September 30, 2025 • 13 mins
In this special edition of Late Night Health, host Mark Alyn sat down with Angela McGregor, founder of the National Menopause Show, to discuss why this groundbreaking event is needed and what women—and men—can expect when it arrives at the Anaheim Convention Center.Angela shared her deeply personal motivation for creating the show. After suffering for years with perimenopausal symptoms and finding little help from her doctors, she eventually discovered solutions that worked. This experience opened her eyes to a widespread problem: menopause education is largely missing from standard medical training in North America. Too often, women are dismissed, misdiagnosed, or handed antidepressants when they seek support for symptoms ranging from hot flashes and night sweats to more surprising issues like frozen shoulder, tooth loss, and hair thinning.The National Menopause Show is designed to close this gap by providing credible, accessible education directly to women. Angela emphasized that menopause is not one-size-fits-all—there are more than 100 recognized symptoms, and each woman’s journey is unique. The event offers a safe, supportive space where women can openly discuss concerns about mood, bone health, sexual health, and overall well-being.This year marks the show’s U.S. debut, following a highly successful launch in Toronto in 2024. Attendees in Anaheim will benefit from presentations by physicians, nurse practitioners, and specialists who are at the forefront of menopause research and treatment. Sessions include Menopause 101, Beyond HRT: Non-Hormonal Options, The Benefits of Resistance Training, and practical workshops on advocating for oneself with healthcare providers and at work. Other topics range from sleep care to breast cancer survivorship.The event also highlights the importance of men’s understanding. Angela and Mark stressed that spouses and partners can play a critical role in supporting women, and men themselves need education to navigate these changes with compassion.Beyond lectures, the show features exhibits, services, and even entertainment, such as The Third Act, a comedic troupe finding humor in menopause. Tickets are reasonably priced at $45 for one day or $55 for the full weekend, making the event accessible to as many women as possible.Angela concluded by encouraging women to prepare questions before attending, ensuring they can make the most of the expertise available. Whether you are in your 30s anticipating perimenopause, in the midst of it, or supporting someone else, the show offers invaluable insights and resources.For listeners and readers: Tickets can be purchased at NationalMenopauseShow.com. Use the discount code ADVOCATE20 for 20% off admission.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is a special edition of Late Night Health. I'm
Mark Allen. We're going to talk about menopause because coming
up in the next few days is the National Menopause Show.
It'll be taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center. Our
guest is Angela McGregor. She is the founder of the show. Angela,
nice to see you again and welcome to Late Night Health.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Great. Thank you so much Mark for having.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Me our pleasure. Menopause is something that hits both men
and women, and obviously it's mostly women, but men are
affected and men get andropause. So we're not going to
talk about that. We're going to just talk about menopause.
(00:53):
Why did you think that it would be necessary to
have a whole exposition on menoplause?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Right? It really came from a personal need. I had
suffered with symptoms for many years, went to the doctor
and I really didn't get the help. Fast forward a
number of years, maybe ten fifteen years, and I found
a doctor that could help me, and I realized that,
you know, while I suffered and I had some relief,
(01:29):
there was a lot of women out there that didn't
have any relief. And doctors in North America's not part
of their curriculum in med school, perimenopause and menopause, if
it's touched on at all, it's a very small portion
of their learning. So I think as a society in
North America, we're really at a disadvantage where we have
(01:52):
our healthcare providers now that's changing, where they can't really
support what we're going through. And as women, we really
haven't been given the information of the education. So that's
why I'm going together.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
When you go to the doctor, and we're talking in
medical doctor, not a holistic, a natural path. When you
go to the doctor, they kind of dismiss you. Oh,
you're just having you know, it's natural, it will go away, right.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That is exactly, And that's that's what a lot of
women have said to me that they went to the
doctor and they were dismissed, or they were prescribed antidepressants
or you know, and they just didn't want to go
on these antidepressants, or if they did, it didn't help.
So for some women an antidepressant will work, but for menopause,
(02:50):
it's women have different symptoms. There's over one hundred symptoms
that have been recorded, but it affects women differently, and
we all share in the journey with you know, if
it's to night sweats, hot flashes, you might lose a tooth,
frozen shoulder, like, there's so many different symptoms it's hard
(03:13):
to really gauge, you know, is this menopause, is this?
Is it something totally different? So with this event, we've
created a phenomenal program from the doctors and healthcare providers
that really are tuned in with perimenopause and menopause and
can give women a better understanding of what they're going through,
(03:37):
what these symptoms are, and a path forward. And everybody's
journey is going to be different, but at least we're
being educated and we have a better understanding of what
to expect. And in perimenopause, you know, you may have
these symptoms for up to ten years or long.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, you just I just wrote a note. You said
that you had it ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I had. I had perimen apostal symptoms for many, many years,
and when I reflect back, I can point to some
of those symptoms that were perimen apaustal. You know, I
had frozen shoulder, I've lost a tooth, hair thinning, I mean,
weight gain, memory loss, it's it's it's really it's really
(04:29):
incredible what a female goes through. And part of the
problem is women have been understudied, you know, in terms
of research, and I think now women are sitting up
taking stock and they want the answers. So that's what
we've done at the National Menopause Show. We've created a
forum where it's a safe place for women to talk
(04:52):
about whatever they want to talk about. Is it your skin,
is it your mood, is it your bones? Is it
all of the above? Your heart health? What can we
do for your heart health? So we're covering the spectrum
of women's issues. Sex. There is a whole topic on
(05:13):
sex and it's you know, menopause going.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Through some women. In my understanding, some women want more
sex and some women don't want more sex.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's right, and that's my understanding as well. It goes
one way or the.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Other, one way or the other. And this is the
first show in the United States. You've had success in.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Canada, yes, we had. We launched our first show, the
National Menopause Show, in Toronto October twenty twenty four and
it was a wild success. We had doctors from across
the country, exhibits that had products and services that are
going to help women in their journey, and we're doing
(05:59):
this in Anaheim. This is a launch and we're very
excited about it. We have doctors coming from throughout the
United States, and we have products and services that are
going to help women through their journey.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And it's what really impressed me is that the one
of the things that impressed me is that you're not
asking for one thousand dollars to it. No, it's a
reasonable cost for a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yes, well, we want all women to have access to healthcare.
And this is what it's all about. It's access to care.
It's a path forward. So you can attend for one
day or you can attend for two days. The education
is different on each day. We also have some entertainment.
We have the Third Act that will be performing on
(06:51):
Saturday and Sunday, and they find they have found the
humor in menopause, which I'm sure all of us can appreciate,
even our husband bins are our spouses. So it's it's
two days of education. The cost is forty five dollars
for one day and fifty five dollars for two days,
(07:13):
and we certainly will provide a discount code if your
listeners type in advocate twenty they will get a twenty
percent discount off the ticket.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Advocate twenty twenty. Got it what you mentioned? Men. I'm
going to be there on Saturday learning what I can
about menopause because we talk about menopause a lot here
at Late Night Health. One of the things that I
(07:50):
think is misunderstood is by guys. We don't you know,
one day your wife is happier, spouses is happy, and
the next day not so happy. The third day maybe
you know she wants to come at you with an axe.
(08:10):
I men need to understand what menopause is.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I agree fullheartedly. I think it's both women and men
need to have a better understanding of what your body's
going through. And that's why we have menopause one on one.
That's all about hormones. That's all about you know, what
is it your body's going through a lot of women
and men don't understand the function of these hormones we have.
(08:40):
And you know, a lack of estrogen can create a
lot of problems. Moodswings. That is something that is one
of the many symptoms where you just you can't define
why you're upset, what whether you're just emotional or you're angry.
(09:00):
You can't really figure it out. And that's why we're
bringing these professionals in so women can feel validated and understood.
And I think it's important for you're supposed to understand
and support you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And what about mds. Shouldn't mds attend this? Medical doctors?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We have medical doctors attending, Yes we do. Of course,
we have many medical doctors that will be speaking in Toronto.
What we're doing is we're educating the general practitioner with
continuing medical credits and also nurse practitioners and we are
looking to do the same in the United States for
(09:43):
twenty twenty six. So it's different levels of education and
we all deserve that.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Give us a couple of topics that will be covered
in some of the sessions if.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well. We have, like I mentioned, menopause one oh one,
we have the benefits of resistance training during the menopause transition.
We have beyond HRT, non hormonal options for thriving in
perimenopause and menopause, and then we have the benefits of
hormone replacement therapy. Beyond that, we have how to talk
(10:21):
to your doctor and how to advocate for yourself at work.
So if you have a doctor maybe that doesn't have
a whole lot of time to see you, you can.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Get Yeah, that's one of the things. You know. I
don't know in Canada if it's the same, but we
get five or six minutes with our primary care doc
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It is similar. Mark, It's well, you might get fifteen minutes,
but you need to go in there. You need to
see your healthcare provider with the right questions, the correct questions,
so you can come away feeling like you you know,
you've been understood and you have a path forward. Sleep
(11:12):
is sleep deprivation. So we have a whole segment on
sleep care. Breast cancer survivors. We have you know that
reclaim control over your health and your quality of life.
That's really important for breast cancer survivors. So there's support
(11:32):
there too.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's it's important, I think also to write your questions down. Yes,
if you have questions about menopause or postmenopause, pre menopause,
all of those, write them down before you go to
the show, because you can get answers and then take
(11:54):
those questions to your own physician, right right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's good advice. Absolutely, come to the show prepared and
if you just happen to be, you know, in the
area on Saturday or Sunday, please stopping. You don't have
to write your you don't have to have a whole
list or script right questions. We're there to support you,
and this is a community that is going to support
women and make you feel more validated and understanding what
(12:23):
your body's going through. And it's also for women in
their thirties too. Many haven't haven't experienced the perimenopausal symptoms,
but they're coming. And there's a small percentage of women
that I think it's five percent don't vote me on
that don't experience severe symptoms or any symptoms at all.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I was very lucky my wife did not go to
a nationalmenopauseshow dot com, Nationalmenopause show dot com. And again,
the the discount code is Advocate twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Advocate twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yes, that's a v O c A te twenty. I
don't spell well, I.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Just want to add volcatte twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yes, thank you very much. Listen, Angela, thank you. Look
forward to seeing you on Saturday. I will find you
and I'll be around at the inn Vision booth and
looking for people interesting people to bring to Late Night Help.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Again, it will be a lot there. Thank you so much, Mark,
it's a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Thank you. I'm Mark Allen. This is Late Night Help
This is a special edition of Late Night Health. I'm
Mark Allen. We're going to talk about menopause because coming
up in the next few days is the National Menopause Show.
It'll be taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center. Our
guest is Angela McGregor. She is the founder of the show. Angela,
nice to see you again and welcome to Late Night Health.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Great. Thank you so much Mark for having.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Me our pleasure. Menopause is something that hits both men
and women, and obviously it's mostly women, but men are
affected and men get andropause. So we're not going to
talk about that. We're going to just talk about menopause.
(00:53):
Why did you think that it would be necessary to
have a whole exposition on menoplause?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Right? It really came from a personal need. I had
suffered with symptoms for many years, went to the doctor
and I really didn't get the help. Fast forward a
number of years, maybe ten fifteen years, and I found
a doctor that could help me, and I realized that,
you know, while I suffered and I had some relief,
(01:29):
there was a lot of women out there that didn't
have any relief. And doctors in North America's not part
of their curriculum in med school, perimenopause and menopause, if
it's touched on at all, it's a very small portion
of their learning. So I think as a society in
North America, we're really at a disadvantage where we have
(01:52):
our healthcare providers now that's changing, where they can't really
support what we're going through. And as women, we really
haven't been given the information of the education. So that's
why I'm going together.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
When you go to the doctor, and we're talking in
medical doctor, not a holistic, a natural path. When you
go to the doctor, they kind of dismiss you. Oh,
you're just having you know, it's natural, it will go away, right.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That is exactly, And that's that's what a lot of
women have said to me that they went to the
doctor and they were dismissed, or they were prescribed antidepressants
or you know, and they just didn't want to go
on these antidepressants, or if they did, it didn't help.
So for some women an antidepressant will work, but for menopause,
(02:50):
it's women have different symptoms. There's over one hundred symptoms
that have been recorded, but it affects women differently, and
we all share in the journey with you know, if
it's to night sweats, hot flashes, you might lose a tooth,
frozen shoulder, like, there's so many different symptoms it's hard
(03:13):
to really gauge, you know, is this menopause, is this?
Is it something totally different? So with this event, we've
created a phenomenal program from the doctors and healthcare providers
that really are tuned in with perimenopause and menopause and
can give women a better understanding of what they're going through,
(03:37):
what these symptoms are, and a path forward. And everybody's
journey is going to be different, but at least we're
being educated and we have a better understanding of what
to expect. And in perimenopause, you know, you may have
these symptoms for up to ten years or long.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, you just I just wrote a note. You said
that you had it ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I had. I had perimen apostal symptoms for many, many years,
and when I reflect back, I can point to some
of those symptoms that were perimen apaustal. You know, I
had frozen shoulder, I've lost a tooth, hair thinning, I mean,
weight gain, memory loss, it's it's it's really it's really
(04:29):
incredible what a female goes through. And part of the
problem is women have been understudied, you know, in terms
of research, and I think now women are sitting up
taking stock and they want the answers. So that's what
we've done at the National Menopause Show. We've created a
forum where it's a safe place for women to talk
(04:52):
about whatever they want to talk about. Is it your skin,
is it your mood, is it your bones? Is it
all of the above? Your heart health? What can we
do for your heart health? So we're covering the spectrum
of women's issues. Sex. There is a whole topic on
(05:13):
sex and it's you know, menopause going.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Through some women. In my understanding, some women want more
sex and some women don't want more sex.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's right, and that's my understanding as well. It goes
one way or the.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Other, one way or the other. And this is the
first show in the United States. You've had success in.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Canada, yes, we had. We launched our first show, the
National Menopause Show, in Toronto October twenty twenty four and
it was a wild success. We had doctors from across
the country, exhibits that had products and services that are
going to help women in their journey, and we're doing
(05:59):
this in Anaheim. This is a launch and we're very
excited about it. We have doctors coming from throughout the
United States, and we have products and services that are
going to help women through their journey.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
And it's what really impressed me is that the one
of the things that impressed me is that you're not
asking for one thousand dollars to it. No, it's a
reasonable cost for a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yes, well, we want all women to have access to healthcare.
And this is what it's all about. It's access to care.
It's a path forward. So you can attend for one
day or you can attend for two days. The education
is different on each day. We also have some entertainment.
We have the Third Act that will be performing on
(06:51):
Saturday and Sunday, and they find they have found the
humor in menopause, which I'm sure all of us can appreciate,
even our husband bins are our spouses. So it's it's
two days of education. The cost is forty five dollars
for one day and fifty five dollars for two days,
(07:13):
and we certainly will provide a discount code if your
listeners type in advocate twenty they will get a twenty
percent discount off the ticket.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Advocate twenty twenty. Got it what you mentioned? Men. I'm
going to be there on Saturday learning what I can
about menopause because we talk about menopause a lot here
at Late Night Health. One of the things that I
(07:50):
think is misunderstood is by guys. We don't you know,
one day your wife is happier, spouses is happy, and
the next day not so happy. The third day maybe
you know she wants to come at you with an axe.
(08:10):
I men need to understand what menopause is.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I agree fullheartedly. I think it's both women and men
need to have a better understanding of what your body's
going through. And that's why we have menopause one on one.
That's all about hormones. That's all about you know, what
is it your body's going through a lot of women
and men don't understand the function of these hormones we have.
(08:40):
And you know, a lack of estrogen can create a
lot of problems. Moodswings. That is something that is one
of the many symptoms where you just you can't define
why you're upset, what whether you're just emotional or you're angry.
(09:00):
You can't really figure it out. And that's why we're
bringing these professionals in so women can feel validated and understood.
And I think it's important for you're supposed to understand
and support you.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And what about mds. Shouldn't mds attend this? Medical doctors?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We have medical doctors attending, Yes we do. Of course,
we have many medical doctors that will be speaking in Toronto.
What we're doing is we're educating the general practitioner with
continuing medical credits and also nurse practitioners and we are
looking to do the same in the United States for
(09:43):
twenty twenty six. So it's different levels of education and
we all deserve that.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Give us a couple of topics that will be covered
in some of the sessions if.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well. We have, like I mentioned, menopause one oh one,
we have the benefits of resistance training during the menopause transition.
We have beyond HRT, non hormonal options for thriving in
perimenopause and menopause, and then we have the benefits of
hormone replacement therapy. Beyond that, we have how to talk
(10:21):
to your doctor and how to advocate for yourself at work.
So if you have a doctor maybe that doesn't have
a whole lot of time to see you, you can.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Get Yeah, that's one of the things. You know. I
don't know in Canada if it's the same, but we
get five or six minutes with our primary care doc
and that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It is similar. Mark, It's well, you might get fifteen minutes,
but you need to go in there. You need to
see your healthcare provider with the right questions, the correct questions,
so you can come away feeling like you you know,
you've been understood and you have a path forward. Sleep
(11:12):
is sleep deprivation. So we have a whole segment on
sleep care. Breast cancer survivors. We have you know that
reclaim control over your health and your quality of life.
That's really important for breast cancer survivors. So there's support
(11:32):
there too.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
It's it's important, I think also to write your questions down. Yes,
if you have questions about menopause or postmenopause, pre menopause,
all of those, write them down before you go to
the show, because you can get answers and then take
(11:54):
those questions to your own physician, right right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's good advice. Absolutely, come to the show prepared and
if you just happen to be, you know, in the
area on Saturday or Sunday, please stopping. You don't have
to write your you don't have to have a whole
list or script right questions. We're there to support you,
and this is a community that is going to support
women and make you feel more validated and understanding what
(12:23):
your body's going through. And it's also for women in
their thirties too. Many haven't haven't experienced the perimenopausal symptoms,
but they're coming. And there's a small percentage of women
that I think it's five percent don't vote me on
that don't experience severe symptoms or any symptoms at all.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I was very lucky my wife did not go to
a nationalmenopauseshow dot com, Nationalmenopause show dot com. And again,
the the discount code is Advocate twenty.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Advocate twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yes, that's a v O c A te twenty. I
don't spell well, I.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Just want to add volcatte twenty.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yes, thank you very much. Listen, Angela, thank you. Look
forward to seeing you on Saturday. I will find you
and I'll be around at the inn Vision booth and
looking for people interesting people to bring to Late Night Help.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Again, it will be a lot there. Thank you so much, Mark,
it's a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Thank you. I'm Mark Allen. This is Late Night Help
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