Dr. Mary Claire Haver

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Dr. Haver, do you believe in GLP-1 therapy?

Okay, it's not Santa Claus.

It's not as if I believe in it or not, you know...

Asking for my opinion means we're gonna leave science off the table, and I'm not willing to do that.

We utilize GLP-1 therapy appropriately in our clinic for our patients, and I have literally seen it work miracles for our patients.

Especially those who have struggled with lifelong issues with weight or obesity or insulin resistance.

We have two hours of podcasts, two separate podcasts done with Rocio Salas Whelan.

If you want a deeper dive from an actual expert, she wrote the book Weightless.

I'm not going to lie.

I was skeptical when they first came out.

I did not know all of the research that had been done over the last 20 years.

Remember, I didn't treat diabetes.

And if I had gestational diabetics, we used insulin or something like metformin to treat them in pregnancy.

I did not manage this at all outside of a pregnancy.

So when I started utilizing my menopause clinic, I just thought those medications were only indication was to treat diabetes and I would send them back to their endocrinologist to have that done.

But when the indications for obesity started surfacing, again, you have to imagine my background of me being a little bit skeptical because I was seeing what everyone else was seeing was all of a sudden these dramatic and scary

sometimes scary weight transformations on looking across social media of some of the people I followed to the point where I was guessing based on their physical appearance, and this is a little bit of judgment, that they were likely losing muscle mass along with fat loss.

Now, I can't prove that, but just looking at, you know,

their facial structure and how their bodies were, it would be, it looks really difficult that they would have been able to lose weight that quickly without suffering from muscle mass loss.