Dr. Mary Claire Haver

We are very, very specific as to how we manage them, how we monitor them, and how we help them stay healthy through the process.

So to wrap up the GLP-1 conversation and people struggling with weight who've had a lifelong struggle or struggle in menopause and premenopause, look, you are not broken.

This body composition change you are experiencing is a, remember this, say this over and over, this is a predictable biological consequence of my hormone change.

This is a predictable biological consequence of my hormone change.

So what that usually means for most of us is you cannot keep going with the same lifestyle that you had and enjoy the same health benefits.

Things are going to have to change.

The GLP-1 is simply a tool in the toolkit.

There are multiple tools in the toolkit.

Adequate resistance training, adequate cardio, exercising your body, lowering your stress, focusing on your sleep, doing all the things that are going to make a healthier body and help these medications help you.

There are tools available.

GLP-1 is just one of them.

But the most important tool is information, education, and a clinician who believes in you and just believes that menopause is part of this process.

And you deserve that.

Perimenopause can be hard, but it's also really full of possibility.

It's okay for both things to be true at the same time.

If you look at it as a window of opportunity, which is how I look at it with our patients, you can get ahead of so many things that can be affecting you long-term.

You can feel bad today, but still believe that tomorrow will be better.

You can be struggling and still be very, very strong.

You are not declining.

You are transitioning, and this transition is going to affect 100% of us who are lucky enough to live long enough to go through this process.