Escape The Diet Trap
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Release Date: 08/05/2023
Quick Hits: Biohacking Your Way to Optimal Aging with Zora Benhamou
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. What does it take to age well? We hear plenty about supplements, biohacking tools, and the latest longevity trends, but what about our relationships, emotional health, and everyday habits? In this Quick Hits episode, I’m joined by Zora Benhamou to explore aging with more curiosity, confidence, and intention. We talk about the factors that...
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Peptides for Women Over 40: What Works, What’s Risky & What You Need to Know with Stephanie Gambetta
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Peptides are everywhere right now. Weight loss. Muscle. Recovery. Energy. Skin. Longevity. Suddenly everyone seems to have a “stack” they swear by. But how do you know what is actually safe, what is experimental, where your peptides are really coming from, or whether the protocol you saw online makes any sense for a woman in midlife? In this episode, I sit down with peptide coach Stephanie Gambetta, founder of The Loop Way, to cut through some of the noise. We talk about the huge difference between using peptides strategically and simply throwing more things at your body because someone...
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Quick Hits: How This Magic Mat is Revolutionizing Stress Relief, Sleep, and Healing - The PEMF Breakthrough
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. For almost two years, I kept hearing about PEMF mats. People were using them for stress, sleep, pain, and recovery, but every time I started researching them, I got overwhelmed by all the different technologies and claims. Then I discovered AlignMat. After using mine for a month, I finally understood why people get so obsessed with these things....
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My Midlife Aging Dilemma: Botox, PRP, Facelifts & What I’m Doing Now and Planning Next
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
I turned 50 this year, and I swear my face got the memo. Suddenly I started noticing things I had not really paid attention to before: a little more sagging, broken capillaries, pigmentation, droopier eyelids, changes around my jawline, and that feeling of looking in the mirror and thinking, “Okay... when did THAT happen?” So naturally, I went down a rabbit hole. A very deep rabbit hole. Skincare. Red light therapy. PRP microneedling. IPL. Lasers. Botox. Retinoids. Copper peptides. Exosomes. Eyelid surgery. Deep plane facelifts. And after months of researching, trying products, talking to...
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Doing Everything Right But Still Feel Awful? This May Be Why with Dr. Meg Mill
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Have you ever noticed that when stress goes up, everything else seems to fall apart with it? Your digestion gets worse. Your anxiety ramps up. You suddenly react to foods you used to tolerate. Your sleep goes sideways. Your migraines get worse. And for so many women, this seems to intensify right around perimenopause. We spend a lot of time talking about hormones, supplements, gut health, inflammation, diet, and lab testing. But what if there is another layer sitting underneath all of it? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Meg Mill, pharmacist, certified functional medicine practitioner,...
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Quick Hits: Why Belly Fat Shows Up in Midlife and Why Dieting Harder Can Backfire for You
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. In this episode, I sit down with Ann and Anoop Asok to talk about stubborn belly fat, metabolism, reverse dieting, muscle, stress, and why so many women end up trapped in a cycle of eating less and working harder without getting the results they want. We get into why midlife body composition can change even when your habits have not, what years of...
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The Estrogen Patch Shortage: What Women Need to Know Before Switching
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE Can't get your usual estrogen patch? Don't panic. You have options! In this free guide, hormone specialist Karen Martel breaks down the different estrogen delivery methods, including patches, creams, gels, oils, and injections. Learn how they compare, understand approximate dosing equivalents, and discover what to ask your doctor before making a switch. Plus, get practical tips for navigating the estrogen shortage so you can stay on track with your hormone therapy and avoid unnecessary disruptions. Imagine finally getting your HRT dialed in, feeling good again,...
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Quick Hits: The Protein Mistake That Could Be Costing You Muscle in Midlife with Angelo Keely
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. We talk constantly about eating more protein in midlife. But here is the question we do not ask nearly enough: Is your body actually getting what it needs from that protein? Because there is a big difference between eating protein, digesting protein, getting enough of the right amino acids, and actually giving your body what it needs to maintain...
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Menopause and Heart Disease: What Women Are Still Not Being Told with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Most women enter perimenopause thinking about hot flashes, weight gain, sleep, brain fog, and hormones. Very few are told that this may also be one of the most important cardiovascular windows of their lives. And that is a problem. Heart disease remains the number one killer of women, yet women are still being underdiagnosed, dismissed, and evaluated using systems that were largely built around male cardiovascular disease. In this episode, I sit down with preventative cardiologist Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum to talk about what women actually need to understand about their hearts in perimenopause and...
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Quick Hits: Empower Your Physique: Breaking Misconceptions for Women Over 40 with Philip Pape
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. This week we're exploring the intricacies of hormonal health and nutrition for women over 40, including the delicate balance between diet, exercise, and hormones. Joining us is nutrition expert Philip Pape, and together we debunk diet myths and provide personalized strategies to maintain energy, muscle mass, and metabolic health. We also discuss...
info_outlineThis is a special episode from an interview with Annabel Bateman on her podcast Let’s Talk Thyroid. Annabel has been on The Other Side of Weight Loss for a recent episode and is an author, advocate, coach, and a friend who is passionate about thyroid health.
There is an overwhelming amount of dieting schemes and programs out there, all full of empty promises. It can be hard to navigate through these to establish a healthy lifestyle, but there is freedom on the other side. This episode is about having real, authentic conversations around personal histories of dieting, along with what you can learn from working in this industry especially as it relates to thyroid hormones.
In this episode:
● The impact that living with hypothyroidism has on losing weight.
● What happens to your thyroid as you age.
● How old Annabel and Karen were when they started their first diets.
● How the potato diet experience was for Karen.
● Karen’s personal struggles with disordered eating.
● How Karen escaped the dieting mentality.
● How a hormone test fundamentally changed Karen’s approach to weight loss.
● Which wild fad diets Annabel has attempted in the past.
● How to identify the weight that your body is happiest at.
● The connection between the thyroid, personality, and perfectionism.
● The lifestyle gamechanger that has made Annabel feel amazing.
● Signs that your thyroid is on the decline.
● Why the dieting influence is so ubiquitous.
● The pivotal change Annabel made to cure her fixation on food.
● How to practice calorie counting in a more mindful way.
● Ways that fasting can affect someone with a thyroid condition.
● Why having a coach can help you reach your weight loss goals.
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