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#51 - The Hidden Muscle Group Every Woman Should Train

• Dr. Daphne Bascom • Episode 51

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Most of us were never taught about the pelvic floor. And yet it affects everything from bladder control and bowel health to sex, exercise, and how we age through menopause. In this episode, Dr. Daphne sits down with Dr. Sara Reardon, board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist and author of Floored, to have the conversation most of us never got from our doctors or our mothers.

In this episode we discuss:

  • What the pelvic floor actually is and why it affects everything from peeing and pooping to sex, exercise, and menopause
  • The three reasons women have been kept in the dark about pelvic health (and why this is a medical system failure, not a personal one)
  • Why Kegels are not the whole answer and why some women actually need to relax, not strengthen
  • How perimenopause and declining estrogen quietly change your pelvic floor, even if you've never had children
  • Topical vaginal estrogen, prolapse, hysterectomy, orgasms, running incontinence, and more

Resources:

  • Book: Floored: A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Floor Health at Every Age and Stage by Dr. Sara Reardon: https://thevagwhisperer.com/floored/
  • Dr. Sara Reardon's website and The V-Hive app (your pocket pelvic floor therapist): https://www.thevagwhisperer.com/
  • Find a pelvic floor PT near you (Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapy): https://pelvicrehab.com
  • Follow Dr. Sara Reardon on Instagram: @the.vagina.whisperer | YouTube: @thevaginawhisperer | App: @the.vhive

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