Biohacking Your Way to Optimal Aging with Zora Benhamou
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Release Date: 08/12/2023
Quick Hits: How To Repair Metabolic Damage From Dieting & Become A Fat Burning Machine
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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. Listen to the full episode here: In this episode, Karen dives deep into the concept of metabolic adaptation—also known as metabolic damage or starvation mode—and how repeated...
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The Best Menopause Diet & New Weight Loss Hacks
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
This week you are going to hear my interview with my friend Zora Benhamou from the Hack My Age podcast! We explore what the best diet is and best weight loss hacks when going through menopause. We discuss the challenges and societal narratives surrounding menopause, particularly focusing on hormone health and innovative weight management strategies. By rethinking traditional beliefs about hormone replacement therapy and exploring the potential of peptide therapy, we’ll equip women with the knowledge and confidence to navigate menopause. Our conversation highlights the importance of...
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Quick Hits: What the Heck is Happening to My Hormones? Perimenopause to Menopause, What You Need to Know.
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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. Are you in perimenopause? My guess is you don't know. Most women are not informed about what is happening to their hormones in their 30s, 40s and beyond. Trust me when I say YOU NEED TO KNOW! This is your body...
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How This Magic Mat is Revolutionizing Stress Relief, Sleep, and Healing – The PEMF Breakthrough with Alyssa Blue and Mike Mcpherson
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Alyssa Blue is a non practicing Aerospace engineering that found the human body more fascinating than rockets. After suffering a health crisis in her early 20's she went on a decade long journey learning how to heal herself. Today as an FDNP, her research background shines, taking a deep dive to investigate her clients bio-individuality and walk with them on a path back to balance. Mike McPherson has a similarly pain to purpose story being an innate medical intuitive and having no resources to understand his extra sensory perceptions, he suppressed his gifts for years, was diagnosed with ADHD...
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Quick Hits: The Hormone and Diet Connection to Alzheimer’s with Dr. Dale Bredesen
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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. Listen to the full episode here: Dr. Bredesen is an internationally recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, Dr. Dale Bredesen’s career has been guided by a simple idea...
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How to Beat Carb Addiction and Become Carb Sober with Dr. Lisa Wiedeman
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Dr. Lisa Wiedeman is an optometric physician with over 33 years in practice. She practices root cause healing. So many ocular diseases & disorders present themselves after long-term eating of processed foods. She herself suffered from sugar/carb/processed food addiction and researched and came to eating a carnivore diet in 2009, over 15 years ago. She now dedicates most of her time providing one on one coaching, hosting coaching groups, Carnivore Beach Retreats and educating viewers on her YouTube channels. Alongside Dr. Wiedeman in this episode, we discuss the many health...
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Gut Health, Hormones, and Mental Wellness Uncovered with Tina Anderson
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Today we’re talking all about the link between gut health and mental wellness for women navigating midlife challenges like perimenopause and menopause. I’m joined by Tina Anderson, CEO and co-founder of Just Thrive. Tina shares her journey from a high-stress career to discovering the profound impact of the gut microbiome on her own hormonal balance and mental state. We discuss innovative spore-based probiotics that survive the gastric environment and significantly alter gut flora, offering promising benefits for conditions such as stress, anxiety, autoimmune diseases, and chronic...
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Thyropause: The Silent Thyroid Crisis in midlife Women!
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Let’s get into the intricate relationship between thyroid health and menopause, which I refer to as thyropause. In this episode, I’m explaining how the significant drop in estrogen and progesterone can mimic and exacerbate thyroid issues. We’ll explore the common symptoms that overlap between hypothyroidism and menopause, such as fatigue, weight gain, and hair thinning, and emphasize the importance of comprehensive hormone and thyroid testing. We also discuss the profound impact of stress on gut and thyroid health, looking at groundbreaking insights from a 2015 meta-analysis. We’ll...
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Quick Hits: How to Heal Your Metabolism with Kate Deering
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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. Listen to the full episode: Your metabolism has everything to do with whether or not your body is able to lose weight. Many women do not realize that their metabolism is under functioning....
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The Great Menopause Myth: The Truth on Mastering Midlife Hormonal Mayhem with Kristin Johnson & Maria Claps
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Maria, an FDN practitioner, and Kristin, an NTP Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition, are plainspoken friends and practitioners who share a passion for women's health, especially women's health at midlife. As both are themselves menopausal, they've refined the art and science of thriving as a midlife woman based on both clinical and personal experience. They combine individualized nutrition and lifestyle changes tailored to midlife women's needs with mindset coaching, lab testing and hormone replacement therapy education to help women thrive so that they can stop or prevent their health from...
info_outlineZora Benhamou is a gerontologist passionate about aging and menopause. She is on a mission to disrupt ageist stereotypes in social media and is host of the Hack My Age podcast focusing on biohacking for women going through the menopause transition.
Zora is a 52-year-old digital nomad, traveled to over 50 countries, lived in 8, and speaks 6 languages. She founded the website HackMyAge.com, the Hack My Age podcast, is the author of the Longevity Master Plan and cookbook Eating for Longevity, and creator of online programs for women in peri and post menopause. Her social media and podcast following reaches over 100,000 people and is growing quickly. She is also a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the Aging Society of America.
We all face the reality of aging, but we can approach it with curiosity and do it in a way that feels empowering. The way we approach aging can be fully informed and supported by the knowledge and tools learned from years of research across the world. Zora lives what she preaches and leads the charge in approaching aging in this insightful way.
In this episode:
● What gerontology is, and how it helps us to understand aging.
● How smaller communities support the social fabric.
● The biggest factors that affect the aging process.
● How unresolved trauma can accelerate aging.
● How racism affects the healthspan and lifespan of minorities.
● The effects of drugs and alcohol on your wellbeing.
● The myth of red wine being an excellent source of reservatrol.
● What “blue zones” are and what we can learn from them.
● Issues with the way in which alcohol is consumed in North America.
● Why nurturing your network is the greatest contributor to lifespan.
● Why fatigue is not a normal symptom of aging.
● What to think about first when trying to figure out why we feel so tired.
● How mitochondria and NAD provide our bodies with energy.
● Who to consult if you’re interested in supplements.
● Zora’s personal opinion on the best way to exercise.
● Tips on how to embrace aging with confidence.
● Ways to combat the aging process that are unlikely to truly make you happy.
● Why Zora began journaling and what she has been getting out of it.
● An exercise that Zora recommends for raising heart rate variability.