As the number of businesses devoted to menopause treatment and wellness continues to grow, global innovation focused on the health and wellness wants and needs of women ages 40+ grows as well. As we become more aware of the difficulties that menopausal women face on a daily basis, it is becoming increasingly important to understand these women’s wants and needs in order to help them in the most effective manner.
Our hosts, Dr. Dweck and Rachel, are joined today by Denise Pines, co-founder of the FemAging HealthTech Report and a woman whose numerous spheres of interest focus primarily on menopausal women and their inability to be heard, advised and treated properly. FemAging was founded in order to discover what women aged 40-65 truly require, and it is now evolving into something larger and more complex. Denise has also been involved in a number of other projects devoted to menopause health and wellness, and she is here today to tell us all about her personal journey through menopause, as well as the concepts and goals of her multiple projects and businesses.
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“I tell everyone this all started with a hot flash.” (Denise)
“You’ve literally mentioned a day in my life in my office where so many women come in with concerning symptoms and either think they’re having a heart attack or some sort of a neurological problem.” (Dr. Dweck)
“I wanted to commend you for asking your mother about her experience because we know from studies that your genetic propensity is going to explain a lot of your menopausal symptoms.” (Dr. Dweck)
“Most of the time we hear people say ‘I had symptoms and I had no idea what they were from or if anyone else on the Earth was having them’.” (Rachel)
“Consumers can react to things, they can tell you what they don’t like, but it’s much more difficult for any of us to communicate a solution or what we need for something we can’t picture or something we can’t experience or something we’ve never seen.” (Rachel)
“I find this huge dichotomy between patients who are hormone-positive and hormone-absolutely-never, and there doesn’t really seem to be much of a middle ground.” (Dr. Dweck)
“They are still extremely hesitant to use them and they really still fear that it’s going to harm them, that they’re going to get cancer.” (Denise)
“I want to do this menopause survey about the gap between treatment and management of menopause not to cast dispersion on physicians, but to factually reveal women’s experience.” (Denise)
“I just wanted to make a comment about how little training residents in OB-GYN get in menopausal care. I think it’s literally a couple of hours if we’re lucky.” (Dr. Dweck)
“We need to create more safe havens where patients feel like they can talk to their doctors.” (Rachel)
“If you don’t know the symptoms and you don’t have a healthcare practitioner and you don’t know the right questions to ask and you don’t have a vocabulary, you don’t know where to go.” (Rachel)
“Women don’t know how to have a relationship with their doctors. Even the patients who love you, there are probably some times when they’re not honest.” (Denise)
“I think the medical profession has some work to do in terms of really creating better access.” (Dr. Dweck)
“I think it’s a great time to take the wind beneath our wings and really make progress.” (Rachel)
FURTHER RESOURCES:
FemAging www.femaging.com
WisePause www.wisepause.com
Tea Botanics www.teabotanics.com
Denise @LinkedIn
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