Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

We even know from the, you know, a lot of doctors who see women with menopausal symptoms, they will say that actually if used in the right way,

this can be the best wake up call you ever get.

Because if you can now start to live a bit more in harmony with your rhythms and the rest of your life, and as you would say, in alignment, you might, I'm not saying you won't need hormones, you might still do, but a lot of the time,

Women don't.

I've seen that over and over again.

A lot of the time, if you can balance what I call the four pillars, food, movement, sleep, and in particularly stress, I have seen women's menopausal symptoms almost disappear because the whole system is a lot more balanced.

The worst trajectory.

Yeah, it was so profound what you just said.

This idea that actually...

by telling the truth, we're going to make people feel bad and disempowered is one I just don't buy.

We should be telling the truth to people, right?

It may be that someone is listening to this in their 40s and actually for whatever reason, through no fault of their own, they didn't get the right inputs when they were a teenager.

Maybe their parents didn't know.

Maybe they had trauma.

Maybe they didn't do enough stuff that was going to maximize their ceiling of bone density.

And of course, it would have been better had that not happened.

But I think by saying that, it does two things.

Number one, it empowers you to go, okay, well, maybe I didn't have the best start in life.

But let me max what I can do now to make the most of what I have.

The second point is that person now could be a parent themselves.