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S1 Ep59: BONING UP ON BONE HEALTH: PART 1 Feb 02, 2023

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In the United States, there are 10 million women with OSTEOPOROSIS and 43 million women with OSTEOPENIA. Most of these women have no idea that they are at risk for a potentially life-changing or even fatal fracture. One reason for this lack of concern and lack of awareness is that osteoporosis is usually a “silent disease”. Today, I am going to break that silence. My guest is Dr. Kristi Tough DeSapri, an internist with a specialty and expertise in women’s bone health.
This topic is in 2 parts. This episode will focus on WHY YOU SHOULD CARE about bone health, RISK FACTORS for osteoporosis, and SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS. Episode 61, Part 2 will focus on prevention and treatment.
We discuss:

Why there is so little awareness of osteoporosis
The consequences of osteoporosis
Symptoms and early warning signs of bone loss
The difference between osteopenia and osteoporosis
How common osteoporosis is
When someone should get their first screening
Risk factors for osteoporosis
Why women are more likely to get osteoporosis than men

Dr. Kristi Tough DeSapri
boneandbodywh.com
For more information: Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
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.
Instagram @DrStreich
Twitter @DrStreicher
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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

S1 Ep58: Two Experts- Two Timely Topics Jan 26, 2023

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This is a rare opportunity to be a fly on the wall of a medical conference and hear two lectures from nationally acclaimed experts!
Melissa A. Simon, MD MPH is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and is Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is the Founder and Director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation and the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative. Dr. Simon will be discussing women’s health care in view of the recent Dobb’s decision.

Twitter: @DrMelissa Simon
LinkedIn: 2Melissa-simon
https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=16856
Fenwa Milhouse MD is a Chicago based urologist and pelvic reconstructive surgeon, who uses social media to destigmatize pelvic floor & sexual conditions, as well as demonstrate the importance of representation in medicine. Dr. Milhouse will be speaking about equity in sexual health medicine in underserved populations as well as systemic racism in medical education.
IG: @drmilhouse
TIKTOK @yourfavoriteurologist
Twitter: @FMilhouseMD
Website: www.yourfavoriteurologist.com
The Black Women's Health Imperative- nonprofit organization created by Black women to help advance the health and wellness of Black girls and women.
https://bwhi.org/
Episode 26: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care, and Why it Matters with Dr. Fenwa Milhouse
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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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

S1 Ep57: Uterine Cancer: Reducing Your Risk Jan 19, 2023

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Uterine cancer, also known as endometrial cancer, is the fourth most common cancer in women and the most common gynecologic cancer. 66,000 US women that are expected to be diagnosed in 2023. Over the last fifteen years, while rates for colon, lung and other cancers have decreased, rates for uterine cancer have increased.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

RISK FACTORS for uterine cancer
Why women who have obesity are at increased risk
Why young women with PCOS are at increased risk
Why perimenopausal women are at increased risk
Why compounded hormone therapy and pellets increase risk
Other risk factors that are not as well known
Why Black women are twice as likely to die from uterine cancer
Steps you can take to reduce your risk
The #1 sign that you might have uterine cancer or pre-cancer
What to know if you have been diagnosed with hyperplasia
What to know if you have been diagnosed with uterine cancer

For more information on this topic:
Episode 40 Don’t Go with This Flow- Post Menopause Bleeding
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 52 Yes, You CAN Reduce Your Cancer Risk By 33% with Selene Yaeger
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
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

S1 Ep56: Too Young for Menopause? Jan 12, 2023

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Every day women tell me they were blindsided when they started having perimenopause symptoms in their mid-40’s since they assumed that menopause was years, or even a decade away. And they are pretty much shocked when I tell them that mid-forties is the normal time for estrogen levels to waver, or tank all together. But imagine if you enter menopause when you are in your 20’s or 30’s? This situation is more common than most people appreciate occuring in up to 3% of women.
In this episode I am joined by Dr. Hannah Short, a graduate of the University of Cambridge and a specialist in premature menopause recognized by the British Menopause Society. She is the author of The Complete Guide to POI and Early Menopause.
We discuss:

The difference between EARLY MENOPAUSE, PREMATURE MENOPAUSE and PREMATURE OVARIAN INSUFFICIENCY, otherwise known as POI
WHY Premature Menopause occurs
Why POI occurs
The impact of ENVIRONMENTAL factors
Why SMOKING increases the risk of premature menopause
Why it is so important to DIAGNOSE and TREAT women who enter menopause early
If HORMONE THERAPY is prescribed in different doses or in a different amount than for women who go through menopause at a typical time
HOW LONG women should take hormone therapy
NON-HORMONAL options for women who cannot take hormone therapy

Dr. Hannah Short
Website: https://drhannahshort.co.uk/
Twitter: @drhannahshort
The Complete Guide to POI and Early Menopause GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60382898-the-complete-guide-to-poi-and-early-menopause?
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-POI-Early-Menopause/dp/1399801244/
The Daisy Network (a charity for women with POI) https://www.daisynetwork.org

For more information on this topic:
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

Episode 1: Is It Menopause or Some Other Pause?
Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 29: Has Your Hysterectomy Hijacked Your Sex Life?
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

S1 Ep55: BUSTING THE MYTHS BEHIND CONSENSUAL NON-MONOGAMY Jan 05, 2023

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Consensual non-monogamy is not only more mainstream than you think but has scientifically proven relationship benefits. My guest today is Dr. Amy Moors, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Chapman University and a Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. She is an internationally recognized expert on polyamory, swinging, and other forms of consensually non-monogamous relationships.
We discuss:

HOW COMMON consensual non-monogamy is in the general population
The definition of consensual NON-MONOGAMY, POLYAMORY AND SWINGING
The AGE RANGE of people that are openly non-monogamous
FIVE MISCONCEPTIONS regarding consensual non-monogamy
Typical MOTIVATIONS behind consensual non-monogamy
The difference between CHEATING and consensual non-monogamy
PARENTING and open non-monogamy
United States data compared to European data
The NEGATIVE aspects of consensual non-monogamy
How to DISCUSS consensual non-monogamy with a partner or spouse

Amy Moors PhD
Social Media: @ACMoors
Website: www.amycmoors.com
For more information on this topic:
Episode 20: Is non-monogamy having a moment? With Dr. Wednesday Martin
Episode 34 Making the Most of Mid-Life and Beyond with Iris Krasnow
Episode 37 Having a Positive Sexual Experience Without Testing Positive
Episode 47 Orgasm Equality with Dr. Laurie Mintz
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

S1 Ep54: WHAT HAPPENS DURING SEX THERAPY Dec 29, 2022

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If you have ever wondered what it’s like when a gynecologist mother and a sex therapist daughter hang out – you are about to find out! My guest (and daughter) Rachel Zar LMFT, CST, has a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and is an AASECT-certified sex therapist. We are going to chat about what happens behind the closed doors of a sex therapist.
Rachel and I talk about:

The WORST and BEST thing about growing up with a gynecologist mom
What kind of education and training someone needs to be a CERTIFIED SEX THERAPIST
What does NOT HAPPEN during a sex therapy session
Who BENEFITS from seeing a sex therapist
What ACTUALLY HAPPENS during sex therapy
How a therapist approaches couples with sexual medical problems
Therapy for DESIRE DISCREPANCY
If FANTASY is a red flag that a relationship is in trouble
KINK!
What it means to be SEX POSITIVE and why is it important as a therapist
The sex therapy approach to ORGASM issues
The advantages of VIRTUAL Therapy as opposed to in-person therapy

To find a certified sex therapist: American Association of Sexuality Educators, counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) : https://www.aasect.org/referral-directory
More about Rachel Zar LMFT, CST
Website https://www.rachelzartherapy.com/
Articles https://www.rachelzartherapy.com/#publications
Practice Spark Chicago Therapy https://www.sparkchicagotherapy.com/
Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/rachelzartherapy/
https://www.facebook.com/rachelzartherapy
Other Episodes on This Topic
Episode 8:When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationships with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
Episode 16 Minimizing the Monotony of Monogamy with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
Episode 20: Is non-monogamy having a moment? With Dr. Wednesday Martin
Episode 41 Why Men go Missing in Bed with Dr. Stephen Snyder
Episode 42 Out of Practice Does Not Mean Out of Business
Episode 47 Orgasm Equality with Dr. Laurie Mintz
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

S1 Ep52: How to Reduce Your Cancer Risk By 33% with Selene Yeager Dec 15, 2022

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According to The American Institute for Cancer Research, 33% of breast cancer is preventable. I am joined by Selene Yaeger, a health and fitness journalist and major influencer in the menopause world to discuss TEN ACTION STEPS that women can take to significantly DECREASE their personal risk of risk getting not only breast CANCER, but other cancers as well.
We discuss our top 10 tips to reduce your risk:

How and why PHYSICAL ACTIVITY decreases cancer risk
The relationship between RED MEAT and cancer
New approaches to maintaining a HEALTHY WEIGHT and the impact it can have on cancer risk
How to incorporate WHOLE GRAINS, fruits, and vegetables in your diet, and why it matters
Why PROCESSED FOOD is the devil
SUGARY DRINKS and cancer risk
Why cutting down on ALCOHOL may prevent breast cancer
The importance of FAMILY HISTORY and getting screened for genetic mutations
Why cancer preventing SUPPLEMENTS are not helpful, and may even increase the risk of cancer
The stats that support taking ESTROGEN to reduce the risk of breast cancer, and the progestogen connection

Selene Yeager
Website: seleneyeager.contently.com
https://www.feistymenopause.com/
Facebook: FitChick - Selene Yeager
Twitter: @FitChick3
Instagram: @FitChick3
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hit-play-not-pause/id1533088916
Hit Play Not Pause, Episode 16- Sex Solutions with Dr. Lauren Streicher.
https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/b22d0214-06da-4105-bdd3-2ba92b821b8c/episodes/1d4bd5bd-184e-42d9-be99-efb4f40887ba/hit-play-not-pause-sex-solutions-with-dr-lauren-streicher-episode-16
Also of Interest:
Episode 19: Menopause and Muffin Top: why women put on pounds
Episode 28: The BEST approach for BREAST Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction with Dr. Lisa Larkin
Episode 30: Weight! Weight! Can a Pill Help Take Off the Pounds? With Dr. Kushner
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
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

S1 Ep51: Transdermal vs Oral Estrogens- What’s the Difference? Dec 08, 2022

Show notes

Systemic estrogen, unlike local estrogen, affect every single cell in the body which means there is an impact on not only hot flashes but also your bones, your brain, your bladder, and your cardiovascular system along with your vulva and vagina. While there is a long list of benefits with both oral and transdermal systemic estrogen, the potential complications are where the differences come in. So, the decision to take an oral estrogen versus using a patch, spray, or skin gel is not just about personal preference, insurance coverage, and convenience, it’s also about safety. It’s about potential risks. It’s about your personal medical history.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher discusses:

The BENEFITS of oral and transdermal systemic estrogen
The DIFFERENCE between oral and transdermal estrogen
RISKS that are specific to ORAL estrogen products
BENEFITS that are specific to ORAL estrogen products
BENEFITS that are specific to TRANSDERMAL estrogen products
Why the FDA label lists risks for estrogen products that are NOT TRUE
TRANSVAGINAL systemic estrogen
PROS and CONS of specific transdermal estrogen products
- Estrogen PATCHES
- Estrogen GELS
- Estrogen SPRAY
TOP TEN QUESTIONS my patients ask about transdermal estrogen

For more information on this topic:
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Links to other episodes on this topic:

Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
Episode 35 Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly https://apple.co/3TLM8s7
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.
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER

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.
Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
DrStreicher.com
Instagram @DrStreich
Twitter @DrStreicher
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
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

S1 Ep50: Dating in a Digital Age. The Kinsey Report on Match with Dr. Justin Garcia Dec 01, 2022

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Since 2010, the relationship company Match has enlisted the help of experts from the Kinsey Institute of Sexual Research to conduct and publish a scientific study on the attitudes and behaviors of single people in the United States. Today, my guest is Dr. Justin Garcia, the Executive Director of The Kinsey Institute, and the Scientific Advisor to Match. He’s the scientist who knows the secrets of why people fall into relationships, and if online dating has salvaged or… sabotaged the whole process.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Dr. Garcia discuss the just-released data from the 12th annual Singles in America study including:
· The legacy of DR. ALFRED KINSEY
· The most UNEXPECTED FINDINGS from this year’s study
· How the PANDEMIC has changed relationships across America
· What TRAIT people want most in a relationship
· If love is blind and PHYSICAL ATTRACTION still primarily drives online dating
· The impact of POLITICS, and specifically the overturning of ROE v WADE
· Dating TRENDS in women OVER AGE 40
· If women over 40 are searching for SEX or looking for LOVE? Marriage or companionship?
· Dating trends in SINGLE PARENTS
· DEALMAKERS and DEALBREAKERS- what’s more important
· How the ECONOMICS of dating has shifted
· How likely it is for a woman OVER 50 to meet a LONG-TERM PARTNER online
· How to INCREASE THE ODDS of meeting someone online
· What is “VANILLA SEX” and is it the most typical sex practice today?
· Is Digital Dating HERE TO STAY?
· THE KINSEY ART COLLECTION

About Dr. Garcia and the Kinsey Institute
Dr. Garcia is a world-renowned biologist and sex researcher focusing on the evolutionary and biocultural foundations of romantic and sexual relationships across the life course. Professor Garcia has a dual faculty appointment with the Kinsey Institute and the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also Co-Chair of the Interdepartmental Graduate Committee on Human Sexuality. Since 2010, Garcia serves as Scientific Advisor to the relationship company Match. In this role, Garcia provides expertise to Singles in America (SIA), the online dating company's annual study on the attitudes and behaviors of single people in the United States.
The Kinsey Institute
Sign Up for The Kinsey Institute Newsletter
Instagram @KinseyInstitute
Facebook: @KinseyInstitute
Twitter: @KinseyInstitute

Match
Insta: @Match
Twitter: @Match
Facebook: @Match
OurTime: Dating over 50
Stir: where single Parents Meet

Other episodes of interest:

Episode 10: Dating After 50- Make it Awesome Not Awful- With Bela Gandhi
Episode 16 Minimizing the Monotony of Monogamy with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
Episode 42 Out of Practice Does Not Mean Out of Business (Sex After a long Hiatus)

This episode is supported by SoulSource.
In addition to helping women regain sexual function across America, Soul Source donates thousands of vaginal dilators a year to African women who are recovering from vaginal fistula surgery.
https://www.soulsource.com/pages/global-community

For information on why and how to use vaginal dilators,
Episode 27: Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell

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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Twitter @DrStreicher

Facebook @DrStreicher

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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

S1 Ep48: Fabulous AND Fashionable with Lauren Dimet Waters Nov 17, 2022

Show notes

For once I am not going to talk about vaginal dryness, leaky bladders, a dropping uterus, or brittle bones! I am chatting about fashion and style for the over-40 crowd with Lauren Dimet Waters, the Host of The Beauty is a Bitch Podcast, and founder of Fountain of 30.
We discuss:

If you need to dress differently when going through menopause
The difference between fashion and style
Best and worst trends in fashion right now
What colors are best
Why Zara is a great place to shop
Consignment shopping!
What Queen Elizabeth did right- and what she did wrong
Mistakes women make when it comes to fashion

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Lauren Dimet Waters
Fountain of 30.com
FB /Twitter/Insta: @fountainof30
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the 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

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