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It's About Hormone Therapy and Heart Health with Dr. Bal Pawa

Updated: Apr 18, 2024


Today, I’m excited to share part one of my conversation with Dr. Bal Pawa–a true leader in women’s midlife health and integrated health. Dr. Pawa is a medical doctor, a pharmacist, a co-founder of the West Coast Women's Clinic in Vancouver, a Harvard-trained mind-body expert, a TEDx speaker, and the author of The Mind-body Cure. She is also a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner, is instrumental in changing how practitioners learn about perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause care, and she has a wealth of invaluable knowledge to share…so much so that our conversation extended over two episodes!


What we discussed:

  • How Dr. Pawa’s car accident was a catalyst in shifting her career focus to women’s health and hormones

  • Why the Canadian healthcare model is lacking when it comes to holistic, integrative, and preventative health and how led to a system where doctors are reimbursed for treating a symptom, rather than looking at the whole person

  • The ongoing struggle medical doctors face because time and resources are limited

  • Dr. Pawa shares her latest project: Creating a new preceptorship program for practitioners focused on women’s health with a subset for menopause specialists where the information is credible, consistent, standardized, and evidence-based

  • Why heart disease symptoms in women often go ignored, even though women’s risk for heart attacks are actually higher than men

  • How hot flashes, which are vascular events, should be viewed as a “check engine light” and an invitation to get to your doctor so you have the opportunity to be preventative around your heart health

  • The importance of treating (and not enduring) hot flashes

  • Dr. Pawa shares why the biggest question she gets asked is about hormone therapy and she explains both the short-term and long-term benefits of finding out if hormone therapy is right for you

Links from this week’s episode:

Dr. Pawa’s website

Follow Dr. Pawa on Facebook

Find more information about Dr. Pawa’s clinic here


BIG thanks to the following for sharing my passion for women’s health:


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