A Candid Conversation About Hormone Therapy with Carla DiGirolamo, MD, PhD (Episode 198)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The messages we see and hear about hormone therapy are often head spinning, as headlines seemingly say one thing and guidelines say another. Medical experts themselves spend days arguing on Instagram. And women are left wondering how to make the best decisions for their health and well being. We feel it, too. So this week, host Selene Yeager opens up about her own journey through menopause and hormone therapy and has a sit down, candid conversation with the podcast’s resident hormone specialist Dr. Carla DiGirolamo to get to the root of the confusion and discuss what women should consider as they’re sorting through all the information coming their way.

Carla DiGirolamo, MD, PhD, is a Double Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Obstetrician/Gynecologist specializing in infertility and menopausal medicine. She is also a Crossfit Level 1 trainer, Certified Nutrition Coach, and member of CrossFit Health. She is a MedFit Care provider and provides weekly workouts and medical updates at her Substack Athletic Aging. She is an Endocrine Consultant for Wild Health. Most recently, she has launched her own private practice specializing in helping active and high-performing women reach their performance potential from puberty through menopause. You can find her at www.drcarlad.com/

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform your best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.2	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.3	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.2	I hope you all are well.
0:35.4	So, in case you missed it, this Friday, October 18th, is World Menopause Day,
0:41.2	which is the day that the International Menopause Society organizes to raise awareness
0:45.8	of important menopause-related topics.
0:48.3	And this year, they chose menopause hormone therapy as the theme.
0:53.1	And as they stayed on their website, and I'll put a link to that
0:55.5	in the show notes, the theme for 2024 focuses on the controversies surrounding the prescribing
1:01.5	of menopause hormone therapy or MHT. The International Menopause Society is going to release a white
1:07.4	paper that examines topics such as who should use MHT, should women without
1:12.6	symptoms be prescribed MHT, should medically high-risk women be prescribed MHT, and are the types
1:19.6	and doses of estrogen and progesterone important? And boy, I could not think of a more fitting theme
1:26.1	right now, because it is a confusing and often frustrating time to be a menopausal woman.
1:34.3	And if you spend any time at all on the social media menopause accounts, you've seen practitioners arguing with each other with increasing frequency and I'd argue also increasing heat.
1:46.8	There is a lot of misinformation out there, but there is also a lot of confusion, I feel,
1:54.8	that is genuinely warranted. I feel it myself all the time, especially somewhat ironically, when I go to the menopause society
2:04.0	and other medical meetings. Like this year, for an example, two studies came out ahead of the
2:09.3	meeting that pointed to compelling cardiovascular benefits. One was a new study suggesting that
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