"Menopause does not mean you have to suffer": An OB-GYN on breaking the stigma for women
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An estimated one million women in the United States experience menopause every year, but it's still often surrounded by stigma — something Dr. Sharon Malone is trying to change.
Malone, an OB-GYN and the chief medical adviser of Alloy Women's Health, gets candid about health and aging in her new book, "Grown Woman Talk."
"Menopause is the one inevitable common experience that all women will have. If you're born with ovaries, you will go through menopause," she said on "CBS Mornings" Tuesday. "But I think that what we've got to do is explain to women, just because we go through menopause does not mean you have to suffer — we have many options for how to treat it."
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