Dr. Mary Claire Haver

And then we remove estrogen, which was a, which was a protective layer.

Now that's gone.

Yeah.

And all of a sudden your symptoms were managed by you having enough estrogen on board and now that's gone.

And so you've lost the ability to cope.

So I have two daughters, both with ADHD.

One was diagnosed and treated as early as second grade.

The other one managed.

Right.

And she didn't need medication until the MCAT.

So she's in medical school and they have to take the medical college admissions test.

And she was just getting railed by the study she had to do for this.

And at that point, she went on medication that really taught me as a mother that this is a spectrum and.

And like everybody's treatment is going to be different based on what their needs are.

And so I really feel like women whose ADHD is really just getting unmasked in menopause where they probably had some degree of it before.

So that is what brought me to the menopause table, right?

That was the first symptom where I was like, I've had been thin my whole life, you know, well, outside of pregnancy.

I was like, what is going on with this?

So turns out,

Abdomen body composition changes are a predictable biological consequence of hormone change.