Dr. Julie Grimes, MD, MSCP, is available to reporters, producers and podcast hosts on perimenopause, menopause, and what the FDA’s hormone-therapy label change means for women in North Alabama. Same-day response on weekdays. On deadline, call and say you’re press.
Media contact: Mamie Pickering, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner · (256) 965-6812 · mamie@mariposamenopause.com
North Alabama’s only clinic100% dedicated toperimenopause and menopause.
Photograph by Olivia Reed Photography
On November 10, 2025, the FDA announced it was removing the “black box” warnings about heart disease, breast cancer and dementia from menopausal hormone therapy, more than two decades after the 2002 study that put them there. Federal officials said use of hormone therapy fell from roughly one in four menopausal women to fewer than one in 20 in the years after. Dr. Grimes can explain, in plain English and on camera, what that means for a 44-year-old in Madison who has been told it’s stress.
Each of these is a segment, a column or a podcast hour. She brings the research and the patient stories; you bring the questions.
What the FDA actually changed, what it didn’t, and who should be asking their doctor a new question this year.
Perimenopause starts years before periods stop. Why the woman most likely to be dismissed is the one who doesn’t think this applies to her.
How one early readout of the Women’s Health Initiative emptied the hormone-therapy aisle, and what two decades of follow-up found.
The symptom women are most afraid to say out loud, why it happens, and why the fear itself is part of the story.
Why the body stops answering to what used to work at 48, and where the new weight-loss drugs do and don’t fit.
Menopause is a leading story behind “gray divorce.” What partners are seeing, what they get wrong, and the guide Mariposa wrote for them.
Also: menopause as a workplace and benefits issue, testosterone for women, sleep and the 3 a.m. wake-up, and what to ask for before you accept “it’s just aging.”
Founder & Medical Director, Mariposa Menopause Specialists
Short bio (50 words). Dr. Julie Grimes, MD, MSCP, is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner with more than 24 years in women’s health and the founder of Mariposa Menopause Specialists in Madison, Alabama, North Alabama’s only clinic 100% dedicated to perimenopause and menopause. She built it because she was tired of watching women be told to wait it out.
Long bio. Dr. Grimes has spent more than two decades in women’s health, with a long record of teaching, explaining the female body in a way that actually makes sense. Over that time she watched women in midlife become invisible: rushed through appointments, left out of research, told their symptoms were part of getting older. In 2026 she passed The Menopause Society’s certification examination and opened Mariposa Menopause Specialists, where every new patient’s first visit is a full hour and the care covers hormone therapy, metabolism and GLP-1s, nutrition, sleep and mood in one place. She also leads The Grove, Mariposa’s community for women in perimenopause and menopause, and is the voice behind The Partner’s Guide, written for the husbands and partners watching it happen. Mariposa is woman-owned and woman-led.
How to refer to her. First reference: Dr. Julie Grimes, MD, MSCP, Founder and Medical Director of Mariposa Menopause Specialists. Second reference: Dr. Grimes. Credential: Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. Verify the credential.
Everything is free to use with credit. Photographs: Olivia Reed Photography.
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Dr. Julie Grimes, MD, MSCP, says a generation of women was told to wait it out. Mariposa Menopause Specialists exists to end the wait.
Employers, women’s groups, churches, civic clubs, and clinical teams. A 45-minute talk, free for groups in North Alabama.
Book Dr. Grimes to speakOr email Mamie Pickering at mamie@mariposamenopause.com with “Media request” in the subject line.
