Jamie Kern Lima

She's a mom of two, a wife and a woman on a mission who says that while menopause is inevitable, suffering doesn't have to be.

And she is here to help you and me today.

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Oprah, how have you defied the odds?

building our menopause toolkit.

Our menopause toolkit.

Can you share with everyone listening, just granularly, what are the elements, the components that each of us need to have a strong menopause toolkit?

Hearing you describe a patient visit is, I know, I'm thinking of every person listening right now.

It's a privilege.

So I want to, because here's what I love.

First, everyone needs to pick up your book, okay, The New Menopause.

And I know you're working on another book called The New Perimenopause.

And we've talked about kind of defining menopause by

range of ages, 46 to 55, usually around that kind of range is when it may happen defined by, you know, the first day you don't have a period starting for an entire year.

Perimenopause can start seven to 10 years before that day.

And so many symptoms can be present in your life.