Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, McKenzie Kappa. If you're new here, this is a podcast

geared towards women who want to feel healthy, look good, and stay organized. We tend to lean a little bit

crunchy, but want to stay modern and pulled together at the same time. We talk a lot about

planning, beauty, wellness, hobbies, and the same time. We talk a lot about planning,

beauty, wellness, hobbies, and everything in between. We're real women doing our best to live

well anyway in the midst of life's chaos. I'm so glad you're here. In today's episode, I feel like,

is so valuable. I have on Dr. Mary Claire Haver today, and she just came out with the book,

The Galveston Diet, which is really more of a lifestyle that helps you use nutrition

to tame your hormonal symptoms. Can I get an amen? Now, a lot of this information is geared

towards people like myself who are closer to perimenopause, menopause, you know.

And I know there are a lot of you out there who are not to the stage yet. You're like,

I'm just having babies and, you know, whatever. But I have always loved listening to podcasts of people

who are a few steps ahead of me in life and gathering as much information as I can from them

before I actually get to that

stage. So I would say don't shy away from this episode if you feel like, well, I'm just not in

that life stage yet because guess what? You will be. And it's going to come faster than you

ever thought it possibly could. I know that I am feeling that myself. So, I mean, even for me

personally, I'm on the cusp of turning 39

in a few months. And in this last year, I have experienced a hot flash for the first time. And it was

awful. I think I've mentioned that on the episode. I've had night sweats. I've had all kinds of

fluctuations in the way I feel like my body is dealing with things. And so I was so excited to get Mary Claire

on the episode. I've been watching her on Instagram for quite a while now. I love the

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