Jamie Kern Lima

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.

And I just want to, you know, off the top commend you for that.

just your work and also all the awareness you're bringing to so many of these topics that just, to your point, you've said nine out of 10 doctors get hormone replacement therapy wrong or hormone therapy wrong, or just aren't educated.

You've shared that getting your medical degree or for your

medical degree, you had one hour of training around menopause, and then your four-year specialty degree, six hours of training, and that's it.

And so for a lot of us, even if we're blessed to have really incredible doctors, they likely have no training around menopause, around perimenopause, around hormone therapy, around any of these topics.

And so for a person listening right now, I think picking up your book is such a great

tool to take the power into our own hands about even understanding what these concepts are.

And for someone who really likes their doctor and maybe they have a gynecologist that they like and they have their routines, but they're listening to us going, okay,

My insurance covers my doctor.

I don't want to go find new people.

But how do I build my own menopause toolkit?

When you talk about, let's say, taking... We talk about...