Roundtable Talk: Debunking Popular Health Trends in Blood Sugar, Hormones, and Biohacking!
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Release Date: 03/23/2024
Quick Hits: Reversing Hashimoto's Disease: Insights from Dr. Anshul Gupta
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. Dr. Anshul Gupta is a best-selling author, speaker, researcher, and leading expert in Hashimoto’s disease. Through his work, he helps people better understand the root causes of Hashimoto’s and how a functional medicine approach may help improve thyroid function, reduce symptoms, and address the autoimmune process. Hashimoto’s is one of the...
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HRT & GLP-1 Q&A: Progesterone Problems, Hair Loss, Weight Gain, and More
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
What do you do when you finally start HRT and instead of feeling amazing, you feel exhausted, puffy, bloated, or like something is just not right? Or you start a GLP-1, lose weight, and suddenly your hair starts falling out? Today’s episode is another listener Q&A, and we are getting into the real-life questions women are asking when hormone therapy, thyroid treatment, weight-loss peptides, and menopause symptoms do not fit neatly into a textbook. We talk about progesterone intolerance, oral versus topical progesterone, when estradiol may still be too low even though your doctor says...
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Quick Hits: The No BS Guide: Ditching Excuses and Taking Charge of Your Health
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 tackling the misconceptions around health and weight loss, and exploring sustainable ways to achieve wellness goals. I'll tell you some practical tips to debunk dieting and exercise myths, and emphasize the importance of positive thinking while addressing the danger of self-sabotage. It's time to face your own excuses, adopt...
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GLP-1s and Menopause: What Every Woman Over 40 Needs to Know
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
You cannot open your phone anymore without hearing about Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, retatrutide, and before-and-after transformations. One person says GLP-1s are the greatest thing ever. Another says they are going to destroy your health. As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle. In this episode, I break down GLP-1s specifically through the lens of perimenopause and menopause, because midlife women are dealing with a completely different metabolic landscape. Estrogen is changing. Muscle is easier to lose. Insulin sensitivity may be shifting. Sleep is falling apart. Belly fat is...
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Estrogen Dominance Explained: What Every Woman on HRT Needs to Know
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
If you are taking HRT, it is not enough to only ask how much estrogen you are using. You also have to ask a second question: how well is your body actually processing and clearing that estrogen? In this episode, I sit down with David Roberts and John Gilday from Mara Labs to unpack estrogen metabolism, estrogen receptors, environmental hormone disruptors, detoxification pathways, and why the conversation around “estrogen dominance” is often way too simplistic. We talk about the difference between having high estrogen and having estrogen that is not being metabolized efficiently, especially...
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Your Body Isn’t Broken: Why Doing More Can Make Midlife Worse with Debbie Potts
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Have you ever felt like you are doing everything right and your body is just not cooperating? You are eating well, exercising, tracking your protein, fasting, taking supplements, getting your steps in, and still gaining weight, feeling exhausted, sleeping poorly, and wondering why the strategies that used to work suddenly do not anymore. In this episode, I sit down with Debbie Potts to talk about what may actually be happening when healthy habits become unhealthy stressors. We get into the connection between the nervous system, metabolism, hormones, muscle, recovery, under-fueling,...
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Quick Hits: From Depression to Peak Health: The Secret Struggles of High-Performing Women with Biohacker Angela Foster
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. Angela is an award-winning Nutritionist, Health & Performance Coach, Keynote Speaker and Host of The High Performance Health Podcast. A former corporate lawyer turned industry leader in biohacking and health optimisation for women, Angela regularly gives keynotes to large fitness, health and wellness events She also delivers Health...
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Are You Actually Optimized on HRT? The Levels, Doses, and Symptoms That Matter
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
How do you know if your HRT is actually optimized? Not just enough to stop a hot flash, but enough to support your bones, brain, mood, metabolism, sleep, sexual health, and overall quality of life? In this episode, I break down one of the most confusing parts of hormone replacement therapy: dose, levels, and symptom response. Because the old-school advice to simply use the lowest dose possible until your symptoms disappear does not tell us the whole story. At the same time, more is absolutely not always better. We dig into what the research actually tells us about estradiol dose and brain...
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Quick Hits: Secrets to Anti Aging Skin Care with Amitay Eshel
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 actually works when it comes to anti-aging skincare, and what is simply expensive marketing in a very attractive bottle? In this quick hits clip Karen sits down with Amitay Eshel, co-founder and CEO of Young Goose. Amitay explains why effective anti-aging skincare is about much more than moisturizing the surface of the skin. Healthy,...
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GLP-1s, Skinny Culture, and the Question Every Woman Should Ask Herself with Natalie Jill
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Something happened after my conversation with Natalie Jill on her podcast, Midlife Conversations. Women flooded my inbox and my community, not with questions about dosing or side effects, but with something closer to relief. They finally felt heard. That reaction told me this conversation needed a second chapter, so I'm bringing you the rest of it here, along with some of the raw, honest messages from women in my community who are done being quietly shamed for a choice that has changed their health and their lives. In this episode, Natalie and I go back to where it all started. We talk about...
info_outlineThis week I’m welcoming Nat Niddam and Danielle Hamilton for a roundtable discussion to debunk the latest health trends we’re seeing out there. We’ll be discussing the use of hormone therapy, sharing our personal experiences with managing weight during menopause, and talking about the saturation of blood sugar info on social media. We also touch on the impact of blue light exposure in weight loss and the importance of aligning eating patterns with our natural cycles for optimal health.
In this episode:
- How peptides and hormone replacement therapy can revolutionize women's health.
- Why sourcing high-quality peptides is crucial and how to avoid online scams.
- Personal experiences with the CAROL Bike and how it can sync with the body's rhythms.
- Why general nutritional advice fails, such as how oats may impact blood sugar differently from person to person.
- Why hormone pellets and weight loss peptides need a nuanced understanding for effective use.
- How blue light exposure and circadian rhythms significantly affect weight management and overall health.
- Why a protein-rich breakfast might be more beneficial than skipping meals.
- How bio-individuality plays a key role in nutrition and health strategies, challenging one-size-fits-all approaches.
- Why understanding the metabolic activity of adipose tissue is essential for healthy weight loss.
- How GLP-1 agonists may aid in weight loss, but require caution in certain health conditions.
- Why it's important to align eating patterns with natural cycles.
- Why humor and candid conversations are integral in discussing the complexities of women's health.
- More thoughts on how to approach weight loss with strategies that consider individual needs and unique health factors.
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Listen to my past round table episodes!
Roundtable Talk on The Hottest New Diet Trends with Matty Lansdown & Marty Kendall
Roundtable Talk: Embracing Your Badass Self – A Guide to Aging with Confidence with Elle Russ & Dr. Amie Hornaman
Weight Loss, Hormones & Fitness a Roundtable Talk with Dana Lawson & Pam Sherman
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