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Speaker 1: to Medicine. Welcome, Dr Jackie, Thank you. We are so
Speaker 1: glad that you took time out of your busy schedule
Speaker 1: to join us. Tell me what you enjoy most, Dr Jackie,
Speaker 1: Being the TV personality or being the doctor The doctor
Speaker 1: I'm sure lots less critics. Absolutely, absolutely, this is such
Speaker 1: an important topic for women at my age in particular,
Speaker 1: We're gonna focus our attention today on menopause. Okay, so
Speaker 1: can you tell me exactly what menopause is. Menopause is
Speaker 1: when a woman has stopped having her period for twelve
Speaker 1: consecutive months. The ovaries have stopped making eggs, so you
Speaker 1: you lack estrogen, pagetstro and all the hormones are just
Speaker 1: in disarray and you're not having a period. Your reproductive
Speaker 1: years have ended. Okay, So in my mind, there's pre
Speaker 1: menopausal menopause and post menopause. Is that correct? So I
Speaker 1: typically say peri menopause when you're aware of menopause, which
Speaker 1: menopause is typically fifty plus a minus five. It can
Speaker 1: be as early as forty five, as late as fifty
Speaker 1: five some women later. On an average in the United
Speaker 1: States it's about fifty one. So if I can remember
Speaker 1: back when I was forty five, and I've been forty
Speaker 1: five about ten times now. So when I was you
Speaker 1: start having the symptoms, hot flashes, and a lot of
Speaker 1: women really think they're going crazy, the brain fog, I
Speaker 1: can't sleep at night, what happened to my libido? So
Speaker 1: they're losing their mind minds, and if you go through it,
Speaker 1: there are so many things hair loss, skin is changing,
Speaker 1: the vagina is changing, There's so many changes you're going
Speaker 1: through before you get to that point where you're not
Speaker 1: having your period. So prep pre menopause or peri menopause
Speaker 1: is about forty five when you start having the symptoms.
Speaker 1: Menopause is that short window where we say, and it's
Speaker 1: about seven years or so before you get to menopause.
Speaker 1: So around fifty one, let's just say you're fifty one
Speaker 1: and you haven't had a period for a whole entire year,
Speaker 1: You're in menopause. Some people you say post menopause is
Speaker 1: I've gone through all the symptoms, I've not had my period,
Speaker 1: and now I'm in this phase. I think I just
Speaker 1: call it menopause. When your period has stopped, you're in menopause. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there is no post menopause, because that was gonna
Speaker 1: be my next question. When does it end? Like when
Speaker 1: do your symptoms end? I'm like sixty seven. I would
Speaker 1: say that I went into medically induced menopause around fifty one.
Speaker 1: I think because I was getting a treatment for I
Speaker 1: hapotit to see with those that would that threw me
Speaker 1: into two menopause, and so I had menopause at forty
Speaker 1: because I did chemo for breast cancer. Yeah, the chemo
Speaker 1: and radiation, especially if you radiate the pelvis ovaries are gone.
Speaker 1: So really, once you kind of stop having the symptoms,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if all women stop having them,
Speaker 1: they are like the post MENOPAUSEI okay, But when like
Speaker 1: I still have hot flashes, particularly at night, I'm still
Speaker 1: doing I guess the body changes like the vaginal atrophy
Speaker 1: and dryness that's never that will never go away. We'll
Speaker 1: I'll always be dealing with that. And I say, we
Speaker 1: have to manage menopause. It's not gonna go away, so
Speaker 1: you have to do things to make it better. We
Speaker 1: have all kinds of lotions and potions to get the
Speaker 1: lucy juicy back. I would think that the hot flashes
Speaker 1: and the night sweats and the baginal issues are the
Speaker 1: major complaints. I know they were for me. They're the
Speaker 1: major complaints. And I took hormones probably longer than I
Speaker 1: should have because I tried to do it naturally, and
Speaker 1: I just I was suffering. I was suffering, and the
Speaker 1: reason why the doctors of course didn't recommend it for me,
Speaker 1: is because I have a very strong history of cancer
Speaker 1: and my family. My mother had breast cancer as well,
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming that she went into medically induced um
Speaker 1: menopause because of it, but she never talked about it.
Speaker 1: I never saw her, I never saw her fanning herself,
Speaker 1: or we didn't talk about it in our family, So
Speaker 1: I have no idea when she went into it, how
Speaker 1: she what that experience was like. And that's one of
Speaker 1: the determining factors as to win a woman will go
Speaker 1: into menopause. We typically inherit that from our mom's and
Speaker 1: so you can and you're right, our almost didn't talk
Speaker 1: about it, and so we never knew. And that's why
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're talking about it now so that
Speaker 1: women can talk about it. But what I do say
Speaker 1: to women, it's all about quality of life. Like you
Speaker 1: have the granola type who I don't want need hormones.
Speaker 1: I want to eat plants, I wanna eat berries, and
Speaker 1: I want to go through it naturally. That's not me.
Speaker 1: And so I'm like you, I needed something to manage menopause,
Speaker 1: And of course I believe in as many hormones as
Speaker 1: you need safely. But I'm believing by identical hormones. I
Speaker 1: actually put in bioaudentical hormone pellets in my office. And
Speaker 1: it is about quality of life, because think about it.
Speaker 1: If you're in menopause high flashes, you can't sleep at night,
Speaker 1: you're gaining weight, you're not having sex, you're a little
Speaker 1: bit blue, then what what quality of life is there? Exactly? Exactly,
Speaker 1: So talk to me about what some of the modern
Speaker 1: um techniques are to deal with this. Because there were
Speaker 1: a lot of natural stuff that I can remember taking
Speaker 1: black co hash. Yeah, all these things, yes, if they
Speaker 1: if they did absolutely, I had all these supplements lined up.
Speaker 1: They did nothing, I mean, and I shouldn't disparage them
Speaker 1: like that because maybe they do work for some people.
Speaker 1: I was not successful, and I was not successful either,
Speaker 1: and so that's why I took a class and I
Speaker 1: came a big believer and I'm a big provider of
Speaker 1: biodentical hormont pellets. Don't talk to me about that. These
Speaker 1: pellets are made from soy and yams, which are natural
Speaker 1: and there made. The plant is shaped to look like
Speaker 1: an estrogen. It's put into a pellet that is about
Speaker 1: as big as a rice and we implant that into
Speaker 1: the upper part of your buttocks in the under the
Speaker 1: skin subcuticular and the body releases estrogen and testosterone. If
Speaker 1: you have a uterus, you do have to take a
Speaker 1: progesteron to to balance out the the estrogen so that
Speaker 1: you're not getting cancers and unopposed estrogen effects. But it works.
Speaker 1: It creates the best libido in the whole wide world
Speaker 1: because you're getting your testosterone back and the benefits of
Speaker 1: testosterone less belly fat, more energy. Again, there's a spike
Speaker 1: in the libido, so all of the things we're missing
Speaker 1: in menopause, the bioidentical hormos give that back. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm not having an issue with my libido, thank god.
Speaker 1: But but it's the vaginal issues that is of the
Speaker 1: most problematic from me. So would bioidenticals be something that
Speaker 1: I should consider with the history of cancer and my family.
Speaker 1: If there's not been a genetic predisposition, did your mom
Speaker 1: have a gene for breast coling are over And if
Speaker 1: she didn't, you can certainly safely go to the doctor
Speaker 1: and make sure it's okay. But you could get estrogen
Speaker 1: back and it's gonna give you more vaginal fluff because
Speaker 1: the vagina has become very thin. That's why sex is
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and there's no slipping slide happening because you don't
Speaker 1: have any estrogen there. Now, I do have products that
Speaker 1: I do recommend to women. If you can't use an
Speaker 1: estrogen that you put in the vagina. It's a hyuronic acid.
Speaker 1: It makes the vagina thicker and more moist. That will
Speaker 1: bypass needing hormones. So there are things out there that
Speaker 1: you can use and not have to use a hormone.
Speaker 1: You just have to use it when you need it. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's that's a product that I would use right
Speaker 1: before I engage in sexual activity. You can, and you know,
Speaker 1: you can use it twice a week just to make
Speaker 1: the vagina more moist, but right before sex makes it
Speaker 1: even better. Okay, you see how I'm just focused on it.
Speaker 1: We had your friend on doctor Dr Tiffany Henry. We
Speaker 1: had a whole conversation on this. Women like yourself, and
Speaker 1: I call us more mature when you're over fifty five
Speaker 1: year mature. We're not older, we're just mature women. It's
Speaker 1: still having that energy and the wherewithals who want to
Speaker 1: have sex. Yeah. You know how many women I see
Speaker 1: every day and they're thirty five, forty five and they
Speaker 1: don't want to have sex. Wow, But you certainly can
Speaker 1: use bioidentical hormones to give you back your rolls and folds.
Speaker 1: I call in the vagina and make it thicker and
Speaker 1: moist But there are products you can use to just
Speaker 1: give you moisture. What are some of the what are
Speaker 1: some of the changes that that women would feel, not
Speaker 1: just physically but emotionally. Uh, they're depressed. That broken sleep
Speaker 1: at night can lead to depression because it throws those
Speaker 1: hormones off because you wake up, you take the cover off,
Speaker 1: and in about five minutes you're cold, so you put
Speaker 1: the cover back on. And that can happen seven eight
Speaker 1: times a night. So broken sleep can lead to depression
Speaker 1: and sadness and anxiety and the brain fog. I mean,
Speaker 1: at one point, and I can definitely tell you when
Speaker 1: I really noticed it, I lost my dad to Alzheimers,
Speaker 1: and I thought, oh my god, I'm getting Alzheimers. Because
Speaker 1: I would walk in a room and go, what am
Speaker 1: I coming here for? And so to that all the time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they get really stressed. Out about not knowing that
Speaker 1: they don't know and it's just the brain fog. I
Speaker 1: mean you can get in the car and you're driving
Speaker 1: sometimes to go okay, where was I going? And crazy
Speaker 1: enough it happens and women don't realize that it's menopause. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the modern treatments then are I mean old school pills.
Speaker 1: You could do an oral tablet where you would take
Speaker 1: an estrogen and progesterone if you have a uterus or
Speaker 1: estrogen if you don't. Uh. New school. We're really into
Speaker 1: bioidenticals and whether we're taking it by mouth or we're
Speaker 1: using a cream or a vaginal suppository. But I'm a
Speaker 1: really big believer in the bioidentical pellets because you put
Speaker 1: it in, you don't have to think about it again
Speaker 1: for six months. Got it? Oh wow? Six months? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. What do you think about these new
Speaker 1: This doesn't necessarily well, yes, it does have to do
Speaker 1: with menopause. It's more of how your vagina changes as
Speaker 1: you age, and a lot of women are getting these
Speaker 1: treatments for their the the outside of their vagina, how
Speaker 1: their vagina looks. What is your feeling about treatments like that?
Speaker 1: I've tried. I think it was Mona Lisa. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: done the Mona Lisa and I felt like it made
Speaker 1: the lips of my vagina more plump, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: It did not really help me feel more moist I
Speaker 1: still had to use lubricants. Yeah, you're supposed to get
Speaker 1: a regrowth of the collagen, so it makes it plumper,
Speaker 1: it makes it less painful with intercourse. But you're right,
Speaker 1: it should give you some moisture, but you may not
Speaker 1: get a lot. You always have to supplement with a
Speaker 1: little bit of something. We have the J shows now
Speaker 1: where they're doing facials on the vagina. Oh now, what
Speaker 1: what is that? But J show is almost like a
Speaker 1: facial where they go in and remove unwanted hair and
Speaker 1: hair bombs and uh, the sugar and all of the
Speaker 1: stuff that you do to your face. Women are doing
Speaker 1: it to the vagina to give it that look and feel.
Speaker 1: Oh my, that seems like a lot. Yeah, we put it.
Speaker 1: We put in collagen in the volva so that we
Speaker 1: can plump up the volver and make them plumper and
Speaker 1: more comfortable during intercourse. So the same thing we're doing
Speaker 1: with faces now, we're doing with the vagina. I understand, okay,
Speaker 1: and I know you you have talked about this before
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much whatever floats your boat. But you're
Speaker 1: a big proponent of maintaining your your pubic hair. If
Speaker 1: you're asking me personally, not well, I'm saying as from
Speaker 1: not personally, but as a doctor, I always give it.
Speaker 1: There are benefits to pubic hair. Yeah, you know. Public
Speaker 1: hair can release older and can get in the way.
Speaker 1: And so I'm all about what the patient wants. I'm
Speaker 1: super of what they want, whether they wax or shave,
Speaker 1: laser hair removal, or they say grow hair or go there,
Speaker 1: it's up to Yeah, yeah, it's totally up to them.
Speaker 1: But most women are not are going there. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: which is challenging now that we're going through COVID. It's difficult. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I put a lot of it. I wrote the Queen
Speaker 1: V I have to tell you about that, and I
Speaker 1: put it in the book that there are different types
Speaker 1: of personalities around the vagina. And I talked about a
Speaker 1: patient and women who are called coochie condriats. Yes, I
Speaker 1: got your books. Yes, they are terrified of their vagina.
Speaker 1: But then you have girls who are notorious v A. G. S.
Speaker 1: They will come in the room. You walk in there
Speaker 1: totally naked, and I'm like, I left your gown. No,
Speaker 1: I don't need it. I don't need it. Yes, and
Speaker 1: they don't mind taking out the vagina, pulling it up,
Speaker 1: showing you exactly what it looks like. So I have
Speaker 1: them from what I call Mary Jane sanctified snatch virgin
Speaker 1: Mary's who don't even want to talk about the vagina
Speaker 1: out loud to the girls who come in there. I
Speaker 1: have girls who would put tattoos on the mind's and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a GPS. Yes, I've seen it all. So if
Speaker 1: you get the book, there's a test in the book
Speaker 1: that helps you determine which vaginal personality you are. And
Speaker 1: I took the test in the book, and I believe
Speaker 1: that I'm a Mary Jane. But like you said, you
Speaker 1: typically are kind of like a combination of both. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I would be the Mary Jane and then sank
Speaker 1: the I hate to say it, but yes, definitely not
Speaker 1: the notorious fee. I'm not her. No, you're I'm not her.
Speaker 1: And that's a little bit old school, even though there's
Speaker 1: some really closet notorious vags out there. Oh yeah, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: my age notorious acutely. I have one in particular who
Speaker 1: describes herself as a general manager. And she's a mature
Speaker 1: woman that's fifteen over. And she had five players on
Speaker 1: her team and you know what I mean, and each
Speaker 1: player served a different purpose, and so she was very
Speaker 1: comfortable talking about this one does this, and this one's
Speaker 1: real good at that. And I'm sitting down and she
Speaker 1: was like, put your hand down. Girl. You're a doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you have to be able to listen to
Speaker 1: all of that. Dr Jackie, Yes, I've heard it all. Now,
Speaker 1: for my girlfriends who indulge in libations from time to time,
Speaker 1: what would you say? White wine, red wine or both
Speaker 1: are okay? Because I heard that doing during menopause one
Speaker 1: is not so good. All alcohol will aggravate some hot flashes,
Speaker 1: got it, And so red wine, I've been told, okay,
Speaker 1: gave me really bad hot flashes. So if I had
Speaker 1: to pick one, I would say drink white wine, got
Speaker 1: you okay? All right? But the thing about hot flashes,
Speaker 1: gam is if you notice, if you're excited, good excitement,
Speaker 1: bad excitement, you may notice a hot flash. Come on.
Speaker 1: So I think there is something. It's a vasomotor response,
Speaker 1: and so anything that triggers that thermoregulatory center, good stuff
Speaker 1: that excites you or if you're frustrated, you may feel
Speaker 1: a hot flash come. And so not only foods, but
Speaker 1: your mental response can trigger more hot flashes. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: am I dreaming at night because I get so many
Speaker 1: hot flashes some nights. But it definitely is one due
Speaker 1: to the lack of estrogen. We know that. But if
Speaker 1: you start noticing when you get a hot flash, if
Speaker 1: you're in a tight if you're rushing or somebody you
Speaker 1: go hi, you may notice a hot flash come. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned food too, so it depends on the
Speaker 1: kinds of foods that you're eating. If you're eating really
Speaker 1: spicy foods, maybe exactly that make got more hot flashes.
Speaker 1: And then women who smoke will notice menopause a lot earlier,
Speaker 1: probably two to three years earlier than they normally would
Speaker 1: have had it, because the nicotine destroys the follicles the
Speaker 1: eggs in the ovaries, and so they go through menopause
Speaker 1: a lot earlier. Okay, now I asked this question to
Speaker 1: dr um Tiffany as well. I'm gonna ask you, do
Speaker 1: you have any preference as far as lubricants for lubricating
Speaker 1: the vagina for intercourse, do you have a preference leaning
Speaker 1: towards border based or yes, definitely water based. And again,
Speaker 1: there's a depository that I like, the one I was mentioning,
Speaker 1: and it's a Rivari and it's a small suppository slides
Speaker 1: in the vagina and it just feels like natural vaginal moisture.
Speaker 1: It feels like mucus, and so that's my favorite. It's
Speaker 1: a suppository. You put it in and within ten minutes
Speaker 1: the body tempt will heat it up and your moist Yeah.
Speaker 1: I use a suppository too. It's not Rivari though, it's
Speaker 1: another brand, and I can't think of the name of it,
Speaker 1: but I use a very small suppository and it seems
Speaker 1: to be working for me. But I would be really
Speaker 1: interested in talking to my O B G y N
Speaker 1: about the bioidenticals. That's that sounds like something I might
Speaker 1: be interested in trying. And we'll get some information from
Speaker 1: Foulon and I'll send you some info and we'll send
Speaker 1: you some of those suppositories. Perfect perfect, I see it
Speaker 1: behind you. Dr Jackie talked to us about your new book.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so The Queen the Sex intimacy and down their healthcare.
Speaker 1: I've been in the O. B. G. Y An for
Speaker 1: twenty four plus years. I think I've heard it all,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you that some of the weirdest things
Speaker 1: I've gotten from a vagina again was a glass base
Speaker 1: and nuts and boats, snicker bars. Wait a minute, well
Speaker 1: in a back up that you say that again. So
Speaker 1: I had a couple who were having a good time
Speaker 1: on a Friday night and they used the little bud
Speaker 1: vase as a toy. And so you think about it.
Speaker 1: They put the opening of the bud vase in the
Speaker 1: vagina in and out, and he created a suction and
Speaker 1: they couldn't get it out, and it's stuck and it's stuck.
Speaker 1: And they added water and they added oil, which only
Speaker 1: made that suction tighter. Oh my god. So by Sunday,
Speaker 1: there in the emergency room and they're calling like, okay,
Speaker 1: you need to come to the ear and here we
Speaker 1: are with a glass base in the vagina. Yes, and
Speaker 1: we have to get it out. I was concerned because
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, please, don't let this base break because
Speaker 1: now we're sisters. But once we got it out, it
Speaker 1: was like, let's talk about choics. So with that being
Speaker 1: said and all of the stuff I say when I
Speaker 1: say to women is your vagina is not making history.
Speaker 1: Somebody has done it before. So I wanted to write
Speaker 1: a book taking the stories, of course, making the patients anonymous,
Speaker 1: and share the stories with women so you realize you're
Speaker 1: not the only one who's done it. Let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: So it's to educate, inspiring up lift women and to
Speaker 1: make him laugh, to realize some painful situations s t
Speaker 1: I s like her peace. You're not the first person
Speaker 1: to get her peace. It's okay. It's not written on
Speaker 1: your forehead. It is okay. And this is how you
Speaker 1: manage these things with a vagina to get through life,
Speaker 1: because it's for procreation and recreation. Exactly say it again,
Speaker 1: Dr Jackie, only louder. It is for procreation and when
Speaker 1: you're finished with that, a lot of recreation. It again.
Speaker 1: I want the women to I want women to be free.
Speaker 1: Our mom's had us a little embarrassed to talk about
Speaker 1: my goodness. Please. Yeah, you couldn't say sex. And we
Speaker 1: see that girls who come into the office and they
Speaker 1: look around the room to make sure you know it's
Speaker 1: just me and you and God. Baby, and she'd say
Speaker 1: I had sex last night and you're like good, was
Speaker 1: it good? And they don't want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: or they don't want to talk about it being bad sex,
Speaker 1: or they don't even want to come into the appointment
Speaker 1: if they've had us that, if they've had sex to
Speaker 1: day before. That was me. I'm gonna have to cancel
Speaker 1: and reschedule because I had sex lass, Okay, No, you
Speaker 1: can come be And that's what I try to be.
Speaker 1: I want to be a good girlfriend doctor. I want
Speaker 1: you to be able to come in, be open on
Speaker 1: this transparent, tell me those crazy things and I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: good people make bad decisions, and girl, how we're in
Speaker 1: this together. Let me help you figure out how to
Speaker 1: get out of this place. And so that's why I
Speaker 1: have that book, Like I want women to know be free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and to be able to come and speak with your
Speaker 1: ghanacologists without judgment is so important, so important, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: that's my thing. I'm like, you do know that happened
Speaker 1: to me too, And they're like you've had it, girl,
Speaker 1: you have had b V before and they were like
Speaker 1: I'm like okay, And just for me, since I became
Speaker 1: an adult, I think when I started out as a
Speaker 1: young girl or as a teenager when my mother had control,
Speaker 1: my ganacologist was man. But as an adult I quickly
Speaker 1: switched to a female gannacologist just for my own comfort.
Speaker 1: And that's not to throw shade on anybody's choice of doctors,
Speaker 1: but just for me, for my own comfort level. I
Speaker 1: wanted to how and I say, from my comfort level too,
Speaker 1: I'm like you, I need to go to a girl.
Speaker 1: So when I say you see this right here, she's
Speaker 1: seen it before and she understands. Or if you talk
Speaker 1: about cramps, you will understand. I'm like you not to
Speaker 1: say anything to my brothers and O, B G, I
Speaker 1: A N But a woman can tell me what a
Speaker 1: cramp feels like, or women can talk to you about
Speaker 1: what labor pain feels like. So I'm all for women
Speaker 1: seeing women, but again it's up to you and what
Speaker 1: I feel like. It's so unfair. I feel it's so
Speaker 1: unfair that men have the little blue pill and women
Speaker 1: don't have anything. What is the deal with that? Now
Speaker 1: they do have pills now for women, So they do
Speaker 1: some pill they have they call it the viagrapher women,
Speaker 1: but that we've not heard of that. Yeah, they'll give
Speaker 1: you some more and why can't I think of the
Speaker 1: name of it at the moment, But it increases blood
Speaker 1: flow to the critters. It's a pink pill. It's pink. Okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: so they do have things for women. Now. Now, I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, if you're more mature like me and you've
Speaker 1: gone through menopause, whether it's surgically induced, chemo induced, your age,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna give you that moisture like you need,
Speaker 1: but it will definitely boost your libido. But they're kind
Speaker 1: of there are a lot of things. I love Biot pellets,
Speaker 1: and I'll say Biot because that's the brand I use.
Speaker 1: Because when I started using Biot bioidentical hormone pellets, let
Speaker 1: me put it that way, it was like unspeakable libido. Libido. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I might that might get on my husband's nerves. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean we have everything. Now I do a wow
Speaker 1: shot where we're taking your platelets and we're inserting it
Speaker 1: into the clitterest and into the vagina where we give
Speaker 1: you back your own growth factors, which will help. And
Speaker 1: another thing in menopause is when got to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom now that you didn't have when you were forty.
Speaker 1: Now at fifty, if you gotta go, you gotta get
Speaker 1: there fast or there's going to be an accident. So
Speaker 1: we take and put platelets back into the clitteral reading
Speaker 1: into the vagina. It reduces stress, urinary incontinence, and urgency,
Speaker 1: so you don't feel like you're gonna with your clothes
Speaker 1: when you have to go to the bathroom. Menopause is
Speaker 1: about managing menopause. You can't anti age, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna age, but you can manage aging. And part of
Speaker 1: managing menopause is to use everything we have out there
Speaker 1: to make life more comfortable for you. So I would
Speaker 1: just encourage my friends and women my age because with
Speaker 1: the conversations we have, I hear a lot of frustration,
Speaker 1: a lot of frustration. So I would just tell people
Speaker 1: to number one, take a look at your book, because
Speaker 1: I think your book is so informative, but it's also fun. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I would encourage that and just be hopefully try
Speaker 1: to develop a relation and ship with your GANA coologists
Speaker 1: where you can really talk about what you need. Because
Speaker 1: there is light at the end of this tunnel and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be as difficult as we make it.
Speaker 1: I'm like I said, I'm sixty seven. I am still
Speaker 1: very um in love with my husband and we are
Speaker 1: still very active and enjoying life. And I mean, you
Speaker 1: made some great points. This is the time in life
Speaker 1: where you're supposed to enjoy. Absolutely, we say whatever we
Speaker 1: want to. After fifty five, feel free to say whatever.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to act like our mom's did,
Speaker 1: where you have to wear it look like you were
Speaker 1: fifty five sixty five. Act. No, this is the time
Speaker 1: in life where you want to be free. Find a
Speaker 1: doctor that you can talk to if you and I
Speaker 1: end every conversation, every visit with do you have any questions?
Speaker 1: Because a lot of times women want and I call
Speaker 1: them door not questions in the book, they won't really
Speaker 1: tell you what they're there for until my hand hits
Speaker 1: the door knob and then they'll say, okay, okay, we
Speaker 1: got had sex with two people and the roll and
Speaker 1: I don't. They'll start talking to you, but you want that,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, girl, tell me more, because sometimes it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I remember that from college. Yeah, And so you are right,
Speaker 1: be free to enjoy life. Menopause is not the end
Speaker 1: of life. It's just the end of your reproductive years.
Speaker 1: And there are so many things out there. And that
Speaker 1: pink peel is called Eddie and it's the pink peel
Speaker 1: a d y. I yeah, So they have everything out
Speaker 1: there now that we can feel like we're still young.
Speaker 1: And so I tell everybody go do what you need
Speaker 1: to do to manage menopause, to manage aging. So you
Speaker 1: look good, feel good. We all want to be happy,
Speaker 1: healthy and wealthy. There you go. That's a great way
Speaker 1: to end the show. Tell the listeners where they can
Speaker 1: find you. You can find me on Instagram at the
Speaker 1: real Dr Jackie and on Facebook Dr Jackie Walters reach out.
Speaker 1: Make sure you get the book. And so my last
Speaker 1: part podcast is Dr Jackie's Point of v is in February,
Speaker 1: and I want everybody to catch the first of all,
Speaker 1: because it is something that was very hard for me.
Speaker 1: And of course you've probably seen it. You've seen it
Speaker 1: on the show where we my husband and I went
Speaker 1: through an infidelity issue. And I don't think anybody talks
Speaker 1: about the talk to the man. So I allowed my husband,
Speaker 1: Oh that's great, Yeah, he gets to share what happened
Speaker 1: the moment he found out I knew and just the
Speaker 1: healing and the journey, because again I said, good people
Speaker 1: do bad things and absolutely made and infidelity does not
Speaker 1: always mean the end of the relationship. And we're so
Speaker 1: quick to want to cut things off, not necessarily baby,
Speaker 1: And I was persecuted by the world because I stayed
Speaker 1: with my husband. Really, oh my god, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I was I was weak and I was weary. I
Speaker 1: don't believe it. And I re used to disregard him,
Speaker 1: disrespect or this honored him on a TV show because
Speaker 1: again I didn't stop loving him. Now. I wanted to
Speaker 1: kill him at the moment, but for I can't say killed.
Speaker 1: I wanted to child, but again I chose to stay
Speaker 1: until my first podcast will be us talking about him
Speaker 1: and how we got through that time. I am excited
Speaker 1: to listen to that podcast, so I will definitely be
Speaker 1: joining you for that. So here's my takeaway after my
Speaker 1: conversation with Dr Jackie. As women, we're all going to
Speaker 1: go through menopause if we're blessed, and it's not the
Speaker 1: end of the world. It's all about learning how to
Speaker 1: manage your queen be So make sure you're having conversations
Speaker 1: with friends and family and most importantly, your doctor. Figure
Speaker 1: out whether you're going to use bioidenticals, all natural supplements
Speaker 1: or maybe for you it's the little pink pill. But
Speaker 1: whatever your decision, girl, get you a fan and figure
Speaker 1: out how to keep your groove so you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about getting your groove back. Yes, ma'am. So
Speaker 1: thank you to my guests, out to Jackie Walters. If
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