She also keeps up to date on emerging research and talks about a shift for women’s workouts during perimenopause and menopause. Instead of resistance training with low weight and high repetitions, women should be doing low repetitions with high weight, lifting much heavier than before. Strength training has been shown to combat the weight gain that can happen with the menopause transition.
There’s so much more to wanting to heal and help people than seeing a patient for a quick clinic visit, and she’s proud of pivoting in her professional life to launch a business where she can be the practitioner that people need to feel informed and empowered:
“As a doctor, we prescribe medications to people, but that for me was dissatisfying because it missed such a big part of it. And that was, how do we facilitate and empower people to live their healthiest lifestyle? I can be a prescription machine, but at the end of the day, I also really believe that improving our health behaviours is ultimately so much more valuable than just going on medication.”
Dr. Sasha High’s program is about changing your relationship to food, using cognitive and behavioural therapy to develop skills to overcome emotional eating – so you’re not turning to food to self-sooth or fill the void.
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To get the message across, she’s been highly active on social media, but now feels her perspective on the various platforms has changed.
“I am very aware that [my daughter] is going to be a teenager before I know it. And I don’t want her using social media because of the vast body of evidence that’s coming out of the severe mental health problems for our young people as a result of social media. I realized I couldn’t very well be saying to her that she can’t use it if I’m on it.”