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Are you struggling with anxiety, brain fog, sleepless nights, and exhausting hot flashes during perimenopause or menopause? Feeling like your body has betrayed you while everyone tells you to "just deal with it"? You're not alone—and there's so much more you can do than you've been told.

In this special World Menopause Day episode of Pleasure and the Pause, host Gabriela Espinoza breaks down the six pillars of lifestyle medicine for menopause—the evidence-based framework that can transform your menopause experience. Whether you're dealing with weight gain, low libido, joint pain, or feeling like you've lost yourself in midlife, this episode reveals practical, actionable strategies to reclaim your energy, vitality, and pleasure during this transition.

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Highlights from our discussion include:

• Menopause is more than hot flashes—it's a full-spectrum transformation. The good news? Lifestyle medicine offers powerful, evidence-based tools to manage symptoms and improve quality of life.
• Nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, avoiding risky substances, and social connection work together to ease symptoms, reduce chronic disease risk, and support long-term health.
• Mediterranean-style eating rich in fruits and vegetables may reduce hot flashes, while ultra-processed foods worsen symptoms. Start your day with protein and add magnesium-rich foods for better sleep.
• Sexual wellness and pleasure are fundamental to your overall health—reducing stress, improving sleep, boosting energy, and connecting you to your purpose. Your capacity for intimacy and joy doesn't diminish with age.
• Menopause offers profound opportunities for self-knowledge, clarity, boundaries, and freedom. When approached with intention, this can be one of the most transformative times of your life.

You have more power than you've been told. Menopause isn't something that simply happens to you—it's a passage you get to shape through the daily choices you make. Start today by implementing just one action step from the six pillars discussed in this episode.

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