Plant Medicine for Menopause: What Science and Ancient Healing Say Actually Works

About this episode

Dr. Mary Claire Haver discusses menopause and plant medicine with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, exploring the failures of the current healthcare system in addressing women's health.

In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, a board-certified OB-GYN, integrative medicine expert, and author with nearly 30 years of clinical experience, including training in Ayurvedic medicine spanning almost two decades. Dr. Gilberg-Lenz is the Chief Clinical Officer of Monarch, a membership-based healthcare practice built to restore what modern medicine has nearly eliminated: time, relationship, and trust between women and their clinicians. Dr. Haver and Dr. Gilberg-Lenz open with a question that sits at the heart of women's midlife health: why does the current healthcare system consistently fail to see women clearly? Dr. Gilberg-Lenz explains why the system is not built for humans but for shareholders, reimbursement structures, and productivity metrics that reward procedures over listening. She breaks down the difference between burnout and moral injury, why physicians are leaving traditional medicine in record numbers, and what it actually costs women when their doctors are structurally prevented from knowing them. The conversation traces how the 1910 Flexner Report reshaped American medicine, shutting down Black medical…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Guest: Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz

Topics covered

• menopause
• plant medicine
• women's health
• integrative medicine
• healthcare system
• burnout
• moral injury

Keywords

• menopause
• plant medicine
• integrative medicine
• healthcare system
• women's health
• burnout
• Flexner Report

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Monarch, Ayurvedic medicine, American medicine, Black medical colleges, Flexner Report

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