The Oprah Podcast
Oprah & Dr. Sharon Malone: Menopause Solutions for Millennials, Your Weight, Sleep, Mood & Intimacy
27 May 2025
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Hello, everybody. So glad to have you join me on this, the Oprah podcast. It is my hope that these conversations are somehow enhancing your life. It's great to spend time with you here. And I especially like hearing from listeners who zoom in. Talking with the audience was one of my favorite things during the years of the Oprah show. So it's been fun vibing with you all here on the Oprah podcast.
Welcome back, Dr. Sharon Malone. Her New York Times bestselling book is called Grown Woman Talk. More than 47 million women enter menopause each year. And yet I am still so surprised to learn this. Only 6% of those women are getting the help they need. That's 6%. And now new studies are showing that women as young as their early 30s are starting to have symptoms of paramenopause.
Dr. Sharon Malone is here for it. She has the answers for all your questions.
You don't know when your ovaries are going to expire. Every person has a different end date on that.
As a certified menopause practitioner and OBGYN, Dr. Malone has been empowering women to take charge of their health for more than three decades. Dr. Malone is the chief medical advisor for Alloy Women's Health and the New York Times bestselling author of Grown Women Talk, Every woman should have it. Grown Woman Talk, your guide to getting and staying healthy. And this is what we all want.
And this is a manual for living your life as you're going through perimenopause and menopause. And it's a manual, not just for you, but anybody you love or care about who's going through it. And that is every woman who lives to be old enough to go through it. And we are continuing our conversation around menopause. We'll be talking about specific treatments and sex after menopause a little later.
But first, we saw this somewhat alarming new study that showed that more than half... of women ages, listen up, 30 to 35 are suffering from moderate to severe symptoms of perimenopause, and they're suffering in silence. And one of the things that Dr. Malone says in Grown Woman Talk, for sure, is that you don't need to suffer and you certainly don't need to suffer in silence.
And I'm sure there are a lot of reasons behind that, and we're going to dig into it. Dr. Malone, can you talk about these studies? What is your take on that?
You know, I'm not really sure what to make of the fact that women are starting to experience symptoms earlier, but I think that stress is certainly a factor. I think that how we live, you know, the... environment that we're in. You know, who knows? Maybe it is some of the endocrine disrupting chemicals that women are exposed to that are causing this.
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