S1 Ep9: Can Cannabis Help Your Sweats? Your Sleep? Sex?

More than 1 in 4 menopausal women report that they use some form of cannabis to alleviate hot flashes, insomnia, vaginal dryness, mood swings, and brain fog. 

In this segment Dr. Streicher takes you through:

• The components of the human endocannabinoid system
• The role of ESTROGEN in the endocannabinoid metabolism
• PHYTOCANNABINOIDS
• The different ways to CONSUME cannabis such as SMOKING, VAPING, EDIBLES, TINCTURES and TOPICALS
• Why menopausal women metabolize cannabis differently than men and young women
• Need to know info about SAFTEY and DOSAGE
• Why cannabis may help with 

Hot flashes

Sleep

Libido

Vaginal lubrication

If you use cannabis, Dr. Streicher, is doing research on the use of cannabis for relief of symptoms such as hot flashes, insomnia, libido or sexual function.

PLEASE take this anonymous survey to be part of this important research. If you complete the survey- (It will take around ten minutes) you can enter to win a copy of Hot Flash Hell  Dr. Streicher’s  ground breaking book on options to eliminate hot flashes.

You will find  lots more information on the use of cannabis in Hot Flash Hell  

Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 

Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGNMorningNews, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr.Radio,Nightline,Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS ThisMorning,ABCNewsNow,NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine. 

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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD

 Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain

Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat

Sex Rx- Hormones , Health, and Your Best Sex Ever

The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy