Mary Claire Haver is the OB-GYN who made menopause a search term again. Board-certified, Galveston and LSU trained, years as a hospitalist before she opened a midlife clinic because her own patients (and her own body) were getting shrugged at. The Galveston Diet, then The New Menopause, a NYT bestseller. The podcast is UnPAUSED. Time put her on a 2025 creators list. Millions of women found HRT, protein, and “this is not in your head” through her TikToks.
The medical core is not exotic. Estrogen matters for bone, brain, heart, sleep, and the middle of the night. Muscle and protein matter more as anabolic resistance shows up. Alcohol and ultra-processed food are not helping the hot flash. She gave women scripts for a 12-minute appointment. That is the public service. Pair her with hormonal fitness and with Sims if you still have a cycle. Sims is the athlete physiologist. Haver is the menopause clinic.
The New York Times also mapped the business: The ‘Pause Life, supplements, challenges, colleagues who think some of the marketing outran the menopause-society playbook. She has said she cleaned claims up. HRT is not a vitamin gummy. If you have a uterus, a clot history, or a mystery symptom, that is a clinician with your chart, not a 28-day belly-fat challenge. Take the education. Be picky about the cart.