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Sharon Malone

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“Because, you know, it is a celebration of a time of life where I think we should all look forward to. And I do say this in my book, Oprah. I said, when people have a different vision of People think of it as, you know, oh, I'm getting old or dread. But I mean this sincerely. I mean, for people like Michelle Obama, Naomi Watts, you, Halle Berry, all the people, Gail, who are out here showing young women what this phase of life looks like, it should be something that we look forward to because I don't know about you, but I am happier now at 66. For sure.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We deserve better and we deserve to have the attention paid to the issues that have historically not been paid attention to.”
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“And that's the problem is that you've got to keep current. And that's why I really would advocate that menopausal care and menopause and care of women in midlife should be separate and apart from all the other things that OBGYNs have to do. It's a lot to keep up with. You know, you've got to do surgery and you've got to deliver babies and you've got to, you know, get birth control. This phase of our life that we will spend anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of the rest of our lives in this menopausal phase deserves its own area of inquiry. We need more research. We meet more doctors who are knowledgeable about it because that's what they do. We deserve, as women in midlife”
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“To another doctor, yeah. I honestly don't think that doctors are trying to do a bad job. I really don't because I worked for”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or you have active liver disease. And the issue about blood clots is debatable. We'll leave that aside for now. But that's it. Those are the only contrindications. So you might go back to your doctor and say, well,”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, ma'am. No, ma'am. That is not a contraindication to HRT. It is not. And as a matter of fact, not only is it not a contraindication to HRT, to estrogen therapy, I should say, because you've had a hysterectomy. Remember I said proctomy. You don't need the progestion. All you need is the estrogen. So yes, you can have estrogen. The only reasons, the only contraindications that we have for HRT, or if you personally have breast cancer or an estrogen-dependent cancer such as endometrial cancer, if you have undiagnosed vaginal bleeding, if you currently have a heart attack, you, not a family history of a heart attack or a stroke.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Observe for healthy living and aging. So, all of that. But what we do know, and I'll tell you what we know and what I think, there's a brilliant neuroscientist by the name of Dr. Lisa Muscone, who has written a book called The Menopause Brain. And what we know is that for women who have an early menopause, an early means you have had your last period before age 45, or it's a premature menopause if you've had your last period before 40. Those women who do not get hormone replacement because they are so young are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's. Now do we know for a fact that estrogen therapy is a preventative measure for Alzheimer's? Maybe that's where we need a lot more data on that.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that is very important when we talk about Alzheimer's, what we know and what we think we know, and what we do know is that women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's in their lifetime than men are. And the women who are more likely are women who have a female relative with Alzheimer's. It's not to mean that you will because it's a very much a multifactorial process. What we also know is that the same things that we tell you to do that decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease, decrease your risk of Alzheimer's. So regular exercise, good night's sleep, cutting back on alcohol, don't smoke, and for goodness sake, watch your diet. Weight is important. All of these things are just lifestyle, whether we're talking about heart disease prevention or Alzheimer's prevention or whether we're talking about just the rules that you need to.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But let me say hot flashes, the thing that I want to say hot flashes are not benign. It's not just annoying and they're not funny. They actually are harbingers sometimes of long-term health implications of menopause, such as increased risk for cardiovascular disease, such as increased risk for weight gain, for hypertension. You know, all of these long-term things that we talk about, a hot flash is sometimes the first signal to saying, hey, maybe you're at risk for these things, which again will affect not just the quality of your life in the short term, but in the long term. In the long term. So that's why I say if you have them.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, but one of the things that we found out too from the study of women across the nation, just observing women as they go through this process, is that they did break it down by ethnic groups and they looked at white women, black women, and Asian women. And what they found is that black women go through menopause on average about a year, almost a year earlier than white women do. And let me tell you that has. That has huge.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Allowing yourself to suffer. And once you realize it, again, this is affecting the quality of your work, then this is the time at which you should really engage and get treatment for these things. And don't be embarrassed about it. As a matter of fact, don't be embarrassed once you feel better. You should tell your friends. I do that all the time. When I see people, I don't even know them. And I see them. They're like, ooh, and they're fanning. And I will just go up to them and say, girl, you know we have something for that, right? You don't have to do this for 10 years. I don't know. I don't know why we think that suffering is what we should be doing.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It doesn't make you inferior. It doesn't make because you are having hot flashes, it does not mean that you're old. Because remember, I told you, some women will have symptoms as early as 35. It's just a matter of not.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Where you can come in, you could 50 years ago, you couldn't even be pregnant in the workplace. It is just acknowledging the fact that women, our bodily functions, our physiology is different. It doesn't mean that it's”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“See, and that's ageism, and then that's just shame around women's bodily functions. But let me say something because I think it's really important when it comes to women in the workplace. First off, menopause is not a disability. You know, we don't need special dispensations for menopause. What you do need is access to treatment when you are having these symptoms and you are bothered by them. Now, can the workplace be more sensitive and be more aware of the fact that if you are a woman and you are within a certain amount of a certain age range, 100% of your workforce, if they stay there from 45 to 55, we'll go through this, of your female population. I mean, that is just taking into account. Think about the things that have changed in the past 20, 25 years. Women, you have breastfeeding rooms now.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every woman is going to experience these symptoms maybe differently. Someone has drenching night sweats, someone has none, someone has 100 a day, someone has two. That, but once you start to realize that this is a problem, I'm hot and no one else is in the room that's hot or it's 50 degrees outside, then you must say, maybe this is perimenopause. But let me just say that you said you're in denial because there is also the stigma and shame. Yeah.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That you're just supposed to suffer. And then, as I get older, yes, I'm tired, yes, I'm fatigued. If you accept that as normal, then you won't seek care. And that, to me, is probably the most heartbreaking thing that women suffer silently.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. And when you add to that the fact that most women who are perimenopausal are also having other symptoms, it's not just in isolation because you're having hot flashes, you're having night sweats, your sleep is disturbed. All of those things affect your mood as well because I can tell you, if you haven't slept in three months, you're not going to be in a good mood the next day, nor are you going to have any sort of tolerance for that or the fatigue factor comes in. So it's all interrelated and it is something that we don't really pay enough attention to. And women, a lot of times will suffer in silence about this because you're afraid to say something. And if your expectation is that this is just what part of being a woman is about.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because, you know, if you have never had depression in your life or anxiety in your life and now all of a sudden you have it, that should be the first, second, and third thoughts about what could be causing this.”
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“And every woman, every perimenopausal woman I know has had that feeling where you're talking and right in the middle is just out of your head. And it's very distressing because women think, am I going crazy? Is Alzheimer's on the horizon for me?”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In that situation. But here's the connection. We think of estrogen and our reproductive hormones as just having to do with reproduction. It's only about our breasts and ovulating and being pregnant. But the reality is our reproductive hormones affect most major organ systems in our body. And what's the one that needs estrogen the most are brains. So the areas of our brain that really are responsible for mood, for sleep regulation, for temperature regulation, all of those areas are responsive to estrogen or lack thereof. And when you're in perimenopause, it's not so much that on any one given day, you have too little estrogen, some days you have too much. Some days you have too little. So it is the wild fluctuations that is really scrambling your brain about how to react to situations.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And sometimes it is irrepressible rage. You can see and hear yourself and say, now I know that that should not be my response. It is inappropriate for the situation at hand, but you really, what I think is worrisome for women is that they feel out of control.”
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“You know, that's, you know, when we talk mood, mood encompasses a lot of things. It's anxiety. Sometimes it's depression. Sometimes it's just mental fatigue or brain fog.”
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“And you know, and here's the other thing that for people who are just sort of getting into this hormone therapy. Game, a lot of them don't have the experience of knowing what to do. So they give you the answer based on, okay, well, this is what it's supposed to do, but every person's different.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because what it is is really giving women access who don't have access to doctors who know what they're doing, or it's too expensive to go to those doctors because everyone should have access, in my mind. To the same quality care, whether you live in New York City or whether you live in New Mexico. It shouldn't matter.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you are bothered, when you are either, you find out that it's either affecting the quality of your life, the quality of your work, the quality of your relationships, when you reach that level, then that is the time that you should seek care. But here's the reality is, as we said, I say it over and over again, there are not enough doctors who are out there who know how to treat menopause and perimenopause. So what's a woman to do when you have read everything that you need to read and you are clear and you know exactly what's happening to you and it's not uncommon for you to go to a doctor's office in the doctor will tell you no or i don't believe in hormones which is not uncommon that too i've heard i don't believe in them”
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“I've been on hormones for 15 years, and I knew exactly what was happening. And I was like, okay, well, that's enough of that. And just go right on. And I have no intention of stopping unless and until there's a reason, a medical reason why I should stop hormone therapy.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And no one can tell you when your symptoms are intolerable, but you know. And that's the point at which you should engage and ask someone to please fix this for me. And to be honest with you, we do know what the answer is. It's not like we're waiting to figure out for someone to discover something. It's hormone therapy in some form or fashion. And we may use different types and different dosages for women who are perimenopausal than when they are 12 months of no period. The doses may change, the types may change, but the concept is still the same. You treat a hormonal issue with hormones. And that's why we say hormone replacement. Some people don't like that phase, but I'm old, so I still say hormones. You've been on hormones.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then you are perimenopausal. Now, the question then becomes well, I'm still having my period. And this is the part that really makes my head explode because there are still doctors out there who are saying, well, you're not menopausal yet because it hasn't been 12 months since your last period. That's ridiculous. You should be treated when you are symptomatic.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That is an excellent question because, as I said, that perimenopausal period is the part that is most confusing for women But I would say this as a rule of thumb if you're between the ages of 35 and 45 and you are having any one or any combination of those 34 symptoms that we associate with menopause, hot flashes, mood swings, sleeplessness, painful sex, irregular, heavy periods, brain fog. If you have any of those things in no particular order.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is everything when you take that same data, the largest study ever done, and you exclude the women who are older. And only apply it to the women who are under 60? Within 10 years of menopause, guess what they find? The same findings that we had from the observational study that the cumulative data says that if you start hormone therapy within 10 years of your last period or before age 60, you decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease by anywhere from 30 to 50 percent.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It has been when you say the words breast cancer. Women. I think that is their number one fear cancer. Despite the fact that the number one cause of deaths in women is cardiovascular disease”
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“That's a very different outcome. And that was the misinterpretation of taking very limited findings and applying it to everyone.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a very much misinterpreted study because if you had said, I don't disagree, okay, your data is your data if you start women on hormone therapy later in life, you're not going to prevent their heart disease. I think that's probably true. The problem is that they generalize that data to everybody. Well, what about a 50-year-old? Well, what about if I start it when I'm 45, whenever I'm menopausal, because that's when we clinically would start it. Yes.”
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“And it's dramatic, and they stop the study, hold the presses, and they say, not only does hormone therapy not improve your cardiac profile, it increases the risk of breast cancer. And when they said that, I mean, women who were taking hormones happily.”
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“From these women who were on average 63 years old, more than 10 years after menopause. So when you hold a press conference,”
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“Made everybody nuts. So when they got to about five years in the study and they looked into the data to see how is this coming, there was this dramatic press conference that they held because not only did they not see the expected decrease in cardiovascular disease, but they saw a slight increase risk in breast cancer.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The cardiovascular, it was like the same whether you took it or not, because they were starting it on women who were too old. So that was problem number one with the study design. Second part was that when they were looking, they said, well, let's have some safety stops. Let's make sure that women aren't having an increase in breast cancer because of this estrogen, because that was a thought.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you couldn't prove it because it was just an observational study. So the Women's Health Initiative that was really initiated in 1991, the purpose of it was to sort of solidify that finding, does hormone therapy really reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by 50%? That was the central question. So we do a study, largest study ever in the history of NIH specifically for women. So they recruited women in that study that were anywhere from 50 to 79 years old. The majority of the women 90% of the women were over age 55. So it's not surprising that when they looked at that women, they said, well, there's really no difference here. We don't see any improvement.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we knew that it treated the symptoms of menopause. That wasn't new news. But what we found was that there was a nurse's study where they just looked at a group of healthy nurses, young women, and watched them through menopause. And what they found is that the women who took estrogen therapy, or HRT, had half the risk of heart disease than women who didn't, the nurses who didn't take hormones. So imagine now the thought was, OK, we're not only relieving the symptoms, but we are actually decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease by 50%. Well, that would be a blockbuster, right?”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. In a nutshell, you know, as I told you, 1942, we've been treating women who were symptomatic during menopause, typically the hot flashes in the mood swings with an estrogen product. It worked. So as we sort of got more women who were taking hormones, we found that there were some tweaks that need to be made along the way and added the progesting component to it. Because remember, estrogen and progesting go together.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But we have known how to treat the symptoms of menopause since 1942. That was when the first estrogen product was introduced. That was primrin. And so women have been using hormones since 1942, those who had access and the awareness of it. But it really changed everything in 2012. In 2002 I was taught about menopause and what to do about it. And then from 2002 on, doctors who were trained didn't really get that information because.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know it used to be. And let me say because you know, I'm in the old group of people, and the study that really changed everything in 2002, the women's health initiative really did about face on the conversation about menopause. Because let me just say, women have been going through menopause for as long as we've been alive. The only thing that's changed historically is that more of us are living long enough to get to this phase of life. But women have complained about menopause forever, but it was thought to be, you know, women just being hysterical with the symptoms, or you're losing your mind, or women would go to sanitariums at that point where because of the mental illness and the mental distress that it caused women.”
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“Yes, they are And you know, but all of the studies that have been done really basically are with estrogen and progestin, we are sort of behind the curve. We're finding out a lot more about testosterone because women make testosterone too. And I think that that's sort of the misconception is that, well, estrogen is a female hormone and testosterone is the male hormone. And that is not true. Women make almost as much testosterone in the course of our reproductive lives as we make estrogen. That's really responsible for that sex drive that you get right around mid-cycle. So we're coming back around to understanding that maybe there should be more to hormone replacement therapy than just estrogen and progestin, but we need a lot more studies about that.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, hormone replacement therapy. Typically, it is comprised of estrogen, which is the secret sauce in hormone replacement therapy, and of progestin, which is the second hormone that you take when you have an intact uterus. Now, for women who've had hysterectomies and don't need to have the progestin, you can just take estrogen alone. But most of what we associate with the symptomatic relief really comes from the estrogen component of infrastructure.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's less functional. And I'll give you an example. I like to say for you're born with all the eggs you're ever going to have. You don't get any more. You don't make anymore. And then over time, you ovulate some, but you're not losing them because you've run out of them. You only ovulate about 500 times in your lifetime. Had a million when you were born, those eggs become less functional and every woman has a different expiration date stamped on your eggs. So you don't know. Are my legs? Are my eggs gonna last until I'm 45? Are they going to expire when I'm 35? And that's why we start to see the fertility changes. And for each individual. When you reach the end of that road, it's going to be different from person to person.”
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“Able to produce a child absolutely no longer fertile. And sometimes it's not just the complete loss of eggs, it's the loss of function of your egg. Because the other thing that happens that people don't talk enough about during perimenopause is that there's a change in your fertility. Because when you're a perimenopausal, when you're 40, you still have eggs, you're still having your period, but your fertility is not what it was at 20. It's not what it was at 25. Because you've already lost.”
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“But there are other ways that women can go through menopause other than just the natural process that happens. But the natural process.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're not over it. You're never over it. You're never over it. And people think that because your hot flash is stopped or you didn't have hot flashes, that you didn't have menopause. And I'm saying.”
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“It can go on for another 10 years. And I think what is also confusing is that when women say, all right, so we've got pre-menopause, perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. And I don't really like the term postmenopause because it implies that at some point you're over it.”
2025-04-01 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When was your last period, and if it was last month, they immediately get off the conversation of perimenopause or menopause. So all of the symptoms that we typically associate with menopause that people are familiar with, like hot flashes, mood swings, sleeplessness, painful sex, can start in perimenopause. And women think of menopause as something that happens to old ladies. The average age is 51. But a 35-year-old having these symptoms is very much in that menopausal transition that in-between stage.”
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