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Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones

Dr. Sameena Rahman

As a fierce champion for women empowering women (and the people that love them), GynoGirl provides the knowledge and education to help you advocate for yourself so that you can live your best life! Dr. Sameena Rahman curates a space for exploring hormonal changes, sexual health, and pelvic wellness, while also emphasizing self-love and life improvement. Through collaborations with leading experts and the personal stories of patients, she provides a platform for knowledge-sharing while also

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50:30

Menopause Around the World: Women Everywhere Are...

Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones ·

2026/10/09

Menopause is biologically universal, but how women experience it, and whether they even have a word for it, depends a lot on where they live. I talk with Dr. Yewande Banire, a family nurse practitioner who cares for patients in the United States and in Lagos, Nigeria, about what women's health looks like through an international lens. Yewande shares how her own years of heavy periods and fibroid pain, and being told it was just part of being a woman, led her into this work. We talk about why women

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37:31

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

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2026/10/02

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 cancer survivor who wanted her life back. Somewhere along the way, I ended up writing about myself too, including something I've never told you before. Those stories became my new book, Brown Girls' Disease?, out October 6th. The title comes from a term I once heard used in a hospital to dismiss South Asian women with vaginismus, and

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01:09:34

The Neuroscience of Desire, Dopamine, and Orgasm ft....

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2026/09/25

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. I talk with Jim about what that research can teach us about our own desire, and just how much of it comes down to the brain rather than any one hormone. We tend to assume females have little say in when sex happens, but Jim's research shows the opposite in female rats. They have complete control over whether it happens at all. He

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50:21

Why You Stopped Wanting Sex (And What To Do About It)...

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2026/09/18

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 going through it. I sat down with Dr. Lori Brotto, one of the most recognized researchers in women's sexual health, to talk about why desire changes and what actually helps bring it back. We discuss the difference between spontaneous and responsive desire, how to tell low desire apart from asexuality, and how sensate focus works in

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50:35

Beyond the Pink: Breast Cancer Survivorship, Sexual...

Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones ·

2026/09/11

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, her vagina, her relationships, her body image, her mental health, her cardiovascular health, and her sense of self when treatment ends and everyone expects her to simply be grateful to be alive.Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky is a board certified medical oncologist specializing in breast and gynecologic cancers, head of breast and

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48:19

Your Gut, Your Hormones, and What Happens in...

Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones ·

2026/09/04

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52:16

The Menopause Experience for Women of Color: What...

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2026/08/28

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 start with the SWAN study, a 25-year longitudinal multiracial, multi-ethnic cohort study that enrolled over 3,300 women between the ages of 42 and 52. It remains one of the most important sources of information we have on how menopause affects women differently across racial and ethnic groups. What it found is striking: Black women are

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58:02

The Hidden Heart Disease Risk No One Is Talking About...

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2026/08/21

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 syndrome. And yet most women in the community have no idea this could be coming for them.This week I spoke with Dr. Ambreen Mohamed, a cardiologist with a passion for improving cardiovascular health, particularly in South Asian communities. This is a conversation I have wanted to have for a long time, and it is personal. I lost my

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45:40

Beyond the Prescription: How to Become a More...

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2026/08/14

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 real question?Dr. Lucy McBride is a primary care physician, co-founder of the Ackerly McBride Group in Washington DC, and author of the new book Beyond the Prescription. For over 25 years she has practiced what she calls evidence-based, relationship-centered medicine, and her weekly Substack newsletter Are You OK? now reaches over

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01:03:20

Pelvic Venous Disease & PGAD: A Wild Journey to...

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2026/08/07

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. April is a pelvic floor physical therapist who specializes in PGAD. She has also lived it. After spinal surgery addressed her original PGAD symptoms nearly a decade ago, new symptoms kept building. Left lower quadrant pain, bladder pain, GI symptoms, clitoral changes, leg symptoms that did not match any nerve pathway. She was

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27:12

Why Women Get Dismissed in Healthcare and What We Can...

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2026/07/31

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 obstacles in women's healthcare is not the absence of treatments or research. It is dismissal.This is not just something I see in my patients. I have lived it too. I share a story from my own birth experience that I have not talked about much publicly, and it changed how I think about what it means to navigate a system that was not

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01:02:33

Obesity Is Not a Willpower Problem: GLP-1s, Myths,...

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2026/07/24

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 biology we don't control, in the same brain region that runs our reproductive cycles. Dr. Angela Fitch, past president of the Obesity Medicine Association and one of the country's leading experts in obesity medicine, joins me to separate what's real from what's myth in the world of GLP-1s.Angela's fascination with metabolism started

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51:11

Seven Gynecologists Refused Her Before She Got Help |...

Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones ·

2026/07/17

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, Then pain during sex appeared out of nowhere, and it didn't go away. What followed was years of dismissal, dead ends, expensive alternative treatments, and being refused by seven gynecologists before she could access specialized care. Instead of staying silent, she turned her experience into The World's Tightest Community, a podcast

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42:35

The SSRI Side Effect Hurting Women's Sex Lives | Dr....

Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones ·

2026/07/10

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 a sex therapist and an OB-GYN themselves, they refused to accept "just add Wellbutrin" as the only answer. Dr. Laurie Mintz and Dr. Suzette Johnson join Dr. Rahman to share the deeply personal stories behind their new venture and why no woman should have to choose between her mental health and her sexual health.What started as a

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46:21

Why Your Gut Changes During Menopause (And What To Do...

Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones ·

2026/07/03

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 this stage in life. You may find that you have diarrhea, constipation, and less tolerance with certain foods. Or like my guest Cynthia Thurlow, one bout of food poisoning can turn your gut upside down and have lasting effects for years.Cynthia is a nurse practitioner and metabolic health expert who explains why the gut matters in

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01:02:47

Perimenopause: Anger, Anxiety, Sleep Issues, and the...

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2026/06/26

Perimenopause is typically attributed to the hallmark symptoms—hot flashes and irregular bleeding. But that represents only a fraction of the clinical picture. The reality encompasses a range of symptoms that often emerge gradually and go unrecognized as perimenopausal.Dr. Amy Jean Voedisch is a gynecologist whose clinical approach mirrors mine. We practice evidence-based medicine through extended patient visits that allow for precision diagnosis and individualized treatment plans.Sleep is one of

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46:16

From Commands to Purpose: How Gen Z Needs to Be Led ...

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2026/06/19

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 corporate learning and development, explains why that stereotype is costing you as a leader.The real issue? It's how we're leading them. Gen Z was raised in a very different world than previous generations, and that context shaped how they show up at work. When leaders come at them with command and control, they shut down. They

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54:00

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

Gyno Girl Presents: Sex, Drugs & Hormones ·

2026/06/12

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 Chair of the FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee, has a different take.She explains what collaborative intelligence actually means and why clinicians shouldn't be scared. We talk about how wearables are giving women the data they need to advocate for themselves when doctors dismiss them. We also get into the bias that's built into

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52:49

Women's Sexual Health Innovation with Sabrina...

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2026/06/05

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.In this episode, I talk with Sabrina Johnson, the founder and CEO of Dare Bioscience the only publicly traded pharmaceutical company focused entirely on women's healthcare. We discuss why the pharmaceutical industry has historically avoided investing in women's sexual health, the stigma and sexism that surrounds female arousal and

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59:02

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

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2026/05/29

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 seeing is normal or something that needs professional help.In this episode, Dr. John Parkhurst, a child psychologist at Northwestern, helps us understand what's really happening with kids right now. He explains why anxiety spikes during puberty, how to recognize the difference between typical worry and an anxiety disorder, and what

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