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Quick Hits: How to Use Peptides to Blast Through Stubborn Fat, Boost the Immune System, Repair Leaky Gut, Reverse Aging and More!

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Release Date: 01/28/2025

Quick Hits: The Great Menopause Myth: The Truth on Mastering Midlife Hormonal Mayhem

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. If you have been told menopause is just hot flashes, aging, and something you have to “push through,” this episode will challenge that entire narrative. In this episode, I sit down with Maria Claps and Kristin Johnson, the founders of Wise and Well and authors of The Great Menopause Myth. Maria is an FDN practitioner, and Kristin is a...

JJ Virgin: The Untold Story of Aging, Weight Gain, HRT, Peptides, Facelifts, and Muscle

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

This conversation is not just about menopause symptoms. It is about what it actually feels like to live inside a changing female body in midlife. The grief, the confusion, the vanity, the softness, the strength, the reinvention. All of it. In this episode, I sit down with fitness hall of famer, JJ Virgin for a real conversation about what happens when your body starts changing in ways you did not expect, the things that stop working, and how to hold onto yourself while also becoming someone new. We talk about the reality of perimenopause and menopause when you are living it, not just teaching...

Quick Hits: GLP-1s (Ozempic & Mounjaro) Masterclass: Busting Myths, Mastering Micro Dosing, Retaining Muscle and Unlocking Benefits Beyond Weight Loss with Dr. Gus Vickery

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. How can GLP-1s like Ozempic truly transform weight management and wellness—and what makes them so controversial? Dr. Gus Vickery, who specializes in total body and mind optimization, dives deep into how these groundbreaking treatments are revolutionizing weight management, nutrition, and even menopause. Why are they causing such a stir, and are...

The Brain Fog Fix No One Is Talking About: Nicotine, Methylene Blue and the Midlife Brain with Dr. Scott Scherr

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

We talk a lot about hormones in midlife, hot flashes, weight gain, sleep issues, low libido. But one of the biggest complaints I hear from women is actually about their brain. The brain fog. The anxiety that comes out of nowhere. The flat motivation. The unpredictable sleep. The feeling that you just do not feel like yourself anymore. And for a lot of women, that is the part that feels the most unsettling. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Scott Sherr to go much deeper into what may actually be happening underneath those symptoms. We talk about mitochondria, brain energy, neurotransmitters,...

Quick Hits: The Histamine Connection to Estrogen Dominance, Acid Reflux, Insomnia, & MORE with Joanne Kennedy

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. Joanne Kennedy is a highly experienced Naturopath and specialist in MTHFR, Methylation and Histamine Intolerance. Joanne runs a successful clinical practice in Sydney, Australia and also caters to patients worldwide through online consultations. Could your migraines or skin issues be tied to histamine levels? What are the hidden factors...

The Problem With 'I Did Menopause Naturally, So Should You'

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Menopause is finally having a moment, but with more conversation has come a whole lot more confusion. In this solo episode, Karen breaks down the three camps she sees in the menopause conversation: women who are informed and empowered, women who shame or dismiss HRT, and the large group of women who are still suffering without answers. This episode is a real, honest look at why women are still so confused about hormone replacement therapy, why “menopause is natural” is not the full story, and why every woman deserves education before making decisions about HRT. Karen also explains why HRT...

Quick Hits: The Great Estrogen Debate with Dr. Felice Gersh, Dr. Daved Rosensweet, Dr. Lindsey Berkson, Dr. Julie Taguchi & Karen Martel

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: iTunes: Dr. Felice Gersh, Dr. Daved Rosensweet, Dr. Lindsey Berkson, and Dr. Julie Taguchi join us in this episode. Today, we're going deep into the complex world of HRT for women with these four leading experts, debating the nuances of different estrogen types and their roles in the body. We discuss the pros and cons of estradiol-only treatments versus combined approaches with estriol,...

The Thyroid Myths That Keep Women Tired, Fat, and Dismissed with Dr. Amie Hornaman

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

If you have ever been told your thyroid is “normal” while you are exhausted, gaining weight, losing hair, constipated, freezing cold, and barely making it through the day, this episode is going to hit a nerve. Because the truth is, thyroid care is still failing women in a big way. Too many doctors are only testing TSH, stopping there, and missing the full picture completely. In this episode, I sit down with my friend Dr. Amie Hornaman to talk about why thyroid treatment is still so broken, especially for women in midlife. We go into one of the most important parts of this whole...

Quick Hits: Are Toxins Hijacking Your Hormones? What Every Woman Needs to Know with Dr. Paul Anderson

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. Discover innovative therapies like low-dose naltrexone and light therapy that are reshaping the way we think about detoxification and healing. What are the unexpected benefits of these treatments, and how do they interact with our immune and endocrine systems? Get ready to explore cutting-edge insights that could transform your approach to wellness!...

Meno Besties Unfiltered: Bones, Hormones & Hot Hockey Players

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

What happens when three menopause podcasters sit down together with zero intention of staying surface level? You get a smart, honest, hilarious, and deeply validating conversation about some of the biggest midlife topics women are trying to figure out right now. In this roundtable episode, we get into bone health, hormone testing, HRT mistakes, libido, trauma, desire, and the much bigger cultural story around what menopause is actually meant to be. We talk openly about why so many midlife women feel disconnected from sex, why female arousal is so misunderstood, and how much emotional baggage,...

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Welcome to Quick Hits: Blasts from The Past. Join Karen as she explores her podcast archives, offering you short, impactful excerpts from standout episodes. In just 15 minutes, you'll experience the essence of past conversations, packed with valuable insights and memorable moments from our guests. If you want to dive deeper, you'll find links to the full episodes in the show notes below.

Nathalie Niddam is a holistic nutritionist, human potential & epigenetic coach with a particular interest in Longevity. She runs a large community on Facebook (and Mighty Networks) and is the host of the Biohacking Superhuman Performance Podcast. Nat was introduced to peptides and peptide Bioregulators a few years ago and has been fascinated with the potential that they represent for human health span and lifespan ever since...Nat is committed to sharing (and learning) information on these with as many people as possible - like many doctors and researchers in the space, she truly believes that these tiny proteins have the power to revolutionize medicine in the very near future. You can find her at natniddam.com

In this episode

What are peptides?
Are they legal and safe?
Where can you get them?
The role of pharmaceutical companies with peptide production
How are they administered?
My own experience with peptides
What are Bio regulator peptides?
What peptides are best for weight loss?
Ozempik versus Monjauro
Dangers of weight loss peptides
Are HGH peptides safe?
Best peptides for gut health, immune system and longevity and more!

Listen to the full episode here: https://karenmartel.com/blogs/hormones/how-to-use-peptides-to-blast-through-stubborn-fat-boost-the-immune-system-repair-leaky-gut-reverse-aging-and-more-with-nat-niddam

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