Empowering Women to Regain Control of Their Hormones

“We are really excited to flip the narrative on midlife women's health. Women deserve more and we deserve to enjoy this part of our lives to the fullest and rock menopause,” shares Dr. Polly Watson, functional medicine OBGYN and menopause specialist. Dr. Polly was inspired to work in women’s health after witnessing her mother’s frustrating care experiences with her own OBGYN when she went into early menopause at 38. Dr. Polly was further inspired by her difficulties advocating for her own health when her PCOS diagnosis was invalidated by her doctors.

 

Being in traditional women’s health, Dr. Polly found that clients were coming to her with bags of supplements and questions she did not know the answers to. She made the decision to fill those educational gaps and became licensed in functional medicine to better help her clients. Through her member-based functional medicine practice, Dr. Polly flips the script on menopause and shows women how to reclaim their power over their health.

 

Menopause has a bad reputation and many women fear the transition because they lack understanding of what it really involves. Tune into this week’s episode of The Catalyst to learn more about menopause, the immense role of hormones in women’s health, and how functional medicine can help meet the needs of women that often fall through the cracks in traditional Western healthcare. 

 

Quotes

• “I'm really inspired by my own journey, my mom's journey, and trying to create a space where women are heard so that they can get some power back in that relationship.” (5:00-5:17 | Polly)

• “Instead of having the transition to menopause being the beginning of the end, could we flip this and say, ‘Hey, this is a great transition. I have given my body a chance to be a reproductive female, a nursing mother, and all of these things. And now this third to maybe half of my life, my body is mine again.” (11:13-11:41 | Polly) 

• “Let's make this be about women rocking this second chapter of their lives, rather than ‘Oh, well, you're over 40. You're gonna be fat and tired. It's all downhill from there’.” (12:17-12:28 | Polly) 

• “The thing that I love about functional medicine is that the patient gets their power back. I can't go home with them and tell them when to go to bed, or what to put on their plate, or that it's time to meditate now. When they reclaim responsibility for their own care, and they reclaim their responsibility for making these health affirming choices all throughout their day, then they get their power back.” (23:03-23:33 | Polly)

 

Links

Connect with Polly Watson:

Website: https://hormonewellnessmd.com/

 

Connect with Lara: 

Website: https://drlarasalyer.com

Instagram: @drlarasalyer

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Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlarasalyer/

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DrLaraSalyer

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