📚 This LIVE conversation is another special edition of the [B]old Women Book Club. All are welcome to join live; the replay and more detailed summary, with useful links, are for paid subscribers.
The following summary of our hour-long conversation was generated from the transcript by ChatGPT; then I rewrote it.
📚 My LIVE yesterday with Dr. Lucy McBride about her new book, Beyond the Prescription (pub date is Aug. 11th, but you can order it now), turned into a wide-ranging discussion about what good health is, especially as you age. Thank you to Dr. Lucy’s 100+ fans (and a few of mine 🤓), including Patricia Ross, Kate Roxburgh, Des Kennedy, JWise, and Cherie Lejeune, for tuning in.
I’ve known Lucy since she was a girl, growing up in Washington DC; my husband practiced medicine with her there before he retired. So I’m naturally a fan, but more than that I find her inspiring. What comes across most clearly, both in her weekly Are You Okay column (one of my favorite Stacks), and in this video, is her compassion as a physician.
My main question for her: Am I doing aging right?
Most important, she told us, is to cultivate your own self-awareness, accept what you can’t control or change (as in the AA Serenity Prayer), and tune out the noise of the wellness industry.
So her answer to “aging right” is to focus on the basics: Yes! to exercise and strength training, adequate protein and fiber, enough sleep and social connection, and reducing or eliminating alcohol.
But don’t obsess about perfection, either in your habits or your lab numbers, she told us. As she puts it:
“Good enough is… enough.”
“Aging isn’t about preventing death, it’s about improving quality of life.”
She also shared her one specific recommendation for sexual health for women after menopause, and it’s not systemic HRT…
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