Mary Claire Haver (on menopause)
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Who is Dr. Mary Claire Haver and what is her expertise?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, experts on expert. We are joined today by Dr. Mary Claire Haver.
Wow.
This is a long time coming. Big time. Armcherry's demanded it and we have produced it. We actually leaned on Armcherry's to tell us who their favorite menopause expert was. Yes. And by unanimous, popular.
Dr. Mary Claire.
She popped up and she fucking delivered. I love her.
I thought she was so great. This is so informative and helpful and needed. And I've brought this up, obviously, to a lot of my female friends.
What was the main thing you said? Because I brought it up to some people, too.
Oh, I'm just like, guys, we had a perimenopause menopause expert on. It's really intense.
It's very positive. It's like the most hopeful.
It is. It is. I was overwhelmed.
Okay.
In a way that I needed to be overwhelmed.
Just hear everything coming your way.
Exactly. There's a lot coming slash here. Yeah. And there are real things to do. And so I got to do them.
I've been telling people about the topical vaginal rub. Sure. That's what I was most interested in.
Yeah, we learned a lot. We learned a lot.
Okay. So Dr. Mary is a certified menopause practitioner from the Menopause Society. She is a board certified in obstetrics and gynecology specialist and a certified culinary medicine practitioner. specialist and a bestselling author. Two of her books, The New Menopause, which is hugely successful, and The Galveston Diet. I urge everyone to follow her on Instagram. She has really, really great videos that will be addressing all these little things that pop up. And also you could go to her website, thepawslife.com, which is a comprehensive approach to menopause education and support. This is awesome. She was rad. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
Enjoy.
Thanks for watching!
Lingua Franca. What is it?
Lingua Franca. Lingua Franca.
So they hosted my book launch, my big New York, one of the deals. And she made this for me.
Will you wait 39 seconds? Absolutely.
This is so nice. I feel left out because I do indeed. Hydra Magic. I love it.
I'm told it's a Wicked reference.
It is. Yeah. And the colors are Wicked. Yeah. I'm going to a Mardi Gras ball that is Wizard of Oz Wicked themed. In New Orleans? In Galveston.
I love Galveston.
You've been there?
I have.
There's like three people and he's one of them. Yeah.
I used to work for General Motors and we had a car show there and our ride route ended there and we stayed at a very cool hotel. And each room was like kind of unique. You know the one I'm talking about?
So that's going to be the Galvez more than likely. Okay.
Very, very nice.
On the water. Old.
Yeah, very old. Felt like vampires would stay there.
That's it.
And you guys moved there. You're from Louisiana.
Yeah, I grew up in Louisiana, went to undergrad. I was a raging Cajun, so I went USL. I'm dating myself. It's now ULL. They're fancy. And then I did grad school for a little bit, almost went the PhD geology route. Oh, my undergrads in geology. I went to work for an oil company, kind of had a change of heart and was like, what else can I do with the science degree? And I was moving towards a PhD and I'm like, I'm not going to do this PhD. I need to do something cool and big. Let me just take the MCAT and see what happens. So then LSU for med school, which was in Shreveport, North Louisiana. And then I did residency in Galveston and we've stayed in the Houston, Galveston area pretty much since then. Do people tell you you look like Courtney Cox? Yes. Yes.
Especially back in the day. Yes. When she was on Friends, I was a resident and we would have Friends watch parties. And now it's kind of Tina Fey. Anyone with black hair and big glasses is me. Well, both are compliments. Yeah.
And we love them both. Yeah, we do. Yeah, huge fan. You're one of eight.
Yeah.
What did mom and dad do?
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