Menopause: Understanding the Changes and Finding Relief (Part 2) | Dr Susan Davis | The Proof EP

In Episode #256, I sit down with Professor Susan Davis, AO to answer your questions in the wake of our first menopause masterclass.
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After my last conversation with Professor Davis, I’ve received hundreds of messages of support and thanks from The Proof community. I’ve also received many additional questions, with the community wanting to dig deeper into more specific circumstances. In this conversation, Professor Davis answers your questions to create an even more detailed picture of menopause.
Professor Susan R Davis AO is Director of Monash University’s Women’s Health Research Program; an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow; Consultant Endocrinologist and Head of the Women’s Endocrine Clinic, Alfred Hospital Melbourne; and consultant at Cabrini Medical Centre. Her research has been pivotal in the understanding of sex hormones in women across the lifespan in multiple non-reproductive target tissues, including the brain (cognition, mood, and sexual function), cardiovascular system (lipids, vascular function, and coagulation), and other tissues (fat, muscle, joint cartilage, and bone).
In this episode, you’ll discover the answers to The Proof community’s most asked questions. We cover menopause misinformation and pseudo-experts, helping you navigate who to believe. We also discuss hormone replacement therapy (HRT), including how long to use it and how its use has changed over the years. Professor Davis provides insight into many menopause-related topics, including mental health and menopause, weight gain, endocrine disruptors, and much more.
Specifically, we cover:
00:00 - Intro
02:13 - Feedback from the Proof community
05:57 - Concerns about misleading health information about menopause
11:23 - Oral contraception and fertility
14:26 - Summary of part 1: Navigating Menopause: Expert Insights and Solutions
20:31 - Hormone therapy for women over 50 and 60
24:11 - HRT and cognitive function
32:10 - Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) and early menopause
41:34 - Amenorrhea, exercise, chronic stress and menstrual health
46:14 - Health risks of early menopause
51:21 - Muscle and bone health
52:35 - Treatments for women with breast cancer and vasomotor symptoms
1:10:46 - Exercises that benefit bone health
1:12:45 - Night sweats and hot flashes
1:19:39 - Thyroid and menopause
1:20:39 - Adrenal fatigue and menopause
1:21:53 - Factors affecting women's mental health in menopause
1:27:22 - Menopause and weight gain
1:38:25 - Hormones, painful sex, hair loss, and adult acne
1:40:50 - Bioidentical hormones and compounded hormones
1:45:49 - Dietary patterns and menopausal symptoms
1:48:33 - Endocrine disruptors in everyday life
1:49:44 - Outro
I’m glad that so many people resonated with my first conversation with Professor Davis, finding Episode #245 helpful and validating. I hope this episode does the same, and I look forward to hearing your feedback.
To stay up to date with Professor Susan Davis’ research, you can head to the Monash University Women’s Health Research Program. There you’ll find new papers, research trials, and more. You can also connect on the Monash University Instagram and Facebook pages, ad Professor Davis’ Twitter. Make sure to check out the additional resources on menopause below.
Connect:
- Monash University Women’s Health Research Program: www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm...
- Professor Davis’ Twitter: / srdwomenshealth
- Monash University Instagram: / monash_uni
- Monash University Facebook: / monash.university
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  • @leoniehenderson547
    @leoniehenderson547 Жыл бұрын

    A Dr who still practices and does research. This is the woman to teach about meno. I hope she writes a book.

  • @cyclamen831
    @cyclamen831 Жыл бұрын

    Great conversation again, Dr Davis is the doctor we all wish we had. Simon...you are truly becoming a beacon in the social media space. I have recommended you also to my patients who are wishing to learn and hear about health!

  • @annefitzgerald1744
    @annefitzgerald1744 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, great episode! 👏 I appreciate Dr.Davis’ honest, science-backed discussion. There are many “experts” in the “menopause space” who are trying to profit off of desperate women by selling something (supplements, diets, workouts, etc). We need more straightforward conversations like this.

  • @angeladavies
    @angeladavies Жыл бұрын

    Excellent information, as a 55 aged woman I am about to see GP for HRT. Diet, exercise, weight, muscle, bone density and mental health are issues I concern myself with. Appreciate this interview so much and have greater insight, confidence in ageing now.

  • @Lawyersadvise1
    @Lawyersadvise12 ай бұрын

    Dr Susan is a true gem 💎

  • @hayleysmith5077
    @hayleysmith50779 ай бұрын

    HRT is life saving !!!This video is so professionally done love this doctor blessings

  • @TheProofWithSimonHill
    @TheProofWithSimonHill7 ай бұрын

    Hello Friends, I'm curious to know which part of the conversation you found the most insightful and engaging. Also, if you have any other questions related to this subject, please post them below this comment. I'll make sure to include them in our next discussion.

  • @tbaker729
    @tbaker7296 ай бұрын

    I am so happy to know further studies are being led by a female endochrinologist. Female physicians have a better understanding of what other women experience when going through menopause. I hope the use of Testosterone treatments become an option in all countries.

  • @heidizee5144
    @heidizee5144 Жыл бұрын

    This was such a helpful deep dive! If there are future conversations with Dr. Davis, I’d be interested in her thoughts on the use of DHEA and Pregnenolone as part of HT protocol in post-menopause. Many thanks, Simon, for the time and effort you put into making these interviews riveting and actionable!

  • @Chassenach
    @Chassenach Жыл бұрын

    Thank you both for this!

  • @bleon5956
    @bleon59566 ай бұрын

    Dr Mindy is on BHRT! She has a few videos about it. She is for a healthy lifestyle. Now that she is going through menopause herself she has added BHRT when she realized she needed it.

  • @picardy7488
    @picardy7488 Жыл бұрын

    Such an excellent interview. So glad I found this (Dr. Davis recommended coming here from Super Life podcast with de Groot/Kuech). Now to explore The Proof!

  • @Catherine-zq1kb
    @Catherine-zq1kb Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this.

  • @allisonfalin8854
    @allisonfalin8854 Жыл бұрын

    She echos my Gyns advice and my training. Refreshing to see the evidence based medicine is getting a voice. We have way too many influencers and people practicing outside their scope, making things worse, not better in the long term.

  • @hiyacynthia
    @hiyacynthia Жыл бұрын

    I’m 60 and 10 years post menopause. I have HRT individually prescribed by my ob gyn. Aside from vaginal dryness, sexual function/libido is affected by menopause. There wasn’t much discussion about that, but I guess there’s not a lot of reliable evidence either. I think that in this respect, a consistent HRT a is not like the fluctuating hormones we have as a younger woman. But we do live so much longer now, most of those years post menopausal. So it is important to consider how these hormones affect libido, a potentially important part of our relationship(s) before and after menopause.

  • @DanielleDeantv
    @DanielleDeantv Жыл бұрын

    She is a BOSS.

  • @Blit8858
    @Blit88588 ай бұрын

    The reason why in the US we go to a compounding pharmaceutical is because doctors are very reluctant to prescribe HRT. There needs to be so much more education and research on this. But I am not willing to wait years until the medical field catches up.

  • @JillianReid-vz6vu
    @JillianReid-vz6vu8 ай бұрын

    Would love to hear the personnel experience of Professor Susan Davis on taking HRT and the benefits it made to her life.

  • @beatalg
    @beatalg Жыл бұрын

    Dr Davis discussed hot flashes and night sweats. I went through menopause around the age of 47 and had zero symptoms besides an irregular period which, when I went to see my doctor to check this out, he informed me that I hadn’t ovulated in at least 6 months. That’s how I learned I was menopausal. I read that women who still have children under the age of 13 in the home when they hit menopause, many times are asymptomatic, no hot flashes etc, because their hormones associated with child rearing override hormone changes that cause symptoms like hot flashes and mood swings. My two children were 6 and 8 at the time so it made sense in my case. Any thoughts from Dr Davis or Simon? Loved both podcasts with Dr Davis.

  • @tequilla2007
    @tequilla2007 Жыл бұрын

    Very important clarification, tamoxifen may protect against bone density lose if they are post menopausal. The opposite is true for pre-menopausal women, tamoxifen has been shown to worsen bone density (materially) after only 3 years. This is indeed the case for me (39 year old who stopped tamoxifen after 3 years).

  • @benitaenzor7213
    @benitaenzor7213 Жыл бұрын

    Another great really informative episode. It is however hard to believe that Soy has no effect in menopause. I have heard quite the contrary from many reputable doctors.

  • @picardy7488

    @picardy7488

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheProofWithSimonHill Japanese eat soy in virtually every meal and are some of the longest-lived people. I choose to eat soy foods (but not soy iso-flavones, but no real logical reason to make the distinction)

  • @k.h.6991
    @k.h.6991 Жыл бұрын

    Mindy didn't pass my (not very good) bullshit detector. What does interest me is the research done by the physicians committee on diet and menopause symptoms. The research should clearly only be seen as exploratory, but it does confirm the importance of diet and lifestyle.

  • @olyav5819
    @olyav5819 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting. The reason why some women chose the compounds over the prescription hormones, because prescription might give side effects and compounds do not.

  • @olyav5819

    @olyav5819

    Жыл бұрын

    This is based on my experiences and what I’ve heard from other women. The progestin pill gave me terrible side effects after 5 months and as soon I stopped taking it I felt better. The progesterone compound I tolerate pretty well no side effects.

  • @metalmunkey42
    @metalmunkey427 ай бұрын

    Hey Simon, if you speak to Susan again ask her about the hypotheseis and research on the mumps and/or the Epstein-Barr virus with infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever) and autoimmune polyendocrinopathy being a potential trigger of ovarian failure.

  • @TheProofWithSimonHill

    @TheProofWithSimonHill

    7 ай бұрын

    Noted

  • @pininfarinarossa8112
    @pininfarinarossa81125 ай бұрын

    1:21:00- adrenal fatigue - en vogue?😢😮

  • @jbayoda01
    @jbayoda01 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting and great conversation. It's not fair to ask Susan Davis about Mindy Pelz - she doesn't even know her. Before making a public judgment on someone who is changing the lives of 100s of 1000s, it's probably worth asking Mindy directly 'how she knows what she knows'. I believe her information is study based and has changed my life. This conversation was interesting but hasn't changed my life. Nor has it engaged me enough to know more. Mindy is so engaging and makes women want to research more and understand more.

  • @annefitzgerald1744

    @annefitzgerald1744

    Жыл бұрын

    Mindy is a chiropractor, not a hormone specialist, which was a red flag for me. I’m leery of self proclaimed experts jumping on the menopause bus to cash in on their books and “Keto for women” diets.

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