OBGYN expert Dr. Rebecca Booth and Womaness founder Sally Mueller discuss options for women to be informed and proactive about their health. They say that starting good practices means that physical, mental and financial health planning should begin in midlife – ideally even earlier. Our hosts also describe the need for institutional and systematic support for women navigating these life transitions.
Womaness is the leading women’s wellness brand that’s modernizing aging. Womaness empowers women to feel and look great as they age through clinically and doctor-tested supplements, sexual wellness, and skincare products formulated to meet the needs of a changing body.
Dr. Booth is the author of The Venus Week: Discover the Powerful Secret of Your Cycle…At Any Age. Together with her sister, Cecil Booth, she co-founded VENeffect, an anti-aging skin care line and wellness platform dedicated to helping women with hormonal optimization.
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Key Quotes:
BOOTH: Let's face it, when you don't understand something, how can you be comfortable with it? … What's happened is there's been an absence of that information, the practical information for both men and women.
BOOTH: I have to say, having been through the sandwich generation phase, it is so difficult and the most difficult for my patients through these years that I've been taking care of them, especially with regard to adding elder care, because there are so many mysteries there. “When is this going to get easier? How is this going to be economically?” A lot of times with raising children, you sort of know there's an end in sight or a level of maturity, but when it comes to elder care, it's easy to get in a rabbit hole, and you just have to go back to that same old metaphor that we all have seen on the plane, you got to put the oxygen on yourself first.
BOOTH: I do think for the first time that employers are seeing opportunities to help women navigate their health challenges as a possible recruitment tool. And that's really exciting. We know there's a lot of data out there, that when you get women in high places, like on boards, all of a sudden the performance of the board, no matter what the industry, improves… institutions are becoming more aware of how they can attract women throughout their entire life, from the earliest worries about the biological clock to the later worries with coping with aging and how that affects the aesthetic, their acceptance with regards to their appearance and so on. When it comes to economic effects, in other words, recruitment and workforce, then you're going to see a big impact. And I'm really feeling excited about that in the future.
MUELLER: We have so much wisdom to share and I think as we extend our lives, we're staying more relevant longer in terms of technology and trends and how to do our job. .. It's going to be just an open conversation. You know, and not shoved under the rug. I think in the last three years, it's changed dramatically. But I think as that generation starts to age into menopause, they're going to be even more vocal about changes. I think it's a generational shift that's happening.
MUELLER: We all have to become informed and that's the first step. And we say this all the time to our community, you have to become informed and then you will feel more empowered to make a decision. I think there's a lot of other, you know, practical things that women are starting to do, like nutrition levels, protein intake, weight bearing exercise, all of that is so important to start even in your 30s. And it's never too early to start these good practices.
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Time stamps:
00:46 - Meet Dr. Becca Booth
01:46 - Meet Sally Mueller
09:27 - The state of women’s health practices
11:24 - Finding accurate information
19:50 - Setting realistic aging expectations
23:47 - Systems and institutions that offer support
31:56 - Women’s roles in families
35:00 - Looking to the future
47:10 - Where to find our guests
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