Dr. Vonda Wright

So what we're going to describe is not a one-size-fits-all.

It's all the tools.

Put the tools on the table.

So I choose, if I'm going to work my proverbial rear end off to be the best I can be for the rest of my life, I choose to use all the tools.

Not everybody does that.

But to choose one tool and think that's going to be enough, it never is.

Never.

So, when I decided to, and I've been pretty public about my journey in this, because you think I would have known after 22 years of formal education and all this, and being a musculoskeletal aging researcher, you would have thought I would have known, but I honestly, looking back, maybe thought I was never going to age because I was so healthy, right?

So I have a baby at 40.

I breastfeed till almost 41 and a half, 42.

And then I'm back at my very quickly, five weeks, my high power, high capacity to career.

But things were getting really different about 45 for me.

And I think I went right from postpartum to perimenopause with very little downtime.

So chaotic hormones to almost—and so—

I suffered for a while.

At 47, I talk about it like I went from this really high capacity to thinking I was going to die, not only because of night sweats, brain fog, the thing that lots of women have, but I started having heart palpitations.

I call my cardiology friend because I worked at a university.

I'm like, Ricky, Ricky, I think I'm dying.

He put me on a stress test and my heart was perfect at that point.

Then I had