Precision Menopause Care: The Right Hormones for the Right Goals with Lauren Streicher, MD (Episode 248)

Oct 29, 2025

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We asked for your big questions on hormone therapy–and an avalanche ensued! This week, after 5+ years of Hit Play Not Pause, we’re doing a level set on hormone therapy. This week’s guest, nationally-recognized menopause expert Lauren Streicher, MD, digs into hormone therapy research, what it tells us and what it doesn't, why formulations matter, perimenopause versus postmenopause therapy, the cardiovascular implications of hot flashes, why hormone therapy needs to be personalized, and how every woman should approach her own care.

Lauren Streicher, MD 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. Dr. Streicher is a Certified Menopause Practitioner of The Menopause Society, serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Menopause, and is a Senior Research Fellow for the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a Fellow in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. She is also a best-selling author and the host of two podcasts.

Resources:

Dr. Streicher’s Substack: Menopause: The Inside Info

Learn more about her and her work at www.drstreicher.com

Podcasts:

Menopause, Midlife and More Podcast.

COME AGAIN Sexuality and Orgasm

Books:

The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy

Sex Rx: Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever.

Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina

Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist’s Guide to Turning Down the Heat

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