Dr. Mary Claire Haver

No one wants to be a burden on their family.

They wanna be benefactors to the people that they brought into this world.

And a lot of them are doing the work, taking care of their own parents and saying, hey, I'm gonna jump in and I'm gonna help and I'm gonna do what needs to be done, but I don't wanna do this to my children.

And that's what we're trying to build here, is a runway to help you do that as much as possible.

So how did we get here?

So medicine has a male default.

In research and clinical guidelines, we're all designed around male bodies, okay?

We have a long way to go to include females in studies, to separate men and women in studies and look at the outcomes differently.

That's one of the things that I learned about some of the data in some of the meds to lower cholesterol is,

They didn't de-aggregate the male versus female data.

Women have cardiovascular disease differently than men.

Men tend to have their heart attacks, their clogged vessels way high up, you know, in the very larger arteries as they exit the, go right into the heart muscle.

They have these bigger blockages higher up.

Women tend to have more diffuse microvascular disease in

It's going to present differently.

It's going to respond differently to these standard medications that were really tested in mostly men.

So we have a male bias.

Metabolic research rarely includes menopause.

You know why?

It's hard.