#348 ‒ Women's sexual health, menopause, and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) | Rachel Rubin, M.D.

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Rachel is a board-certified urologist and one of the nation's leading experts in sexual health. She is among a select group of physicians with fellowship training in sexual health for both men and women, bringing a rare and deeply informed perspective to her clinical work. In our conversation today, we focus on women's sexual health. We discuss why sexual medicine, particularly for women, remains so neglected in traditional healthcare. The critical difference in how men and women experience hormone decline with age, the physiology of the menstrual cycle, including the role of estrogen, progesterone, FSH, and LHNY perimenopause is characterized by extreme hormone fluctuations, the risks of menopause beyond just symptoms like hot flashes, including the risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, dementia,

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