The Perimenopause Masterclass: Anxiety, Brain Fog, Broken Sleep, Weight Gain & GLP-1s
Dr. Mary Claire Haver, MD — The Perimenopause Masterclass: Anxiety, Brain Fog, Broken Sleep, Weight Gain & GLP-1s
Channel: Dr. Mary Claire Haver, MD · Our label: OB/GYN — menopause educator · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=CGfPXGU4jT0
What this video covers
It is its own distinct biological phase and deserves its own episode. Perry menopause is about a 7 to 10year transition before periods stop. It shows up in the brain first, then the body, then everywhere else. Most women are never taught to recognize it and are told nothing is wrong.
Summary drawn from this video’s own transcript (banked in our research library, pulled 2026-11-07). Claims below are the speaker’s — attributed, not endorsed. This site publishes no dosing, protocol, or sourcing information.
Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- We have a long way to go to include females in studies to separate men and women in studies and look at the outcomes differently.
- She is donating money to study women’s health in a way that’s never been done before.
- It is a time for you to take stock of who you are, what’s important to you, what your health risks are, what your family history is, and start doubling down on how you are going to live the next 30 to 40 years of your life.
- You can print them out, why we run them, which tests we would run with which symptoms, and take that to your clinician.
- My doctor tested my hormones and said that they are normal, but I feel anything but normal.
- And then if they decide that, you know, if we decide as a clinician they’re a good candidate, we bring them back for another hour to counsel them on the GLP-1 usage and how to do it in the safest way possible.
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