We Are Who We've Needed: A Menopause Specialist on Redesigning the Blueprint for Midlife Women

Wellness & Growth Journeys · Jun 20, 2026 · 1m

Most clinicians were trained in the years after the 2002 WHI study and were taught that hormone therapy was dangerous, so they stopped offering it. Generations of women have paid the price. Dr. Deepti Gandhi is one of the physicians who refused to leave her patients without answers. She trained herself, got the certification, and became the specialist she could not find for the women she was treating.

In this episode of the Wellness and Growth Journeys podcast, Mialisa Garnes talks with Dr. Gandhi about why a generation of doctors lost menopause knowledge, the silent risks hidden behind hot…