The new thinking about menopause
Most women go through menopause — literally the ending of menses and reproduction — with individual levels of discomfort.
While medicine has been addressing menopause for centuries, it hasn’t always been effective.
But that’s changing.
Integrative medicine is a form of medical therapy that combines practices and treatments from alternative medicine with conventional medicine, offering a new approach to menopause that takes all aspects of a woman’s lifestyle into account.
Angela Davis speaks with two menopause experts who combine the fields of traditional Western medicine and Eastern medicine to help women navigate the symptoms of menopause.
Guests:
Dr. Debra Bell is a doctor of integrative medicine at the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
Jennifer Blair is a Chinese medicine practitioner at the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
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