Menopause in the Age of AI: How Do You Know What’s Actually True?

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Hi Reader,
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In the last two years, we have seen how AI is infiltrating many industries to speed up productivity and streamline operations. On the surface, that may sound great. I have mixed feelings about it, though.

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One of the ways in which I think it can be tremendously useful is helping me navigate back-end aspects of running a business like creating logical systems. When laid before me, I have better objectivity about what is working and what isn’t. I often use it to help me with time management by creating a weekly schedule so I can delegate tasks and make sure I complete my projects for the week.

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On the flip side, I find that AI can make people lazy. By nature humans are creative, and our imagination is one of our greatest gifts. Students are using AI to write papers and do homework, influencers on social media are using it to write their content—and literature and art, such fields as we have grown disposed to consider the nucleus of creativity, are gradually becoming polluted with the same dry detachment of artificiality.

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The lines of what is real and artificial have doubtlessly become increasingly blurred. The same goes for information about health. How does one sift the wheat from the chaff? If you haven’t seen the film “The Truman Show,” check it out. The film shows how easy it is to go through life with the belief that everything you are experiencing is real. I’ll leave it at that and not give the plot away.

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Honestly, I don’t think it’s terribly difficult to see the difference between AI generated content and what is real.

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Part of my work as a fitness and health coach is to stay current on research around nutrition, menopause and post menopausal women’s health and wellness. For example, if I see a lot of discussion around the benefits of GL-P1’s on social media, I’ll double check the information and look up studies on Pub-Med, as well as the research that is against it.

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The best way to make an informed decision about anything is to look at both sides. The system we live in doesn’t make that so easy for people because we have all been indoctrinated into certain ideologies. If I grew up in a family and culture that believes everyone must go to college in order to be successful in life, I would likely adapt that belief and go to college (which I did, by the way). However, there are many people who know what they want, and achieve greatness, happiness, and financial affluence, without any degrees.

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You need to become an objective observer of life rather than someone who just consumes and accepts information without question. “Oh, yeah, I heard Dr. Phoops say how many of his celebrity patients lost weight on this drug and now they look and feel fabulous.” Whenever you see celebrities in the equation, that’s typically the first sign to proceed with caution. Having cultivated a system of celebrity worship, you may be assured that marketers, advertising firms, and so on will abuse the power they hold over most unsuspecting consumers in our Western civilization, to convince us we want what we don’t need, and, moreover, that all sources recommending these needless items have our best interests at heart.

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The influential stature of celebrities is used to promote more than just products. The pharmaceutical companies know this, and use it to their advantage. It’s slick marketing all dressed and packaged with a slice of AI to entice you. Don’t fall for it.

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All that being said, how do you sort through the overwhelming amount of menopause information coming at you mixed in with AI?

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Start looking at those voices in this space who resonate with you. For me, it’s health care professionals like Dr. Peter Osborne, Dr. Mary Claire Haver,​ Dr. Stacy Sims, Dr. Ken Berry, and Dr. Elizabeth Bright and Dr. Melanie Maclaren They also do not have any observable financial ties or corporate interests. There are more names I could list, but I took the time to check out their books and their podcasts and I find them genuine. They also speak to the fundamental truths about lifestyle medicine which is what I promote in my own coaching with clients.

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We have to advocate for ourselves and keep in mind that AI is a tool that can look up information like a medical study, but is not to be depended upon as an absolute. You need to double and triple check the information (not using AI) to make sure it stands up to scrutiny. If it does not, then you just did yourself a big favor.

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A few months ago, I had written some content for social media to give away for free about how to decide whether HRT is right for you. In that piece I had learned the importance of genetic testing. I didn’t want to write something that was just promoting it, because that would be irresponsible, since it’s a drug that may not react well in certain women due to specific genetic mutations that someone may have. And like any drug you want all the details; the good, the bad and the ugly. That is what responsible journalism is supposed to be. You report the truth, not some slanted version of it to push an agenda.

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To wrap it all up, make sure you do your own due diligence whether it’s about health information or anything else.

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I’ll leave you with this last little play on words that I once saw, and found insightful:

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TELL - LIE - VISION.

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Whether from TV, newspapers, or ChatGPT, use critical thinking skills to discern facts from fiction.

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​Many blessings to you for abundant health, happiness and wellbeing ~

Strong and Beautiful in Midlife!

Sharon

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