249 - Dr Mary Claire Haver: on a mission to demystify menopause

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Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast Dr Louise is joined by Dr Mary Claire Haver, an obstetrics and gynaecology doctor and a menopause specialist in the US. Dr Louise and Dr Mary Claire discuss the challenges of ensuring all women have access to evidence-based information and treatment, and their hopes for change. Dr Mary Claire shares her three tips to help menopausal women improve their health: Really focus on your nutrition. Make sure you're getting adequate fibre in your diet every day. Fibre-rich goods are good for you gut microbiome, help you stay full for longer, and are good sources of vitamins, minerals and nutrients. Limit added sugars – those that are added in cooking and processing - to less than 25g per day. Women who do that consistently have less visceral fat. Visceral fat is tied to increased risk of chronic inflammatory diseases. Don't just focus on cardio for your movement. You really need to keep your muscles strong so at least two days a week pick up some weights. Multiple studies in menopausal women show much better outcomes for osteoporosis with resistance training. You can follow Dr Mary Claire on Instagram at @drmaryclaire Click here to find out more about Newson Health Pre-order the revised and updated paperback edition of Dr Louise’s Sunday Times bestseller The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause here References to studies discussed in this week's episode J Gen Intern Med 2006; 21:363–6 J Gen Intern Med 2004;19:791–804 Am J Med 2009;122:1016 – 22 JAMA 2004; 291:2243 – 52 Int J Cardiol 2010;138:25 – 31 Urology 2024; Jan 29:S0090-4295(24)00006-2

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr Louise Newsome. I'm a GP and menopause specialist, and I'm also the founder of the Newsome Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-Pon-Avon.
0:21.6	I'm also the founder of the free Balance app.
0:25.6	Each week on my podcast, join me and my special guests where we discuss all things perimenopause
0:31.6	and menopause. We talk about the latest research, bust myths on menopause symptoms and treatments,
0:38.2	and often share moving and always inspirational personal stories.
0:43.7	This podcast is brought to you by the Newsome Health Group,
0:46.9	which has clinics across the UK dedicated to providing individualised perimenopause and menopause care for all women.
1:02.3	So today on my podcast, I've got another clinician who is in US and really excited, actually.
1:08.8	I've been stalking her for a while. We've been sharing each other's
1:11.9	post sometimes and it's great because we think the same in the way that we work, the way we
1:17.5	practice and the way that we educate people globally as well. So she's a quite well-known,
1:22.7	getting more well-known, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and she is an obsciney person, OBGYN in US, and she's also
1:31.4	got qualification in nutrition as well. And she's like me, really, on a mission to demystify
1:37.7	and simplify the noise that's been going on over the last couple of decades. Would that be
1:43.3	fair to say, Mary Claire? Absolutely. Removing the shrouds of secrecy and shame and misinformation around the
1:50.9	menopause. Yeah. It's really interesting actually. So about, well, eight years ago now,
1:55.9	when the International Menopause Society produced their guidance and nice over in the UK to produce their menopause guidance, I went to the International Menopause Society produced their guidance and nice over in the UK to produce their
2:01.9	menopause guidance. I went to the International Menopause Society conference and all these people
2:07.5	were talking about menopause and the health risks and the problems and how safe HRT is. And I sat in
2:14.3	this auditorium thinking, what can I do? How can I help women? Like, I'm only seeing
2:19.5	20, 30 women a day. I was a GP then and I was busy and I thought, I'm never going to make a big
2:25.1	difference. So what can I do? And I thought, why, I'm going to play with media and social media
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