Dr. Mary Claire joins Stacy for a robust discussion about the reality of menopause, and shares her top exercise and nutrition tips, as well as her toolkit philosophy - techniques that she’s incorporated into her own life that she can apply as she ages to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

In this episode:

• The 3 highest-fiber foods to add to your grocery list this week — and why most women are only getting half the fiber they need

• Why strength training should replace punishment-cardio as your go-to workout

• The real explanation for "new" joint pain that shows up with no injury

• How to build a stress-reduction practice for the exact moment your body is least equipped to handle it

Dr. Mary Claire Haver is a board-certified OB-GYN and leading advocate for midlife women's health, with a social media following of over 7 million. She is the founder of The 'Pause Life educational platform and The 'Pause Wellness Clinic, where she focuses on evidence-based care for hormonal transitions. She is also a multi-time bestselling author, known for her books The Galveston Diet, the #1 New York Times bestseller The New Menopause, and The New Perimenopause.

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This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long. Real talk. Real experts. All-new episodes return in September.

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"Muscle is nature's Spanx." Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Vonda Wright joins Stacy to make the case for why your bones deserve as much attention as your hot flashes. They cover what a DEXA scan number actually means, why bone loss isn't just a postmenopausal problem, and why women with osteoporosis can — and should — still lift heavy.

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This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long — our most-loved conversations plus brand-new voices. Real talk. Real experts. All-new episodes return in September.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller. Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

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Breast cancer risk. Heart disease. Hip fractures. Alzheimer's. In this Summer Short, Estrogen Matters co-authors Dr. Avrum Bluming (oncologist) and Dr. Carol Tavris (social psychologist) walk through what the Women's Health Initiative study actually found — and why a whole generation of doctors are still working from data the study's own authors have since walked back.

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This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long — our most-loved conversations plus brand-new voices. Real talk. Real experts. All-new episodes return in September.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller. Subscribe to Hello Menopause on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you loved this conversation, leave us a review and share it with your community.

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Is it perimenopause, or ADHD that's been there all along? Executive function coach Debbie White — diagnosed with ADHD at midlife herself — joins Stacy London to explain why the two look so similar and how to tell them apart.

Debbie's core insight: perimenopause doesn't cause ADHD, it reveals it. ADHD is a lifelong neurobiological condition, but inconsistent estrogen can break the systems that kept it manageable for decades — and because it's lifelong, postmenopausal women navigate it too. She shares the strategies that work: the one-notepad rule, "eat the frog," planning ahead, and the power of the pause.

This is a Summer Short. Season 4 is taking a quick summer breather, but we're dropping bite-sized episodes every other week all summer long — our most-loved conversations plus brand-new voices. Real talk. Real experts. Under ten minutes. All-new episodes return in September.

Connect with Debbie White: LifeStormer.com

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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Cardiologist Dr. Jayne Morgan has a message that cuts through the noise: menopause is not a gynecological footnote. It's a cardiovascular inflection point — and most women don't find out until it's too late.
In this episode, Dr. Morgan and Stacy cover the full arc of women's cardiovascular health: why complicated pregnancies are early warning signs, what happens to blood pressure at age 51, how every perimenopausal symptom signals estrogen loss and rising cardiac risk, and why perimenopause is actually your best window to intervene. They also discuss the racial disparity in symptom severity, the limits and promises of AI in women's health, and why the case for estrogen doesn't require the studies we don't have.

Dr. Jayne Morgan is a Cardiologist and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Hello Heart, specializing in women’s health, particularly AI and digital heart health technology, and cardiovascular research.

Follow Dr. Morgan @drjaynemorgan

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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Stacy and NYT journalist Susan Dominus pick up where Part 1 left off — this time going deep on the hormone that's barely made it into the mainstream menopause conversation: testosterone. Susan, who recently reported an in-depth piece on testosterone for women, breaks down what the research actually shows, why the US is so far behind other countries, and what happens when women go far beyond the studied dose. They get into the delivery problem — why there's no FDA-approved option for women yet, the proposal for a testosterone pill, the risks and side effects at high doses, and how telehealth is filling the gap with varying degrees of rigor.
From there, the conversation expands: GLP-1s and their surprising reach beyond weight loss, what longevity researchers actually say is the number one predictor of a longer life, and a fascinating new field called cellular rejuvenation that may one day reverse aging at the cellular level.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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The NYT journalist who broke open the menopause conversation — on hormones, risk, and what we're still learning.

Susan Dominus wrote what many call the defining article of the modern menopause conversation. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, she and Stacy go deep: the cultural bias baked into "significant symptoms," how to actually think about hormone therapy risk, and why women spent 20 years without real answers.

Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Her 2022 piece "Women Have Been Misled About Menopause" sparked a nationwide conversation about hormone therapy, medical bias, and the cost of what we don't know.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare provider about your individual care.

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Everything you've been told about exercise and nutrition was probably based on male physiology. For women in perimenopause and menopause, that gap is costing us.

Stacy talks with Dr. Stacy Sims — exercise physiologist and leading researcher in female-specific science — about why women lose power before muscle, how the gut microbiome shifts in the four years before menopause, why fasting past noon disrupts your hormones, what to do if you're on a GLP-1, and how to build bone density, brain health, and confidence through movement.

Find Dr. Sims at drstacysims.com.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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What does menopause cost you at work — and what is it costing your employer? Stacy talks with Kacy Fleming, organizational psychologist and founder of The Fuchsia Tent, about the staggering data behind menopause and the workplace, and the practical framework that can actually fix it. They get into why menopause is invisible in corporate data, the 10% earnings penalty for symptomatic women, and why midlife women — not AI — are the real future of the workforce. Plus: Kacy's own perimenopause story, the confidence crisis so many of us recognize, and why she believes this doesn't have to be as hard or as expensive as everyone thinks.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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What does it really mean to let go of what no longer serves you? For Vanessa Chamberlin, founder of the Silver Liberation movement, it started with a decision to stop dyeing her hair — and ended up reshaping everything she believed about beauty, aging, and worthiness. Stacy and Vanessa dig into the intersection of gray hair and menopause, the shame so many women carry about their appearance in midlife, and why radical self-acceptance is less a beauty choice and more a complete belief system overhaul. In this episode: the lovability trap, the slow grow-out method, the difference between liberation and anger, and why self-care at this stage is non-negotiable.

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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Your hormones changed — and your products never caught up. Caire Beauty co-founders Lorrie King and Celeste Lee break down exactly what declining estrogen does to your skin starting in your 30s, why delivery matters more than ingredients, and how they built a patented lipid emulsion that actually gets into the skin instead of just sitting on top of it. Plus: HRT and skin, the problem with anti-aging language, and why most women are layering all wrong.

This episode is sponsored by Versalie.com

Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk Menopause. Produced in partnership with Studio Kairos. Supervising Producer: Kirsten Cluthe. Artwork by Stacey Geller.

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