Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.

I'm your host, nurse practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and

impact over a million lives.

Today is an extra special episode completely devoted to essential tips for navigating perimenopause

and menopause from top experts,

including Dr. Vonda Wright, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, Dr. Stacey Sims, Dr. Maritza Snyder,

as well as Andrea Donsky, and last but not least, Dr. Suzanne Fenski. I know this will be an invaluable

discussion packed with

great, actionable information for women in middle age and beyond. I would love to really start

our conversation today around menopausal literacy. I think that this is certainly something that most of us did not

learn during our training. And I feel like in many ways, this generation of women are really

changing the narrative about building awareness for women prior to going into perimenopause

and certainly perimenopause into menopause.

But how do you define menopausal literacy as a clinician?

You know, no one has ever asked me that question before.

I really love that.

And I think the answer to that is generational, right?

If, you know, my 84-year-old mother never talked to me about it but she was put on hormone

replacement therapy and then she was one of the ones that she was put on it it was taken away

and then i sent her when she was maybe 68 or something i sent her to a doctor where we were living at the time in Pittsburgh,

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