Dr. Mary Claire Haver

I was watching her dismantle a medical myth in plain, precise clinical language, and I thought, she has got to be a guest on Unpaused.

Dr. Michelle Gordon is board certified in three disciplines, general surgery, obesity medicine, and lifestyle medicine.

She spent 15 years building and running a multimillion-dollar surgical practice, and she was good at it.

Then she walked away from it because she kept seeing the same thing over and over.

Women arriving for surgical intervention after years of being dismissed, minimized, and told their symptoms were stress or aging or their own fault.

By the time the system paid attention, the damage was already done.

She left this thriving surgical practice because she was tired of seeing women arrive already broken.

She wanted to intervene earlier.

Her practice focuses on weight, hormones, metabolism, sleep, and brain health in midlife women.

She works with high-performing women who cannot afford to lose their edge and need clinical clarity without judgment.

Today, we're doing a deep dive into why midlife weight gain happens, why eat less, move more stops working, and what GLP-1 therapy actually looks like when it's done right for a perimenopausal or menopausal woman, the connection between metabolism and brain health, and what the future of obesity medicine and menopause should look like.

I'm Dr. Mary Claire Haver, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and a certified menopause practitioner.

I'm also an adjunct professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Welcome to Unpaused, the podcast where we cut through the silence and talk about what it really takes for women to thrive in the second half of life.

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