Individual cells that make up the vaginal wall are loaded with water in young women but lose all that moisture right about the time you lose your estrogen.  As a result, vaginal tissue gets thin, dry, and in many cases is unable to provide any decent lubrication no matter how aroused you are. But buyer beware! MANY PRODUCTS THAT ARE LABELED AS VAGINAL MOISTURIZERS ARE NOT FOR VAGINAL USE AND ARE NOT MOISTURIZERS! 
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

HOW a moisturizer is different than a lubricant
WHY labels on moisturizers are misleading
REPLENS™ Long-acting moisturizer 
Hyaluronic Acid Moisturizers 

For more information on this topic: 
 Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain




Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders 


Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?


Episode 5: Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders 


Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 



Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGNMorningNews, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr.Radio,Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine. 



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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD


 Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain


Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat


Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever


The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy