The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Sharon Malone on Everything You Need to Know About Menopause
01 Apr 2025
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Thank you all for joining the Oprah Podcast and for watching us on YouTube. I appreciate you taking the time to spend it here with me. And I am just so appreciative of the conversations we're having about things that impact all of our lives. And I'm guessing you all have been hearing a lot about menopause these days.
But the more I talk about it, the more I realize we need a Menopause 101 because there's still so much There's so much confusion still out there, and we need reliable information, and we need facts. Menopause is not a disease or a disorder, but a natural part of aging that all women born with ovaries will eventually experience.
Menopause occurs when a woman has gone 12 months without a period, which means her ovaries have stopped producing hormones and her body is no longer capable of reproduction. For most women, menopause occurs between the ages of 45 and 55. But before you enter menopause, your body will go through a transitional period known as paramenopause, which can begin as early as your mid-30s.
Paramenopause can last anywhere from 4 to 10 years and may include symptoms like hot flashes, fatigue, mood swings, dry skin, dry everything, and low libido. To help us understand more about the menopausal journey, I invited Dr. Sharon Malone to the podcast. Dr. Malone has been a pioneer and nationally renowned expert in menopause for over three decades.
She is the chief medical advisor for Alloy Women's Health and the New York Times bestselling author of Grown Woman Talk. So happy to have you here, Dr. Malone. Thank you so much for having me, Oprah. You know, it's what we were saying before, that I feel like I've been talking about it and talking about it and talking about it. And you say you talk about it. It's every day.
And then there's still all these people who have never heard about menopause and what it means for all of our lives.
Right. You know, even for the women who are out there who are currently going through menopause, they haven't heard this conversation. And there's another 6,000 women every day going into menopause. And so the backfill is constant because there are people that just haven't had this conversation, not with their doctors, not with their mothers, and not even with their friends.
So I'm hoping those of you who are seeing this, if you're watching for yourself, that you pass it on to somebody who you also know needs it. Let's start by you explaining the four stages of women's reproductive and post reproductive lives. Can you walk us through what they are?
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