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Dr. Jen Gunter answers more of your questions about menopause

“We’re really lacking data outside of the heterosexual lens,” Gunter says

By Xtra Video • August 3, 2021 6:36 pm EDT

Dr. Jen Gunter, author of the The Menopause Manifesto and The Vagina Bible, is back to answer more questions and dispel myths about menopause. How does being on testosterone affect menopause? What about having a hysterectomy? And does testing hormone levels really tell us anything useful about menopause? 

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