Dr. Mary Claire Haver

I have a chance to change history here for myself and teach my daughters how to do it.

So heavy lifting, adequate protein.

I have lots of vitamin D. I do supplement vitamin D. I check my vitamin D levels about once a year to make sure that I am at a good level.

I'm eating foods very rich in calcium to make, and I monitor my calcium intake with my little app on my phone.

I'm doing jump training as well.

I'm doing box jumps to try to stimulate that bone unit.

And all of that is working together.

And my bone density is amazing.

I have the bones of a 35-year-old for a skinny, you know, Caucasian girl.

And that is hard to do for someone who dieted her whole life to be thin.

So I am working really hard to make sure that that doesn't happen.

So progesterone level.

So we don't measure routinely in our clinics and most of the menopause.

We do not measure progesterone levels.

Progesterone, we use therapeutically, mostly for sleep and for endometrial protection.

So we know how much it takes to counteract the estrogen we're giving to protect the endometrium from endometrial cancer.

However, we often go above those basic doses to get people the sleep that they need, if needed.

Testosterone levels, we are always monitoring.

So in our clinic, we get a baseline, then we start therapy.

We check three months later, and then I'll check probably every year to make sure that their absorption is good and they are not being super therapeutic and therefore at risk for the side effects that you can get from testosterone.