#1 Menopause Doctor: Biggest Myths On Weight Gain, Diet & Exercise For Women with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Dhru Purohit Show
Dhru Purohit
4.7 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
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The transition to menopause has historically lacked comprehensive discussion and is often perceived as an abrupt occurrence without recourse. Our guest today has emerged as a vocal advocate, shedding light on the journey from perimenopause to menopause and providing empowering strategies for women navigating this transformative phase.
Today, on the Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with menopause expert Dr. Mary Claire Haver. Dr. Haver guides us through the myths and misconceptions surrounding perimenopause and menopause. She sheds light on the misguided research and beliefs that contributed to a lack of awareness about this transition for women and the challenges women face during this time. This episode is a must-list for women of any age!
Dr. Mary Claire Haver is board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist. In 2021 she opened Mary Claire Wellness, a clinic dedicated to caring for the menopausal patient. She developed the best-selling book and program called The Galveston Diet, a three-pronged lifestyle plan that encourages fuel refocusing, intermittent fasting, and anti-inflammatory nutrition to manage hormonal symptoms, stabilize weight, and revitalize the body as it ages to provide benefits that will last a lifetime.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Haver dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- Why women are living in poorer health later in life (0:00:28 / 0:00:28)
- The implications of lack of education about perimenopause and menopause (9:03 / 5:41)
- Surprising symptoms related to perimenopause (14:35 / 11:30)
- Hormonal changes that cause visceral fat (18:53 / 15:45)
- What habits can help women reduce visceral fat (34:11 /29:36)
- Protein and resistance training (40:05 / 35:02)
- A disruption in sleep quality and sleep apnea in women (43:51 / 38:00)
- The stress impact on women (50:50 /45:25)
- Gaslighting and lack of education: why women aren’t being heard (56:36 / 51:50)
- How menopause impacts gut health(1:01:12 / 56:25)
- Supplements to support perimenopause and menopause (1:03:58 / 58:59)
- HRT: Who is it for, how much, and when? (1:15:40 / 1:10:56)
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Dr. Haver’s new book, The New Menopause
- North American Menopause Society
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Mary, Claire, Haver, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | You know, one of the most mind-blowing facts that you've been shouting from the rooftops |
| 0:10.5 | that will surprise a lot of people when they hear it is that yes women are living |
| 0:16.0 | longer and there's a but though but they're not living as healthy as they could be, especially in the last one-third of their lives. |
| 0:28.0 | Tell our audience what you mean about this. |
| 0:30.8 | You know that statistic. |
| 0:32.3 | I learned about that actually fairly recently. I knew that we lived about six, four to six years longer than our male counterparts, but what I didn't realize the statistics would support is that 20% of our lives are lived in poorer health than males. |
| 0:51.0 | So men just kind of live and then die. We have this protracted period of progressive |
| 0:57.6 | frailty, dementia, you know, and we're much more likely to end up needing long-term care and then our male counterparts and you know so my big focus now when I talk to my patients in clinic is they're looking at their mothers, their aunts, the women in their |
| 1:15.2 | family and how they've aged and they're like a lot of them are really scared and like what can I do now? |
| 1:20.7 | Nutrition, health, recommendations, whatever so that I can limit my time of needing long-term care. |
| 1:26.0 | We're going to jump around a little bit in this interview, but I want to get started at the beginning a little bit from part of the story that I'm starting at. |
| 1:34.5 | Like a lot of women you started to notice shifts in your body composition. |
| 1:40.8 | And it was this moment where you started notice a little bit more fat around the |
| 1:46.4 | belly some changes in sort of fat distribution body composition |
| 1:50.5 | distribution and that got you to a place where if I understand correctly |
| 1:56.0 | You felt that you wanted your husband to have the wife that he quote-unquote deserved I'm using your words at the time that you |
| 2:04.8 | were sharing with him so nobody cancel me and that sets you on a journey tell |
| 2:09.9 | us what journey that sets you on yeah and how that led you to the topic of visceral |
| 2:16.1 | fact but even bigger than that how that led you to this topic that you are most |
| 2:20.8 | known for talking about today. |
| 2:22.6 | Minapause, yeah. |
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