How will your new company, Respin, help women in menopause?

Halle Berry The Oscar-winning actor says there’sa desperate need to inform women about menopause. Her new company aims to fill that education and empathy gap

- ALICE PARK

Women can get whatever level of support and care they need. A woman in her 30s can get educated about menopause; a woman in perimenopause can get a health coach and devise a plan for her needs; and a woman postmenopause can come for the services she needs too.

How did your personal experience lead you to become an advocate for menopause?

The more I started to talk about what I was going through, I started to realize how other women were suffering and how little other women had. I started to see the need to continue efforts in Washington to get a bill passed with substantive dollars [for more research on midlife and more clinical trials for menopause]. I saw the need for more education. I had no answers, no one to turn to. I was floored to find the nothingness in this space and how little doctors knew. I thought I had the best doctors I could have.

How are you working to change how we talk about menopause?