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So thank you again to everybody.

All right, so Dr. Robin Austin is with us today to talk about everything around menopause.

Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and Director of the Center for Nursing Informatics.

She's a research mentee with the Menopause Society and a fellow of both the Academy

of Nursing and American Medical Informatics Society.

Her research integrates data science methods to address whole person needs with a focus on chronic pain, which is also another topic that we should maybe talk about at some point or another, and menopause in midlife women.

So thank you.

It's really special to have you on this show.

This is a good topic.

And there are certainly variables that I believe, and you can probably talk to this, that affect women in menopause, maybe more today than yesterday.

Okay, so, all right.

So let's start out with a simple question.

What is menopause?

Yeah.

So, you know, first of all, let me ask you what's magical.

I think you kind of alluded to this, but what's magical about 12 months.

Okay.

In other words, okay, yes, you're in menopause if you haven't had a period for 12 months.