Dr. Vonda Wright

I didn't realize.

I didn't either.

Because like you, until I went through my own perimenopause, I might not have paid attention to it.

Yeah.

I may have been less sensitive.

I was a terrible menopause doctor.

But I think that the conversation that's happening now is not just at this table, but in society that...

Our monthly cycle is so much more than getting ready to have a baby.

Because I think that none of us knew this.

Yeah.

Because at 17, I wasn't that interested in having a baby.

So it didn't occur to me that I should care.

Right.

Right.

And it's the only time.

If you're thinking about it in that way that you're worried about your period is if you don't have one and pregnancy, right?

And so if we're shifting the conversation to this is physiology, this has to do with every part of female physiology.

maybe it will be easier for people to know, right?

No, but based on what you just said, I just took a phone call this morning from a patient when, and it's just such a typical conversation, she doesn't like the way her body looks.

Her solution is not to eat.