Podcast: Hot Flashes, Brain Fog, and Beyond: Understanding Perimenopause with Michelle Jacobson, MD

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Welcome to the JOMA podcast presented by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association. Every week, hear from expert medical professionals as they share up-to-date insights on health topics to help you live your best life physically, mentally, and emotionally. Join us as we navigate the everanging landscape of healthcare and strive to improve the health of the Orthodox Jewish community. Welcome to the JOMA podcast. I'm your host, Jenny Burkovich, board certified pediatrician and director of education at JOMA. My guest today is Dr. Michelle Jacobson, where we continue the conversation regarding menopause, this time focusing on pmenopause. Dr. Jacobson is a menopause specialist in Toronto. She has a special interest in women who are prematurely menopausal due to cancer therapies and women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndromes. She directs the familio ovarian cancer program at Women's College Hospital and sits on the board of directors of the Canadian Menopause Society as well as the Metopause Foundation of Canada. She is the primary author of the Canadian guidelines regarding breast cancer and menopause and hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Welcome Dr. Dr. Jacobson. Hi, Dr. Jacobson. Welcome. Hi. Nice to meet you. You can call me Michelle if you want. Oh, Michelle, thank you. I had a guest a couple of at this point weeks ago on the podcast and OBGYn as well and we talked a lot about menopause and I had made a comment during that

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1. 0:00Welcome to the JOMA podcast presented by the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association. Every week, hear…
2. 2:03glad you bring it up because I think pmenopause gets often overlooked or maybe underrecognized as…
3. 4:10left and that can start to deplete due to social factors, environmental factors, medical factors. So…
4. 6:51estrogen amounts leads to some of those more androgenic or masculine types of presentations that we…
5. 8:57menopause episode, but we spent we spent a good amount of time talking about the hormone…
6. 11:35into falling asleep. The same is true for mood. So if the mood is bothering you…
7. 13:41keep your bones safe and your heart healthy. Good muscle content is really one of the…
8. 15:48you're trying to get all the protein that you're supposed to be getting, it becomes a…
9. 18:22appropriate recommendations for you. Totally. Um, what are some common myths that you've encountered about either…
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