91: Navigating Menopause: Celebrity Style

In 2009 I was invited to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show as a menopause expert to counter the other menopause “expert”, actress turned author Suzanne Somers.  
“Dr” Somers is not the only celebrity to help women navigate menopause.  Today, Gwyneth Paltrow, Selma Hayek, Naomi Watts, and others are also doling out advice, and in some cases selling products, to manage menopause symptoms. And far more women are taking their advice than the advice of medical professionals. 
In this episode, I’m going to tell you why  women often preferentially turn to celebrities and social media for help from everything from hot flashes to vaginal dryness. 




My experience on The Oprah Winfrey Show
The problem with most celebrity  and social media menopause advice
The good thing about celebrities talking about menopause
Why hormone balancing is not a real thing
The truth about “anti-aging” hormone experts
A new study on what doctors learn about menopause during their training

Related Episodes:


Episode 35 Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 


Episode 66 Don’t Be Duped-Misleading marketing and the FDA


Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen 


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. 

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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. 

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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