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Melinda French Gates is speaking out about the challenges of recognizing perimenopause<\/a>, saying she didn’t receive the proper diagnosis and treatment until after seeing three different doctors.<\/p>\n

She shared her experience with journalist Norah O’Donnell’s new podcast “Healthful<\/a>,” which will be released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

French Gates, now 61, said she was in her early 40s when she began experiencing menopause symptoms, noting that she “kind of couldn’t believe it,” as reported by CBS News.<\/p>\n

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Later, the philanthropist and businesswoman would learn that many OB-GYNs receive little formal training in menopause care, which she says underscores a broader gap in women’s healthcare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

French Gates shared that she was lucky enough to know the signs, thanks to input from older friends.<\/p>\n

“But it was kind of unbelievable to me that, even in this, you know, unbelievably privileged situation I’m in, where I feel like I can get some of the best healthcare, it took me three doctors to really diagnose what I was going through and to get the right treatments for where I was,” she said during the interview.<\/p>\n

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“It wasn’t because anybody was doing the wrong thing. It’s because of what I now know, which is, only one-third of OB-GYNs in this country are trained in menopause.”<\/p>\n

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Supporting her claim, a national survey published in the journal Menopause in 2023 found that only about one-third of U.S. obstetrics and gynecology<\/a> residency programs include a formal menopause curriculum.<\/p>\n

More recently, a 2024 study found that OB-GYN, family medicine and internal medicine residents have low knowledge and low confidence in treating menopausal symptoms.<\/p>\n

In a separate 2026 Kansas study, more than half of residents reported receiving fewer than five hours of menopause education<\/a> \u2014 and the majority did not believe that residency fully prepared them to treat menopausal patients independently.<\/p>\n

In a national survey of 2,000 women, only 25% said their healthcare provider had adequately informed them about perimenopause.<\/p>\n

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Additional training in this area could help, researchers claim, as knowledge scores increased from 61% to 79% among those who received a structured curriculum.<\/p>\n

About 1.3 million U.S. women reach menopause each year, according to The Menopause Society. Most begin perimenopause in their 40s, although it can start earlier.<\/p>\n

As perimenopause causes hormone levels to fluctuate, women can experience a range of symptoms. Some of the most common include irregular periods, hot flashes, night sweats, sleep disturbances<\/a>, mood changes, vaginal dryness, brain fog and joint pain as hormone levels begin to fluctuate, according to Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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