How I Stay Healthy In Menopause
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- Dr. Haver shares what she does on a daily basis to stay healthy. These are all part of her Menopause Toolkit and are part of the Galveston Diet.
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Dr. Mary Claire Haver is a passionate women’s health advocate who believes women in midlife deserve to live their best life. She cuts through fat-shaming and fads, so women are empowered with the science behind anti-inflammation nutrition.
Dr. Mary Claire Haver is a wife, mom, physician, and entrepreneur who has devoted her adult life to women’s health. As a Board-Certified OBGYN in the Houston area, Dr. Haver has delivered thousands of babies, completed thousands of well-woman exams, counseled patients, taught residents, and did everything an academic professor and OBGYN could do.
As her patient population aged, Dr. Haver was overwhelmed with the number of complaints and concerns her patients had with weight gain while going through menopause. For years, she told her patients to eat less and exercise more. It wasn't until she experienced the changes of menopause and mid-life weight gain that she realized this advice doesn't work and ultimately led to her creating and developing a new program, The Galveston Diet.
The Galveston Diet is the first and only nutrition program created by a Female OBGYN, designed for women in menopause. The Galveston Diet helps women reach their health and wellness goals through an anti-inflammatory approach to nutrition. Dr. Haver believes in food's power to combat inflammation and highly recommends the unlimited benefits of intermittent fasting. As part of her ongoing research, she became certified in Culinary Medicine in 2019, specializing in medical nutrition.
I am 68. When I went through menopause I kept my eye out for symptoms. Hot flashes - I figured out they happened to me when I ate white sugar so I stopped with the sugar. I always have walked about 3 miles a day. I never took any HRT because I had a 70 year old woman tell me to steer clear of them. Well, now I am almost 70 and I feel great and am in moderately good health. I do not take any medications. I do take a one a day vitamin and a calcium with vid d supplement vitamin every day and have for years.
That's wonderful. I don't believe that we are meant to take medication for menopause, it's natural and you just go with the flow. It's also pretty commonly known that if you take replacement hormones, they eventually cause cancer, mainly estrogen is the culprit.
Youre right about white sugar (white bread...anything white!!!) causing hot flushes.
You are 100% correct on the connection between hot flashes and sugar/white flour products that increase inflammation in the body. At one point I was having up to 10 episodes during the day per day. I quit sugar/white flour, and after about two weeks they stopped all together.
HRT has been dismissed as having a cancer link. And is a lifesaver for those who need it! Just because menopause is "natural" doesn't mean women need to suffer. Good for you that yours was easy but many aren't
@@kguen2022THIS. So much ignorance out there
6- stop all alcohol consumption. Research have shown that even a small amount of alcohol is bad for health contrary to what we were previously told.
7- stop all highly processed food and switch to Whole Foods.
Agree with whole foods, but red wine helps with antioxidants, bood flow, and stress, I try to limit to 1-2 glasses twice a week.
@@openyourmind3763 There are studies saying that NO amount of alcohol is safe.
I agree with no alcohol at all . Instead of alcohol eat a piece of chocolate with 95% of cacao, it will give you the same and even more benefits than the red wine.
@@siberutinfinite1508 there are research studies saying that no amount of alcohol is safe and that alcohol harms the liver and kidneys even in small quantities. Grape juice is good for health, pomegranates, beetroot juice .. I got a juicer and I make juices at home. Alcohol is bad.
YES, good advise
Comprehensive and holistic advice from a professional, we don't see this enough! 🙏🏻
Is HRT holistic?
Thank you SO much for recommending HRT (from another video)! I finally got my first full rest without hot flashes in over a year! GAME CHANGER!!! ❤️🙌❤️
that is so great!
I cannot sleep 3/4 hours a night . Osteo, type 3 diabetes, broken bones healing now , uterus lining thick ?? I'm a mess hot flashes almost gone again . I need help
For bones did u try vitamin d3 and k2 with mk7 i buy now brand product
Im not a doctor ok@@RavenWolfDrum69
Let's hope it won't cause cancer - bc most of it does, sorry. It's not safe (& I hv a PhD & every Dr & MD I know won't touch it🙏🏻🇬🇧
Her advice is excellent and to the point. Thank you
Some great advice! I do all of them except the last one. If the FDA has approved that specific hormone replacement that is a big red flag to stay away from it.
Bioidentical have worked great for me. Been with this since 2014. What a difference! I swear by this! Great advice.
I agree with the vitamins she said but if you take D3 then you need to take K2 also, otherwise you will get yourself in problems. HRT is a big no, indeed a red flag. Women of previous generations didn't had all those menopausal problems , women has to start asking why they didn't had those.
I went through hell with the menopause for 10 years😞
Wasn’t exercising following a healthy diet. Had suffered extreme vitamin d deficiency, ended up with hypothyroidism . It felt like my own body and mind were turning against me and trying to take me out of the equation. Like I said after 10 years I relented and was prescribed hormone replacement. I was on it for about a year . At first I felt a little bit better then nothing. Spoke to a female doctor who advised me to slowly come off the medication.
Which I did, I have started to watch my diet . I do a little yoga which I Love , took me a while as at first I felt as supple as a Lego brick. Started following Kassandra on CZcams 10 minute yoga sessions.
I then started to follow Petra on her menopause belly exercise and have started to feel my clothes becoming a little looser. I’ve become gradually more supple and generally my yoga sessions are now 20 30 40 mins long depending on which one of the many yoga sessions I choose to do each morning. If I feel unwell I take a day or two rest then show up on the mat. Continuity of this routine will help make changes along with sugar and dairy fat reduction.
I could go on …. 😂
Just one more thing
BE KIND TO YOURSELF ❤
Should one start HRT after 60?
@@siberutinfinite1508 oh, they suffered. It was taboo to talk about. I've talked candidly with women born in 1915, 1910 and the 1920s. They were not going to complain cuz there was nothing to be done for it but label you a hysterical woman and put you away.
Can you share the exact supplements you use please?
She has a video on that
Consider taking vitex aka agnus cactus, which balances hormones naturally. DHEA 5-10 mg, sublingual tablets in the early morning. Transdermal topical USP progesterone cream applied daily into skin. Maca herbal supplement once a day, before afternoon. These are just a few that can GREATly help a woman aged 45 +. Many wholistic functional MDs that specialize in women's health. recommend these. But getting urine or saliva testing for hormone levels done first, is always a first step...,🌞
This was so good and clear to understand . I do all of that plus the same vitamins. I just started Progesterone and Estrogen (that you said) in November. I am 70. I was having a lot of anxiety, bad dreams, painful joints.
I really do feel better, inflammation is way down...My vitamins are now whole food and no preservatives or flow agent
Love it.. Except for the turmeric..
It’s high in oxalates and can cause kidney damage..
India may have lower cardiovascular disease but their kidney disease is off the charts ..
Consider using curcumin instead..
it is lower in oxalic acid
hhhhhmmm thank you for sharing this
The reason I can’t take estrogen replacement--caused, benign brain tumor, start of breast cancer, and a full hysterectomy. However, being always active, from college on, with running and racquetball, now just long cycling days, walking, weights, yoga, stretching, Pilates, keeps my 77 yr old self feeling good. If you can’t afford a gym or week long cycling trips, walking is super. Keep adding the miles, possibly jumping jacks for the bones. Keep moving-you’ll feel better
Just want to mention that piperine (in black pepper) helps the body to retain the curcumin of turmeric long enough to use it well.
And that a lot of east Indian cooking uses turmeric in good amounts.
Need hormone therapy help, how dan you help, Im in PR
Impressed about contribution! I thought it true!
GYN appt. tomorrow to discuss HRT. Thank you for coming into my life. ❤❤❤❤
I appreciate your video I need to get it together I'm feeling terrible I gain so much weight I have never been this big in my life
Hi I started fasting 7 months ago and it changed my life start slowly my last meal is at 6 p.m and breakfast at 11 am or 12 maybe 1pm start slowly if your sugar is high get under control For me is harder I hada liver transplant 9 years ago the medicine it makes my sugar high cholesterol high I lost 20 lbs so far sometimes I only eat breakfast I don’t get hungry I hope it helps you. I’m 60 years old I’m 140 lbs. Dr berg has videos on fasting Dr Mindy they made it easy
Thank you so much for all the support and information you provide ❤
My gynecologist wouldn’t prescribe HRT to me because she said I’m still in perimenopause. But I do everything you do, except I need to add magnesium to my daily vitamins.
I'm on HRT and am in perimenopause. It works amazingly for me. Maybe ask another doctor?
@@andrice33 I’ll probably do that if I can no longer manage my symptoms.
You need to be careful how you frame your symptoms to the obgyn. Tell them symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, insomnia, trouble holding urine etc and ask for relief with HRT. There’s no reason to not give them to you
@@amylee9get another doctor.
The magnesium is great! Magnesium glycinate is one of the easiest on the tummy (gas/bowel movement)
Love just won’t do hormone therapy but all the rest I do as well. Thank you so much please keep giving amazing content
because of breast cancer?
I went off HRT after five years, and I wished I'd stayed on it longer.
Agree with all but the HRT...I'm just scared of it .
Spot on! HRT isn't ideal. NAC - glutathione instead will do wonders and is natural
HRT helped me after a hysterectomy. It is better than suffering and having brittle bones.
I was scared too until I started looking into it more. I read the book Estrogen Matters written by an oncologist who has helped hundreds of women in the past twenty years. It was an eye opener. I made it through perimenopause by diet and supplements alone, but I decided to go on plant based HRT for the protection of my bones, heart and brain. I’m glad I did.
Plant based HRT?
I wonder if the HRT could help someone in their 80s who has osteoporosis?
Read the book "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause" by John R. Lee MD, the progesterone is key to reverse osteoporosis
Please keep your videos coming!!!! Thank you ❤
What about a toolkit for premenopausal women????
PLEASE ❤
Those are great things to do. What should someone do if they're not a candidate for HRT?
May I ask why? Bioidentical hormone replacement is very safe.
@user-nf3ry4mw7b My gyno told me anyone who has had breast cancer or there's a history of breast cancer in the immediate family wouldn't be a candidate for HRT. Other than that I'm not sure...
@@tammyeble8304 I do know that the WHI (women’s health initiative) was a big pharma study funded by US tax dollars. They were looking at the results from giving women synthetic hormones or “natural” hormones from horses. The truth is, big pharma knows full well that they make more bank off of women w/out bioidentical HRT. This includes: women’s heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, NAFLD, depression, dementia, & osteoporosis etc… b/c they are w/out bio-identical hormones. It’s a travesty. Also, giving only estrogen instead of all the hormones depleted during peri and full menopause isn’t going to work! Women got cancer for 2 reasons: the uterus wasn’t shedding the lining monthly b/c they had no progesterone AND the synthetic estrogen (or foreign estrogen from animals) was not easily recognized by the human body. Please consult w/ a doc about bio-identical estradiol PLUS progesterone!! Eventually, you may need a bit of testosterone as well. I’ve seen what happens to women w/out HRT and it’s heart breaking. ❤️ to you. (I’m not a physician, but I am a medical biologist & genetic engineer. I’m currently working on receiving my mortician’s license. I wish you well!!!)
Depends what symptoms you strugle with ...
@@user-nf3ry4mw7bnot for those of us with hormone positive cancers
How can I get the HRT that you use?
Research bioidentical hrt doctors in your area.
You can also call one of your local compounding pharmacies and see if there is someone that they recommend in your area. They usually know the providers that are up to date on current studies. ❤️
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS GREAT AND USEFUL INFORMATION!
I had breast cancer and can’t take HRT… the drug I’m on for 5 years is wreaking havoc on my joints. It’s awful.
Same babe. I’m barely 35 but I feel like I’m 75 😢
Just stop it
Same 🥺
@@debiwillis9045 you want us to “just stop” treatments that help prevent our cancer from returning or spreading? Like… you want us to die or what?
Can you do a what i eat in a day video
I saw one - maybe you can find it on her channel page.
Ive just restarted HRT...stuck a patch on 2days ago. lets go!
Thank you thank you for sharing your brain and tools with us!! 2nd year menopause after complete hysterectomy, and taking no kind of hormones. I'm only 43 and was threw into menopause instantly! This past year has been horrible! Your info is going to be put into practice starting today from this woman! 🎉 Omgosh I'm so excited to watch more and hopefully feel better!!! I do yoga, walk, drink teas and take nothing for vitamins or hormones! 😢I've been a wreck!
This makes me so sad! I hope you find someone that can help you with your symptoms.
Women should not have to suffer like this.
I’m 63 and have used BHRT since I had a hysterectomy at age 49.
I hope you find relief soon. ❤️
@@Sissyksgirl thank you so much!!!
Get on HRT! Check into your options, it may be a game changer for you!!
@@travelpro23 I did for the first three months after the hysterectomy and the doctor didn't prescribe them again. He said they were more likely to give me breast cancer than do any good. I was on the patch. I don't have breast cancer in my family, I've had a caffeine knot removed from a breast once but that's all. I have an appointment this week to discuss my options.... These conversations have really helped me to get to work on advocating for my own health and my day to day QUALITY OF LIFE!!! So important 💯 and your right I do believe it will be a game changer... I just worked 4 days and had to call out today bc I am simply like a limp noodle.... No energy.... Mind is like that of my 16 yr old pothead self (blank) I have suddenly began smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee again in the last few months too.... 🙏🏻 Thx for taking time to respond.... 💯❤️🤍✨
@@Prodigalsreturnedyes you still deserve the best quality of life! Here’s to your health and a smoother journey ahead! ❤🥂
I wisy i had a knowledgeable educated wholistic functional OB/GYN like you. Sounds like you are really helping people, and naturally. Kudos to you. Praise God. 🙏
Would love to know what brand of supplements you recommend ❤
I'm so absolutely positively delighted I found your channel ❤❤❤
I took HRT, it made me itching so I went off of it, exercise, no alcohol and vegetables & fruits also walking
You're awesome. Thanks for tips and encouragement!!
😊 thank you! For this great self care tutorial 🏋🏽♀️👍💯
Doc, number 3 had me rolling on the floor. You crack me up. 😂
Thank you for your information ❤
thank you for sharing your videos
Great information thank u👏🙏
Question: I will be 57 yrs old in August, my doctor here in Ontario Canada Prescribed me (after I told her about you ) when I asked for HRT, Teva-Progesterone 100mg and Estradot 50 (transdermal patch each containing 0.780mg of eatradiol-17rs? With a normal release rate in Vovo of 0.050mg/24hr…my pharmacist was concerned of stroke as I get migraines (with occasional aura)and take Zomitriptan 2.5mg when get a migraine. What are your thoughts? Thank you in advance. Paula ❤
Total hysterectomy 18 months ago an I've never felt better. Hot flashes almost all but stopped 7 weeks post op. I get them about 1 or twice a week. Usually only for about 30 seconds. That's it. I sleep 8 solid hours. Something I haven't done my entire life. Best decision I ever made
You’re fortunate. I had the same surgery about a year ago - have put on 20 lbs, hot flashes constantly, and am lucky if I get 1 or 2 good nights of sleep a week… plus depression and total lack of energy or motivation, none of which I ever experienced before.
Love u. Good for u for sharing all this! You’re god sent
Thank you I am learning a lot from you
Doc, what‘s your opinion about taking St. John‘s Wort for mild depression during perimenopause?
I love the glasses you have.
Resistance training is excellent 👌 but remember too much exercise is counter productive and the benefits of exercise are only gotten with sufficient rest and recovery ,👍 more exercise does not mean more health 😮
I would argue the boundaries part is up there. Wayyy up ⬆️ there on my health list
Combi! The best thing ever ❤
TY! Love you and your work.
I'm loving it! I watch iron levels too though.
I loved the Combi but I started bleeding after 8 months . Switched to the patch with the higher progesterone… That lasted about the same eight or 9 months . Now I’m doing the estradiol patch and a progesterone pill. So far so good ( month 10 🤞 )
I agree with all but the intermittent fasting. It doesn't work for everyone, it's important to know your own body. I actually gain weight with IF. However, by eating clean and only until 80٪ full, then I keep my blood sugar stable, lose weight, have no inflammation and can eat 3 to 6x a day depending on my hunger. Each day is different and i embrace that and it makes things more exciting.
Thank you for sharing such valuable information
?with a pinch of salt. She's spot on except HRT
So helpful!
There it is. Number 5 she’s selling
That boundary thing is hard. Everything else will fall into place if that were a doable possibility
How do you get over the depression hump or you're just unmotivating can't get anything started/done. What do you do if the hormone medicine causes you acid reflux you can't even take it. It also makes it very difficult to fast.
Did you find anything that is helping you with depression and lack of motivation? I have been struggling really bad with my major depressive disorder and absolutely NO motivation for the past 5 years. I am post menopause and 54 years old and have no quality of life because these symptoms are getting worse! I am so tired of laying in bed most of the time because I have no energy to do anything. I take a multivitamin but I’ve never tried HRT. I would love to try the bio identical hormones that are plant based but they are too expensive to take and my insurance will not pay for them. I hope you have found something that is helping you. Please let me know if you have. 😊
@@Suzzyyy2337 I'm going to try to take the estrogen patches again in a few weeks. I don't know that I found anything to help me get out I do have an aid that comes cuz I have a physical disability so that gets me moving. I do the things that keep me out of bed and even if it is watching TV or being on Facebook sitting up and getting out of bed is less painful for me than staying in bed. And I feel like Facebook is a social thing even if I'm not talking face-to-face. When the weather gets nice I try to go outside even if it's just a sit in the steps and keep my Yorkie company. And everything you do you should be proud of it. I had a seen your buddy and she was really depressed and she said she did nothing and I would ask her if she got her to bed and she said yes and I'm like that's something then we would list everything she did like brush your teeth, take a shower, make breakfast, do some laundry. Read a newspaper those are things you're doing and it may seem stupid to other people but that you're doing them can be a good thing and it's the start of something.
For stress I love Boiron homeopathic Stress Calm tablets! Also Gaia Adrenal Health capsules 🥰
Women MUST be careful with intermittent fastin, because a lot of women 45+ have gall bladder issues and therefore they must eat small portions 6 times a day,no long hunger periods. Otherwise the gall bladder becomes inflammated and causes inflammation in all other organs.
Do you use testosterone cream or anything like that, or do you rely on exercise to keep testosterone levels where they should be?
My physician has me injecting testosterone 1 time per week.
Dr. Haver uses testosterone cream from a compounding pharmacy for herself.
Greatest advice! 💯🤗
I use combipatch too!
Thanks so much ❤
Thanks
Yay for all of that but especially HRT 🎉
Thank you! ❤❤❤❤
Back when I took hormonal birth control in my 20’s it made me gradually more and more moody, irrational and fat until I couldn’t function in everyday life. I had to stop taking it. I’m 45 now and feeling the first signs of menopause but I’m afraid that taking hormones will make me crazy and fat again.
Thank you!
Blood tests so toxic levels of supplements don't happen. Learned the hard way.😢 Detoxification
Be aware that some people do not absorb meds through the skin very well. This will impact the efficacy of the HRT if you're affected by this. Try a different format.
"I also put up Important Boundaries in my life, with individuals who cause me stress"
Do most of this except intermittent fasting. I couldn't handle it. It messed up my sleep.
Had me at all the steps but that stress one. That’s a hard one and I try everyday but somehow stress wins. lol😂🤔🙏
My MNL is suffering through menopause. I've told her to talk to her doctor and get hormone therapy to help, but she refuses and says a dr she saw in social media mentioned that artificial hormones causes cancer. I'm sad that she refuses to listen, there is not much I can do for her😔
Awesome n tu doc. What would you recommend as an alternative for hrt for those of us who can’t take them!?!
Thank you
Stay hydrated. Plenty of water, lessens my hotflashs.
Thank you❤
How can you practice the Galveston Diet as a plant based person? Thanks so much!
Thank you. 🌈💜💕
You have to take potassium along with magnesium otherwise it can cause a deficiency in the potassium...
I’m following you and sharing so others will also
THANK YOU! Please let me know which box you are showing here and how to get these natural hormones to supplement with! Are they patches
How do you get them
I’m 52 and have terrible sugar cravings. Gained a stone suddenly and cannot shift even a couple of pounds 😢. I’m so weak to try to do intermittent fasting. I’m just such a mess!
Great advice, Doctor! At what age do you recommend stopping hormone replacement? Or do we never stop?
❤ Great advice
What about folks who had a total hysterectomy? Immediate menopause?... what do we do
Any exercise I can do with fibromyalgia and arthritis of the knees and back pain
Would love to know what supplement brands you use
Thank you so much for sharing - what fiber do you recommend- some are so gross - I can’t take them!
I'm 52 with Hashimoto's. I'm pretty sure I'm post menopausal, but I'm not sure because I had a hysterectomy about 12 years ago.
Recently, I was wanting to lose five pounds and just feel better, so I tried intermittent fasting and gained seven pounds - even while exercising 20 minutes a day along with only eating two meals a day.
Do you have a thought about why this would happen?
How do you set boundaries
Hello. What magnesium do you use. There several. I have autoimmune disease. Thank you
What can we do for our hormones after breast cancer? My doctors will not allow me to take HRT. Doing everything else as much as possible.
What kind of magnesium should we take?
What about hormone replacement for women with h/o estrogen positive breast cancer?
I am 60 but had a complete hysterectomy at 48 due to fibroids. What hormone replacement would tou suggest for someone who no longer has ovaries, a cervix or a uterus?
I'm going to attempt to get on ERT.
My bones ache.
Can you get that hormone replacement therapy that you are demonstrating in your hand online some more or does that only through prescription?
Don’t have a uterus any more but my Gyno has me on progesterone for other benefits… your thoughts on this? Thank you Dr Mary-Claire 😊
What fiber and brands of all, some work and/are better than others? Tks
Ok but I can’t intermittent fast. I am on meds. How do I get around this?