Have you ever sat in a doctor's office, heard the words "everything looks normal," and driven home knowing in your gut that it wasn't?

In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Alexandra Volo, a family doctor with additional certification in menopause care, who's made it her mission to help the women other providers dismissed.

Dr. Volo and I talk about the hormone shifts that can begin as early as your late 30s, and why so many women in their 40s walk out of appointments with an antidepressant prescription instead of answers. She breaks down what the Women's Health Initiative study actually got wrong more than twenty years ago, and how that one flawed headline kept generations of women away from treatment that could've changed their lives.

Our conversation touches on:

- Why irritability and 3AM wakeups arrive long before the fir ...