Dr. Mary Claire Haver

We must stop treating women as small men.

We must in order for us to stay healthy.

There is a reason we have different health outcomes, why we have four times the amount of autoimmune disease, why we live 20% of our lives, according to the McKinsey Institute, in poorer health than our age-matched male counterparts, okay?

Yes, we live about five to six years longer than men, but those years are not great years.

And I don't have a single patient who says to me, I want to live as long as possible.

And I don't really care if I'm healthy or not.

And so if I can enjoy those years or remember those years.

I don't have a patient yet who says, look, if I have dementia, that's great.

Who cares?

You know, I don't care.

All of them.

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,