EP 429 What Every Man Needs to Know About Menopause | Dr. Kelly Casperson

If you’re a man in any kind of relationship with a woman, you need to listen to this podcast. Menopause isn't just a women's issue. And if you're in a relationship with someone going through it, this conversation might be the most useful thing you listen to all year.Dr. Kelly Casperson is a urologist, author, and host of the You Are Not Broken podcast. She was spending her days mostly treating men's sexual health — testosterone, erectile dysfunction, all of it — and realized somewhere along the way that nobody was asking the next obvious question: what about their partners?I first had Kelly on to talk about sex and men's health. This time we went somewhere different. After I spoke at one of her menopause seminars in Chicago, I knew we had to come back and have this conversation for the guys. Menopause is an initiation for women. What most men don't realize is that it's an initiation for them too.We get into the biology of what's actually happening, why men check out, smother, or collapse when it shows up, what it does to libido and sex, and why this midlife passage — as uncomfortable as it gets — is one of the greatest opportunities for growth a man will ever get.If your partner is in perimenopause or menopause — or will be — this one is required listening.——Start hereMen – Join The UNcivilized Nation——First episode with Dr. Kelly CaspersonFind Dr. Kelly Casperson: InstagramWebsiteBooks – You Are Not Broken | The Menopause MomentPodcast – You Are Not BrokenChapter List:00:00 Intro01:29 Why Men Avoid This Conversation10:29 Menopause Is an Initiation15:33 The Biology of Menopause36:19 What Men Get Wrong38:36 The Evolution of Relationships42:52 Male Archetypes in Relationships43:26 The 1950s Marlboro Man47:24 The Sensitive New Age Guy (The Nice Guy)52:40 The Collapsed Guy55:29 Libido, Hormones, and What Changes57:55 How to Talk About It59:34 The Orgasm Gap01:02:29 Beyond Friction01:08:12 Men — Look in the Mirror01:15:41 One Conversation to Have This Week01:16:40 Should You Go to the Doctor With Her?01:20:29 Wrap Up