Perimenopause
I'm In My Early 40s. Can This Be What I Think It Is?
What You'll Learn
Don’t let perimenopause sneak up on you. Hear what you absolutely need to know—and what many doctors don’t know—about your body and your health once you hit your 40s. And learn why a startling number of medical practitioners across the country avoid preventative health discussions with women in mid-life.
Wednesday, October 9th
9am PT / Noon ET
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Wednesday, November 6th
Noon PT / 3pm ET
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Meet Dr. Bitner
A board-certified OB/GYN, Dr. Bitner is a Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at true. Women’s Health, a personalized concierge care practice in Grand Rapids, MI.
Guiding women through a holistic prevention and wellness plan—driven by them—true. embraces every unique facet of their health, hormones and sexual health to nutrition, weight optimization, mental health, and more. Through her practice and a close connection with her, Dr. Bitner empowers women to take ownership of their health.
Dr. Bitner’s book, I Want to Age Like That—Healthy Aging Through Midlife and Menopause is an essential guide to leading the best third of your life.
Meet Dr. Sophocles
A board-certified OB/GYN, Dr. Sophocles is the Medical Director of Women’s Healthcare of Princeton, a progressive and innovative practice in New Jersey.
Practicing for over 25 years, and recognizing that women today want physicians they can trust, Dr. Sophocles spends time with patients so they can share intimate issues and complex problems. A compassionate practitioner, she is in the vanguard of menopause management and female sexual health.
Dr. Sophocles’ upcoming book, The Bedroom Gap, will discuss how better communication in the bedroom and better education around sexual topics will help advance gender equality.
Hot Flashes, Night Sweats & Interrupted Sleep
Keeping Your Cool—Literally & Figuratively
What You'll Learn
Some of the most intrusive physical symptoms of menopause—hot flashes, night sweats, and interrupted sleep—can devastate most aspects of your life, from your productivity in the office to life’s simple pleasures. What’s more, there may be a connection between the three and heart disease.
Learn where hot flashes and night sweats come from and what you can do to ameliorate these unwelcome visitors. Do supplements and other non-hormonal treatments really help? Besides, how do you choose from the overwhelming number of brands flooding the market?
And, wake up to why you’re sleeping less—even without night sweats—and what you can do to get back the shuteye you need.
Wednesday, October 30th
Noon PT / 3pm ET
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Wednesday, December 11th
Noon PT / 3pm ET
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Meet Dr. Simon
Medical Director & Founder of Intimmedicine in Washington, D.C., Dr. Simon is a leading figure in the global women’s health community. Serving as principal investigator on more than 300 clinical trials, research grants, and scholarships in the field, his interests include the clinical management of peri and postmenopausal women, female sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis, clinical densitometry, contraception and reproductive endocrinology.
Currently serving as a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The George Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Simon’s work has been published extensively in medical and scientific periodicals.
His unique approach to care encourages women to be a part of their own wellness, disease prevention, treatment and recovery; and through his renowned clinical research efforts, he offers one-of-a-kind opportunities for patients to experience the latest innovations in women’s sexual health.
Menopause & Its Treatments
The Honest Truth About HT
What You'll Learn
Hormone replacement therapy is a serious subject fraught with misinformation, misunderstanding, and misguidance. Only a Menopause Master can arm you with the facts you must have to help you make informed decisions about your health and well-being in mid-age.
Get to know what estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone have been up to all these years in your body, and what happens when they desert you. Learn the differences between bioidentical and synthetic hormones; when they’re safe and when they’re not; their side effects; how you can take them and for how long.
Hear how your personal and family history can help you determine whether hormone therapy is right for you. How to choose the right kind of HT—pills to patches, pellets to paste—for maximal benefit and minimal risk. Whether you really need estrogen when you don’t have a single post-menopausal symptom.
Wednesday, October 23rd
9 am PT / Noon ET
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Wednesday, December 4
Noon PT / 3 pm ET
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Meet Dr. Gaudry
A concierge primary care physician with Coastal Care Primary Care in Savannah, GA., Dr. Pam treats all menopausal issues—including hot flashes and vaginal dryness—and their effect on intimate relationships. She helps women and men strengthen or regain their relationships through menopause and after breast or gynecologic cancer, life-changing events, or other medical issues.
Dr. Pam’s book, Love, Sweat, and Tears, is also a “docu-comedy” with Joan Rivers that educates women and men of all ages about menopause.
Meet Dr. Clark
A urogynecology physician and senior affiliate investigator at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Clackamas, OR., Dr. Clark is board-certified in obstetrics, gynecology, and female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery.
She has educated students, residents, and fellows for four decades, and has had her extensive research widely published.
Menopause & Your Mood
You’re not going crazy. Your hormones are!
What You'll Learn
Sadness to sleeplessness. Anxiety to aggression. Fogginess to forgetfulness. What’s happening in your brain, why is it happening, and can you feel like your
“old self” again?
Friday, October 18th
Noon PT / 3pm ET
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Wednesday, November 13th
9am PT / Noon ET
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Meet Dr. Iyer
As an associate physician at Menopause and Midlife Clinic, Division of Women’s Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA., Dr. Iyer specializes in women’s health, menopause care, and weight management medicine. Her clinical and research interests also include sexual dysfunction, bone health, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and menopause care of cancer survivors.
An avid educator, Dr. Iyer has given numerous presentations on the importance of perimenopausal and menopausal recognition, evaluation, and treatment. She strives to empower her patients to optimize their health and well-being as they age.
Meet Dr. Soares
A professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Queen’s University School of Medicine in Ontario, Canada, Dr. Soares is universally acclaimed for his groundbreaking research on estrogen and mood.
The results of his foundational studies over the last 25 years are giving physicians a new understanding of how to effectively treat mood disorders across the female life cycle, with particular emphasis on midlife women and the menopausal transition.
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Dr. Soares is president elect of The Menopause Society.
Meet Dr. Joffe
Dr. Hadine Joffe is Executive Director at the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology and the Founder and Director of the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
A psychiatrist and women’s health clinician, Dr. Joffe treats women with menopause-related symptoms (hot flashes, sleep, mood, fatigue) during midlife and related to breast cancer therapies.
An international leader in the field of menopause research, she is devoted to understanding the biology of menopause-related symptoms and advancing their treatment.