The Heart Risk Women Miss In Perimenopause with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum

A hot flash is easy to blame on menopause. So are poor sleep, fatigue, anxiety, weight gain, or suddenly feeling more winded than usual. But what if some of those changes are also telling us something about the heart? When we talk about perimenopause, we usually focus on periods, mood, sleep, weight, and hormone symptoms. What gets left out is that estrogen also affects the arteries, blood pressure, blood-vessel flexibility, and the endothelium, the lining that helps our arteries expand and respond properly. In this episode of The Ovary Club, I sit down with preventive cardiologist Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum to uncover why perimenopause may be one of the most important, and most overlooked windows for protecting a woman’s long-term cardiovascular health. Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum has spent nearly three decades changing the way women’s heart health is understood and treated. She has served as Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Prevention, Health and Wellness at Mount Sinai, Director of Women and Heart Disease at Lenox Hill Hospital, and Director of the Center for Cardiac and Pulmonary Health at Beth Israel Medical Center. She is also the founder of Heart-Tech Health, whose signature program, Adesso, gives women access to cardiovascular prevention designed around female biology. Want to go deeper with this episode? Insiders get to submit questions and receive monthly Q&As directly from Alisa. Join here: alisavitti.kit.com/products/the-ovary-club What’s Discussed (00:17) Why women are still being missed in heart-disease research, diagnosis, and care. (12:34) What begins to change in the arteries during perimenopause. (18:10) What estrogen does for cardiovascular health and why hot flashes may carry more information than women realize. (21:01) How chronic stress, pregnancy complications, depression, and emotional history can affect future heart risk. (29:34) The symptoms women may mistake for hormones, anxiety, stress, or aging. (39:01) Why a normal cardiac workup may not always show the full picture. (47:21) The testing, movement, nutrition, and prevention strategies that can help women act earlier. Listen to Episode 15: Why Perimenopause Is a Critical Window for Cardiovascular Health with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum to understand why your heart belongs in the menopause conversation and what you can do now to protect it for the decades ahead. Subscribe to The Ovary Club for the female-specific health information women should have had all along. Thank You to Our Sponsors: MyFLOⓇ App: Download the MyFLOⓇ App at https://floliving.com/pages/app and use the code FREEMONTH Ovary Club Insiders: Ovary Club: Join us at https://alisavitti.kit.com/products/t... Learn more about Alisa Vitti: Instagram:   / alisa.vitti   Website: https://alisavitti.kit.com/ Learn more about Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum: LinkedIn:   / drsuzannesteinbaum   Instagram:   / drsteinbaum   Website: https://www.drsuzannesteinbaum.com/ Adesso Health: https://adesso.health/ Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum's Heart Book: Every Woman's Guide to a Heart-Healthy Life: https://a.co/d/006QRNln