Dr Natalie Crawford

But, like, there's no – no one owns –

Menopause, life after reproduction ends, you know, no specialty really owns it.

And so you are going to have to quarterback this, a lot of it yourself until you find the right partner in this care, but it is worth it.

Women are living 20% more of our lives with chronic disease or mental health disorders.

So they gaslight themselves.

And that's what we're all trying to fight here.

But there are a lot of things we can do to deal with this problem.

So in medical school, menopause just gets shoved into a tiny box.

This is a scary statistic.

So... Oh, my God.

I have a background in general OBGYN, so I'm considered to be a women's health specialist.

And it wasn't until I kind of went through my own menopause that I realized that there was significant gap in my training.

You know, hearing, watching Dr. Sims on, I think, your podcast talking about how women are not little men really struck such a chord with me and made me realize I was siloing women's health to the reproductive organs, the breasts, the uterus, the ovaries, the vagina.

And that if I really did wanted to make a difference in a woman's whole health life, this last 30 years, 30, 40 years of her life, I needed to refocus what we were thinking about women's health for the long term.

So I come from a background in academics.

I was a professor for 20 years.

I was a residency program director, stepped away from that so I could focus on the lack of my own education and knowledge in menopause care.

And now I want to step back into the academic world to bring everything I've learned and change the way we educate our providers.

We're living 20% more of our lives versus our male counterparts in poor health with chronic disease or mental health disorders.

And so McKinsey looked at the data, and it was for the Gates Foundation.