Dr Mary Claire Haver: Your new menopause toolkit
Dr Mary Claire Haver: Your new menopause toolkit
Make smarter food choices for your body: https://zoe.com/podcast
The menopause transition can bring unexpected challenges — the effects can significantly impact daily life and long-term health.
Dr. Mary Claire Haver is a board-certified gynaecologist and a menopause specialist. She’s helped thousands of women in perimenopause and menopause…
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When I hear things like 70% of people show improvement after following such and such guidelines, I agree that this should be celebrated. But I always think of the 30% who had no improvement. What becomes of them ?
Has anyone looked at the Hadza women? How are they experiencing menopause? What can we learn from them?
My dad referred to it as “the change” when my mom went through Menopause!
Sorry to ask – I’m 41 have past 5/6 months I just feel hot all the time. Never used to feel like this, used to always be cold. Now I can’t get down to a t shirt quick enough. I hear about hot flashes/flushes – has anyone ever had feeling of almost always being too hot all the time? Thank you x I seem to get no clarity from the GP why I am feeling the way I do with the changes I am feeling
I love the idea of exercise snacking!
I m 58 after 8 years in menopause ; I just saw a Dr she prescribed Estradiol 10 MCG vaginal once a day for 14 days then one tablet twice a week ; also Tolterodine Tartrate 1MG tablets – Why I m getting mild colics like menstruation pain after taking these? It has been 8 days: my husband said to wait .
Of all symptoms, hot flashes were the worst for me. Over 50 per day! Trouble sleeping was number 2. Love my estradiol patch. ❤
I still have hot flushes after 20 years. Even after starting HRT two years ago I had respite but they have gradually returned.
I also had frozen shoulder in peri menopause – didn't realis the connection until this podcast. Interestingly I had another episode of frozen shoulder when I started the HRT again did not realise the connection
Thanks you, Jonathan, Dr. Sarah & Dr. Mary Claire for the information and a great interview!
Food, sleep, movement, strength training, and HRT. Thank you 💛
Hopefully there will one day be a home testing kit for our hormones, like there is for blood sugar levels for diabetics.
To see where our natural hormones are in perimenopause, and then to check if we're absorbing our HRT properly in post menopause. It's such an issue trying to get tested by the GP, so much better to do it ourselves at home as often as needed. Levels do matter, not just whether or not we're still getting symptoms of hot flushes. Especially for bone loss protection after menopause 😊xx
How long can a woman be on the estradiol patch? At what age must she stop?
Started Menopause at aged 38. I am now 68 and suffering continuously throughout that time. I live in Western Australia, and the medical response is not good. I still feel different symptoms now, and if you need help from a specialist, you need plenty of money. I feel helpless. Thank you for this video.
I have suffered with very intense hot flashes for almost 24 years, from perimenopause to post menopause. Since I have changed my diet to the Zoe recommended diet, lots of variety and fibre, my hot flashes have decreased. Also, I was told last September I had type 2 diabetes. In November 2023, I discovered Zoe and the glucose goddess. From that night on, I changed the order of how I ate and my entire life changed. My blood sugar went from 7 to 6.3 in less than five weeks, and three months later it is now 6. Now if I could just get rid of the hot flashes forever.
I noticed that if I eat red meat and/or lots of dairy, that's an instant trigger for sleeplessness and hot flashes. I now only eat them on occasion. I try to stay away from food that my body struggles to digest.
Whole world woman needs this information specially doctors 😮 all lenguajes please
I never got hot flashes or the typical symptoms. I tried biological hormone pills and if they didn’t work, I could just stop. I’m 43 and they have helped me a-lot in the two months I’ve been on them. I don’t eat foods with preservatives I barely eat out and I do not eat fast food.. and low alcohol consumption. We all pick different journeys, but I had breast implants. I fully removed them almost a year ago. I can tell you they caused a lot of issues in my body and I’m not sure if all of it will recover or not. I’ve also been exposed to mold multiple times and I’m very sensitive to it. Lots of things can disrupt your hormones. I don’t know if taking hormone replacement can work for somebody if they’re living in mold though. Most likely it would be better to have it than not but a lot of the symptoms they talk about are similar to if you have mold in your home or work (or even breast implants or root canals)
Hot flashes and sleepiness nights are so draining 😢 I exercise but definitely have to make changes on my diet and get hormones therapy. I’am 56 and take zero meds, very healthy since birth but hot flashes are becoming way too often.
There's so much great info in this, thank you – but why oh why given the multiple times it was emphasised that we need to get away from the idea that hot flashes are the main symptom of menopause is the thumbnail focused on hot flashes – I nearly didn't watch it!
I have had 2 frozen shoulders during peri menopause, about 5 years apart. I was never told it was related to pre menopausal symptoms. My GP advised me to rest the first time I had which was the worst advice and resulted in a severe frozen shoulder which meant I could barely lift my arm. The second time I was better informed so got better treatment and kept exercising. Really interesting to see it now linked as a symptom.
Well, I am 60, I dint know how you think post menopause so easy…. I can still tell the week before I would have had a period by my moods and period poos, can write it in my diary when my periods would have been.
No periiods since 53, still have the frozen shoulder but you are saying too late for me to have HRT.
I wish you had discussed bio identical hormones versus synthetic.
my IBS got worse with peri menopause. i am now more cautious about sugar coffee and junk foods.
I've had arguments with 3 doctors (one was female) refuting what I am experiencing in my own body. Ask this question 'who is the worlds best expert on your body'?
Amazing information. Any chance you could enable subtitles in Polish? I would love to be able to share this with my mum.
OMG I had frozen shoulder in each of my shoulders in peri-menopause. I had NO idea it was related!! It was so painful and took over a year to resolve for each one with therapy. This was the early days of over ten years of so many dreadful symptoms that I wished I would just die because I didn't want to be in this body anymore.
Stop with all the other stuff! Bhrt is most needed
I’m sharing this episode with every woman I know! What also needs to be included in the conversation is how in the US, HRT treatment is cost-prohibitive to many women because it is not covered by insurance, therefore, not accessible if you’re not willing to pay out of pocket! Thank you for spreading education into the world! ❤
It would be useful to have transparency around payment to US MDs in terms of income/licen to practice as MD/money from big pharma by prescribing HRT and also greater transparency around associated risks of cancer of the breast and womb.
I recently had a blood test done which flagged that my blood sugar was higher than it should be. I was shocked because I generally thought I had a healthy diet, but mostly because my diet hasn't changed and I'd always had healthy markers before. This podcast gives a very clear explanation for the reason. I am going through menopause and this is a major symptom. We really need to learn more and have better education around how we can make changes to prepare for these changes. The doctor I saw was not helpful, simply told me things I should not eat, without suggesting what I should eat instead. When another symptom is feeling hungry, this is doubly unhelpful. Thanks Zoe and keep up the great work.
Hello, I recently joined the Zoe programme. Can’t really say that it is working for me. I am 50 and has a partial hysterectomy at age 30, I had an ultrasound 1.5 years ago and it showed my overies shrunk away and could start with HRT. Was given estrodial gel but I got terrible acne and water retention. I also suffer from a underactive thyroid my Endocrinologist has schande the estridial gel to a patch. First he gave me a combination estrogen/progesterone, which seem to have been much better for me. But my GP change it to Estrogen 50 (apparently you should t take progesterone when you had a hysterectomy). The ache come back and then the patch dosage was lowered to .25. Can’t say this made any difference.. besides the ulcer acne, I struggle to sleep or stay asleep. I am gaining weight and just feel very low. My blood tests shows my thyroid levels are normal on my current thyroxine dosage. I also have a herniated lumber disc, facet joined cyst and stenosis. I get groin and hip pain and the MRI shows lambrum tear. I don’t know what to do, do zo go back on the higher patch for bone prevention and does it really make such a huge difference to take a combination estrogen/progesterone patch when you had a partial hysterectomy but it works better? And then the other question could something else cause the acne besides the patch? My endocrinologist said just accept things as they are forget about getting your weight on track you are an aging woman …
My main symptoms r dizziness,lightheaded,memory problems, hot flashes! Sore joints