About
One in four postmenopausal women is already using cannabis for menopause symptom relief. One in four. And most of them figured it out on their own — because their doctor wasn’t talking about it, the dispensary person didn’t know anything about menopause, and nobody told them that their postmenopausal body metabolizes cannabis differently than every other body in the store.
Dr. Lauren Streicher did not want to leave that gap. She went out and surveyed nearly 1,000 postmenopausal women. She stood in dispensaries pretending to be a woman asking for help — to see what they’d actually say. She tracked the emergency room visits. And she brought all of it to this conversation.
This episode is part of our August Best-Of celebration. If you’ve heard it before, there’s something new in it today. If you’re new here — you found a good one.
What You Will Learn
- What the endocannabinoid system is — and why it matters that cannabis works with a system already inside you
- What nearly 1,000 postmenopausal women reported about cannabis and their symptoms — and why Dr. Streicher’s reaction is more nuanced than you might expect
- Why postmenopausal women metabolize cannabis significantly more slowly — and why that is directly linked to ER visits
- The delivery method Dr. Streicher calls the safest for postmenopausal women — and the one she warns against
- The entourage effect — what happens when cannabis and hormone therapy are used together
- The breast cancer myth about estrogen that a re-evaluation of the Women’s Health Initiative actually debunked — including the 22% decreased risk most women have never heard
- What you must tell your anesthesiologist — even if you tell no one else — before any procedure
Dr. Lauren Streicher is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a Senior Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society, and Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health. She is a bestselling author and host of the #1 menopause podcast on Apple.
To learn more about our guest, click here: https://hellohotflash.com/cannabis-HRT-menopause
Website: www.drstreicher.com | Instagram: @DrStreicher
Additional ResourcesA great resource if you are concerned about how this may impact your Christian walk: https://www.believers.cc/messages/would-jesus-smoke-weed----pastor-ryan
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