BONUS: Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What if a few small changes—like how much vitamin D or fiber you’re getting—could dramatically shift how you feel in midlife? In this bonus conversation with best-selling author Dr. Mary Claire Haver, she shares the practical steps that can instantly make a difference. Plus, find out what every 30-something woman should know about perimenopause even before the first symptom.
Learn more about Dr Mary Claire Haver's book "The New Perimenopause" here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome back to Work in Progress. We're back with Dr. Mary Claire Haver for a special dive into her new book. |
| 0:27.0 | The new perimenopause is officially out in the world. We're thrilled you're here. You're one of the preeminent authorities on women's health, and you really are making sure women's health stops being a brown |
| 0:39.1 | paper bag bottom shelf conversation in the American medical system. So thank you. We know that women |
| 0:45.9 | experience real biological changes, all of us at some point, that medicine has been really |
| 0:53.0 | slow to recognize or properly treat. And you talk |
| 0:57.7 | about this in the second chapter of the book, Zone of Chaos. Why for our friends at home? Why has |
| 1:04.6 | perimenopause remained this blind spot for so long? Well, when we look at women's health funding in general of in |
| 1:15.1 | 23, the NIH, so when we look at who funds research, right? It's the National Institutes of |
| 1:21.0 | Health, pharma that get their medications through, and private companies. Okay. So right now, |
| 1:32.5 | NIH, you know, things are changing rapidly and I don't know what's going to happen there. |
| 1:33.3 | It's not prioritized. |
| 1:34.3 | So, you know, so now, but we're also seeing the greatest transfer of wealth to women in the |
| 1:39.5 | history of the world and women don't build rockets or buy yachts. |
| 1:42.5 | They invest in health. |
| 1:45.3 | In other women, shocker. |
| 1:46.6 | Melinda Gates, huge $100 million. |
| 1:49.9 | You know, we look at the Care Foundation. |
| 1:52.1 | We look at McKenzie Scott, you know, like Mrs. Walton, Alice, I think, just built a medical |
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