Wellness
The Magic of Menopause
Lesson time 01:33:46 min
Discover menopause essentials with Halle Berry and top experts. Learn how hormones impact your physical, emotional, and mental health, and gain insights to better understand this transformative life stage.
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With Halle Berry and Leading Experts
It’s time we take control of menopause—no more hiding, no more shame. Learn about your changing body and own your journey with confidence.
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HALLE BERRY: Look at us, all 4 billion of us, carrying the weight of the world. We create. We nurture. We balance everything. We spend so much time trying to keep up, struggling to fit in, and holding it down. It's not easy, but we have our good days. And then. I would say the worst part of menopause is the unknown. I want to know, am I normal? I feel like the people at my age are trying to launch our children, take care of our parents. And then you put all that on top of your hormones raging, and I just feel like it's a lot to handle for anybody, but yet, please do it and show up every day. You might ask, why me? Well, I'm here because I'm standing up for myself. And I know that when a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women. And all women go through menopause. Our experiences with menopause are just as individual as we are. No two women go through menopause in the same way. Some of the symptoms that I'm experiencing of menopause, I think, are the obvious ones, which are night sweats, a little bit of mood swing, a little brain fog. Hot flashes, sleeplessness. I'm tired all the time. If I wake up, I'm tired. HALLE BERRY: In this class, we've brought together four of the world's leading experts in women's health. We're going to talk hormones, where they come from, where they go, what they do in the body. There's good news. We can throw our tampons away. It seems radical to talk about menopause, but it really shouldn't be radical to talk about an experience that happens to 50% of the population. And it's time that we crack the code and open up the conversation on menopause, as opposed to being afraid of it. Getting older is a gift. It's something to be excited about. It's something to look forward to. You just need to reframe it. Like, if you think about the dominant narrative in our culture today, it's that menopause is a disorder. It's a disease. It's the canary in the coal mine of a body in decline. And we obsess over bodily changes in women and discount men being the norm. It's crazy, and that's why this class is so important. It's not a disease, nor is it a condition. It's as natural and as awkward as puberty. We'll discuss the latest in hormone replacement therapy. And yes, we're going to talk about sex. Sex only gets better when you get on the other side. This class covers everything I wish I knew about my changing body. I'm Halle Berry, and this is The Magic of Menopause, on MasterClass. The first time I heard the word menopause was when I realized I was in perimenopause. It was when I was smack dab in it, and had been in it for probably five years without knowing that this was the phase of life that I was in. I thought I was going crazy, that I was making up these symptoms, wondering, am I really feeling like this? Am I really having a hard time remembering things? And it was frightening that if I had such little information, I only imagined how thousands and millions of women around the world had the same little informati...
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It’s time we took control of menopause. No more hiding, no more shame. In The Magic of Menopause, four leading experts sit down to share everything you need to know about our changing bodies. Learn how to manage symptoms, get practical strategies to thrive, and hear inspiring stories of personal experiences—including from Halle Berry. Knowing our bodies is a superpower.
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Halle Berry, Dr. Judith Joseph, Dr. Emily Jacobs, Dr. Lori Brotto, and Dr. Jen Gunter
It’s time we take control of menopause—no more hiding, no more shame. Learn about your changing body and own your journey with confidence.
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