Menopause: What to Know, What to Ask & What to Do – Mary Claire Haver, M.D. : 1015
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… board-certified OB/GYN and “menopause warrior” Mary Claire Haver, M.D., joins the show to give women a toolkit to manage what comes before, during and after menopause.
- She explains the science of women’s hormones, physiology and brain during the menopausal transition.
- She breaks down the studies, risks, and age timing of Hormone Replacement Therapy.
- She gives you information you can use to both help yourself and ask for help from medical professionals.
- She arms you with actions that work based on what is happening to your biology and brain chemistry during the years leading up to and after menopause.
“When I talk about the menopausal toolkit, HRT is just one small part of what I counsel patients about,” Dr. Haver says. “We talk about nutrition, we talk about exercise, we talk about stress reduction, we talk about sleep, we talk about possible other pharmaceuticals. And of course, we talk about supplementation. It's like a tackle box and everything is important.”
Although Dr. Haver’s career included taking care of women at all life stages, she didn’t expect to experience the shocks of her own menopause. So, she went looking for answers and took action along the way. She changed the entire focus of her medical practice to menopause. She also channeled the power of social media to provide menopause education and reaches more than 2 million on her TikTok channel alone.
Her new book, “The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms," lays out three specific action areas: intermittent fasting, anti-inflammatory nutrition, and fuel refocus.
Menopause is having a moment. (As Lizzo would say, “It’s About Damn Time.”) From investor-backed start-ups in a $6B market to celebrity-led wellness brands to demands for more science—women, and women medical professionals, are changing mid-life menopause dynamics.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.8 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.2 | On today's show, we're going to talk about hormones. |
| 0:19.6 | We're going to talk about menopause and what to do about it, what to ask, and how it affects |
| 0:25.8 | you. |
| 0:26.8 | If you're a guy listening to this, you could say, I think I'll skip to the next episode. |
| 0:31.5 | And you could. |
| 0:32.5 | However, I am just going to tell you that menopause is already screwing up your life. |
| 0:41.6 | That's because if you're young, it's happening to your mom or your aunt or your grandmother. |
| 0:47.6 | And it's probably happening to your boss or your boss's boss. |
| 0:51.6 | And if you are a woman who's premenopausal, it probably is going to happen to you. |
| 0:57.8 | And what you do now is going to affect how you feel in the future. |
| 1:01.8 | It's going to make a really, really big difference. |
| 1:05.3 | So with no further ado, let me introduce you to today's guest, who is actually not named |
| 1:10.7 | after a magazine, even though her name is Mary Claire Haver, who's a medical doctor. |
| 1:17.6 | And she made it onto the show today because like a lot of my favorite hormone experts, she's |
| 1:25.4 | a doctor, but the stuff didn't work. |
| 1:29.0 | So she walked into the buzz saw that can be menopause when you don't manage it correctly |
| 1:35.1 | and had to deal with it. |
| 1:36.6 | And these are always the best doctors, like, oh my God, I had to learn a bunch of stuff |
| 1:40.3 | that I didn't learn in medical school for my own uses. |
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