authors included gynecologists, women’s health internists, endocrinologists, as well as Stephanie Faubion, medical director for the North American Menopause Society, all members of the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Disease in Women Committee. 

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.

This episode was originally #63 and published on February 18, 2023.

Highlights: 

• why cardiologists have shied away from the topic of HRT
• why HRT isn't recommended for prevention of cardiovascular disease (even if it seems like it should be)
• the case for HRT to help symptoms
• calculating the of using HRT for symptoms ("it's not zero but...")
• why other health conditions matter
• when it comes to vaginal estrogen...
• respecting the HRT "the window of opportunity" 
• so, what can you do to prevent heart disease and stroke?
• the case for assessing reproductive risk factors (and what you need to tell your doctors about your previous reproductive life – even if she doesn't ask)
• the importance of taking in medical news in the media with "skepticism"
• the case for keeping top of your health during perimenopause and taking action early for your future health

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BIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. 

Thanks so much for making that happen! 

While Hotflash inc takes a break, we are replaying a popular and confounding episode here: 

With so much hype surrounding menopause hormone therapy today, it’s very hard to know what or who to believe. 

There is a big push to portray HRT not only as helpful for menopause symptoms, but also as a preventative for cardiovascular disease. But does this bear out in the research we have so far, most of which lumps bioidenticals and synthetic hormones into one basket? That was the question of the latest literature review published  American Heart Association’ journal Circulation this past Valentine’s Day – Rethinking Menopausal Hormone Therapy: For Whom, What, When, and How Long? – that looked at 96 papers, articles and studies. The authors included gynecologists, women’s health internists, endocrinologists, as well as Stephanie Faubion, medical director for the North American Menopause Society, all members of the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Disease in Women Committee. 

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.

This episode was originally #63 and published on February 18, 2023.

Highlights: 

• why cardiologists have shied away from the topic of HRT
• why HRT isn't recommended for prevention of cardiovascular disease (even if it seems like it should be)
• the case for HRT to help symptoms
• calculating the of using HRT for symptoms ("it's not zero but...")
• why other health conditions matter
• when it comes to vaginal estrogen...
• respecting the HRT "the window of opportunity" 
• so, what can you do to prevent heart disease and stroke?
• the case for assessing reproductive risk factors (and what you need to tell your doctors about your previous reproductive life – even if she doesn't ask)
• the importance of taking in medical news in the media with "skepticism"
• the case for keeping top of your health during perimenopause and taking action early for your future health

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BIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. 

Thanks so much for making that happen! 

In today's episode, I talk about traveling to New York for my first big event on behalf of Hotflash inc. 

And how I finally realized that I belong in the room. 

The broad themes are connection, confidence and purpose.

But the main point, as it always seems to be, is loving and accepting yourself. And how to get there, even if it seems like it takes a lifetime. 

I talk about the long, hard road to building the confidence to feel worthy of being there, and to keep confident while there, about the essential-ness of connecting with other people, and of the beauty in finding and having a sense of purpose – all essentials, and all things that it can feel like midlife and peri/menopause threatens. 

But if you let them, they can be just the opposite. 

I talk about the feeling of ALMOST entering menopause, meeting heroes, becoming your own hero, and what it feels like to start to see yourself, accept yourself, and BECOME yourself, after all this time. 

Also discussed in this episode:

Not wearing heels when everyone else is + the beauty of proper hair and makeup

How I got involved with Perry, the sisterhood for perimenopause

Perry panel members: State of Menopause’s Stacy London, Menopocalypse author and Nyah Health cofounder Amanda Thebe, Behavioural Sleep Doc Dr. Shelby Harris,  The Menopause mogul Dr. Joy’El Ballard, Endocrinologist Dr. Disha Narang, journalist and midlife influencer Tamsen Fadel, ob-gyn and menopause expert Dr Sharon Malone and most inspirational-in-midlife maven Rachel Hughes

Yvonne, Hotflash inc perimenoposse member extraordinaire

Coffee in Bryant Park with pro-aging advocate Skylar Liberty Rose (apologies, I say ROSS)

Menopause Multiverse Cocktail Hour in Harlem: Hosted by Omisade Burney-Scott (Black Girl's Guide to Menopause) and featuring many amazing women including Karen Arthur (Menopause Whilst Black); Jessica Jolie (Age Lust) and and the fearless, wonderfully profane and inspiring Mona Eltahawy, who has such astonishing courage that I switched my own nickname for summoning courage from LADY BALLS MONAS

The hero’s journey of menopause and midlife 

Showing up for yourself

Thank you so much to Perry and Omi and sparks & honey and everyone else who helped me be a part of this.

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BIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. 

Thanks so much for making that happen! 

While Hotflash inc takes a break, we are replaying a popular episode:

Dr Maria Luque is an Austin, Texas-based, United States Air Force veteran (she was a fitness program manager) and health science professor who studied fitness in menopause for her doctorate.

She is bothered by the reams of health, fitness and nutrition information on social media, never mind when it comes to what we are supposed to be doing in peri/menopause.  Her approach is careful, measured, and science-based, and at 47, she's really frank about her own challenges at this stage of life with brain fog, body image and more. She's also a huge fan of putting on muscle and all that can do for us, both now and down the road.

This episode was #66, originally published on March 18, 2023.

Highlights:

• Why it's better to add things that take things away (3.45)
• Losing weight doesn't address a poor body image (4.07)
• Why we are all tired of fitness (5.41)
• How the diet and fitness world is designed to bamboozle you (7.26)
• Diet and exercise can never fix everything – and it never did  (10.12)
• How perimenopause is opening up a Pandora's box (12.42)
• We have the wisdom to figure this out, we just need to listen (18.34)
• Why the HRT conversation needs a little more moderation (21.50)
• Navigating the tricky world of interpreting research (25.41)
• Other problems in menopause reporting + research (29:16)

Where to find Maria:
Web: Fitnessinmenopause.com
IG: @drmarialuque
Twitter: @DoctorLuque
Ideafit: Dr Luque

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Dr. Burt Webb is an Arizona-based ob-gyn and intimate wellness specialist who takes a holistic, functional, integrative approach to women’s health. (He also represents the non-invasive soundwave treatment Cliovana, which we discuss in part 2 of this podcast.)

This week he gets into all the different treatments, hormone therapy and otherwise – that he uses for the entire pelvic region. With almost 30 years in practice treating women, he is one of the most switched-on mainstream practitioners to appear on the podcast. 

This is a fascinating conversation and the second in our first-ever two-part episode. Don’t forget to listen back to last week, on episode 83, when we talked all about why he believes a dry vagina isn’t always just a dry vagina due to menopause. And gives us major guidance on how to tackle the issue systemically. 

Highlights: 

• Vaginal estrogen and breast cancer, including specifics on how to use it differently 
• “They aren’t as familiar with the vagina” (who he’s talking about)
• That time he coached a young woman on a plane about vaginal health (she asked) 
• How he uses vaginal 
• DHEA? 
• Additional ingredients in vaginal estrogen and why they may not work for you
• Why your clitoris is a lot bigger than you think – and any treatment needs to focus on all of it 
• Why women need to educate themselves – and men – about their bodies  
• How the body’s own healing factors can be harnessed to help your vagina
• Cliovana, radio frequency, laser treatments and the O-shot – and what’s best for what issue
• Why mixing and matching – and tissue health – are key to treating each women individually
• What to look for in an intimate wellness specialist 
• How the placebo effect plays a part in treatment 

Web: cliovana.com

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Dr. Burt Webb is an Arizona-based ob-gyn and intimate wellness specialist with a holistic approach to women’s health. (He also represents the non-invasive soundwave treatment Cliovana, which we discuss in part 2 of this podcast.)

He joins the Hotflash inc podcast to talk about how our entire body plays a role in our vaginal health – and genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM). With almost 30 years in practice treating women, he is one of the most switched-on mainstream practitioners to appear on the podcast. 

Contrary to the prevailing narrative – oh how we love that here – he believes a dry vagina isn’t always just a dry vagina due to menopause. And he explains all the different factors that may be going into this. 

This is a fascinating conversation and the first-ever two-part episode. Stay tuned to next week when he gets into all the different treatments, hormone therapy and otherwise – that he uses to treat the entire pelvic region. This is very different to what you are hearing elsewhere. 

Highlights: 

• The role of blood flow and nutrients in menopause – and in particular, vagina stuff 
• How and why the vagina gets lubricated (hint: it’s like a cheesecloth)
• How your gut microbiome impacts you mind, body and vagina
• The role of food insensitivities – and chemicals in processed food – in GSM 
• Why a probiotic isn’t enough 
• Vaginal hormone therapy in treating GSM 
• Why you need pharmaceutical-grade supplements (it’s about the absorption) 
• Why he looks at the tissues – and the four areas where symptoms of dryness and pain in the vagina appear
• How inflammation contributes to poor sexual health and ultimately heart disease 
• Vaginal estrogen and breast cancer - the consensus opinion 
• Why he believes most vaginal estrogen is not used correctly – and how it should be

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Michelle Aspinwall is a Medical Intuitive, Body Whisperer, and transformative healer whose mission is to shift women’s health specifically beyond 40. 

Michelle works with women worldwide using both science and spirit channeling leading them through specific and transformative health challenges. She teaches women that how they think, believe, support, and nourish themselves creates the foundation for her to become her most magnetic and vibrant being for the entirety of her life.

She also believes that we are humans and spiritual beings, and because of that, we can take part in the entire smorgasbord of the earth’s experience: East, West, and everything in between. (As in: she uses testosterone and acupuncture for her perimenopausal symptoms)

Highlights: 

• How are various systems work together
• The vital years from 37-50
• Perimenopause and our crown chakra
• Developing our intuitive muscles
• Why and how it hurts not to tell your truth during this transition – and why it has everything and nothing to do time
• Our experience, our perception of the experience, and the stories about the experience 
• Using hormones for the human parts of us to augment and assist our spiritual selves
• Understanding the magnitude of source and how it’s reflected in us 
• Why we need to tend to our heart more than ever now – and how to begin to do that 
• How she manages her thyroid and Hashimoto’s with Western and Eastern medicine, food and living in truth 
• How the stress of the world heightens our symptoms and disorders – and how to navigate the turmoil and tumult energetically 

Where to find Michelle: 

• Web: michelleaspinwall.com
• TikTok: @BodyWhisperer
• IG: @Michellepaspinwall
• FB: Body Whisperer Lounge
• Free Meditation

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This conversation was life-shifting for me and I hope it will be for you too. Elisa Kurylowicz is a Canadian former World Cup freestyle mogul skier turned coach and wellness mentor and host of the highly rated Elisa Unfiltered Podcast. Elisa teaches the practice of intuitive awareness, helping women to love themselves in body, business and life. She joins the Hotflash inc podcast for an epic (but so worth it) episode about the hard process of waking up to your conditioned mind so you can heal yourself.  

Highlights: 

• What happens when you face an Olympic-level 
• Cigarettes, booze, Ramen noodles and anger
• Waking up – and then going back to sleep
• How to start asking yourself big questions
• Seeing the world for what it is
• Men is a midlife crisis, women it’s menopause
• What’s going on with our urge to belong?
• Recognizing the teachers who help lift us up
• Keys to practicing intuitive awareness
• The big scary wall of what real change might mean
• Psilocybin therapy + microdosing
• Recognizing narratives around alcohol – and breaking out 
• Navigating the early stages of perimenopause while trying to get pregnant

Where to find Elisa:

• Web: elisaunfiltered.com
• IG: @ElisaKurylowicz

Adele Stratton (Elisa’s coach) IG @phoenixrisinghc

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KC Councilor is an assistant professor in Communication, Media, and Screen Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. He is also a cartoonist who draws about the experiences of being a trans and transitioning person in the world.

His graphic memoir, Between You and Me: Transitional Comics, came out in 2019.

He has also published comics in numerous academic journals, including the Annals of Internal Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies in Communication. His comic Cycles was published in the Eisner Award-winning anthology Menopause: A Comic Treatment. 

Highlights

• Why he’s ready to talk about feminity
• The comic that brought him on the podcast
• What it’s like going through puberty and menopause at the same time
• At 41, how he feels about the possibility of perimenopause
• Being a trans person in the US right now
• Feelings in fatherhood
• The loud and angry state of trans in the US
• The issue of trans violence 
• What medical care has been like

Find out more about KC and his work:
Web: www.kccouncilor.com
Instagram: @betweenyouandmetranscomics

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