Menopause isn’t talked about enough

Dr. Savita Ginde: If it is menopause, let’s address it. I mean, I think that’s been left out of healthcare for a long time.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Women were often looked at as going crazy or all kinds of things happened, even in the workplace, people not being tolerant to the different symptoms that people had, and that’s not okay.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

It happens to every woman.

Andrea Marie: We are Moms Unhinged, a nationally touring standup comedy show. Join us in our podcast as we explore everything from motherhood, midlife, crisis, marriage, divorce, online dating, menopause, and other things that irritate us.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Moms Unhinged podcast, and I am your host, Andrea Marie. I’m so excited today to be joined by the amazing Dr. Savita Ginde. Welcome.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Andrea Marie: And you guys, she is amazing. She is the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of the Boulder Valley Health Center.

She has done a TED Talk. She’s an author. She’s had so many accomplishments, I think it would take the half hour to just list them all, but more importantly, probably one of her hardest roles, she’s the mother of twins. Yes, so welcome again, and thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to be here.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Of course, it’s great. Thank you.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. We just wanted to talk today, we’ve got an exciting show coming up together that we’re gonna talk about a little bit later, but we’re also gonna talk about like, just some of the roles of Boulder Valley Health Center. Tell us a little bit about what you do there and how you help women.

What Boulder Valley Health Center actually does

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. So we exist as a reproductive and sexual health center, providing abortion care and education, including a spectrum of services. And we serve all people, men, women, anyone across the gender spectrum. And especially those who might have difficulty in accessing healthcare.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: So what does that mean?

I mean, it means that we see patients who have insurance, who don’t have insurance. We wanna make sure that everybody has access to high-quality care.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: ‘Cause that’s important.

Andrea Marie: It’s so important. So important, especially, you know, as mothers, as women, it’s just, we’ve got a lot going on.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yes.

Andrea Marie: I mean.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s the daily juggle.

Andrea Marie: It is.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And I call it Jenga. One little thing comes out of the day, and the whole thing falls.

Andrea Marie: Exactly, exactly. I think that’s my insides, too.

So tell us a little bit more about what you do there. I’m curious, like, what does your daily life look like there? How do you help and serve in your role?

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. I mean, we’re mainly, as an organization, we’re a health center, so we are mostly seeing patients every day, either in the reproductive health or the sexual arena.

For myself, I’m either in meetings all day or I’m seeing patients.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Or I’m trying to do both.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah … or we’re providing education, meeting with community, organizations that support our work, that we refer to, that refer to us, and just making sure that all of our patients and all the people that come to us get their needs met. Either directly from us or through a community partner.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s so great. I love that. I love that, and so important. And I’m gonna just tease a little bit about the show. Ooh, yeah. We’re gonna be talking about menopause in the show, which I think I’m having a hot flash right now.

Just as to demo. Yes. But tell us what, how you help women, in menopause and how you serve there, and what kind of the important things are for women who are going through that.

How menopause can start in your late 30s

Dr. Savita Ginde: Sure. I mean, I think one of the most important things with the menopause transition is that it can start early, in the late 30s even for some.

And this is just organically, sort of naturally, outside of any type of surgery or anything that might happen at a different age. But just to normalize the experience, it can come with a spectrum of different symptoms and, you know, you can have hot flashes. Yeah. It could be caused by menopause, perimenopause.

It could be caused by other issues. So it’s really important that any time you have symptoms, you go and get it checked out. Make sure it’s not your thyroid, make sure it’s not something else. And if it is menopause, let’s address it. I mean, I think that’s been left out of healthcare for a long time.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Why women felt isolated during menopause

Dr. Savita Ginde: Women were often looked at as going crazy or all kinds of things happened, even in the workplace, people not being tolerant to the different symptoms that people had, and that’s not okay.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

It happens to every woman, a lot of people were meant to feel very isolated with the symptoms they were having.

Mm-hmm. And I’ve noticed as people start to go through the menopause transition, and especially when they’re closer to menopause, there’s a need. There’s an internal need that develops about seeking connection with others.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: I think that, to me, really ties into normalizing the menopause experience. It happens to anyone who has a uterus and ovaries.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And we can all laugh through it, which is super important. But also get some medication and the things that we might individually need to help us through that to make sure that we’re maintaining the quality of life that we all want.

Andrea Marie: Right. Exactly, it just can affect everything. Yes. It can really just cascade into, yeah, sleep issues. I didn’t even know that itchy ears I was like, itchy ears? What? That’s wild. But yeah, there’s so many things and it’s funny because I did kinda think I was through menopause, but then there’s no real like, it’s such a.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It never ends.

Andrea Marie: It really feels that way. I’m like, just last week I was like, “Oh, are we doing this again? We doing this again?”

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s like kids. They never go away.

Andrea Marie: I know. I had no idea, no one warns us. And certainly our, you know, my mom never mentioned it. She never mentioned any. I never knew anything about it.

And so I think the nice thing about being in today’s world is that we are a little bit more open about it. We’re hearing more about it, and so that’s just always a good.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And Boulder Valley Health Center is here to help any person who is having symptoms that needs to be evaluated and to get people on the right medications.

Yeah. And that’s the other thing. I am a Menopause Society certified provider, which means that we look at the latest research and guidelines and really make sure that people are getting the medications they need without some of this, sometimes there’s overkill on testing.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Or people get medications that they don’t really need.

And so we really try to make sure that people are getting their needs met, again, either through us, with more of the commonplace medications, but if someone needs services beyond what we do, we refer people out to our community providers.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s great. That’s great, it’s just takes a village.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah, it does. Everything takes a village.

Raising twin boys

Andrea Marie: It really does, it really does. Speaking of taking a village, I wanna dive into more your experience raising twins. I’m just so curious. Now, tell us a little bit about your kids and how old are they?

Dr. Savita Ginde: They are 11.

Uh huh.

They will be 12 in a couple months.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, and boys.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Two boys.

Andrea Marie: Yes.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah, so they’re crazy.

Andrea Marie: I know. I have boys, too. They are.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yes. They’re nuts. They’re nuts. And I think my husband is one of four boys, so when we had boys he was like, “Yeah, I’m used to this.” I came from a line of girls.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And so I was sort of like, “What is this?”

Andrea Marie: Right.

Dr. Savita Ginde: “What am I doing?”

Andrea Marie: Right.

Dr. Savita Ginde: “What is this?”

Andrea Marie: I know. I had a sister, and then when I had boys, I was like, “I don’t know what to do.”

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. “What am I doing with this?”

Andrea Marie: Oh man, that’s amazing. So they’re 11. What are kinda some of the crazy things they’re doing right now?

Dr. Savita Ginde: Oh, right now? Yeah well, they can’t keep their hands off of each other for some reason. They’re like tackling, wrestling, everything. Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s like a love-hate. Sometimes they’re playing, then they get mad. They stomp off, and they sort of remarkably come back together very quickly.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s boomerang love.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. And have they been… were they close when they were young too, when they were little?

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. They’ve been close all along.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. And are they identical or fraternal?

Dr. Savita Ginde: They’re fraternal.

Andrea Marie: Okay.

Dr. Savita Ginde: So one looks like me, one looks like my husband.

Andrea Marie: Okay.

Dr. Savita Ginde: The

genes have been divided very evenly there.

Andrea Marie: Do they behave that way too? Are they like little temperaments?

Actually, not so much.

Okay.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Cause I have, one of my boys is like me, one is more like my ex-husband, so it’s just always interesting. What has been the most challenging thing with raising twins?

Dr. Savita Ginde: Raising twins when they were young across COVID.

That in itself was its challenge.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: But I think one of the most challenging things is making sure that they can… They have this unbreakable bond. I can tell you that we went through, you become a new parent and you go through all these parenting classes.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And then we’d go, and I’m like, “Why am I here?”

Because what they would say was, “But you’re different, ’cause when you have twins, it’s different. It doesn’t follow these norms.” Oh. So I was like, “Why am I here?” Yeah. “I don’t have time for this.”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: You don’t get a lot of guidance on it.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s about helping them develop independent personalities, but they’re also bonded in a way that’s different.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And of course, across COVID it was unique because every time they’d have a class, you know, sometimes the classes would start up across COVID, so they’d put them together ’cause they’re like, “Well, you’re already with each other and do everything else, so you can spar with each other in jujitsu or whatever.”

They’re always together. It doesn’t give them time to develop independently.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And so it was a little bit of struggle even with school when we start, you know, when they started in grade school of saying, “I wanna make sure they’re at least in different classes.”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And getting a school district to allow that. But we’ve navigated fine.

Andrea Marie: Right, right. Yeah. I didn’t even think about that, that everyone just kind of lumps them together, but they need a little alone time, don’t we? Yeah, we all need a little alone time.

Traveling with twins and airport chaos

Dr. Savita Ginde: And I’ll tell you the biggest challenge, and no one knows this until you’re getting on a plane, but you can only have one lap child per row.

So when we would travel, my husband would be sitting behind us with the second lap child, and there were, like, three people, the one in our row and the two in his row that were probably not very happy.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Dr. Savita Ginde: We would pass kids back and forth sometimes, ’cause you know they get bored.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Oh my gosh, I didn’t even know that. One lap child.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Cause there’s only four oxygen masks per row.

Andrea Marie: Oh, I see. Interesting. You ever know these things? Yeah, it seems like, yeah, it’d be nicer if you could just annoy one person.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yes, but we annoyed three.

Andrea Marie: Oh, man. Wow. Yeah, and I imagine, well, you know, I think it’s interesting having two the same age too.

Like, usually you’ve got one, if you’ve got two children, maybe one is a little bit more independent, one is, you know, needing a little more attention, and you’ve got both doing the same thing.

Dr. Savita Ginde: I have a cohort. I always say, I don’t know what I would do if I had a kid who was, like, potty training and the other one’s in diapers.

I don’t know. I had a cohort that moved through every stage.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Together.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that’s interesting too. Maybe you’re batching it.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Batch flow.

Dr. Ginde’s “unhinged” moments

Andrea Marie: Oh my gosh. I always like to ask about an unhinged moment you had. And I’m sure there’s probably many.

There’s many.

I know. So feel free to add more, but I always like to, ’cause, I mean, the thing is about parenting, we’re just all making it up as we go, right? We don’t know what we’re doing. And so I think by sharing these unhinged moments, we are, like, feeling a little more.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: Together.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Let me see. Which ones? Where do you want me to start? I mean, I can tell you right after they were born. They were born early. Okay. 30, almost 34 weeks. So we were in the NICU.

Andrea Marie: Uh-huh.

Dr. Savita Ginde: For about a month.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And after I got, you know, we were discharged. And we would go back to the NICU every day, and the front desk lady obviously knew us ’cause we were coming back every day, but she would tell us, “Go and color these…”

I don’t know. She wanted us to do something about who they were and describe them. And I was like, “Lady, they’re four days old. Like, how much… I’m getting to know them.”

Andrea Marie: Oh my gosh.

Dr. Savita Ginde: “I barely know.” So, like the 10th time she asked me, I was literally like, “Listen.” My husband was like, “Oh, God.” I was like, “This just isn’t gonna happen. Like, we’re not doing this.”

And she was, like, mortified looking at me, and I was like, “Yeah, it’s not happening. I’m not coloring this. We’re not putting it on the walls.” Yeah. “They can’t even read.” Yeah like, there’s no point to it. So that was a modified Moms Unhinged moment. And then there was a second time.

Again, this, for some reason, this always involves my husband. But we were at the airport, double tandem stroller. So long stroller. We’re in security, and the guy calls him across, and he goes. So now I’m stuck there on the other side with two kids. Not even toddlers, so they couldn’t stand up. Oh, and a stroller.

And the security guy on top of that looks at me and says, “Can you fold that and walk it through this door and take it to this other place?” And I just looked at him. I did it, and then I walked through, and I can’t remember, you have to, like, pass the kids through. And then I gave him a piece of my mind, and my husband turns to me and he’s like, “Well, we’re gonna miss our flight now.”

Oh. ‘Cause the TSA agent said, “I’m gonna go get a supervisor.” And I was like, “Oh, you’re gonna supervise me now?” So I let him have it.

Andrea Marie: Oh my gosh.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And then my husband was like, “Oh, God.”

And then I just looked at him and I said, “Look, you disrespected me, so I disrespected you back.”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: “And now it’s time to just walk on.”

And so he just looked at me and he was like, “okay.”

So yeah, we’ve had a couple different things where I was like, “I’m not doing this.”

Andrea Marie: I know. That’s gotta be, travel, I mean, travel’s stressful with children, right? Yeah. I mean, but that is added stress, just trying to get them through TSA.

Dr. Savita Ginde: No one helped me. I could say that in line. And now I feel like people are a little bit more helpful.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: But I had to set one kid down in the tray for a second to get the, it was just.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah, that’s terrible. That is terrible. Oh, man. Yeah. we’ve had some crazy travel stories too, where just, you know, they’re throwing up everywhere.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Travel is crazy.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Parenting boys in the age of sexting

Dr. Savita Ginde: I will tell you more recently, you know, my kid, I do pickup sometimes, and I always say, those 15 minutes in the car to and from school are the most enlightening bonding times you can have.

And one of my kiddos was like, “Today we talked about sex and sexting.”

And I was like, “Ugh, really?” Of course, caught me off guard. I’m not prepared for these conversations. Yeah. Yeah, even though I talk about this almost every day at work. Not necessarily about sexting.

Andrea Marie: No.

Dr. Savita Ginde: But sexually related conversations, but not with my kids. Yeah. So it always catches me off guard.

Yeah. And I said, “Okay. Well, let me just tell you, no one ever, never ever needs to see a picture of your penis.” I just made it clear. ‘Cause I always have this vision in my head that whatever I say will stick, and then when they’re actually, like, thinking about doing something, they’ll be like, “Oh, I can hear my mom’s voice.”

And then that’ll just, like, dampen the desire. So I’ve drilled it into their head. No one ever needs to see a picture of your penis, I’m just gonna tell you now. In your future when you’re 35. Ever.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It gets immortalized in wherever these archives are of texts. No one ever needs to see it. So I’m hoping you won’t see a dick pic from any of my kids.

Andrea Marie: No. I feel like that should just be a thing. Why can’t we? Let’s just start, let’s just, you know, put it on a big billboard.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: For many.

Dr. Savita Ginde: No one ever needs to see that.

Yeah, no.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Well, I’m gonna share a little joke with you. So I’ve never personally gotten a dick pic. Okay, but I was married for 20 years.

So back in my day, a guy would’ve had to take several pictures on his camera.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Oh, gosh.

Andrea Marie: Drop the film off at Walgreens.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Get the FBI after

Andrea Marie: You wait three to five business days.

So yeah, no, but it is a huge thing now, and now in the world of AI, oh my gosh, I don’t… your kids being younger, that’s a whole different thing I didn’t have to deal with. My kids are now launched, so how do you deal with some of those conversations?

Dr. Savita Ginde: We keep it real.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. I mean, we talk about it.

 boundaries. I actually think they’re on, in terms of the bell curve of when everything launched, and I always say anytime there’s something new, it’s the internet, it’s social media, whatever it is. You know, everyone goes to one extreme, and then we slowly kinda get back to the middle balanced place we should be.

I think I’m lucky in that way, that my kids are a little bit younger, and right now all the… we see lots of conversations happening at a federal level and local level about where there has to be boundaries, age limits. Roblox, Minecraft. All the anxiety and depression that can come out of screen addiction, all of those things.

We’re at the other end of it, so we can put a little bit of those boundaries in place for our kids.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: I think some of the people who are a little bit older graduating now maybe didn’t have those. Yeah, and so it’s a completely different challenge.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: To build good habits.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, for sure.

It’s just parenting, I think, just gets harder and harder. I don’t know. I don’t know.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Tried to be strategic. Like, we’ve only introduced our kids to dark chocolate, ’cause I’m like, “There’s no reason for them to have regular chocolate.”

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: We’ve talked to them from the very beginning about like, “You don’t need your phone.”

We don’t carry our phones with us everywhere and do everything to sort of model that.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Dr. Savita Ginde: So I think it’s really important what you model.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm.

Dr. Savita Ginde: You know, and what they’re used to.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Dr. Savita Ginde: We’ve tried to at least be cognizant of that. Doesn’t help that they go to school and spend most of their hours with people who don’t have the same boundaries.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s very true. That’s very true. Just thinking about your kids and friends, how does that work with twins? I know that can be sometimes a challenge with friendships and having twins.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s not much of a challenge.

 They’re very different, but they get along, and they are respectful of each other’s differences.

Andrea Marie: Okay.

Dr. Savita Ginde: But they have common friends. They’re in a smaller school.

Andrea Marie: Uh-huh.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And so it’s actually a great school where they’re all really close and friendly with each other.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And they have always learned to recognize that differences in individual personalities or behaviors, are all okay.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: We don’t all have to fit a mold, and so they’re very forgiving.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: In a way that sometimes I’m like, “Wow, I learn from them all the time.”

Andrea Marie: I know. Sometimes they do teach us lessons.

It’s like, “Well, who made you so wise?” You know?

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: That’s great.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And it’s more the fact that they’re not jaded quite.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. They still have hope.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yes, they still have hope.

Coming in Hot comedy fundraiser event

Andrea Marie: Oh, wow. That’s awesome. Let’s pivot and get a little bit, and talk a little bit about our event coming up.

‘Cause I am so excited about it. It’s so fun. We’re gonna have such a good time. It is called Coming in Hot.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s gonna be great.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. And so tell us a little bit about the event and what you guys are, how you’re putting that together, and then we’ll talk about our partnership in there too.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. So this is our signature event for 2026. It’s a comedy event ’cause we all think that if there’s any better time than now, we all need to laugh a little bit.

Andrea Marie: Yes.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And it brings together, again, a good intersection of everything that we stand for in terms of making sure people have access to care, and bringing in this, again, this very important notion that menopausal symptoms need to be normalized.

Bringing people together to connect in community around this and also showcasing all the great work that we do at Boulder Valley Health Center and raising some money to support us. We are a nonprofit but we’ve been around for 53 years. So we’re also in menopause as an organization.

Andrea Marie: That’s great, that’s great. And it’s going to be at the Dairy Arts Center.

Dr. Savita Ginde: July 9th.

Andrea Marie: Thank you.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Wednesday, July 9th.

July 9th. Sorry, Thursday, july 9th.

Andrea Marie: Thursday, July 9th. And we’ll have the link here in the show notes for people to get tickets. But we’re partnering to help get the word out about this event, to get the word out about the amazing things that Boulder Valley Health Center does in the world of women’s health and menopause specifically.

And we have a great lineup. We have Nancy Norton as our special headliner. Yay. She is amazing. She is the first woman to win the Boston Comedy Festival.

She won the Seattle Comedy Festival, and I like to say, just to keep her humble, she came in third in South Dakota. And then we have Janae Burris on the lineup as well as our feature, and she is absolutely incredible.

She’s opened for people like Josh Blue, Beth Stelling, Gary Gulman. She’s a pro at the, at Comedy Works. And then I will be your MC, host for the comedy part of it, and, founder of Moms Unhinged. It’s gonna be a great, fun night. There’s a special meet and greet.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Mm-hmm.

Andrea Marie: Meet and greet beforehand. We’ve got VIP special tickets. You can become a sponsor. All kinds of amazing things with that.

Dr. Savita Ginde: It’s a great date night.

Andrea Marie: It is a great date night. It is a great date night. Let’s talk, again, circle back to menopause.

And talk about like what people, what women especially can do to help further their own health around this.

What women should actually do during menopause

Dr. Savita Ginde: Well, I think the first thing is to make a list of all of the symptoms that you have questions. Sometimes people just need validation that what they’re experiencing is normal.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And so just being able to talk to a healthcare provider about what you’re experiencing, is super important, and having that list ahead of time, ’cause I have patients who sometimes get tongue-tied, and all of a sudden like “I had a list and I can’t remember.” I know. So y’all have phones.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Put it in your phone.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And the other thing is, you know, I oftentimes tell my patients, “You have to think of yourself going back to the kids.” For kids, we’re so adamant about setting schedules for them.

Andrea Marie: Uh huh.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And then as we get older, that starts to unravel, and no we’re eating till we go to bed, and we have our phones till we fall asleep, and we go to bed whenever.

Andrea Marie: Right.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And so we’d never allow our kids to do that. More importantly, we can’t do that to ourselves.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: We have to come up with routines in a similar way. Might not be going to bed at 6:00 like your kids do.

You might be starting that wind down at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 o’clock. But having a schedule is super important.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Both for eating and sleeping. I think it gets more important as you make that menopause transition, just to try to prevent some of those things that happen like you mentioned with sleep.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Sleep deprivation or not getting enough sleep, I mean, it makes me cranky.

Andrea Marie: I know.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And then I can have more unhinged moments.

Andrea Marie: I know. Definitely, it’s wild that it is happening at this time where you might still be dealing with your kids.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. I mean, my kids are still young.

Andrea Marie: Right. And you’re going through this yourself. It’s such a challenge as women to try and balance it all.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. But you deserve to have all those things addressed, and if you need supplementation with estrogen or progesterone, the hormones that help keep everything even keel.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm.

Dr. Savita Ginde: That’s where you come and start having that conversation about what you might need for, just to make sure your quality of life is where you want it to be.

Andrea Marie: Right. Exactly. It is so important. We just urge any women in the Boulder area to go to Boulder Valley Health Center. Yeah, come on in. Connect there for sure. And if you’re listening from somewhere else, please make sure you’re taking care of your own health and putting that as a priority, ’cause that is so important because we have to keep our own cup filled.

In order to serve our family and ourselves and the world.

Dr. Savita Ginde: And it’s all intertwined. Your physical health can impact, like sleep. If you’re not getting enough sleep, not only can it make you cranky, you can have disordered eating. Mm. Maybe you’re not eating the foods, then you’re gaining weight.

Right. It can also then tie into your mental health. Maybe you’re depressed. You’re not feeling as good.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: I mean, it all just becomes a big snowball.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that is. It is such a challenge. So great. This has been just so much fun. Why don’t you tell people where they can find out more about Boulder Valley Health.

Yeah. Make sure know where people can get tickets for sure.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yes. You can access everything about Boulder Valley Health Center. There’s even a scheduling if you wanna schedule an appointment with us, a scheduling link all on our website, bouldervalleyhealth.org, bouldervalleyhealth.org.

You will also see a pop-up and a drop down there where you can find information about our events. So that will include Coming in Hot.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Al lot of details there, the ability to buy tickets. We hope to see all of you there. It’s gonna be an amazing night.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Dr. Savita Ginde: But also we’d love to see you beyond that or before that for an appointment.

Get anyone’s needs met, not only around menopause care, but also around birth control or any of, anything else that you might have questions about. It’s all important.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, it really truly is. Well, Dr. Sevita, thank you so much for coming on the podcast, being one of our first in, in-person interviews.

This is so fun and thanks to our crew behind the scenes, making sure we look good. Stacy, Kelsey, thank you all. Yes. And thanks everyone. Make sure you check out the show notes and we’ll see you on July 9th at the Dairy Center for Coming in Hot.

Dr. Savita Ginde: Yeah. Thank you.

Andrea Marie: Thanks for listening and make sure you subscribe, share, and follow us on the socials to get more comedy clips.