Dr. Vonda Wright

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

Arthralgia, which is total body pain.

It's part of the inflammatory response of not having estrogen.

It's part of the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause assembly of symptoms.

So much that I go from training...