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Mary Claire Haver

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“I'm a fan. It's not for everyone. It's not a great way to lose weight. The data on weight loss is conflicting at best. You can eat a lot of things that will undo the goodness of fasting in your eating window if you're not careful. And so there's good data, though, on neuroinflammation and fasting and on systemic inflammation and fasting. So I recommend fasting for the systemic inflammatory benefits. And we do see some really nice lowering of insulin levels overall from fasting.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Avocado, chia seeds, nuts, berries, your cruciferous vegetables, things that are crunchy, that's fiber, that's making the crunch, apples, you know, there's so many. Don't find much fiber in lean meats or any. So it's going to be your fruits and veggies and seeds and nuts.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“disease, less dementia, less everything. So it really nutrition, when I talk about the menopause toolkit. Hormone therapy is just one very small part of the puzzle, but nutrition should always be first. Like, it doesn't matter how many hormones you take if you're not covering your nutritional basis the way you should.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So fiber does lots of things for us. It slows down the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream. So that keeps our insulin levels lower over time. It feeds our gut microbiome, soluble fiber. So there's two types of fiber. There's soluble and insoluble. So insoluble is what kind of when you mix up a fiber supplement, you see the stuff precipitate down to the bottom. That's the insoluble fiber. That's what pulls water into the gut and kind of moves things quicker through the colon. Soluble fiber dissolves in water. That's the cloudy part. That is the food for our gut microbiome. That is the prebiotic. You don't need a prebiotic if you're getting enough fiber in your diet per day. And so keeping that gut microbiome fed and healthy and happy is going to do a multitude of things like that kind of data is exploding right now in the research world as to where the gut microbiome, how to keep it healthy and what organ system it affects. Our gut microbes make these things called oxybutyrates, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream and people who have high levels of oxybutyates are actually healthier and have less coronary arteries.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So vitamin D is a vitamin, but it's also a hormone and it has multiple functions in the body. And so vitamin D deficiencies are linked to lots of chronic diseases. You're more likely to have hypertension, diabetes, stroke, you know, all of the top seven of ten causes of death in women. And so keeping those low, it's also mental health, you know, lots of vitamin D receptors in the brain. And so, you know, first thing I do is check a vitamin D level on my patients when they come in.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. So I try to teach the principals in the form of let's add things in rather than restrict because then we get into eating disorders. And so keeping tabs on your added sugars, keeping those less than 25, but fiber. And that's one thing most people are not paying attention to. How much fiber are you getting in your diet per day? And most women are getting about 12 grams per day. And the minimum we should be getting is 25 vitamin D is another huge one. About 85% of my patients and women in menopause are vitamin D deficient, not just low. I mean deficient. We are protecting our skin against sun damage, of course. We're staying indoors more. We're on our screens all the time. But we're also our guts changing and our ability to absorb vitamin D is decreasing. So making sure that you are checking your vitamin D levels regularly and supplementing when you need to or eating foods rich in vitamin D. That's another one.”
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“So it turns out estrogen is a really powerful anti-inflammatory hormone. So we're just like removing that protective blanket. And now you're just aging faster because of it.”
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“We can't change the fact we're aging, but menopause dramatically increases the amount of chronic inflammation that a female will go through just based on the lack of estrogen and testosterone in her body.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So inflammation, there's chronic inflammation and there's acute inflammation. So acute inflammation is what we need to survive. It is the body's reaction to a foreign invader, basically, or to an injury or an illness. So you twist your ankle, right? And so we injure that tissue, these chemical messengers are spread from the injured tissue, which basically tells our immune system sin blood that way, send the white cells and the red cells. And, you know, all the cells that are going to fight and heal this, you're going to swell. You're going to have pain that's going to keep you off of that joint so that it can heal, right? So acute inflammation also happens when we get viruses and other illnesses. Chronic inflammation is this low grade kind of under the radar inflammation that's happening in the background. So autoimmune disease is a lot of chronic inflammation. But we also see aging itself.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I've looked at these numbers and COVID's kind of skewing things because we did see increased suicide rates, but we definitely see an uptick, especially in Caucasian women, not so much in women of color in the US, in the perimenopausa, menopause time frame.”
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“Depression, anxiety, bipolar, the entire spectrum, ADHD. So we see either a nuance or worsening of disease. So I'm telling my patients or I'm telling people on social media, you may have done fine and done well with your depression on your SSRI. Don't be shocked if it is no longer working at that level. You either have to increase the dose. So no one right now is advocating for primary therapy of depression to be estrogen replacement. But we do know from the studies that it is a very powerful adjunctive tool and that it can be preventative for nuanced depression if you start in perimenopause. Women who start hormony and perimenopause have a lower incidence of nuanced depression in their menopause.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, and so many of them have no education at their fingertips, have nowhere to turn, or, you know, 85% are going in to their healthcare provider's office complaining, help me, and being turned away and leaving with more questions than answers and only 10% are even having the discussion for hormone replacement therapy. And then if they're given it, they're so terrified because of the misrepresentation of the women's health initiative. They're convinced they're going to get cancer. And that study's been completely dismantled and walked back. We have good information that came out of that study, but the thought that estrogen causes breast cancer is the worst thing that came out of that study because it's not true.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think the shame and stigma associated with aging, with females aging. And then you're layering on this loss of fertility. And in the medical field, when you look at funding in the US for research studies, women's health, like I think it's $55 billion, the National Institutes of Health in the US, for all research studies. And that's outside of what pharma is funding. women's health gets about $15 billion. And the majority of that is spent on getting people pregnant, keeping them pregnant, you know, and fertility issues. Menopause gets, I think, 15 million. Yeah. It's like 0.03 if I did the math correctly of all, you know, are we not as important as we were when we were fertile? Do our lives not matter? It's ridiculous to me when we can intervene and help and give these women a longer life and a better quality of life.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“being thin and small, it's time to be strong. Know this muscle mass that you have is going to determine your longevity and your functionality as you age. And menopause is, you know, that loss of estrogen and testosterone is tearing our muscle units apart, which is leading to osteoporosis as well.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think it's important that we talk about it. I encourage every single patient I have, all my followers on social media, tell your story. Tell your story to anyone who will listen. Tell your daughters. Tell your nieces, tell your sons, tell your loved ones, like make this a normal part of a conversation so that we see it coming, we understand what might happen, and that no one feels crazy and alone when they're going through it. And then we need to do a much better job in our medical system of providing support for these women in whatever way they need it, be it hormones, non-hormones, cognitive behavioral therapy. There's lots of things that we can do, not just hormone therapy is not the cure-all for everything. We have to support the whole toolkit, right? We have to prioritize our sleep, get the exercise that we need, focus on strength training when a lot of us in my generation never did that. We were aerobics, you know, focused on.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. I mean, it's probably contributing to divorce rates maybe in a good way. You know, at this time, one of the positive things I see about menopause is that Women are cutting the things in their life that don't make sense anymore. They're not putting up with, you know, as a society, we tend to take on everyone's burden and, you know, take on the emotional labor and a lot of relationships, take on the organizational labor. And I see because they're struggling so much with just staying afloat, they're able to just quickly say, no, I'm not doing this anymore. You know, you need to pick up whichever relationship they're in. You need to pick up your end of the bargain here. You know, I can't do all of the organizational labor, the emotional labor. And I've a patient who's a divorce attorney. And she said, I really think a significant percentage is of this divorce is menopause. And either they're prioritizing what's important to them, or they're not getting the support that they need.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I would say we start checking levels and we start looking probably in late 30s. Certainly if she starts having any symptoms out of the normal, you know, she's living her best life, you know, doing all the right things for her health and all of a sudden she's not sleeping well or she's having aches and pains or she's noticing changes in her body. Most women can tell you something was wrong. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I knew that something and something in me had changed and I wasn't responding to things the same way. Their mental health had changed or the way their gut had changed or gut health, you know, just there's barely.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So she's a little biased, but she says, Why can't we get to that point where we have no gaps in our estrogen supply? We just support starting in perimenopause, you know, offer it to all women. Not all women will choose it. And I support that. But, you know, we're not having the conversation and they're not being given the choice.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hormone replacement therapy or menopause hormone therapy. So in the studies that have been done, the observational studies and in the WHI, women who were on hormones especially beginning early in their menopause. Okay, so estrogen, there is a winter of opportunity for reduction of some of this burden of disease and it is very in starting in perimenopause or within the first 10 years of your menopause. That's the sweet spot for being able to decrease your risk of diabetes, decrease your risk of cardiovascular disease and dementia. When we go beyond that, we start losing those benefits because estrogen is better at prevention than cure. And so my medical school daughter was like, mom, I'm never going to be without estrogen. I'm going to start in perimenopause. Like I'm not going to be one of those women who's ever off estrogen. Of course, she's my daughter and listens to me on social media all day.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On, oh my god, that happened to me. That happened to me, that happened to me. Not that I can fix it, but at least they know. This is something that it's not your fault. You didn't do anything. You're just estrogen levels dropped, which led to increasing inflammation in those joints.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Frozen shoulder is an adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder joint. And it is very common in menopause. So estrogen has this amazing anti-inflammatory effect, especially in our bones and joints and muscles. And frozen shoulder is super common and it takes about two years of therapy to get it to break up. So the capsule that is right over the bone where the muscles attached becomes encapsulated and adhesed and stuck. And so you have to get in there and break it up and do lots of training. So like a woman wouldn't be able to reach behind her back to do her bra. That's one of the things or you go to take a picture with your girlfriends and you can't put your arm or you can't lift your arm above here. That's one of the studies that I presented. A lot of the stuff.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we know that a woman's wrists and the studies have been done. It's not just aging. Of course, aging plays into this, but when you add in menopauses and independent risk factor, her risk for cardiovascular disease increases, her risk of diabetes increases, her insulin resistance starts going haywire immediately. Your listeners and your, you know, people who watch on YouTube will be shocked. I'm going to say how many of their cholesterol level shot up in their 30s and 40s with no changes in diet and exercise. You know, we see cholesterol levels changing skin, hair, teeth, the dental changes, the inner ear changes, the vertigo is incredible, the frozen shoulder is legion.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Training and medicine as a whole is very biased against people's weight. And so now that I've done a deep dive into nutrition and done a deep dive into menopause and really sat there and listened to patients and realized that, you know, women who were gaining weight with menopause, you know, they've done nothing different. They're still exercising. They're eating the same. The only thing that's changed for them is their hormones and they're being categorically dismissed at multiple doctors' visits or worse. Here's their laundry list of symptoms. The root cause is menopause, but it's not recognized. And one medication could have taken care of everything, but they're going to seven, eight, nine different specialists on seven, eight, nine different medications to handle each symptom whereas all they needed was just to get her hormones back.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I yeah, I'm one of those women, you know? I thought I'd be one of those girlies who would just breeze through menopause because I was thin and I was, you know, thin, meant healthy. I still, you know, that mentality was alive and well when I trained and through most of my practice, I came through a very fat phobic, you know,”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“85% of women will come in complaining of what we know now. This was in 2023. FDA looked at the numbers. eighty five percent of women are complaining of menopausal symptoms, ten point five percent are receiving treatment or therapy today”
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“They were frustrated because they didn't think they could help her. Now remember, the women's health initiative, which was a study that was supposed to do a lot of good for women. It was originally designed and it was stopped in 2002. That was the end of my training program was 2002. So I come from one of the last groups of physicians in the US that were ever trained in hormone replacement therapy. And then the rug was pulled out from under us. So the WHI, there were mistakes. There was misinformation in the reporting. And there was misinterpretation of the results. All of that has been walked back, re-looked at. We know that for the vast majority of women, hormone replacement therapy is safe and effective and can give a woman her life back if she chooses to take it. That option has been taken off the table for the vast majority of women. Recently, I just saw the numbers.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My upper levels would say oh gosh, good luck with that. You've got a WW on your hands. And that was code. We never wrote that in the chart. This was not taught to me by faculty. This was just kind of a handed down in the lore of training. And a WW was a whiny woman. And that was code. And now I know that she was perimenopausal suffering from her list of symptoms of now which we've categorized about seventy, and”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How women are treated in medicine. When I was in training, we had these upper level residents. So we have a hierarchy where you have different years of training. So I was in the early years, maybe my first year, and we had these clinics that we would run to take care of patients. And so we have obstetrics and we have gynecology as like divisions in our training. In gynecology, everything gets lumped together, pediatrics, menopause. We had no specific menopause clinic. I maybe got six hours of lecture in a four-year curriculum. And so we'd have these women coming in in midlife, and they had multiple complaints. They didn't feel good. They weren't sleeping. They were gaining some weight. They were aching. Just this laundry list of things that were a little on the vague side.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the medical system is letting them down. I think society is letting them down. Our value and our worth. And medicine, you know, I came through this wonderful training program. I'm very proud of what I learned. I'm very proud of the care that I gave, except I was a horrible menopause provider for probably 15 years. I knew what I knew. I relied on my training and I didn't look outside of the traditional confines of training. This is such a systemic problem that I mean, I'm going to tell you a story, and this is true, and it's embarrassing, but I think it needs to be said because I think it really highlights.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So menopause itself is really that it's just really one day in your life. It's when you can throw the hammer down and say, I'm never going to ovulate again. I'm done. And so if a woman's over the age of 45 and she hasn't had a period for a year, that's the definition. Okay. Now it gets confusing because what if she's had a hysterectomy or doesn't bleed because of a surgery or an IUD or something? Well, then we can't use her periods to help judge. And that's where we start doing blood work to see, you know, where she is in her menopause journey. And then postmenopause is the rest of your life. You know, the hot flashes might go away. Night sweats might go away. Brain fog might get better, but pretty much everything else is going to continue to progress in a very linear fashion until you die without estrogen replacement.”
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“Outlived how we were genetically built. And so we're living longer and being forced to like deal with the consequences of that.”
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“So, the anthropologists have looked at this heavily, and there's only a couple of species in the world that go through menopause. Humans are one. There's a couple of species of whales, and I think they've now discovered one of the giraffes, species of giraffes can do it. But the by and large, most mammals will die while they're still ovulating. You know, like they're not going to go through a menopause. And so there's something called the grandmother hypothesis where there was an evolutionary advantage for women to survive if she stopped the ability to have children at some point. Now, again, you have to tipper this with humans have prolonged their lifespan and their health span because of modern medicine. So probably when we evolved, we weren't living this long. You know, a woman my age was pretty rare. I'm 55. And so, you know, it's hard to say. I think we have.”
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“Menopause can feel completely fine for a few months. Everything goes haywire, then she's fine again. You know, and not only is her estrogen declining, her testosterone is declining as well. So we're seeing loss of muscle mass, we're seeing changes in her sexual function, we're seeing decreased strength. You know, there's some really good studies showing how testosterone also affects our mental health and our cognition as well.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So we start seeing disruptions in the force. So instead of that nice monthly estrogen surge with ovulation and then the progesterone goes up, we start the elongation sometimes or they even get closer together. I call it the zone of chaos. What used to be a very reproducible dependable system starts failing. So some women will have irregular periods, meaning they're spacing out, they're skipping periods, others will have really heavy periods like, you know, hemorrhagic almost. And again, individual, the way the body reacts to this is very individualized from patient to patient. Doctors love something that follows a list, a checklist, right? You know, we have all these complicated things we have to learn and we have these checklists. But menopause, it's like pinning the tail on a moving donkey. And in perimenopause, it's very, very chaotic, estrogen, surges, then it goes away for a while. Like a woman in periods.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, when a woman hits the age of 30, she is down to about 10% of the egg supply that she had at birth. And when she's 40, it's down to about 3%. And so, and it gets harder and harder for that ebb and flow of the natural hormones to do its job. And we start seeing fluctuations in her periods and then organ systems that are beginning to notice the lack of estrogen. Estrogen is a really powerful anti-inflammatory hormone, and most of our body systems. So the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause is really starting to be talked about quite a bit now. And we're looking at things like frozen shoulder orthralgas, generalized aches and pains. And most physicians aren't aware of this. You know, most know about hot flashes and night sweats and sleep disruption. But now that we're really opening the conversation as to how many organ systems are affected, we are seeing people coming out of the woodwork just so happy to know that they're not crazy and they're being validated.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“her ovaries. So, the difference, big differences between male and female and how that process happens is that males make their genetic material fresh constantly the minute they go through puberty until basically they die unless they have some medical issue. Females, on the other hand, our eggs develop while we're in utero in our mothers. So while we're in the womb, she's five months pregnant with us, we have our maximum eggs that we're ever going to have. And those are meant to last us until we go through menopause. And so they lay dormant until we go through puberty, and then they wake up again and we start ovulating. So we have this monthly and a healthy person, cyclical, you know, hormones rise and ebb and flow with our cycles each month. We have a period. You get pregnant, you don't get pregnant, and the whole process starts over again. Well, because we're born with that egg supply through time, we're decreasing the amount and the quality of those eggs.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay. Because I'm sure there's some people that are, both men and women that aren't fleeing. So we're going to talk about gonads, right? What's gonads? So gonads are where our, so in men, it's the testes and where you're making your genetic material. Where you're making sperm, right? And in a female, it's going to be ovaries.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Start between this age and this age. So in the US and in most of Europe, the average age of menopause, which means one year after your last menstrual period, is 51. Perimenopause, which is when your body recognizing recognizes there's some declining estrogen levels and you're beginning to be symptomatic can start seven to ten years before that. So normal menopause is still 45 to 55. And so, if you do the math and back that up seven to ten years, it is completely reasonable for a thirty five year old woman to begin to experience some of the symptoms of perimenopause.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So right now about a third of the female population of the world is in Perry or postmenopause. You do not, it's not optional. All of us go through it. And because we have such individual expressions of how it affects our bodies, what we know now is that there are estrogen receptors. Your genital urinary system is going to take a hit. Your bones are going to get weaker. But what we know now is how much it's affecting our mental health, our capabilities, our skin, our bones, our kidneys, you know, vertigo tinnitus, frozen shoulder, anytime I post about those on social media, the internet explodes. And women by the thousands are like, oh my God, I had no idea. You know, and just the validation piece was so huge for them to make because they've been dismissed for so long and told it's all in their head.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In silence, and physicians aren't helping, we're not trained. And so I thought it's really my kids who have two daughters, one's 23, she's in medical school right now, and she's actually here with us. And then the other is 20. And they were like, mom, you've got the social media presence. You really need to use it for good. And that's kind of where that conversation exploded for me on social media and where I realized by reading the comments what a much bigger picture what was really happening in the menopause world and how we need to bring it to the forefront.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How much I didn't know as far as nutrition and inflammation and aging and how it all affects, but where was this menopause piece? And so I took everything I learned and I developed a little program for my patients, which became the Galveston Diet. And it really was just a passion project for me. And then I started talking about it on social media and realized that as my social media presence grew and the conversation got bigger and bigger, that there were so many women suffering, probably the majority of women in menopause were suffering, not just from weight gain, but from musculoskeletal issues, mental health, brain fog, you know, skin changes, hair changes, nail changes. And I just kept doing deeper and deeper dives and realizing no one's talking about this. No one's talking about the multi organ system failure that a lot of women are going through and they're suffering.”
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“Work out more eight less. You know, we tend to move less. I was just going with the script that had been handed to me for years that calories in, calories out is the only way. And, you know, in medicine in the US, we have very little background in nutrition. We learn nothing in medical school, very little in residency as far as what nutrition actually is and how it can affect our bodies. And so I started struggling with my own menopause. My patients were all struggling and I decided to go back to school to learn more about nutrition because I felt that there was a big piece missing here because this weight gain was mostly centered around the midsection and I was learning about visceral fad and subcutaneous fat and the differences and what's going on with our muscle mass. And I'm like, there's a much bigger picture here than just calories and calories out. So in my, I enrolled at Tulane University in their culinary medicine program and just my mind was blown by.”
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“As take care of patients. So I went back on his faculty. And everything was going great. I was very successful. I was, you know, doing pap smears and babies and birth control and all the things a traditional Obi Gen does. And then I was aging as my patients were aging too. And when I got to my 40s, I realized that there was a big gap in my education and knowledge around menopause. So I started researching most of my patients were coming in. The pain point was weight gain. And they were like, I'm not doing anything different. I'm working out. I haven't changed my diet. And that little voice in my head was like,”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I started out in medicine the way most people do. I wanted to help people. And in our training and school, we get to have a little taste of all the different specialties. And my very last rotation in my third year was OBGYN. And I really liked surgery. I really liked some of the surgical sub specialty. So I thought that would be my path. But then when I delivered my first baby and all that rush of emotion and dopamine and how beautiful that whole process was, I knew that that was going to be my calling. And so I did the traditional four-year residency and loved it and really did well and went into private practice. After about three years of doing the private practice route, I realized I missed being in academics. I wanted that ability to do research and be around students and teach as well.”
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“But there's lots of things that we can do. For example, we see a dramatic loss of muscle mass. Focus on strength training. This is going to determine your longevity as you age. Strength over skinny.”
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“Menopause is inevitable, suffering is not. But a woman is more likely to be prescribed in antidepressant for her menopause than hormone therapy. Women by the thousands are like, oh my God, I had no idea. That's when I realized no one's talking about this. So here's their laundry list of symptoms. We've categorized about 70. So there's rain fog, changes in her sexual function, weight gain. But here's the scary things, and the studies have been done. We see either a nuance or worsening of depression, anxiety, bipolar, ADHD, risks for cardiovascular disease and diabetes increases with current urinary tract infections, which is a major cause of death for women, they're suffering in silence. And I was one of those women. I want to see my grandkids one day. I want to watch these women of raised grow up and, you know, be the women they're meant to be. And that choice might get taken away from me if I'm not careful.”
2023-12-18 · The Diary of a CEO · The No.1 Menopause Doctor: They’re Lying To You About Menopause! Brand New Science! (Men Need To Listen Too!): Mary Claire Haver · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In 2023, 85% of women are complaining of menopausal symptoms, 10.5% are receiving treatment or therapy. I mean, it would be as if your testicles shriveled up and died at 51. That's the equivalent.”
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