Dr Natalie Crawford

Fascinating study, and this one shot me out of a cannon.

emotionally, was if you choose to become a caretaker of a parent with dementia, you have a 60% increased risk.

Now, there's a genetic component, but when they took the genetics out of it and they feel like it's the stress of caregiving for that parent, you are signing your own death warrant because now you are increasing your risk of death.

We're on our phones.

And so... Not in my house.

Yeah.

And so as a culture, there's this worry that all this time on the phone and these dopamine hits, but not creating stories in your head and reading for pleasure at night.

A lot of women are on their phones now before bed rather than developing that neuroplasticity that we get from storytelling.

And I hate calling it lose weight.

I now call it recomposition.

And our clinic is all perimenopause and menopause.

And so we always start with, let's see how you do with lifestyle changes first.

So we give that three to six months.

When they come back, every time they come back, we're doing another body composition change.

And for probably 50% of the patients, lifestyle plus or minus HRT, their body composition changes, they're happy, they're much healthier, everything's moving in the right direction.

So now we're left with the people who are doing all the things.

The access is getting easier.

The price is coming down.

And there is, for any medication, there are risks, there are benefits.

And there's ways that will promote health.