{"id":370,"date":"2016-03-01T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=370"},"modified":"2016-03-29T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:14:25","slug":"march-cafe-scientifique-with-jerilynn-prior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2016\/03\/01\/march-cafe-scientifique-with-jerilynn-prior\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT CANCELLED &#8211; March Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Jerilynn Prior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_fbReactionComponent__eventDetailsContent fsl\"><strong>EVENT CANCELLED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our sincerest apologies, but we have just received word that The Railway Club is shutting it&#8217;s doors for good, effective immediately. We will do our best to re-schedule the talk in the near future once we have found a new venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0<b>Tuesday March 29th, 7:30pm<\/b>\u00a0<strong>at The Railway Club<\/strong>. Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0<b>Dr.\u00a0<\/b><b>Jerilynn Prior<\/b>. \u00a0Prior is Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of British Columbia, Founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR), Director of the BC Center of the Canadian Multicenter Osteoporosis Study (CaMOS), and a past President of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.\u00a0The title of her talk is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Perimenopause Estrogen Deficiency?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sorting engrained misinformation about women\u2019s midlife reproductive transition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>43 years old with teenagers a full-time executive director of a not for profit is not sleeping, she wakes soaked a couple of times a night, not every night but especially around the time her period comes. As it does frequently\u2014it is heavy, even flooding. Her sexual interest is virtually gone and she feels dry when she tries.<br \/>\nHer family doctor offered her The Pill. When she took it she got very sore breasts, ankle swelling and high blood pressure. Her brain feels fuzzy, she\u2019s getting migraines, gaining weight and just can\u2019t cope. . . .<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s going on? Does she need estrogen \u201creplacement\u201d? If yes, why when she\u2019s still getting flow? Does The Pill work for other women? <em><strong>What do we know about the what, why, how long and how to help symptomatic perimenopausal women?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVENT CANCELLED Our sincerest apologies, but we have just received word that The Railway Club is shutting it&#8217;s doors for good, effective immediately. We will do our best to re-schedule the talk in the near future once we have found a new venue. Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0Tuesday March 29th, 7:30pm\u00a0at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}