McCall McPherson argues that society normalizes exhaustion and brain fog at every life stage, from postpartum to menopause, as inevitable. She says these are cultural excuses for poor health, not facts. Feeling terrible shouldn't be your default.
I've always been one to say no to the norm. I think also just accepting seasons of life for what they are, right? Oh, you had a baby. That's why you feel tired, right? Or you're a college student. I'm sure that you eat terrible food and don't exercise and party all night. In your 40s, that's what happens when we get in our 40s. Menopausal. It's just the different seasons of life. I think we've labeled them with excuses. And that's normalize the norm.
Like, people in their 20s are told, well, you're just getting older. I'm like, no, actually, that shouldn't be the case at all. Like, you should have lots of energy in your 20s.
So true.
Yeah, we have people in our 80s that have lots of energy, you know. So it's so important. And I think the other nuance to that is women are push-through people. We have a lot to do that has to be done, and so we just kind of push through and this becomes our new normal. And that can be such an insidious cycle until you wake up one day and you can't really function in life and you have to rebuild from the ground up. And part of what I love about Modern Thyroid Clinic is it kind of educates and empowers these people to realize early on. Later, once they're really good, I want them to know if you deviate 10%, so you can come on back and we can clean it up really fast and send you on your way. And that's really hard to do when you live in that land of symptoms and just muddy water of fatigue and brain fog.
