Dr. Mary Claire Haver

She lists omega, magnesium, collagen, CoQ10, NAD, et cetera.

Okay, I wish that no one needed a supplement.

I wish you could put me out of business by just eating whole real foods all the time.

Unfortunately, most people, it's just the way we live.

We have food deserts.

It's not always available.

It's hard to meet all of those nutritional checkboxes with your diet alone.

And that's where supplements should come in.

Supplements should supplement diet.

a healthy diet.

Now, that being said, what do we see in our clinics?

We only take care of menopause patients.

Most women, due to the aging process, due to different, the microbiome changing across menopause, due to the way we are protecting, rightly so, our skin against the sun for

so we don't get skin cancer.

And if you don't believe sun causes skin cancer, you are listening to the wrong podcast.

You need to move on.

We are deficient in vitamin D.

80% of my patients, when we surveyed the labs, are not just low, deficient in vitamin D. A deficiency means that you are not getting enough vitamin D to reach the basic minimum processes.

Okay, that's different than optimal.

Optimal means you're getting enough for everything to be working at an optimal level.