{"podcast":{"title":"Menopause Mastery","slug":"menopause-mastery-4896737","podcast_index_feed_id":4896737,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/386309/rss","website_url":"https://menopausemasterypodcast.libsyn.com/site","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/6/5/c/365ce96c7ff708b0e55e3c100dce7605/3.png","author":"Dr. Betty Murray","episode_count":288,"summary":"Welcome to Menopause Mastery with Dr. Betty Murray. This show is for women in the second season of life, the season of menopause, who are ready for more: health - vitality - passion - and purpose! Join host, Dr. Betty Murray (part geek, part magician, and your new medical bestie with a dash of sass), as she takes complex science and makes it easier to integrate into daily life. Nutrition, hormones, functional medicine, and a wellness lifestyle are only the tip of the conversation. Join the journey to uncover your deepest desires, harness your physical and mental health, and peel back the layers to know exactly what you want out of life. Let's make this season the best ever!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T02:20:39.875062+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/menopause-mastery-4896737"},"episode":{"title":"PCOS Is Dead: Why PMOS Changes Everything for Midlife Women","slug":"pcos-is-dead-why-pmos-changes-everything-for-midlife-women","published_at":"2026-06-24T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/menopause-mastery-4896737/pcos-is-dead-why-pmos-changes-everything-for-midlife-women","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/menopause-mastery-4896737","url":"https://thisfunctionallife.libsyn.com/pcos-is-dead-why-pmos-changes-everything-for-midlife-women","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisfunctionallife/EP_284_Dr_Betty_Solocast_PCOS-PMOS.mp3?dest-id=3177122","summary":"The Menopause Mastery Show | PCOS Is Dead: Why PMOS Changes Everything for Midlife Women | Episode 284 Solocast with Dr. Betty Murray 🌿Welcome to The Menopause Mastery Show! PCOS has been renamed PMOS — Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome — and Dr. Betty Murray explains why this is a major shift for women's health. In this solocast, Dr. Betty breaks down why PCOS was never just an ovarian condition, how insulin resistance, androgen signaling, and brain-based hormone feedback loops shape the condition, and why so many midlife women were missed by outdated diagnostic criteria. She also shares her own PMOS story, discusses hormone testing, GLP-1 medications, perimenopause, menopause, medical dismissal, and why women must become better advocates for their own care. Listeners will learn: 🔹Why the PCOS to PMOS rename matters: The new framing positions the condition as more than an ovarian issue and highlights its long-term metabolic impact. 🔹How PMOS can show up in midlife: The episode explains how fluctuating estrogen, progesterone, and androgens can make underlying dysfunction harder to recognize in perimenopause and menopause. 🔹What may be driving symptoms: Dr. Betty discusses the role of the hypothalamus, pituitary, ovaries, insulin signaling, adrenals, and thyroid in this broader hormone-metabolic picture. 🔹What health risks are linked to PMOS: She covers concerns including insulin resistance, prediabetes, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic inflammation, abnormal weight gain, and resistance to weight loss. 🔹What to ask your provider about: The conversation includes suggested testing and possible treatment considerations to support better diagnosis and care. If you've ever felt like your symptoms were dismissed because you didn't fit the classic PCOS picture,…","meta_description":"The Menopause Mastery Show | PCOS Is Dead: Why PMOS Changes Everything for Midlife Women | Episode 284 Solocast with Dr. Betty Murray 🌿Welcome to The Meno…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1796,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/menopause-mastery-4896737/episodes/pcos-is-dead-why-pmos-changes-everything-for-midlife-women/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/menopause-mastery-4896737/pcos-is-dead-why-pmos-changes-everything-for-midlife-women.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}