Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Like nobody had ever studied this in the history of menopause.

Like what does estrogen do in the brain across the transition?

What do estrogen receptors do?

What do we see?

And she was even looking at glucose uptake, you know, like how is glucose being utilized in the brain?

So what they found is in the brainstem where we consolidate memories and in the frontal lobe, like that's really the memory consolidation and then how they're stored.

undergoes like chaos.

So it's really fascinating.

And this has only been in the last few years that we've been able to research this to this degree to realize what, you know, believe women this is happening and then say, okay, let's map this out and figure out what's going on.

It's so fascinating.

We're losing C-suite executives.

We're losing people with all their wisdom at the top of their game where they're supposed to be leaning in and leading and they can't do it.

This doesn't have to happen.

We can give them this back.

One is looking at, you know, the timing of symptoms.

Yeah.

I have an ADHD specialist coming on the podcast.

So I follow her and I watch her and I like ADHD is like a constellation of symptoms.

And so what she feels like is that you were on the spectrum, but you were just managed.

Right.