Quick Hits: Adrenal Burnout, Anemia & Copper: What You Haven’t Been Told
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Release Date: 02/11/2025
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...
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The Dark Side of GLP-1s No One Is Talking About
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Karen Martel grew up with a front row seat to diet culture most of us only felt secondhand. Her mom didn't just live it, she ran a weight loss center. Butter was called Vaseline. Popcorn was the enemy. And by her teenage years, Karen was deep in an eating disorder that would shape her relationship with food for decades. In this conversation, Karen gets honest about that history, and about something she still checks herself on today. Because here's the twist. We told ourselves we moved past the thin obsession. Body positivity was supposed to be the turning point. But somewhere in the last two...
info_outlineWelcome 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.
Listen to the full episode here.
Dr Joel Rosen is the founder of thetruthaboutadrenalfatigue.com and creator of Your Adrenal Fix Podcast. His mission is to expose the truth about adrenal fatigue burnt-out men and women so that we can empower 100 million people to go from exhausted to energized. The truth is, adrenal fatigue goes deeper than just the adrenals. Dr. Joel teaches stressed-out adults that recovery requires this understanding. With your Adrenal Fix, healing really involves repairing your broken down HPA axis, otherwise known as your stress response system. Restoring your circadian rhythm, understanding the impact that all environmental stressors have on the body, and how your genetic "uniqueness" all combine together. Resulting in your fatigue. That can be tested, measured, and improved upon.
You can find Joel at thetruthaboutadrenalfatigue.com. Get out your paper and pen because this interview is full of important information!
In this episode
- Where the myths of adrenal fatigue came from and what is really happening to our adrenals?
- Breakdown of stress and what is causing our stress in today's environment
- The effects of diet and blood sugar on cortisol
- The role of adrenaline in adrenal issues
- What happens in sleep patterns from high or low cortisol
- The impact of hormone imbalances on our stress levels
- The science of energy
- The importance of having the right levels of minerals for energy production
- The role of iron and oxygen in our body
- Why we need bioavailable copper for energy
- What depletes our copper levels
- Why you may not want to take iron supplements
- How much unavailable iron we typically have in the body
- Why low ferritin might actually be okay
- The function of copper and how to increase your levels
- The biggest driver of adrenal insufficiency
- and more!
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Your host:
Karen Martel
Certified Hormone Specialist, Transformational Nutrition Coach, & Weight Loss Expert