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Hello Menopause!

Hello Menopause!

The Menopause Information Gap: Susan Dominus, New York Times

Jun 10, 2026 · 54m

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About this episode

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 piece "Women Have Been Misled About Menopause" sparked a nationwide conversation about hormone therapy, medical bias, and the cost of what we don't know. Hello Menopause is a podcast from Let’s Talk…