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10/03/2026
Spent an hour last week with the graduate clinical nutrition students at UT-Austin talking all things menopause, and I am still smiling about it.
These are the people who will sit across from women in midlife for decades. They asked about bone, muscle, sleep, metabolism, and how to talk with patients when the evidence is still catching up. Sharp, curious, and ready.
Menopause barely shows up in most health training. Getting to help close that gap for the next generation of clinicians is the best kind of work.
Thank you for having me 🧡
10/02/2026
Written Monday from a surgical waiting room.
Posted Friday, because apparently, I needed four business days to stop minimizing my own essay about minimizing.
The number that comes at the end of this one surprises almost everyone I tell it to. If you've had cancer, or you love someone who has, watch to the end. Breast cancer, alone, happens to 1 in 8 women. So, facts around menopause hormone therapy and cancer are important to know. Share this with the women in your life.
09/30/2026
You're mid-sentence and the word is just gone. A word you've said a thousand times before, and your brain won't hand it over.
I wrote about this for katiecouricmedia last week, timed to World Perimenopause Day, because I've lived it, too. A few months ago I reached for the word "uterus" mid-article, a word I've typed 40,000 times in my career, and it simply wasn't there.
Here's what's happening: estrogen fuels the parts of your brain that handle memory and word retrieval. During perimenopause it doesn't just drop, it swings unpredictably before it settles, and that turbulence is what shows up as brain fog. For most women, it resolves once hormones stabilize.
Midlife is also a real window for long-term brain health. A new analysis of the US POINTER trial found that a structured plan (supervised exercise, MIND diet coaching, cognitive training) measurably slowed early markers of brain tissue damage in adults under 70. Past that age, the same plan made no measurable difference.
Full piece is in bio and at Katie Couric Media.
Brain fog isn’t the right word for what’s happening. It’s buffering. Your brain is still there — it’s just running on 2002 dial-up when you’ve gotten used to fiber. Full episode of The Appointment on brain buffering available in all the places you listen.
One week ago, Rachelle Kuramoto and I were on Capitol Hill for the first Perimenopause and Menopause Hill Day. It had never happened before.
100+ advocates. Multiple different states. One week after the Senate's first-ever hearing on menopause. All of it landing on World Perimenopause Day. We spent the day advocating for six federal menopause bills, including the Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women's Health Act and the Servicewomen and Veterans Menopause Research Act. Six bills for a transition that touches 71 million women in this country and still barely shows up in federal policy.
The Hill Day brought out voices we've followed for a long time: Claire Gill of the National Menopause Foundation, Inc. , Dr. Sharon Malone of Alloy, Dr. Sandra Brooks of ACOG, Laura Okafor of Perry , Dr. Harita Raja of Bethesda Women’s Mental Health, Dr. Jayne Morgan of Hello Heart, and Liz Powell of Women’s Health Advocates to name a few.
This wasn't a rally. It was a room full of people who know exactly what's missing in menopause care, walking those gaps straight into the building where the laws get written.
Grateful to Women's Health Advocates, the National Menopause Foundation, and Perry for building this day, and to every advocate who showed up on their own time to be part of it.
09/28/2026
Join me TOMORROW, September 29th at 7pm EST for a free webinar hosted by Menopause on perimenopause.
During this conversation we'll discuss -
- What to expect during perimenopause
- Why it's important to be aware of the symptoms
- What you should know to be prepared
➡️ Register at: https://streamyard.com/watch/23RJ45V9ywvG
"Is meno belly real — or am I just not trying hard enough anymore?"
That's the question I heard all the time in the clinic. And the answer changed how I hope you think about your body.
This is just the preview. The full conversation — including the part about your body literally building a new estrogen factory (yes, really) — is on The Appointment.
Link in bio. Episode 1 is up now. 🎙
09/26/2026
09/26/2026
I'm quoted in guardian_us on safer s*x after 50, and I have to share the numbers.
STI rates have stabilized in younger people. In people 55 and up, they're climbing. Chlamydia has more than tripled in ten years. Gonorrhea is up sixfold. Syphilis is up even more.
Two things I told the author Amanda Klarfeld:
Bring up testing at your appointment. Your doctor may not recommend regular screening over 50, so you start the conversation.
Stopping condoms with a partner? Get tested together before you stop, not after. Some infections take weeks, sometimes months, to show up, so one clean test on day one isn't the finish line.
Thank you, Amanda, for writing this. Full article is available at guardian_us
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