Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: THE Menopause Podcast - Lauren Streicher, MD

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66: Don’t Be Duped: Misleading Marketing and the FDA Mar 23, 2023

You grab a product off the shelf—maybe it promises to help with bladder control, take off ten pounds, erase wrinkles, or boost orgasms. You assume it will do what it claims to do because it’s got the FDA seal right there on the package. Most consumers have no idea that most over-the-counter products have not been tested to make sure product claims are legitimate.
In this episode Dr. Streicher discusses:

The history of the FDA
Why estrogen disappeared from face cream in 1962
The different FDA categories and what they mean
- FDA Approved
- FDA Cleared
- FDA Listed
- FDA Registered
- What it takes to be FDA approved
- Why testosterone was never FDA-approved for women
- Loopholes that allow products to get an FDA label
Other misleading labeling that is often used:
- Doctor recommended
- Doctor tested
- Clinically proven
The difference between a marketing study and a scientific study
The problem with class labeling

The FDA listing that demonstrates the loophole used by Intimate Rose Dilators https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfRL/rl.cfm?lid=584142&lpcd=HDQ)
For more information on this topic:
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 13: Post Menopause Skin- What! Why? And How to Make it Better
Episode 33 A Walk Down the Feminine Hygiene Aisle
Episode 35 Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Episode 64 Menopause Myths and Crazy Products- Live From ISSWSH
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

65: The Dilemma of Dealing with Menopause AND Breast Cancer with Dr. Corinne Menn Mar 16, 2023

Essentially all women eventually enter menopause, and while most end up not taking hormones to treat their symptoms, they at least have the option to do so. Women with a breast cancer diagnosis, on the other hand, generally don’t have the same choices at their disposal and are told, or assume, they are not candidates for estrogen therapy. Millions of women are expected to just put up with hot flashes, brain fog, insomnia, and bone loss, not to mention all the changes below the belly button. In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Corinne Menn, a board-certified gynecologist, with expertise in menopause and sexual medicine who was diagnosed with estrogen-positive breast cancer in her 20s. We will have a radical discussion about options, INCLUDING ESTROGEN to manage hot flashes and insomnia.
In this episode, we discuss:

The impact of PREGNANCY on women with breast cancer
Non-estrogen prescription options to treat HOT FLASHES
- SSRI, SNRI
- Gabapentin
- Oxybutynin
- Fezolinetant
ESTROGEN THERAPY as an option for women with breast cancer
- The lack of studies that show estrogen increases the risk of breast cancer recurrence or mortality
- The 25 scientific studies that support the safety of taking menopausal estrogen therapy in women with breast cancer
- Why physicians continue to tell women to avoid estrogen
- If it is worth taking herbal or other over-the-counter hot flash remedies

Article Dr. Menn references: Bluming AZ. Introduction: Estrogen Reconsidered: Exploring the Evidence for Estrogen's Benefits and Risks. Cancer J. 2022 May-Jun 01;28(3):157-162.
MORE INFORMATION

Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!

Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders

Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison

Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?

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
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

65: Crazy Products and Menopause Myths Mar 09, 2023

Theannual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, otherwise known as ISSWSH, is a medical conference where sexual medicine and menopause experts gather to present research and educate other health care professionals. At this year’s meeting, I decided to grab some of those world-renowned EXPERTS on the fly and ask them the following 4 questions:

“Of all of the RIDICULOUS PRODUCTS that are being sold to treat sexual function, menopause symptoms or bladder control, what is at the top of your list as something that just needs to go away?”

“What is the most common MYTH you hear again and again when it comes to HORMONE THERAPY

“If given the opportunity to educate a room full of men about SEXUALLY PLEASING a female partner, what is the one thing, as a sexual medicine expert, you would tell them?”

“You are often asked to give a lecture to a room full of primary care clinicians, who generally know next to nothing about sexual medicine and menopause. If you only had time to address ONE TOPIC, what would that be?”

The Experts

Dr. Andrew Goldstein -Ob-Gyn, Clinical Professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine, Director of the Centers for Vulvovaginal Disorders, Past President of ISSWSH https://www.vulvodynia.com/about
Dr. Leah Milheiser Ob-Gyn, Clinical Professor Stanford University, Chief Medical Officer Evernow @DrLeahM
Dr. Irwin Goldstein Urologist, Founder, and past president of ISSWSH. Director of San Diego Sexual Medicine
Dr. Lori Burkholtz Family Medicine and Fellow Trained Women’s Health Specialist, Associate Medical Director for Ms.Medicine, a national health care organization dedicated to advancing women’s health
Dr. Alyssa Dweck Ob-Gyn, New York, with an expertise in sexual medicine and menopause. Co-author of three books, including The Complete A to Z for Your V
Dr. Miriam Greene Ob-Gyn, New York University, host of the Doctor Radio Sexual Health and Well Being Show on Sirius XM Radio
Dr. Brooke Faught women’s-health nurse practitioner in Tennessee, specialty training in female sexual and pelvic floor medicine, and urology.
Dr. Diane Bitner Ob-Gyn, Grand Rapids, Michigan,North American Menopause Society (NAMS) 2015 Menopause Practitioner of the Year. Author of I Want to Age Like That – Healthy Aging Through Midlife and Menopause”.
Dr. James Simon Reproductive Endocrinologist, Past president of ISSWSH, Past President of North American Menopause Society. Washington, DC
Dr. Corinne Menn OB-GYN specializing in menopause, cancer survivorship, Medical Advisor for Alloy
Dr. Melissa Dahir Family Medicine, Omaha, NE specializes in women’s sexual health and vulvar pain disorders
Dr. Sameena Rahman-Ob-Gyn and specializes in sexual pain and sexual dysfunction. Instagram @ Gynegirl
Jennifer Romanello- Medical Student, Founder of The Medical Student Forum on Female Sexual Medicine
Dr. Becky Lynn an Ob-Gyn, the founder of Evora Women’s Health, and a North American Menopause Society certified physician.
Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg-Psychologist, Chief of behavioral medicine at MacDonald Women's Hospital/University Hospitals ,Cleveland Medical Center
Barb Dehn Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Vice President of Women’s Health at Peppy Health, Author
Dr. Tammi Rowen Ob-Gyn, sexual health and gynecological care for women with disabilities, women with cancer, and transgender individuals. Medical Director- Sexual Medicine Program at the University of Southern California
Dr. Rachel Rubin Urologist ,sexual medicine specialist , associate editor for the journal Sexual Medicine Reviews and Washington DC’s “premier clitorologist”
Dr. Terry Gibbs Ob Gyn, Ohio, specializing in Sexual Medicine and Menopause

Related Episodes
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 33 A Walk Down the Feminine Hygiene Aisle
Episode 46 Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen
Episode 63 DHEA-An Estrogen Alternative for Vaginal Dryness
Hear More From the Experts
Episode 8: When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationships with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
Episode 14: Need to Know Info About the Penis in Your Bed with Dr. Rachel Rubin
Episode 45 Religion, Culture and Sex with Dr. Sameena Rahman
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.
Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
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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

63: DHEA-A Non-Estrogen Alternative for Vaginal Dryness Mar 01, 2023

DHEA, or dehydroepiandrosterone, (also known as prasterone) is an FDA approved non-estrogen alternative with the brand name Intrarosa™. These vaginal suppositories are specifically for the treatment of women experiencing moderate to severe pain during sex. The question is, do they work as well as estrogen? And what are the pros and cons?
In this episode, Dr. Streicher explains:

The role of estrogen and testosterone in providing vaginal lubrication
Why DHEA is beneficial to vaginal health
The science of intracrinology as opposed to endocrinology
What Intrarosa™ is and how it is used
The pros and cons of DHEA
Why DHEA may boost your libido and help with orgasm in addition to decreasing pain
If women with breast cancer can safely use DHEA
If dietary DHEA supplements are beneficial
Which is better- vaginal estrogen or DHEA

For more information on this topic:
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 8: When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationships with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
Episode 27: Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell
Episode 35 Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
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

63: Are Current Screening Guidelines HELPING women or HURTING Women? Controversies in Public Health Policy with Dr. Melissa Simon Feb 23, 2023

Today I am talking to Dr. Melissa Simon. Dr. Simon served on the US Preventative Services Task Force Recommendation Committee (USPSTF), the government organization that shapes public policy and sets recommendations followed by doctors all over the country. So, when your doctor says you only need a Pap test every 3 years and that you no longer need a Pap test at all after age 65, it is based on the recommendation of this committee.
How do they come up with these guidelines? And, are they always right? In this episode I challenge Dr. Simon on some controversial Task Force recommendations that have informed the way your doctor practices medicine, and dictated the health care you receive. And if you listened to Episode 58 Two Experts Two Timely Topics, you know what an amazing guest Dr. Simon is!
We discuss:

The role of the National Institute of Health (NIH)
The role of the National Institute of US Preventative Services Task Force Recommendation Committee (USPSTF)
Problems with the current Pap test recommendations
If women over 65 should get a pap test, and if so, who would benefit
Who should get genetic testing for the BRCA mutation
Why urinary incontinence is a public health issue
The public library and public health
How you can influence public health policies

US Preventative Services Task Force Recommendation Committee https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/
Health for All Library Project: https://healthforallproject.org/
To leave a comment on cervical cancer screening: (comments periodically close but often open up again) https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/draft-update-summary/cervical-cancer-screening-adults-adolescents
Final plan for cervical screening which will also post for public comment: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan/cervical-cancer-screening-adults-adolescents
To find out what preventative services you should have: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/apps/
Melissa Simon MD
Twitter: @DrMelissa Simon
LinkedIn: 2Melissa-simon
https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=16856
For more information:
Episode 26: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Care, and Why it Matters with Dr. Fenwa Milhouse
Episode 39 A Personal Trainer for Your Pelvic Floor with Dr. Janelle Howell
Episode 44 A Deep Dive into RECURRENT UTI
Episode 58 Two Experts Two Timely Topics
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.
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

61: BONING UP ON BONE HEALTH: Part 2 Feb 16, 2023

In the United States, there are 10 million women with OSTEOPOROSIS and 43 million women with OSTEOPENIA. Most of these women do not know they are at risk for a potential life-changing or even fatal fracture. 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. If you haven’t already, please start with Part 1, Episode 59, which focuses on WHY YOU SHOULD CARE about bone health, RISK FACTORS for osteoporosis, and SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS.
This episode will focus on PREVENTION and TREATMENT including:

What specific kinds of EXERCISE build bone and why CROSS TRAINING is important
The importance of BALANCE
Why women with INCONTINENCE and osteoporosis are at exceptionally high risk for fracture
If YOGA is good for your bones
How to get enough CALCIUM
If supplemental calcium is bad for your HEART
Why you should test your VITAMIN D and how much you need
If you have low bone mass (OSTEOPENIA) how to prevent further bone loss
Why ESTROGEN is beneficial for bones
The benefit of RELOXIFEN (Evista™)
If HEAVY METALS are beneficial?
Options to treat OSTEOPOROSIS
Who is at highest risk for FRACTURE
When a BONE BUILDING medicine is appropriate
When medications, such as bisphosphonates, that PREVENT BONE RESORPTON are appropriate
If OSTEONECROSIS of the jaw is something to worry about

For More Information

Dr. Tough DeSapri's Website
https://boneandbodywh.com
Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation:
https://www.bonehealthandosteoporosis.org/
Buff Bones:
https://buff-bones.com/
Bone Fit Training:
https://www.bonehealthandosteoporosis.org/bonefit-find-a-professional/
Osteoporosis Canada
https://osteoporosis.ca/exercise-recommendations/
Calcium calculator:
https://osteoporosis.ca/calcium-calculator/
Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 12: Your Muscles on Menopause with Amanda Thebe
Episode 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 59- Boning Up on Bones: Part 1 with Dr. Kristi Tough DeSapri
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.
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.
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

60: Lack of Lubrication Not Always From Lack of Estrogen Feb 09, 2023

It’s hardly shocking that when a woman suddenly loses her lubrication, she (and often her doctor) assumes that vaginal dryness and pain with sexual activity are related to menopause. And it's true that if you are over 45, the onset of vaginal dryness is more likely than not because your estrogen tank is empty. But lots of things, other than menopause, can cause a total lack of lubrication.

In this segment, I discuss vaginal dryness as a consequence of:

Medications
Cancer Treatments
Cannabis
Diabetes
Autoimmune Diseases
Multiple Sclerosis
History of Painful Sex
High Osmolality Lubricants
Vulvar Conditions such as Lichen Sclerosus
The Fear Factor
Partner Problems

For more information on this topic:
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 18: The Itchy Vulva with Dr. Jill Krapf
Episode 27: Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell
Episode 53 Not All Hot Flashes Mean Menopause
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
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 Gide to Hysterectomy

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

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.
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.
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

58: Two Experts- Two Timely Topics Jan 26, 2023

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.
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.
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Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
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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

57: Uterine Cancer: Reducing Your Risk Jan 19, 2023

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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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

56: Too Young for Menopause? Jan 12, 2023

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

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

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

54: WHAT HAPPENS DURING SEX THERAPY Dec 29, 2022

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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Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
DrStreicher.com
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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

53: Not All Hot Flashes Mean Menopause Dec 22, 2022

If you‘re 48 years old and are flashing all day and all night, odds are your broken internal thermostat is a sign of low estrogen. BUT MENOPAUSE IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT CAUSES HOT FLASHES! This segment goes through all the other reasons that someone has hot flashes.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

What a woman experiences when she has a hot flash
Typical situations in which hot flashes are NOT because of menopause
Medical conditions and medications that can trigger hot flashes

More Information on Hot Flashes

Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 32: Are Your Hot Flashes Making You Foggy: Forgetful? with Dr. Pauline Maki
Episode 36 How to Know You are in Menopause if You Never Get Periods
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.
Sign Up to receive Dr. Streicher’s Free Newsletter:
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

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

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.
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.
Sign Up to receive Dr. Streicher’s Free Newsletter:
Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
DrStreicher.com
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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

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

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.
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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.
Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
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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

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

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
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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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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

49: Vulvar Vanity-Part 1 Nov 24, 2022

Embellishment of the genitals is more common than you think, and you may be surprised by things some women do beyond trimming their pubic hair! But before you jump on board you may want to consider the downside.
This episode covers:
PUBIC HAIR STLES and TRENDS

The purpose of pubic hair
What’s normal- what’s not
Why women choose to remove or alter their pubic hair
If hair removal enhances- or hurts- vulvar health
The pros and cons of different hair removal methods
Risks of pubic hair removal
Tips to reduce risk and pain of hair removal

PUBIC HAIR DYE

Why women do it
Risks

GENITAL PIERCING

Why women do it
What parts of the vulva are typically pierced
Risks of genital piercing

TATOOS

Why women do it
What parts of the vulva are typically tattooed
Risks of genital tattoos

GENITAL MAKEUP/VAJAZZELING

Why women do it
Risks

MY SURVEY

What most women do
What men prefer

For more ivulvar episodes:
Episode 18: The Itchy Vulva with Dr. Jill Krapf
Episode 33A Walk Down the Feminine Hygiene Aisle
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

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

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

47: Orgasm Equality with Dr. Mintz Nov 10, 2022

There is a long history of women not only not knowing anything about sexual pleasure but also being made to feel as if there is something dangerous and wrong with them if they seek it. My guest for this episode is Dr. Laurie Mintz a professor, a therapist, and the author of “Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters- and How to Get it”, the groundbreaking book that changed not only how millions of women, and men, think about female sexual pleasure, but how women can OWN sexual pleasure.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Dr. Mintz discuss:

Why, HISTORICALLY, women have not been educated about the clitoris and its role in female pleasure and orgasm
Why Dr. Mintz wrote Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get it
Why women often feel SHAME about the appearance of their genitalia
Why women still believe that orgasm will occur during intercourse
The anthropological explanation for why the clitoris is OUTSIDE the vagina
What is meant by “ORGASM EQUALITY”
The POLITICS of orgasm
Why it is important to have a SEX SCRIPT
Why PORN can be problematic
MASTURBATION education
Why a vibrator is a TOOL, not a TOY
What a VIBRATOR and a RAFT have in common
MEN and Vibrators
The problem with SEX EDUCATION in America
Why MINDFULNESS is so important when it comes to sexual pleasure
LABIAL diversity

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Laurie Mintz, Ph.D.
www.drlauriemintz.com
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Florida
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get it
A Tired Woman’s Guide to Passionate Sex
TEDx Talk A New Revolution for Orgasm Equality
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DrLaurieMintz/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drlauriemintz
Twitter https://twitter.com/drlauriemintz
LINKS
OMG YES: The Science of Women’s Pleasure
The Labia Library
Gyno Diversity
FOR MORE INFORMATION

Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Episode 15: Post Menopause Orgasm- Everybody Come!
Episode 29: Has Your Hysterectomy Hijacked Your Sex Life?
Episode 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
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

46: Finding a Menopause Clinician Who Will Listen Nov 03, 2022

An “MD” after a name is no assurance that the person to whom you are about to bare your soul—and your vagina—is an expert when it comes to menopause. This episode is a guide to finding a true menopause expert.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

Why most GYNECOLOGISTS are NOT EXPERTS when it comes to menopause.
How a clinician becomes a menopause expert
What the INITIALS after a clinician’s name mean
The difference between LICENSED and BOARD CERTIFIED
Why an ANTI-AGING certification is not the same as board certification
The pros and cons of a REFERERAL SERVICE
How to find a MENOPAUSE EXPERT
What it means to be a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS)
If the SEX of your clinician matters
How to get the most out of your APPOINTMENT
What to do if you do not have ACCESS to a menopause expert

To verify a physician is licensed: Federation of State Medical Boards http://fsmb.org/
To check if a physician is board-certified and what his or her specialty is: ABMS.org
To find a certified menopause practitioner, go to www.menopause.org.

Episodes mentioned in this episode:
Episode 27: Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell

Lauren Streicher MD FACOG NCMP
Episode 35Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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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Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
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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

45: Religion, Culture on Sexual Practices with Dr. Sameena Rahman Oct 26, 2022

The impact of religion and culture on sexual function…and dysfunction is fascinating and complex. In this episode I am joined by Dr. Seemena Rahman, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Ob-Gyn at Northwestern University and one of the few experts in the study of the impact of religion on sexual function. Dr. Rahman published a pivotal scientific paper in Sexual Medicine Reviews about female sexual dysfunction among Muslin women
Dr. Streicher and Dr. Rahman discuss:

The impact of colonialism on sexual expression in the Muslim world
In general, the impact of religion on sexuality
If religious women tend to have more sex, or less sex
The impact of maintaining virginity prior to marriage on sexual satisfaction later in life
Religions that emphasize that female pleasure is as important as male pleasure
If the timing of intercourse is dictated in religions other than Judaism
Buddhism and sexual practices
The attitude of various religions on oral sex, anal sex, and masturbation?
Religious attitudes towards post menopause sex when reproduction is no longer possible
If pleasure or reproduction is emphasized in most religions
Sexual dysfunction and sexual abuse in Muslim women
If observant women get better care from a doctor who is the same religion

For more information on Dr. Rahman

Dr. Rahman’s Website: cgcchicago.com
Instagram: @gynogirl
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/drsamchicago/

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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Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on
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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

44: A Deep Dive into RECURRENT UTI Oct 20, 2022

The only thing more miserable than a urinary tract infection (UTI) is when it happens again, and again, and again. But, good news, there are ways to prevent post-menopause RECURRENT URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS. But sometimes urinary urgency, burning, and that “gotta go” feeling is NOT FROM an INFECTION, and need a completely different kind of treatment.
You need to know the difference.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

WHY post menopause women have so many UTIs
The typical symptoms of a UTI
What BLOOD in the urine means
Why symptomsthat MIMIC a UTI but are not caused by an infection
Why it is important to get a URINE CULTURE or PCR testing
A new at HOME way to get rapid urine testing and antibiotic sensitivity
Strategies that DO NOT WORK to PREVENT recurrent urinary tract infections
Strategies that DO WORK to PREVENT recurrent urinary tract infections
How a LOCAL VAGINAL ESTROGEN can reduce or eliminate both recurrent infections and bothersome bladder symptoms that are not from an infection
A non-antibiotic option, methenamine (Hiprax™) will reduce recurrence
Strategies that MIGHT work

For more information on MY UTI- Rapid at-home testing delivered to your doorstep
Website: www.myuti.com
Facebook: @myutiwebsite
Twitter: @uti_my
For more detailed information on genitourinary syndrome of menopause, treatment options, and the impact on bladder function:
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 6: Your Post Menopause Urethra and Why You Should Care- with Dr. Kelly Casperson
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
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.
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

43: THE POWER of the PILLOW: The Ergonomics of Sex ... with Dr. Heather Howard Oct 13, 2022

For people with a physical challenge, such as back pain, a hip replacement, arthritis, or generalized weakness, the mechanics of having sex make it seem out of the question. But no matter the physical challenge, both solo, and partnered sex can be not only possible but pleasurable. In this episode, Dr. Streicher chats with Dr. Heather Howard, a clinical sexologist, the founder of The Center for Sexual Health and Rehabilitation, and the developer of ERGOEROTICS, which facilitates sexual pleasure for people with those physical challenges that make sex...challenging.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Dr. Howard discuss:

The definition of ERGO-EROTICS
Why THE BED is not always the best place to have sex
The power of the PILLOW
Post HIP replacement ergonomics
Tips for those with ARTHRITIS
Why a sex “DRESS REHEARSAL “is helpful
DEVICES for those with arthritis to hold a vibrator
VIDEOS to help those with physical challenges
How to make ergonomic ADJUSTMENTS

For more information on this topic:
https://heatherhoward.com/
https://ergoerotics.com/

Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever

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.
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

42: Out of Practice Does Not Mean Out of Business! A Guide to Sex After a Long Hiatus Oct 05, 2022

It’s a common scenario. A patient will come to me after years of no penetration other than from a gynecologist’s speculum. And the question I always get is- is it ever too late? Is there any way to reverse the dryness, the shrinkage, the pain...even if it’s been decades?
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

Requirements for PAIN FREE sex
How to PREDICT if sex will be pleasurable or painful
The purpose of a VAGINAL DILATOR assessment
A GUIDE to getting your LUBRICANT where it needs to go
The difference between REPAIR vs. MAINTENENCE
Why the FIRST TWO WEEKS of treatment are so important
Why you should NEVER ENDURE sex if it is PAINFUL
The purpose of VAGINAL DILATOR therapy
HOW LONG it takes to restore vaginal lubrication and elasticity
Why you should not STOP your vaginal estrogen
Where USE IT or LOSE IT applies

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

Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders

Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?

Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 8:When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationships with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 27: Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell
Episode 39 A Personal Trainer for Your Pelvic Floor with Dr. Janelle Howell
To purchase vaginal dilators:

https://www.soulsource.com/
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.
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

41: Why Men Go Missing in Bed with Dr. Steven Snyder Sep 29, 2022

Dr. Steven Snyder, an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, and the author of Love Worth Making - How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship is “the expert” when it comes to sex and male-female relationship issues. Dr. Streicher spent two days with Dr. Snyder filming segments for the Today Show and particularly loved his explanation of “why men go missing in bed”
In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Dr. Snyder discuss:

How men are different from women
What we can learn from the sex lives of rats (as in rodents, not awful men)
If SEX DATES are a good idea
The advantage of Dr. Snyder’s “2 step” technique
The Concept of the “SEX KNOT”
If MEDICATIONS to improve female sexual desire are helpful
What do women say or do that “kills the moment” in bed
Unusual emotional responses to orgasm such as laughing or crying

Dr. Streicher and Dr. Snyder on The Today Show
https://www.drstreicher.com/dr-streicher-blog/2019/12/the-today-show-sex-after-fifty
https://www.drstreicher.com/dr-streicher-blog/2019/12/the-today-show-celebrates-hodas-50th-b-day-in-new-yorks-museum-of-sex

Dr. Snyder’s Web site:
https://www.sexualityresource.com/

Love Worth Making - How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship https://www.amazon.com/Love-Worth-Making-Ridiculously-Long-Lasting/dp/1250113113

Dr. Snyder Twitter- @2Sexualitytoday
For more 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 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
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.
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

40: Don’t Go With This Flow: Post Menopause Bleeding Sep 21, 2022

Post menopause bleeding. It’s not just about making the midnight run for tampons, it’s that stomach-dropping fear that “blood equals cancer” that causes women to spend hours consulting Dr. Google for some reassurance. Although most women imagine the worst, in the overwhelming majority of cases, postmenopausal spotting or bleeding is not, is not, an indication of anything serious.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

How to know WHERE the blood is coming from
The 3 causes ofPost Menopause VAGINAL WALL BLEEDING
What causesPost Menopause CERVICAL BLEEDING
Causes of UTERINE BLEEDING Post Menopause
Uterine POLYPS
Uterine FIBROIDS post menopause
Uterine ATROPHY
Post menopause “PERIODS”
Endometrial HYPERPLASIA
Uterine CANCER and Pre-cancer
The role of ULTRASOUND and saline ultrasound
What to expect if you need an endometrial BIOPSY
When and why a D and C /HYSTEROSCOPY is needed

For more information on this topic:
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Episode 1: Is It Menopause or Some Other Pause?
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
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.
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

39: A Personal Trainer for Your Pelvic Floor with Dr. Janelle Howell Sep 14, 2022

The key to eliminating incontinence, sexual pain and pelvic pain is to work one on one with a pelvic floor physical therapist. But while most women have a pretty good idea of what a physical therapist does when it comes to hips, and shoulders, it’s a mystery to most women what to expect from PELVIC FLOOR PT. In this episode, Dr. Streicher is joined by Janelle Howell, AKA The Vagina ReHAB doctor, who holds a doctorate in physical therapy and is board certified in women’s health PT.
Dr. Streicher and Dr. Howell discuss:

How one becomes a pelvic floor physical therapist
Why LOW BACK PAIN and pain in other parts of the body impact pelvic pain
What makes someone an EXPERT PHYSICAL THERAPIST
How CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES can impact on adult pelvic health
Why Your PT Needs to Take Complete MEDICAL HISTORY
Why a pelvic floor PT does INTERNAL vaginal work
WHAT to EXECT when you go to pelvic floor physical therapist
The problem with PELVIC FLOOR TENSION
HOW LONG it typically takes to eliminate pelvic problems
Why it is important for the therapist to COLLABORATE with the gynecologist
Why POSTURE is so important when it comes to pelvic floor health
What CONDITIONS a pelvic floor physical therapist TREATS
How pelvic floor PT helps with ORGASM
What it means when someone has pain AFTER SEX
How to FIND a good pelvic floor PT
If PT be done VIRTUALLY
TOOLS that women can use on their own
Why the phrase TIGHT VAGINA should never be used

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More on Janelle Howell:
Website: https://www.vaginarehabdoctor.com/
Instagram acct: @vaginarehabdoctor
Next Vaginal Fitness Masterclass: https://www.vaginarehabdoctor.com/next-masterclass-f3/
Affordable Vaginal Fitness & Food E guide: https://the-vagina-rehab-academy.sellfy.store/products/
How to find a Pelvic floor PT
https://pelvicrehab.com/
https://specialization.apta.org/find-a-specialist
https://www.vaginarehabdoctor.com/woc-pfpt-directory/
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
Episode 8: When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationships
Episode 15: Post Menopause Orgasm- Everybody Come!
Episode 27: Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell
Episode 38 Pelvic Organs Dropping? How to STOP the POP!
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.
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

38: Pelvic Organs Dropping? How to STOP the POP! Sep 07, 2022

Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) isn’t a sexy topic, but it’s an important one. Dropped bladders, dropped rectums, and/or a dropped uterus are common occurrences that are uncommonly talked about
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

The Definition of PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE
- UTERINE Prolapse
- Cystocele (BLADDER prolapse)
- Rectocele (RECTAL Prolapse)
RISK factors for Pelvic Organ Prolapse
SYMPTOMS of Pelvic Organ Prolapse
SPLINTING- what it is and why women do it
HISTORICAL treatments for POP
The likelihood it will get WORSE
TREATMENTS
- Pessaries
- Estrogen therapy
- SERM
- Pelvic floor PT (Episode 39 -A Personal Trainer for Your Pelvic Floor)
- Surgery

Link to graphics:https://www.drstreicher.com/dr-streicher-blog/2015/8/uterine-prolapse-risks-symptoms-and-treatment?rq=cystocele

uterine prolapse
cystocele
rectocele
splinting

For more information on this topic:
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
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.
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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

37: Having a Positive Sexual Experience Without Testing Positive Aug 31, 2022

Midlife women are at much greater risk for acquiring a sexually transmitted infection (STI) than most people appreciate. Since a condom covers only the penis, short of strapping on a trash bag to cover a man’s scrotum, anus, and surrounding skin, there is no such thing as total protection. And obviously, a condom is not a solution when it comes to oral sex, whether it is with a woman, a man, two women, or any other combination you can think of.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

WHY mid-life women are at high risk for getting an STI
A guide for buying CONDOMS
Ways to avoid getting or giving an STI during ORAL sex
Dental dams and DYI dental dams
Female condom
Saran™ Wrap?
LORALS™ latex undies

A conversation with *Melanie Cristol about latex undies

Why women often turn down oral sex?
What are latex undies?
How latex undies protect against transmission of bacteria and viruses
Why latex undies are better than dental dams and condoms
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For more information on this topic:
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders

Episode 10:Dating After 50- Make it Awesome Not Awful- With Bela Gandhi
Episode 14: Need to Know Info About the Penis in Your Bed with Dr. Rachel Rubin
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
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.
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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

36: How to Know You Are in Menopause If You Never Get Periods Aug 24, 2022

Google, “when does menopause start" and you will learn that you are post menopause when you haven't had a period in 12 months. But the 12 months without a period definition is totally MEANINGLESS for the millions of women who DON'T GET PERIODS.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher discusses:

Scenarios in which women don’t get periods
- Hysterectomy
- Progestin Intrauterine Device
- Endometrial Ablation
- Hormonal contraception such as birth control pills
How to know when to START TREATMENT for menopause symptoms such as hot flashes and vaginal dryness
When to REMOVE an IUD
When to STOP birth control pills

For more information on this topic:
Episode 1: Is It Menopause or Some Other Pause?
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause

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.
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Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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
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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

35: Compounding Hormones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Aug 17, 2022

It used to be that the term “bioidentical hormone therapy” referred exclusively to compounded hormone products. But today, the term bioidentical includes FDA approved commercial products and compounded products. A legal loophole combined with aggressive marketing has resulted in women believing that compounded hormone creams and pellets not only work better but are safer than commercially produced products.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher discusses:
The following common MISCONCEPTIONS about compounded hormones:

Misconception #1 Compounded hormones are NATURAL but all commercial hormones are synthetic or made of horse urine
Misconception #2 The estrogen in compounded hormones is DIFFERENT from the estrogen in commercial pharmaceutical products
Misconception #3 Compounded hormones are SAFER than commercial hormones
Misconception #4 Compounded PROGESTERONE will PROTECT your uterine lining
Misconception #5 Compounded hormones undergo the same QUALITY CONTROL as commercial products
Misconception #6 Compounded HT is CUSTOMIZED based on your hormone levels
Misconception #7 PRESCRIBERS of compounded hormones are hormone experts

The Problem with PELLETS
When it is OK to prescribe a compounded hormone
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 21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women
Episode 31The 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 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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

34: Making the Most of Mid-Life and Beyond with Iris Krasnow Aug 10, 2022

How is it that some women are sexier, more productive, more fulfilled, and even more relevant after the age of 50 than then when they were younger? In this episode, Dr. Streicher is joined by Iris Krasnow, a renowned journalist, a New York Times bestselling author of 7 books, and an expert when it comes to smashing stereotypes around aging.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Iris Krasnow discuss:

Why the first 5 decades are not necessarily your best when it comes to personal and professional fulfillment
How sex and intimacy change as life changes
Secrets to maintaining a long-term marriage or relationship
The power of female friendship

For more information about Iris Krasnow
IrisKrasnow.com
Books by Iris Krasnow:
https://iriskrasnow.com/_pages/books_by_iris_krasnow.htm

Sex after…Women Share How Intimacy Changes as Life Changes
The Secret Lives of Wives: Women Share What it Really Takes to Stay Married
Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage and Loyalty
I am My Mother’s Daughter: Making Peace with Mom Before it’s Too Late
Surrendering to Yourself: You Are Your Own Soul Mate
Surrendering to Marriage: Husbands, Wives and Other Imperfections
Surrendering to Motherhood: Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul

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Other episodes on this topic:
Episode 8:When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationships with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
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 20: Is non-monogamy having a moment? With Dr. Wednesday Martin
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

33: A Walk Down the Feminine Hygiene Aisle Aug 03, 2022

"Feminine Hygiene" is big business- "feminine" of course being the acceptable marketing euphemism to avoid saying the word "vagina". Over 50% of post-menopausal women are using at least one so-called “feminine hygiene” product on their vulvas or in their vaginas. But are vaginas so smelly that there need to be thousands of products and a billion-dollar industry to eliminate the stench?
In this episode, Dr. Streicher discusses:

Where the term FEMININE HYGIENE comes from
The origins of VAGINAL SHAMING
PERCEIVED vaginal ODOR as opposed to actual vaginal odor
The role of pH in maintaining a healthy vaginal microbiome
Things that can INCREASE pH and cause vaginal odor or BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS (BV)
WHY you shouldn’t buy an over-the-counter kit to see if you have BV
Strategies to keep your pH in BALANCE
The PROBLEM with VULVAR WASHES and wipes
The PROBLEM with vulvar PERFUMES, deodorants, sprays, douches, and other products.
Why the term “DOCTOR TESTED” is meaningless
7 TIPS TO AVOID VULVAR IRRITATION
How to CLEAN your vulva and vagina

For further 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
Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
Episode 18 The Itchy Vulva with Dr. Jill Krapf
Episode 25 Moisturizers are Not Just for Your Face
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

32: Are Your Hot Flashes Making You Foggy? Forgetful? with Dr. Pauline Maki Jul 27, 2022

If you are peri or post-menopausal and can’t remember the name of your next-door neighbor or why you walked in a room, you are not crazy, you are not heading towards dementia, and you are not alone. In this episode, Dr. Streicher is joined by Dr. Pauline Maki, a Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology. For over 25 years, Dr. Maki has led a program of NIH-funded research on women and cognition, with a focus on cognitive change in menopause. She is THE expert when it comes to what happens to your brain on menopause.
*Due to a technical problem, there are periodic growling noises in this episode which could not be removed!
In this episode, Dr. Maki and Dr. Streicher discuss:

How common is it for women to be FORGETFUL when they are going through peri menopause
WHY this happens
The relationship between hot flashes and cognition
How long COGNITIVE CHANGES from hormonal changes last
If cognitive problems during peri-menopause are predicative of getting ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
The impact of MOOD on cognitive changes during the peri-menopause
Which DIET, VITAMINS, EXERCISE, ALCOHOL and other lifestyle choices help
The relationship between ADHD and cognitive changes in peri-menopause
Specific things you can do to maintain BRAIN HEALTH
What the SCIENCE says about the benefit of hormone therapy in terms of cognitive function?
If women who do NOT HAVE HOT FLASHES BENEFIT from hormone therapy
If hormone therapy decreases the risk of DEMENTIA down the road
HOW LONG someone should stay on hormone therapy to get the full cognitive benefit

For more on this topic: Episode 17 Menopause in the workplace Episode 22 Dreaming of Sleep with Dr. Faubion 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 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 WGNMorningNews, 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, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews, 20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

31: The Truth About Estrogen Therapy and Breast Cancer Jul 20, 2022

The number one reason women give for not taking estrogen is fear of breast cancer. This fear is based on the 2002 study which has been reevaluated and shown to be flawed in a number of ways. Despite solid proof that estrogen therapy does not cause breast cancer and other serious illness, most doctors continue to exaggerate the risks and undersell the benefits of hormone therapy. The goal of this episode is not to convince you to take estrogen. The goal is to present the data so that you can make an informed decision. In this episode, Dr. Streicher discusses:

The original PURPOSE of the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) and how the study was designed.
The INITIAL RESULTS of the WHI study
Why the design of the study was PROBLEMATIC
Why the results of the WHI were NOT REPRESENTATIVE of the women who take hormone therapy today
The results of the RE-ANALYSIS of the WHI
How the age of women in the study, the timing of therapy, and the use of statins altered CARDIOVASCULAR data
Why the use of PROGESTIN and the kind of progestin in the study changed the results.
Why TRANSDERMAL estrogens have less risk and who should use one
The FACTS about the relationship of estrogen and BREAST CANCER
The risk of hormone therapy COMPARED to other known risks for breast cancer
The medical impact of women NOT taking HT
GUIDELINES for taking hormone therapy safely

For more information on this topic: Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat has a more complete discussion of the results of the WHI and includes pros and cons of every type of estrogen currently on the market.
Episode 1: Is It Menopause or Some Other Pause? Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again! Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison Episode 28: The BEST approach for BREAST Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

30: Weight! Weight! Take a PILL to Take Off the Pounds? With Dr. Robert Kushner Jul 13, 2022

Obesity is a medical illness that is linked to heart disease, stroke, joint pain, and even many cancers. There are biologic reasons that make it difficult or impossible for some people to lose weight. But most doctors have little or no training in obesity management and basically tell their patients to “eat less” or “try harder.” Less than 1% of obese Americans are offered a prescription for one of the many safe and effective drugs which will facilitate the ability to maintain a healthy weight. In this episode, Dr. Streicher is joined by one of the country’s foremost obesity specialists, Dr. Robert Kushner. Dr. Kushner is the author (or editor) of 12 books, 58 book chapters and nearly 200 scientific articles on overweight, obesity and nutrition. He is the medical director of the center for Lifestyle Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, a Professor of Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, and founder of the American Board of Obesity Medicine that certifies physicians in the care of patients with obesity. In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Dr. Kushner discuss:

WHO should take a weight management medication
WHY some people struggle with weight even if they have a healthy diet and lifestyle
Why your INSURANCE might not cover a weight loss medication
How GENETICS and environment can increase susceptibility to weight
SPECIFIC DRUGS that are FDA approved for weight loss and weight management including:
- Hydrogel Capsules (Plenity™)
- Tirzepatide (Mounjaro™)
- Semaglutide (Ozempic™ Saxenda™)
- Xenical (Orlistat™)
- Phentermine-topiramate (Qsymia™)
- Buproprion-Naltrexone (Contrave™)
Why NEW drugs are so much better than most older weight management drugs
Why some LIBIDO DRUGS can help you lose weight
How to FIND A DOCTOR who can help with weight loss
When BARIATRIC SURGERY should be considered
The BIAS about obesity treatment and why doctors don’t offer help

To find out WHY women in menopause gain weight: Episode 19 Menopause and Muffin Top: why women put on pounds

For more information from Dr. Kushner and to take the Six Factor Quiz https://drrobertkushner.com/ https://twitter.com/DrRobertKushner https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkushnermd/ https://www.facebook.com/drrobertkushner/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFNQEM9slsjtdYkNsK6MpRA
To find a physician certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine: ABOM.org (The “Find a Physician” link is at the top of the home page)
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

29: Has Your Hysterectomy HIJACKED Your Sex Life? Jul 07, 2022

Most women who undergo hysterectomy don’t have subsequent sexual problems, but for others, it is no coincidence that surgery coincides with the onset of loss of libido, painful intercourse, or an inability to orgasm. In this episode Dr. Streicher discusses:

The reasons WHY someone may have sexual problems POST HYSTERECTOMY
What is, and what is not, REMOVED during surgery
Proper MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY for what was removed during surgery
The potential SEXUAL impact of OVARY removal
The potential SEXUAL impact of UTERUS removal
The potential SEXUAL impact of CERVIX removal
VAGINAL changes post-hysterectomy
If MEN notice a difference post hysterectomy
Why there can be PAIN post-surgery
Potential PSYCHOLOGICAL problems after hysterectomy

For further 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 Sex Rx- Hormones , Health, and Your Best Sex Ever The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things Episode 15: Post Menopause Orgasm- Everybody Come!
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow,NBC Nightly News,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

28: The BEST approach for BREAST Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction with Dr. Lisa Larkin Jun 30, 2022

It used to be so simple. Women were just advised to get a mammogram every year. But now we have not just x-rays, but ultrasound, MRI, digital breast tomosynthesis, screening mammograms, and diagnostic mammograms. Women are confused, and frankly, a lot of doctors are also confused. I am joined by Dr. Lisa Larkin, a board-certified internist, a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society, and a nationally recognized expert in breast cancer risk assessment and prevention.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Dr. Larkin discuss:

The LIKLIEHOOD of developing breast cancer in different populations
WHO is getting MISSED when it comes to early detection
Who should have genetic screening
The problem with using over-the-counter testing such as 23 and Me
When should someone start -and stop- breast cancer screening
What is TOMOSYNTHESIS
Who should have an MRI
Who should have an ULTRASOUND
Need to know info on DENSE BREASTS and why you should look at your report
If it matters WHERE someone goes to get their mammogram
RISK FACTORS for breast cancer that you can’t change
Risk Assessment models to PREDICT your lifetime risk of breast cancer
What it means when you are called back for ANOTHER VIEW
RISK REDUCING drugs many women do not know about
MODIFIABLE risk factors for breast cancer
Why ESTROGEN is not a risk factor for breast cancer
Why a PLANT-BASED DIET is beneficial
Dr. Larkin’s new model for patient care, MS. Medicine

Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Models

Gale Model: https://www.mdcalc.com/gail-model-breast-cancer-risk
Tyrer-Cusick Model: https://ibis-risk-calculator.magview.com/

Twitter: @LisaLarkinMD Facebook: @MsMedicine Instagram: @DrLarkin Website: MsMedicine.com
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

27: I'm Using My Vaginal Estrogen- But SEX STILL HURTS Like Hell: Why treatment fails, and where PELVIC FLOOR PT comes in Jun 23, 2022

It’s a common scenario. A woman is given a prescription for a local vaginal estrogen, or DHEA, and uses it faithfully but continues to have painful intercourse. In most cases, the product is working just fine and there is another reason for the pain. In this segment Dr. Streicher discusses:

The TOP 3 REASONS women have pain despite using estrogen
Why a WRONG DIAGNOSIS might be the problem
The importance of treating the VESTIBULE (the opening) of the vagina
Why a painful, tight PELVIC FLOOR might be the problem
The role of PELVIC FLOOR PHYSICAL THERAPY
VAGINAL DILATORS- What they are, how they help, when and how to use them.

Other Inside Information podcasts about painful sex post menopause : Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina? Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison

Soul Source Dilators https://www.soulsource.com/
How to Find a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist Pelvic Floor Physical therapists trained by Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute www.pelvicrehab.com

American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Section on Women’s Health www.aptapelvichealth.org/ptlocator

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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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.
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
Follow Dr. Streicher on: DrStreicher.com Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV

23: The Impact of Systemic Racism in Mid-life Women's Health Jun 16, 2022

Relatively minimal research is devoted to menopause even though menopause affects literally 100% of women that live past the age of 50. For women of color, the situation is far more dire.. Not only do we know less about the impact of medical conditions or therapies in mid-life black women but it is incredibly challenging for many black women to access appropriate care. My guest is Dr. Fenwa Milhouse, a urologist who is not only a talented surgeon, but uses social media to destigmatize pelvic floor & sexual conditions, as well as demonstrate the importance of representation in medicine.
Dr. Streicher and Dr. Milhouse discuss:

DISEASES that disproportionately affect Black women
How HYSTERECTOMY impacts cardiovascular disease in Black women
Why Black women are less likely to take HORMONE THERAPY
BLACK CELEBRITIES and increasing awareness of health conditions
BARRIERS to health care in Black underserved community
Micro and Micro AGRESSIONS in the health care system
The reason for and impact of IMPLICIT BIAS
The challenges of a BLACK WOMAN UROLOGIST practicing in a white hospital
The importance of DIVERSITY EQUITY and INCLUSION initiatives in our health system
What impacts racial disparity and potential action steps to improve health in the Black community
How SYSTEMIC RACISM impacts on health

Dr Fenwa Famakinwa Milhouse is a fellowship-trained, board certified urologist. Originally born in Nigeria, her family immigrated to the US when she was a young child. She grew up in Texas and ended up at the University of Texas at Houston for medical school. She trained at the University of Chicago for residency and then completed a fellowship in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. She is a wife and mother of 3. Dr. Milhouse is passionate about introducing the public to the world of urology, mentoring underrepresented minorities, and diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. She uses social media to destigmatize pelvic floor & sexual conditions, as well as demonstrate the importance of representation in medicine.
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/
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

25: Moisturizers are Not Just for Your Face Jun 09, 2022

Individual cells that make up the vaginal wall are loaded with water in young women but lose all that moisture right about the time you lose your estrogen. As a result, vaginal tissue gets thin, dry, and in many cases is unable to provide any decent lubrication no matter how aroused you are. But buyer beware! MANY PRODUCTS THAT ARE LABELED AS VAGINAL MOISTURIZERS ARE NOT FOR VAGINAL USE AND ARE NOT MOISTURIZERS! In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

HOW a moisturizer is different than a lubricant
WHY labels on moisturizers are misleading
REPLENS™ Long-acting moisturizer
Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizers

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

Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders
Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?
Episode 5: Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders

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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

24: A Mid-life Manual If Your Kid is College Bound Jun 02, 2022

With women delaying pregnancy, the year you start flashing just might coincide with the year you are sending your son or daughter off to college. If you are a mid-life woman who has college-bound kids, you need to know that things have changed …a lot…since you left home and went off to school. In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Jill Grimes, a family physician and the author of The ULTIMATE College Student Health Handbook: your guide to everything from Hangovers to Homesickness.
Dr. Streicher and Dr. Grimes discuss:

How CANNABIS has changed since you went to college
How to make sure your student knows when something is an EMERGENCY
DATE RAPE- what you need to tell your daughters and sons
Common issues with ALCOHOL that were not common when you were in school
The role of CONSENT in sexual activity
PIERCING Problems
How to make sure your student has information on SEXUALLY TRANSMIITTED INFECTIONS without you having to talk about it
MARGARITA dermatitis (who knew?)
The essential FIRST AID KIT to send with your student
Why this book is so much better than DR. GOOGLE
How often should a student CALL home?
Skills and information your students need to ACCESS HEALTH CARE
MENTAL HEALTH and depression in college

Jill Grimes, MD, is a nationally recognized medical media expert, award-winning author, and proud mom of two awesome collegiate daughters. After two decades of private practice, Dr. Grimes now splits her time between writing, speaking, vaccinating, and seeing patients. She also enjoys speaking at The American Academy of Family Physicians, Pri-Med®, and Harvard Medical School conferences. Her latest book, The ULTIMATE College Student Health Handbook: your guide to everything from Hangovers to Homesickness, reveals what college students (& their parents) REALLY need to know about common anxieties, illnesses, injuries and so much more!
Website: https://jillgrimesmd.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillGrimesMD Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jillgrimesmd/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Ultimate-College-Student-Health-Handbook-109901870655635/?ref=pages_you_manage
Books by Dr. Grimes The ULTIMATE College Student Health Handbook: your guide to everything from Hangovers to Homesickness. Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STIs
RAINN: Rape, Abuse &Incest National Network https://www.rainn.org/ National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-HOPE
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

23: Welcome to Peri-menopause! May 30, 2022

Years before estrogen production completely shuts down, HORMONE LEVELS start to FLUCTUATE wildly during that special time of life known as PERIMENOPAUSE. Waiting out bothersome hot flashes, mood swings, and insomnia is not generally the best strategy since perimenopause can last for years. In addition, it’s not as if those symptoms magically go away when you enter menopause! In this episode Dr. Streicher discusses:

WHEN perimenopause typically starts
The difference between SYMPTOMS of perimenopause and menopause
SOLUTIONS to cope with perimenopausal hormonal fluctuations
If taking BIRTH CONTROL PILLS is a good idea or a bad idea
HOW LONG you can safely take birth control pills
The difference between birth control pills and MENOPAUSE HORMONE THERAPY (MHT)
Why it is a good idea to take birth control pills CONTINUOUSLY
When to start MENOPAUSE HORMONE THERAPY

Further information on perimenopause can be found in 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 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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

22: Dreaming of SLEEP with Dr Stephanie Faubion May 26, 2022

Overall, women are 40% more likely to experience insomnia than men and the numbers are even higher during perimenopause and menopause. There are many reasons for sleepless nights mid-life (beyond hot flashes!) that often go undiagnosed. In this segment, I am joined by Dr. Stephanie Faubion, the Director for Mayo Clinic's Center for Women's Health, and the medical director for The North American Menopause Society. Dr. Streicher and Dr. Faubion cover:

If FRAGMENTED sleep is restorative sleep
MEDICAL CONDITIONS that can occur because of chronic insomnia
The impact of mid-life STRESS on sleep
The role of ALCOHOL and CANNABIS on the ability to sleep
OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
- What it is
- Atypical symptoms that occur in women
- Risk factors
- How it is diagnosed
- Treatment options
RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME
- What it is
- Risk factors
- How it is diagnosed
- Treatment options
The pros and cons of various SLEEPING AIDS
How an OVERACTIVE BLADDER contributes to insomnia
Tips to improve your SLEEP HYGIENE
How to find an expert in MENOPAUSE and WHY so many doctors are not trained in menopause

Stephanie Faubion, MD Professor of Medicine, The Mayo Clinic Director of the Mayo Center for Women's Health Twitter: @StephFaubionMD
North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Menopause.org To find a certified menopause practitioner: https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
For more information on this topic: Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again! Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things Episode 6: Your Post Menopause Urethra and Why You Should Care- with Dr. Kelly Casperson
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 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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

21: Say Yes! to Testosterone for Women May 23, 2022

When it comes to testosterone, hairy guys with round the clock virility come to mind, thanks to those non-stop ads warning men of the dire consequences of "Low T". Not as well known is that TESTOSTERONE is not just a male hormone but is a HUMAN hormone that is just as important for women.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

The ROLE of testosterone in women
WHERE testosterone is normally produced
The potential BENEFITS of taking testosterone
How well testosterone therapy WORKS and why it doesn't work in everyone
How to PREDICT if you will respond to testosterone therapy
What TESTS you should have prior to starting testosterone therapy
Why SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN is important
Why someone would have a HIGH SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN
Why the FDA has never approved testosterone for women
Why PELLETS are a PROBLEM
Why gels are the SAFEST and MOST EFFECTIVE form of testosterone for women
The potential SIDE EFFECTS of testosterone therapy

For more information:

Episode 5 Vaginal Estrogen Rings Creams and Other Things
Episode 11 Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison
Episode 16 Minimizing the Monotony of Monogamy with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
Episode 20 Is Non-Monogamy Having a Moment? With Dr. Wednesday Martin
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain

To find a talk therapist with expertise in sexual function and relationship

www.AASECT.org The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists
www.SSTARR.org The Society for Sex Therapist &Research

To find a Certified Menopause Practitioner https://portal.menopause.org/NAMS/NAMS/Directory/Menopause-Practitioner.aspx
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

20: Is Non-monogamy Having a Moment? With Dr. Wednesday Martin May 19, 2022

Prepare to rethink everything you have been taught about female sexuality. One in five couples practice open non-monogamy, yet cultural and societal expectations are that a woman have only one partner for life. Dr. Martin’s book, UNTRUE: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Adultery is Wrong-and how the new science can set us free “cuts through the junk science and regressive cultural narratives that have shaped our beliefs about female infidelity for centuries revealing, a truth both liberating and disconcerting: women are no more “naturally monogamous” than men; nor are their libidos shrinking violets.”
In this episode, Dr. Streicher and Dr. Martin discuss:

WHY the science of female sexuality is mis-represented, misunderstood, and usually wrong
Why there is so little INFORMATION on the CLITORIS
If MEN are biologically MORE SEXUAL and have higher libidos than women
The difference between spontaneous and RESPONSIVE DESIRE
The ORGASM GAP! Why female pleasure is such a low priority
What libido DRUGS are really medicating
Why the clitoris is “forward facing” instead of inside the vagina
Lessons learned from primate sexual behavior, and what animal to visit next time you go to the zoo
Why from an anthropologic point of view, woman are not BIOLOGICALLY programmed to have ONE PARTNER
When and why women LOSE INTEREST in sex with a long-term partner, assuming that the sex is still worth having
Why monogamy is harder for women than it is for men
If women CHEAT as often as men
All about “OPEN NON-MONOGAMY” What it is, how many people are monogamous, why the numbers are growing and how to broach the topic with your partner
If JEALOUSY is inevitable with openly non-monogamous couples
Where in the world is the BEST PLACE to be a woman sexually

For more information on Dr. Wednesday Martin, visit: WednesdayMartin.com
Dr. Martin on Instagram: @WednesdayMartinphd
Dr. Martin’s Books: UNTRUE: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Adultery is Wrong-and how the new science can set us free Primates of Park Avenue Stepmonster
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

19: Menopause and Weight Gain- Why it Happens and 12 Tips to Take it Off May 16, 2022

It is TWICE AS LIKELY for a midlife woman to become obese compared to men. Men age. Men have the same genetics, lifestyle changes and eating habits as women do. So, what’s the difference? The difference is men don’t have hot flashes and insomnia. And that’s where the menopause factor comes in.
In the episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

How many POUNDS most women gain
7 reasons WHY women gain weight during menopause and perimenopause
The connection between estrogen and MUFFIN TOP
The truth about midlife METABOLISM
Which HORMONES affect weight gain
Why HOT FLASHES make you gain weight
SOLUTIONS! 12 tips to take it off…and keep it off

Be sure and listen to Episode 30: Weight! Weight! A Pill to Take Off the Pounds? with Dr. Robert Kushner

Resources for additional information: Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat 6 Factors to Fit: Weight Loss that Works for You Take the 6 Factor Quiz
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

18: The Itchy Vulva May 12, 2022

Men have always had the obvious advantage of inspecting their genitalia with essentially no effort on their part. For women, it’s a little more challenging. Today I am joined by Dr. Jill Krapf, a gynecologist whose area of expertise is …the vulva. We will be discussing one of the most maddening, frustrating symptoms in all of gynecology- THE ITCHY VULVA
In this episode Dr. Streicher and Dr. Krapf discuss:

HOW to inspect your own vulva
What products can IRRITATE the vulva and should be avoided
When URINE is the culprit
The difference between a VULVAR YEAST infection and a vaginal yeast infection
How to get rid of CHRONIC YEAST
NEW yeast medications such as ibrexafungerp (Brexafemme™) for resistant yeast and osteseconazole (Vivjoa ™) for chronic, recurrent yeast
Vulvar itching from LOW ESTROGEN
How to know if you have a dermatologic condition such as LICHEN SCLEROSUS
If your vulvar itching could be CANCER
How a trip to the DENTIST may lead to a diagnosis of a vulvar condition
TIPS to deal with ITCHING while waiting for your medication to kick in
WHY an EXAM is critically important to get the correct diagnosis

Resources Itching due to genitourinary syndrome of menopause is covered in Episodes 3 and 4 Additional information can be found in Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock On Your Vagina-A gynecologists guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain Jill Krapf, MD https://jillkrapfmd.com/ Dr. Krapf's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jillkrapfmd/ The Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders www.vulvodynia.com Dr. Krapf’s Lichen Sclerosus Webinar on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vltY9mr8E68
To find a vulvar specialist: Lichen Sclerosus Support Network: https://www.lssupport.net/ The International Society for the Study of Sexual Medicine: https://www.issm
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

17: Menopause and Work May 09, 2022

More than 60% of women say that their menopause symptoms decreased their productivity and quality of work and even though millions of corporate dollars are lost due to absenteeism, reduced quality of work, and health care costs, the US government and corporate America refuse to recognize or mitigate the problem. The time is way overdue to acknowledge and fix it. In this episode Dr. Streicher discusses:

The PERSONAL and ECONOMIC impact of menopause in the workplace
RESEARCH on how often specific symptoms impact specific aspects of work
WHY women do not talk to their bosses about menopause symptoms
How the UK addresses and REDUCES the impact
Why the US needs to do what the UK is doing

UK website on Menopause in the workplace: cipd.co.uk/menopauseforHR To learn more about how hot flashes can impact productivity and longevity, take a listen to Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again! For more information on this topic: 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 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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

16: Minimizing the Monotony of Monogamy: How relationships change over time with Dr. Alexandra Solomon May 05, 2022

When there is a lack of lust 20 years into an otherwise loving marriage or relationship, many, if not most of my patients come to me thinking their indifference to sexual activity is a result of declining hormone levels and if write a prescription for estrogen or a libido pill, everything will be fine. And yes, a change in hormones can be part of the problem, but there are a lot of other reasons that have nothing to do with menopause that impact on keeping that sexual spark alive. In this episode, Dr. Streicher chats withDr. Alexandra Solomon, an assistant clinical professor at Northwestern University, an award-winning author, a TedX speaker, and the host of the hit podcast, “Reimagining Love”.
We discuss:

Is the MONOTONY of monogamy inevitable?
What is “RELATIONAL SELF AWARENESS”?
What is UNPACKING and why is it important?
Tips to CONFLICT RESOLUTION as opposed to conflict escalation?
What if you are in a good place in terms of love and intimacy, but are worried about losing that connection over time?
Why it is important to understand your PARENTS relationship to have better adult relationships
LEAVE the relationship or FIX the relationship?
What if you “love them” but are not “In love with them?”
What do you tell women when it comes to LIBIDO DRUGS to reignite the spark?
Why women are often resistant to SEX THERAPY?
How past sexual TRAUMA can inform current sexual experiences, and how to reclaim pleasure

Dr. Solomon's website https://dralexandrasolomon.com/ Dr. Solomon's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dr.alexandra.solomon/ Loving Bravely by Dr. Alexandra Solomon https://bookshop.org/books/loving-bravely-twenty-lessons-of-self-discovery-to-help-you-get-the-love-you-want/9781626255814 Taking Sexy Back by Dr. Alexandra Solomon https://bookshop.org/books/taking-sexy-back-how-to-own-your-sexuality-and-create-the-relationships-you-want/9781684033461 Reimagining Love, Dr. Solomon's podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reimagining-love/id1588419386
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

15: Post Menopause Orgasm- Everybody Come! May 02, 2022

Along with hot flashes and sandpaper sex, add the sudden inability to have an orgasm to the list of post menopause surprises your mother "forgot" to warn you about. But if you are one of the many women whose fireworks have turned into barely a flicker, good news! A functional penis, intercourse and estrogen are unnecessary requirements when it comes to reclaiming your ability to orgasm. In this episode, you will learn: The BIOLOGIC requirements that facilitate orgasm WHY so many women have difficulty having an orgasm in menopause Strategies to increase SENSITIVITY of the clitoris by increasing BLOOD FLOW Strategies to increase STIMULATION of the clitoris In what circumstances VIAGRA and other PDE5 Inhibitors may help The difference between a VAGINAL orgasm and CERVICAL orgasm
You may also want to check out the following episodes: Episode 9- Can Cannabis Help Your Sweats? Sleep? Sex? Episode14- Need to Know Info About the Penis in Your Bed with Dr. Rachel Rubin Episode 5-Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
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, NBC Nightly News, 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

14: Need to Know Info About the Penis in Your Bed with Dr. Rachel Rubin Apr 28, 2022

Up to 70% of post menopause women have vaginal or vulvar changes which lead to difficulty with sexual function, but for many couples, that is far from the whole story. In this episode, Dr. Streicher has a frank conversation with Dr. Rachel Rubin, a board-certified urologist, and one of a handful of physicians with specific training in sexual medicine for both men and women. This episode will include topics such as:

How common is ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION and what are the causes?
Which men are at increased RISK?
VIBRATORS for men?
Does Viagra/Cialis always work?
Strategies to maintain an erection with a CONDOM?
PREMATURE EJACULATION- what is it and is it really a problem?
Why does the penis always wake up in the middle of the night?
What are some post PROSTATE CANCER solutions?
Is PEYRONIES disease as common as the commercials that pop up on TV?

RachelrubinMD.com Twitter: @DrRachelRubin Insta: @DrRachelRubin
To find a sexual medicine urologist: (gynecologists are also on this list so if you are looking for someone who takes care of men make sure it is a urologist)
Sexual Medicine Society of North America https://www.smsna.org/ Under the “resources” tab there is a “Find a Provider” Link
International Society for Sexual Medicine https://www.issm.info/ Under the members tab there is a “Find a Provider” Link
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

13: Skin in Menopause- What happens, why it happens and how to make it better Apr 25, 2022

There is no question that something happens to skin once you hit 50, and that something isn’t good. So is it just a coincidence that wrinkles and sags occur the same time your periods disappear, or is it just one of those mid-life things? The answer is, both. But all is not lost. There are things you can do that will make a real difference.

WHY skin changes in menopause
WHAT you can do to help stop the clock
WHICH facial moisturizers are best?
The role of antioxidants, hydroxyacids and plant extracts
Does the ESTROGEN you take for hot flashes help your skin?
Can you put estrogen ON your face?

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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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
Dr. Streicher’s Books 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

12: Your Muscles on Menopause with Amanda Thebe Apr 21, 2022

Vaginas are not the only part of the body that change mid-life! With age, muscles start to naturally atrophy- a condition called sarcopenia. Women can lose up to 10% of their muscles mass every decade. Fitness expert Amanda Thebe’s best-selling book, Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too! addresses the value and importance of exercise, diet, and lifestyle choices to thrive during menopause. Amanda Thebe, in her unique funny and engaging way, helps women achieve peak physical performance in mid-life and beyond.
In this episode, Amanda Thebe and Dr. Streicher discuss:

Amanda’s personal journey as a fitness expert who struggled when she entered menopause
The CHANGES that occur in our muscles after menopause
Why it is important to MAINTAIN MUSCLE MASS
How you can maintain and even INCREASE MUSCLE MASS after menopause-without exercise!
How to avoid FAILURE with an exercise routine
FUELING your body for exercise
Why FLEXIBILITY is also important
How weight training can reduce HOT FLASHES
And much more…

AmandaThebe.com https://www.instagram.com/amanda.thebe/ https://www.facebook.com/amandathebex https://twitter.com/amandathebex
Amanda’s Book Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too!

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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books 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

11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison Apr 18, 2022

VAGINAL ESTROGEN is safe for virtually everyone including women with breast cancer or a history of blood clots. But you wouldn’t know it from reading the FDA-required package insert that practically has a skull and crossbones on it, causing you to consider if it is worth getting breast cancer, dementia, heart disease, or a stroke just to have a decent orgasm.
And if you want specific information about local vaginal estrogen options, take a listen to Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things
In this episode Dr. Streicher explains:
Why FDA LABELS list scary things that aren't true
HOW MUCH vaginal estrogen is systemically absorbed
If you should CUT DOWN your dose
What studies show about VAGINAL ESTROGEN and BREAST
CANCER
Further Information on this topic can be found in:

Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina- A gynecologist's guide to eliminating post menopause dryness and pain

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 WGNMorningNews, 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, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

10: Dating After 50- Make it Awesome Instead of Awful with Bela Gandhi Apr 14, 2022

50% of women over the age of 50 are single, and while not everyone is looking for love, those that are often find the whole process to be overwhelming, frustrating, and unsuccessful. Enter Bela Gandhi- the nationally known dating coach who appears regularly on Good Morning America and The Today Show and the host of the hit podcast, “Smart Dating Academy.” So whether you need to fix your picker, find the whole idea of dating daunting or are just are not finding success when it comes to companionship and love, Bela is here to help. Dr. Streicher sits down with Bela and has a candid conversation.

Is it ever too late to find love?
What’s BETTER about dating over 50?
WHAT is the biggest MISTAKE midlife women make when it comes to dating?
Do women need to resign themselves to dating men that are OLDER than they are?
TIPS for ON-LINE dating
What if someone doesn't want to go online?
RED-FLAGS you need to know
What about women seeking women? Do you advise the same things?
When it comes to dating WIDOWERS, what's your advice?
How about the DIVORCED guys?
How long someone should wait before GETTING NAKED?
How much PAST HISTORY should be shared?

SmartdatingAcademy.com
Instagram: @smartdatingacademy
Facebook: @Smartdatingacademy
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

9: Can Cannabis Help Your Sweats? Your Sleep? Sex? Apr 10, 2022

More than 1 in 4 menopausal women report that they use some form of cannabis to alleviate hot flashes, insomnia, vaginal dryness, mood swings, and brain fog.
In this segment Dr. Streicher takes you through:

The components of the human endocannabinoid system
The role of ESTROGEN in the endocannabinoid metabolism
PHYTOCANNABINOIDS
The different ways to CONSUME cannabis such as SMOKING, VAPING, EDIBLES, TINCTURES and TOPICALS
Why menopausal women metabolize cannabis differently than men and young women
Need to know info about SAFTEY and DOSAGE
Why cannabis may help with

Hot flashes Sleep Libido Vaginal lubrication
If you use cannabis, Dr. Streicher, is doing research on the use of cannabis for relief of symptoms such as hot flashes, insomnia, libido or sexual function. PLEASE take this anonymous survey to be part of this important research. If you complete the survey- (It will take around ten minutes) you can enter to win a copy of Hot Flash Hell Dr. Streicher’s ground breaking book on options to eliminate hot flashes.
You will find lots more information on the use of cannabis in Hot Flash Hell
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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

8: When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationship s with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg Apr 07, 2022

Women who are dealing with PAINFUL SEX not only need to medically eliminate the cause of the pain, but also need to repair the PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT of either avoiding or enduring agonizing sexual activity for months or years.
In this episode Dr. Streicher sits down with Sheryl Kingsberg PhD to discuss strategies for couples and individuals to navigate sex when there is pain. She also reveals exciting research in female sexuality.
Dr. Kingsberg is a clinical psychologist, a Professor of Reproductive Biology and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and one of the country’s foremost experts and researchers in human sexuality.
Dr. Streicher and Dr. Kingsberg will discuss:

WHAT happens to relationships when sex is PAINFUL
WHAT is vaginismus and why does it happen?
WHY it is sometimes important to temporarily stop having intercourse
How to have sex when intercourse is off the table
What is SEX THERAPY?
The difference between a general therapist and a sex therapist
How to have a therapist who specialized
How to TALK to your partner about painful sex
Dr. Kingsberg’s Research: VIAGRA, TESTOSTERONE, LIBIDO drugs for women

More information about treating painful intercourse post menopause can be found in: Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain

To find a certified sex therapist: www.AASECT.org

The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists www.SSTARR.org
The Society for Sex Therapist &Research 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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

7: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow - Menopause & Hair Loss Apr 03, 2022

For guys, middle-aged hair loss is upsetting, but not something that generally prompts a doctor’s appointment. A woman that has sudden, unexplained hair loss finds herself in a different situation. While not exactly a medical emergency, it definitely qualifies as an emotional emergency.
In this episode Dr. Streicher covers:

WHY women lose hair mid-life
STRESS ALOPECIA?
FEMALE PATTERN HAIR LOSS? (Also known as FPHL or ANDROGENIC ALOPECIA)
TREATMENTS for Female Pattern Hair Loss including:
Vitamins for Hair
Scalp MASSAGE
Minoxidil
Low-level LASER

For more information: https://www.hairlossinwomen.org/

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.
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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
Instagram @DrStreich
Twitter @DrStreicher
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

6: Your Post Menopause Urethra and Why You Should Care- with Dr. Kelly Casperson Mar 28, 2022

Most women don’t even think about their urethras, but an estrogen starved urinary tract can be the culprit when it comes to recurrent urinary tract infections and that persistent “gotta go” feeling.
In this episode Dr. Streicher sits down with Dr. Kelly Casperson, a board-certified urologist, a certified Menopause Practitioner of the North American Menopause Society and the host of the hit podcast You Are Not Broken to discuss the role of estrogen in urinary health including:

How to get rid of URINARY URGENCY
How to use a local vaginal estrogen to alleviate many BLADDER SYMPTOMS
Why some women are more prone than others to RECURRENT URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS.
Simple ACTION STEPS to decrease recurrent urinary tract infections
A NEW VACCINE that is on the horizon for women for women who have recurrent infections

Further Information on this topic can be found in:

Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina- A gynecologist's guide to eliminating post menopause dryness and pain

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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things Mar 28, 2022

Local vaginal estrogen will restore sandpaper sex to SLIPPERY SEX and can also help alleviate URINARY URGENCY and RECURRENT URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS. But, often, doctors only mention the cream and never bring up that here is also a estrogen vaginal ring, tablet, and insert. When it comes to local vaginal estrogen products, you have a lot of choices. All are safe, and all are effective, but there are pros and cons to each product.
This is your guide to LOCAL VAGINAL ESTROGEN.

In this episode Dr. Streicher covers:
The BENEFITS of local vaginal estrogen products
HOW to use each product, the pros and cons and how long you can use (should) vaginal estrogen
Why vaginal TESTOSTERONE is sometimes prescribed

Vaginal Estrogen Cream (Estrace™, Premarin™)
Vaginal Estrogen Ring (Estring™)
Vaginal Estrogen Tablets (Vagifem™)
Vaginal Estrogen Inserts (Imvexxy™)
Vaginal Testosterone Cream

4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina? Mar 28, 2022

Shopping for a vaginal lubricant can be daunting, but buyer beware- you do not want to grab the first product you see! All lubes are not created equal, and most popular products are NOT VAGINA FRIENDLY. Some increase the risk of infection and others are dehydrating and toxic to vaginal tissue.

In this episode Dr. Streicher covers the pros and cons of commonly used vaginal lubricants:

Petroleum Jelly
Baby Oil
Cooking Oils
Water Based Lubricants
Silicone Based Lubricants

3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness and Misbehaving Bladders Mar 28, 2022

Men have always had the clear advantage of being able to inspect their genitals with very little effort on their part. Women’s genitals are not quite as accessible, resulting in a lot more uncertainty about what’s normal and what’s not. No wonder women are frequently blindsided by not only the physical changes that occur with the onset of menopause but also symptoms like dryness, painful sex, itching, recurrent urinary tract infections, and that constant “gotta go” feeling!
In this episode Dr. Streicher covers:

GENITOURINARY SYNDROME OF MENOPAUSE- What it is and what it means
The PHYSICAL CHANGES that result from a lack of estrogen
The genital and urinary SYMPTOMS that women experience because of LACK of ESTROGEN

2: Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again! Mar 28, 2022

The impact of hot flashes goes far beyond being miserable. We now have a huge amount of scientific evidence that it’s not just menopause, but hot flashes specifically, that increase your risk of developing cardiovascular diseaseand other serious medical conditions. This is Inside Information every woman needs to know!
In this episode Dr. Streicher covers:

HOW hot flashes can hurt your HEART
WHY it is a MYTH that hormone therapy is bad for your heart
The impact of hot flashes on BONE HEALTH, DIABETES, BREAST CANCER

Further Information on this topic can be found in:

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 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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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 Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook @DrStreicher YouTube DrStreicherTV DrStreicher.com
Dr. Streicher’s Books
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

1: Is it Menopause? Or Some Other Pause? Mar 28, 2022

Unlike puberty, when your mother sat you down and explained what to expect with your first period, it is the rare mother who tells her daughter what to expect from her first hot flash, what to do about it, or even what menopause is. In fairness to moms everywhere, no one explained it to them. In this first episode, Dr. Streicher covers: The frustrating disparity between help for mid-life men versus mid-life women WHAT menopause is WHEN it typically happens WHY women enter menopause at different times HOW long menopause lasts Other Pauses such as Perimenopause, EARLY menopause, Premature menopause, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency How to Know if you are Officially in menopause IF you should get a hormone test
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 WGNMorningNews, 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 ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. 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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Dr. Streicher’s Books
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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