Why Your Doctor Isn't Having the Midlife Conversation With You

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So here's the question I invite you to kind of be with. Why did that have to take me 7 years? Why does this take Women on average 7 years to get these answers? I wasn't being lazy. I went to doctors. I had labs done. I asked questions.

So the answer is in 2 places. And once you understand both, everything else in this hour I think will really make a lot of sense, right? You would naturally assume that your primary care physician or your family practitioner or your OB-GYN would have this conversation with you at some point. Most of them are not trained in this at all. I know that sounds nuts. Okay. There is no department in medicine that covers the changes in Midlife that happened to a Woman's body during her Midlife journey.

Cardiology has the heart. Endocrinology covers thyroid and pancreas. Gynecology covers reproductive of organs and your gastro doctor has covers the gut. But Midlife falls between all of them and it kind of belongs to none of them. So it literally takes, and I will tell you who these unicorns are, it takes a rare unicorn of a practitioner or an educator, someone who took it upon themselves to go learn all this because nothing in their training required it. I have met a few of these unicorns, okay? They are wonderful and they are rare.

Now, I stand firm that most conventional doctors are doing their best inside a system that gives them 15 to 18 minutes per patient and a set of lab ranges that are different from the ones functional medicine uses. This combination has an enormous capacity to miss things for Women. My own primary doctor, when I brought her my sex hormones that I got tested privately said, you know, this is great data, but I'm not equipped to do anything with these. I mean, yay, I was grateful for her honesty. I'll take that over a confident guess, or I'll take that over, that causes breast cancer, right? Due to the Women's Health Initiative 20 years ago. So we have a huge training gap.

All right. This says nothing about how much your doctor cares about you. What it means is that the asking for these things has to come from you and with someone who is knowledgeable and trained in this topic. All right? Now, how do you know when you have the right practitioner? Because she's going to be nodding her head yes at everything I'm telling you today. You can bring the PDF into your doctor's appointment and go through it.

And if they're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I totally, the gut, the hair, the optimal ranges when they're nodding, yes, you have landed in heaven.