# WTF Is Perimenopause?

An episode of [The Longest Shortest Time: A Women’s Health Show for Everyone](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/412457621), 18 Feb 2026, 47 min.

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Hot flashes! Weight gain! Headaches! Rage! If these symptoms sound familiar, you may be in perimenopause. But who among us actually knows what perimenopause is? Menopause specialists Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Dr. Amy Voedisch offer an informative and irreverent primer. … More episodes about clinicians as patients • #183 Postpartum House Arrest • #230 Secrets from the Vagina Whisperer • #38 Pediatricians, They’re Just Like Us … More from the docs • Rebecca and Amy’s podcast about perimenopause: OvaryActive • Rebecca and Amy’s book: Estrogen Interrupted: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving in Perimenopause (purchasing/pre-ordering through our link helps support LST!) … Episode resources • Find a provider through the Menopause Society … • Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! • Follow us on Instagram • Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media • Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!) • Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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