Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones

Brown Girls' Disease: A Guide to Sexual Health and Empowerment

Seven years ago, I started keeping notes on patient stories I kept coming back to, including a woman who hadn't been able to have sex in seven years, and a 68-year-old ca

The Neuroscience of Desire, Dopamine, and Orgasm ft. Dr. Jim Pfaus

Dr. Jim Pfaus is a behavioral neuroscientist who has spent decades watching rats have sex to understand what's happening in the brain during desire, arousal, and orgasm.

Why You Stopped Wanting Sex (And What To Do About It) ft. Dr. Lori Brotto

A lot of women notice their desire for sex fading over time and assume something is wrong with them, but there's often a real reason for it, and they're not the only ones

Beyond the Pink: Breast Cancer Survivorship, Sexual Health, and Thriving After Treatment | Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky

We talk a lot about screening and treatment in the breast cancer space. What we do not talk about nearly enough is what happens after. What happens to a woman's fertility

Your Gut, Your Hormones, and What Happens in Perimenopause | Dr. Kumkum Patel

Many of the women I see in my practice are dealing with gut issues that connect directly to their hormones, and this week I finally got to dig into all of it with someone

The Menopause Experience for Women of Color: What Midlife Really Looks Like | Dr. Kudzai Dombo

Dr. Kudzai Dombo is a board certified OBGYN, educator, and one of the leading voices in elevating conversations around women of color and their healthcare journey. We st

The Hidden Heart Disease Risk No One Is Talking About in the South Asian Community | Dr. Ambreen Mohamed

South Asians represent about a quarter of the world's population but account for over 60 percent of the world's heart disease. The highest rates of diabetes and metabolic

Beyond the Prescription: How to Become a More Empowered Patient | Dr. Lucy McBride

Have you ever left a doctor's appointment feeling like you were treated as a diagnosis rather than a person? Where the 15 minutes were up before you could even get to the

Pelvic Venous Disease & PGAD: A Wild Journey to Finding Answers | April Patterson

April Patterson was one of my earliest guests, and her first episode on persistent genital arousal disorder remains one of the most listened to episodes on this podcast.

Why Women Get Dismissed in Healthcare and What We Can Do About It | Dr. Sameena Rahman

After more than two decades as a board certified OBGYN and over a decade as a specialist in sexual medicine and menopause, I have come to believe that one of the biggest

Obesity Is Not a Willpower Problem: GLP-1s, Myths, and Menopause with Dr. Angela Fitch

Obesity may be the most misunderstood chronic disease in medicine. For decades we told people to eat less and move more, but the science says our weight is regulated by b

Seven Gynecologists Refused Her Before She Got Help | Mathilde Olstad on Vulvovaginal Pain

At 25, Mathilde Olstad's life was on track: a new relationship, a finance degree nearly finished, a career about to launch. Then pain during sex appeared out of nowhere,

The SSRI Side Effect Hurting Women's Sex Lives | Dr. Laurie Mintz & Dr. Suzette Johnson

Millions of women take SSRIs for anxiety and depression and many times no one tells about the sexual side effects, let alone that there's a solution. When it happened to

Why Your Gut Changes During Menopause (And What To Do About It) | Cynthia Thurlow

One of the things that hasn't gotten a lot of attention in the menopause space is the gut. It's one of those symptoms that you may have not even thought was related to th

Perimenopause: Anger, Anxiety, Sleep Issues, and the Invisible Symptoms with Dr. Amy Jean Voedisch

Perimenopause is typically attributed to the hallmark symptoms—hot flashes and irregular bleeding. But that represents only a fraction of the clinical picture. The realit

From Commands to Purpose: How Gen Z Needs to Be Led | Calle Foster

Gen Z gets a bad rap for being lazy, but they're actually the most entrepreneurial generation we've ever had. Calle Foster, a leadership coach who spent 12 years in corpo

Why AI is Medicine's Future (Not Its Replacement) | Dr. Ami Bhatt

AI is making people in medicine nervous. Doctors worry it's going to replace them. But Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer at the American College of Cardiology and C

Women's Sexual Health Innovation with Sabrina Johnson, CEO of Dari Bioscience

For decades, men had Viagra. Women were told to relax and have a glass of wine. That imbalance in pharmaceutical innovation is finally changing, but it hasn't been easy.

Anxiety, OCD, and ADHD in Kids with Dr. John Parkhurst

Kids' mental health looks different now than it did a decade ago. More kids are struggling with anxiety, OCD, and ADHD, and parents are often unsure whether what they're

Trauma, Lost Desire, and ART: A Breakthrough Therapy with Brooke Bralove

Trauma shows up in unexpected ways. Chronic pelvic pain. Lost desire. The inability to tolerate a pelvic exam. These aren't always about what happened last week sometim