Menopause and Heart Disease: What Women Are Still Not Being Told with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum - The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health | Lyssna här

Most women enter perimenopause thinking about hot flashes, weight gain, sleep, brain fog, and hormones.

Very few are told that this may also be one of the most important cardiovascular windows of their lives.

And that is a problem.

Heart disease remains the number one killer of women, yet women are still being underdiagnosed, dismissed, and evaluated using systems that were largely built around male cardiovascular disease.

In this episode, I sit down with preventative cardiologist Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum to talk about what women actually need to understand about their hearts in perimenopause and menopause.

We get into the surprising signs that may tell you more about your cardiovascular health than you realize, why looking healthy does not necessarily mean your arteries are healthy, and why the standard cholesterol panel may not be giving you the full picture.

We also have a very important conversation about estrogen, HRT, cholesterol, inflammation, blood sugar, hot flashes, family history, pregnancy history, and why simply putting on an estrogen patch is not the same thing as protecting your heart.

This is one of those episodes I want every woman to hear before she assumes, "I'm healthy. I exercise. My heart is probably fine."

Because there may be things happening beneath the surface long before you ever develop obvious cardiovascular disease.

In This Episode, We Talk About:

Why heart disease in women is still so often missed
Why women can look incredibly healthy and still be at risk
The cardiovascular clues hidden in your pregnancy history
A genetic cholesterol marker many women have never had tested
Why your standard LDL number may not tell the whole story
The additional blood markers Dr. Steinbaum wants women asking for
The surprising connection between hot flashes and cardiovascular risk
What starts changing in the arteries during perimenopause
Why palpitations, shortness of breath, and subtle chest symptoms deserve attention
How declining estrogen may affect cardiovascular health
Why HRT is important but not a free pass
The mistake of assuming estrogen alone protects you from heart disease
Why some commonly used cardiovascular tests may miss disease in women
The type of plaque that can be especially important in female heart disease
Why cardiovascular prevention needs to become far more personalized
The controversy around LDL, ApoB, and statins
Why Dr. Steinbaum does not treat numbers in isolation
The cardiovascular tests she believes women should know about
Why perimenopause may be the moment to start paying much closer attention

Visit Dr. Steinbaum's website.