Dr. Sue Varma

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

In order for a behavior to stick, it must become automatic.

There has to be this switch from intention to automation.

And we can talk about one of the steps that are involved.

But the reason, the big picture thinking behind the automation is that then that behavior becomes bundled and it becomes this sort of package that then lives in your basal ganglia.

And for our audience, what is the basal ganglia?

It's like the more primitive brain and there's not much thinking involved.

So if you're somebody like I have never, for me, my basic thing that I don't even think about brushing the teeth in the morning and brushing the teeth at night, like that automatically happens.

There's no expenditure, right?

So it's free.

So if you want to be able to, because I think in midlife, so many of our resources mentally, right, we're so tapped in so many different directions, not only because we're the sandwich generation, like half of people in their 40s, 60% of women especially are part of this generation where they're taking care of elderly parents.

and minors at home potentially, like less than 18.

So we're the sandwich.

The stress is on both sides.

We already have a lot of things pulling on us cognitively, managing a lot.

So the last thing you want is your basic health habits to not be automated, right?

So you just want it on like a regular feedback loop.

And if you, even something as simple as putting your sneakers on, that is the first step so that the basal ganglia, that part of your brain that has that habit automated, it's like, oh, I know where you're going.

I will take over from here.

I've got this.

Like, I'm just thinking back to the early days.

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