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The Risk Factor Nobody's Talking About: Menopause, Estrogen, and the Heart Disease Epidemic in Women

June 24, 2026

Cardiologist Dr. Jayne Morgan has a message that cuts through the noise: menopause is not a gynecological footnote. It's a cardiovascular inflection point — and most women don't find out until it's too late.In this episode, Dr. Morgan and Stacy cover the full arc of women's cardiovascular health: why complicated pregnancies are early warning signs, what happens to blood pressure at age 51, how every perimenopausal symptom signals estrogen loss and rising cardiac risk, and why perimenopause is...

Beyond Estrogen: Testosterone, longevity, and the science of what comes next: Susan Dominus, New York Times (part 2)

June 17, 2026

Stacy and NYT journalist Susan Dominus pick up where Part 1 left off — this time going deep on the hormone that's barely made it into the mainstream menopause conversation: testosterone. Susan, who recently reported an in-depth piece on testosterone for women, breaks down what the research actually shows, why the US is so far behind other countries, and what happens when women go far beyond the studied dose. They get into the delivery problem — why there's no FDA-approved option for women yet...

The Menopause Information Gap: Susan Dominus, New York Times

June 10, 2026

The NYT journalist who broke open the menopause conversation — on hormones, risk, and what we're still learning. Susan Dominus wrote what many call the defining article of the modern menopause conversation. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, she and Stacy go deep: the cultural bias baked into "significant symptoms," how to actually think about hormone therapy risk, and why women spent 20 years without real answers. Susan Dominus is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Her 2022 ...