Music Recommendation: Brandi Carlile

Dr. Rebecca recommends Brandi Carlile's new album Returning to Myself and signed vinyl as a gift idea.

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Welcome back to the annual holiday classic Merry Perimenopause. While there's not much "jolly" about perimenopause, these gifts can add a little more joyeux to your noël!

Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Dr. Amy Voedisch jingle all the way through help for your hot flashes, cold flashes, brain fog, bad backs, night sweats, and the eternal question: why does perimenopause feel like puberty, déjà vu, and a hangover all rolled into one?

In this episode of OvaryActive, they kick things off with the biggest news of all: the Docs very own book on perimenopause is officially available for pre-order! With Estrogen, Interrupted you can now gift yourself the knowledge your hormones refuse to give you.

Merry Perimenopause 2025 is your official gift guide for yourself or the lucky person in your life that needs to know they are not crazy, this is really happening. Gift ideas include favorite books, gadgets, creams, cushions, food delivery obsessions, and tech that has saved their sanity this year.

It's a roundup that covers body, brain, home, kitchen, and holiday spirits.

After this episode you'll have great ideas for what to read, what to buy, what to smear on your face, what to sleep on, what to stick on your nails, what ice cream machine makes protein shakes taste like dessert, and where to order life-changing pies, kringles, crabcakes, and lobster rolls.

What you'll hear in this episode:

[0:54] Exciting news! Preorder Estrogen, Interrupted by Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor Su & Dr. Amy Voedisch

[2:39] Book recommendations

[6:43] Body & health

[13:28] Cognition

[17:32] Fashion

[23:17] Tech gadgets

[27:56] Skin & nails

[32:24] Kitchen essentials

[42:05] Travel ideas

[46:36] A fun extra or two

Links: Merry Perimenopause 2025 PDF download: https://bit.ly/4pvS34R