{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Medicine","title":"A Woman's Guide to Longevity Medicine - A Conversation with Dr. Kat Léger","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3856,"description":"Medicine | Episode 5 — What Medicine Got Wrong About Women: A Conversation with Dr. Kat Léger\n\nWomen were not legally required to be included in clinical trials until 1993. Every standard of care practice before that was built on data from men. The medication your doctor is recommending you take as a woman was studied in men first.\nThat is where this conversation starts.\nIn this episode of Medicine, Sean sits down with Dr. Kat Léger - triple board certified in internal medicine, nephrology, and critical care medicine, and Director of Women's Health at Extension Health in New York City - to talk about what preventative medicine actually looks like, why perimenopause begins at thirty five and not fifty, and why the gap between what women are told and what is actually happening in their bodies may be the most consequential blind spot in modern healthcare.\nDr. Léger was diagnosed with PCOS at seventeen and put on birth control. Nobody discussed what that diagnosis actually meant for her long term health. She did not fully understand it herself until she was deep into medical school.\nThat is the problem she is trying to solve.\nTopics covered:Why perimenopause starts at thirty five and why almost no one is telling women thisWhat estrogen and progesterone actually protect - bones, brain, cardiovascular system, metabolic health, muscleThe difference between what your PCP checks and what advanced diagnostics actually revealCholesterol, LDL, and why ApoB is the number that tells the real storyHow visceral fat creates metabolic dysfunction even in people who look completely fitThe high achieving skinny fat problem - why a resting blood lactate panel mattersZone two training, resistance training, and why muscles are the longevity organGLP-1 peptides - what they are, what they were designed for, and where the current wave has gone wrongWhy going on a GLP without resistance training means losing muscle, not just fatHormone replacement therapy and bone health - what the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3G_G1mCE76HmDdKHP2C6I5V5Yr8KykfvhTvYgyi0RvY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNTFm/YTE5NTkzZGVmODJh/NTEwODFhMzMzNDg1/NmE4Mi5QTkc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}