Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: Menopause, Midlife, and More

Fitness & Nutrition Health & Fitness Medicine Sexuality

Hot flashes, vaginal dryness, leaky bladders, weight gain, hair loss, inability to orgasm? Nothing is off limits in these fact filled, solution-driven and often surprisingly funny podcasts that address the specific symptoms women face as they navigate perimenopause and post-menopause. Each segment is like having an in-depth consultation with Dr. Lauren Streicher, a nationally recognized menopause expert and the founding Medical Director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. Guests will include other experts on all things menopause. So strap in- it’s going to be quite the ride! This is THE podcast for accurate information about menopause but is not meant to be personal medical advice.

Episodes (146)

December 18, 2025 ∙ 41 mins

S4 Ep191: Say Yes to Testosterone? And Why Pellets are a Problem

Come Again: Sexuality and Orgasm, my solution-driven audio Series, for both non-healthcare professionals and healthcare professionals is now available on demand on drstreicher.com. Subscribers get loads of supplementary guides and resources. Health care professionals have an option to purchase additional material on incorporating sexual medicine into their practice. For a 25% discount to the COME AGAIN […]

December 4, 2025 ∙ 63 mins

S4 Ep190: Ready, Set…. Start!, Stop! Switch! Hormone Therapy with Risa Kagan MD

At my monthly Ask Me Anything Webinars, I always get questions about hormone therapy- when to start, when to stop, if the dose should be changed as women get older, and what to do if someone continues to have symptoms or continues to bleed… In this episode, Dr. Risa Kagan and I answer submitted questions. […]

November 20, 2025 ∙ 32 mins

S4 Ep189: The FDA Removes the Black Box Label for Hormone Therapy

In case you missed it, last week was quite the week in the menopause world. The FDA made a landmark decision to remove all black box warnings from estrogen products and to update the labels of individual products. I was in the room where it all happened and in this episode, I’m going to break […]

November 13, 2025 ∙ 51 mins

S4 Ep188: The Case for HPV (and Other) Vaccinations in Women Over 45 with Vivien Brown

Human Papillomavirus, or HPV, is responsible for 6 different kinds of cancers…Cervical, anal, oral pharyngeal, vaginal, vulvar, and penile. So, it was a big deal when the HPV vaccine was approved in 2006 females between the ages of 9 and 26. In 2018, the age range was expanded to include adults up to the […]

October 31, 2025 ∙ 54 mins

S4 Ep187: A Nuanced Conversation About Hormone Therapy with Selene Yeager

Selene Yeager is not a doctor; she is a health reporter with an enormous following of women who count on her to provide evidence-based medical information. Recently, we sat down to discuss challenges in prescribing hormone therapy for her podcast, “Hit Play, Not Pause.” We had such a good conversation that I asked her […]