Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

Medical Advancement for Menopause Relief

15 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter (uploaded August 15, 2024) that begins with a personal anecdote: the speaker (age 49–50) recounts a conversation at a friend’s wedding in Mexico with ~20 similarly aged women about perimenopause and menopause. The speaker argues that their mothers were less prepared because of medical practices shaped by the 1990s Women’s Health Initiative, leading to dismissal of symptoms or treatment with benzodiazepines/antidepressants rather than addressing hormonal imbalance.

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Just got back from my best friend's wedding in Mexico, and I wanted to talk a little bit about an interesting experience I had the day before the wedding. All of us were sitting around the pool, and there was about 20 of US women who were in similar age group. I'm 49. I turned 50 this year. Most of the women were in similar age group. And we were talking about how our mothers didn't really prepare us for what perimenopause and menopause would be. And one of the things I explained to them is because of the Women's Health initiative in the 90s, our mothers didn't have the opportunities that we have now to deal with it. When they were going through perimenopause, they were told, suck it up. It's normal. You're going to be fine. Or perhaps they were given benzodiazepines for their anxiety or antidepressants instead of treating the underlying cause, which was hormonal imbalance.