S1 Ep69: Q and A Week! ORAL Minoxidil for Post Menopause Hair Loss?

Q and A Week!  Today is Day 3 of Question-and-Answer week.  I am answering questions that have come in through my website, drstreicher.com, my newsletter, or social media..or in this case, from the woman getting her hair shampooed next to me at the beauty salon. 

                                                    Today’s Question 

                       "Will oral minoxidil help my hair grow?"
    In this episode I discuss: 

General options to help with post-menopause androgenic alopecia
The use of oral minoxidil to help hair grow
If using “natural products are safer and more effective than using synthetic products. 



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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