Dr Mary Claire Haver is a board-certified obstetrics and gynaecology specialist from Galveston, Texas, who has devoted her adult life to women’s health. For years, she told her patients suffering with weight gain during the menopause to eat less and exercise more. It wasn’t until she, too, experienced the changes of menopause and mid-life weight gain that she realized this advice no longer works, which led to her creating and developing the first and only nutrition program in the world created by a female doctor, designed for women in menopause: The Galveston Diet. She lives in Texas with her husband and two daughters.