The Truth About Hormones
What if everything you’ve heard about hormones—and menopause—is only part of the story?
In this premiere episode of Mount Sinai Health System’s HERology podcast, Drs. Joanne Stone, Anna Barbieri, and Leslee Shaw unpack the real science behind hormones and how they affect your brain, heart, metabolism, and everyday health.
From debunking myths about hormone therapy to explaining why menopause has been historically misunderstood, this episode sets the stage for a new kind of conversation—one that puts women’s health front and center.
HERology from the Mount Sinai Health System is here to connect the dots—and help you advocate for your own health.
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Dr. Barbieri
Hormones are very, very powerful molecules. They change, especially the sex hormones. They change throughout the menstrual cycle. They definitely change during very different hormonal transitions. And it's just really fascinating to learn about them, how they function and how do they literally affect our everyday health.
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Dr. Stone
Hi, I'm Joanne Stone. I'm the chair of the department of ObGyn here at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Welcome to our very first episode of HERology, which is a conversation podcast talking all everything about women's health. So I want to introduce, our co-host today. Doctor Anna Barbieri.
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Dr. Barbieri
I'm Anna Barbieri. I am a board certified ob gyn physician and integrative medicine physician. And, I love hormones. Hormones is what I truly love in medicine. I actually love all of medicine. I love women's health specifically. So, I'll be sharing some of.
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Dr. Stone
This.
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Dr. Barbieri
With you and the audience.
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Dr. Stone
And Doctor Leslie Shaw.
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Dr. Shaw
Thanks, Joanna. And it's really an honor for me to be here with you all today. I, I couldn't think of two other people that I'd rather be here with. And I direct the Blavatnik Institute, which is a research institute. We focus on women's health across the lifespan. And so we actually and I don't think we love hormones, but we track them and we track the stages of, of a woman's life.
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Dr. Shaw
And we think that's really important.
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Dr. Stone
Well, it's it's so great and it's wonderful to have somebody that's such amazing research scientist that's going to help us delve into understanding how hormones affect, like cardiac disease and life and such an amazing Julianne who knows everything there is about hormones and who, by the way, and is my personal doctor, I have to say. So, I am a, high risk obstetrician.