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Hey, everyone. It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to Work in Progress. Today Today we are joined by a doctor who I am just so inspired by

because she's managing to make very complex science that affects all of us ladies feel like something

we can tackle together. By 2030, more than a billion women worldwide will be postmenopausal,

yet for most of modern medicine, menopause has been treated like an afterthought. Women struggle

with symptoms from sleep disruption and brain fog to metabolic shifts and cardiovascular risk,

yet most doctors receive little to no training in menopause care, leaving millions of us

to navigate this transition with limited or no guidance. And while you might not be in menopause,

are you in perimenopause? Do you know? Do any of us know? How do we know? Nobody tells us anything.

But Dr. Mary Claire Haver is here to help tell us what we need to know

indeed. She's among a group of physicians that is really working to change our experience with

this part of life that all of us go through. She's a board certified OBGYN. She's a certified

menopause practitioner. And she has become one of the most widely

followed educators in midlife women's health. Her bestselling book, The New Menopause,

ignited a broader public conversation about this stage of life, and its follow-up, her latest,

the new perimenopause, turns to the earlier least understood and most disruptive

phase of the transition fun fact she also was involved in producing balance with our work in

progress friend genie my who you heard from earlier this year we're going to talk all things

women's health how we take care of ourselves,

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