The Hotflash inc podcast
Hotflash inc is an evidence, expert and human-experience driven podcast looking for the true truth in perimenopause, menopause and beyond.
In more than 100 episodes menopause and midlife journalist and host Ann Marie McQueen has spoken to a wide range of experts from around the globe, including practitioners, activists, researchers, doctors and industry leaders about this perplexing transition we still know too little about. She’s talked about her own frustrations and personal experiences. And she has connected with a perimenoposse of powerful women in the midst of a perplexing transition.
Hotflash inc is among the top 1.5 percent of podcasts in the world according to Listen Notes. It was named the number one podcast in women’s health in August 2023 by GOODPODS.
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83. Part 1: Menopause vagina stuff with Dr. Burt Webb
Dr. Burt Webb is an Arizona-based ob-gyn and intimate wellness specialist with a holistic approach to women’s health. (He also represents the non-invasive soundwave treatment Cliovana, which we discuss in part 2 of this podcast.)
He joins the Hotflash inc podcast to talk about how our entire body plays a role in our vaginal health – and genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM). With almost 30 years in practice treating women, he is one of the most switched-on mainstream practitioners to appear on the podcast.
Contrary to the prevailing narrative – oh how we love that here – he believes a dry vagina isn’t always just a dry vagina due to menopause. And he explains all the different factors that may be going into this.
This is a fascinating conversation and the first-ever two-part episode. Stay tuned to next week when he gets into all the different treatments, hormone therapy and otherwise – that he uses to treat the entire pelvic region. This is very different to what you are hearing elsewhere.
Highlights:
- The role of blood flow and nutrients in menopause – and in particular, vagina stuff
- How and why the vagina gets lubricated (hint: it’s like a cheesecloth)
- How your gut microbiome impacts you mind, body and vagina
- The role of food insensitivities – and chemicals in processed food – in GSM
- Why a probiotic isn’t enough
- Vaginal hormone therapy in treating GSM
- Why you need pharmaceutical-grade supplements (it’s about the absorption)
- Why he looks at the tissues – and the four areas where symptoms of dryness and pain in the vagina appear
- How inflammation contributes to poor sexual health and ultimately heart disease
- Vaginal estrogen and breast cancer - the consensus opinion
- Why he believes most vaginal estrogen is not used correctly – and how it should be
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