Menopause as a Brain Event: Rethinking the Change with Dr. Fiona Lovely
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Release Date: 09/23/2023
Quick Hits: Leptin: The Key to Unlocking Weight Loss and Controlling Hunger
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: Leptin hormone is greatly responsible for weight gain, weight loss and appetite. It has even been dubbed the obesity, fat, hunger and starvation hormone. The heavier...
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The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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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: Bio Joseph Oniwor is a transformation trainer. He has been in the fitness industry for 28 years. In his past, he was a college athlete and a pro arena football...
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PART 2 Q&A: DHEA, Nipple & Breast Pain, Estrogen for The Face, Progesterone Dosing, HRT After 70, Hormone Testing Frequency
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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Quick Hits: How to Master the Art of Losing Weight with an Immune Centric Approach with Joel Greene
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. Joel Green is the creator of The VEEP Nutrition System, the world’s first commercially available program based on targeting gut communities to affect health and body composition. His system has been...
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The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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Quick Hits: How to Optimize Your Metabolic Health with Josh and Jeanne Rubin
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. Josh and Jeanne Rubin are the founders of EastWest Healing. Josh and Jeanne have taken the concept of “food as medicine” to a whole new level. As pioneers in the area of restoring metabolic health,...
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Q&A with Karen: Blood Clots & HRT, Mirena IUD, Loose Skin Post Weight Loss, Ovarian Failure, Amenorrhea, Weight Gain from HRT and MORE!
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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Transforming Metabolic Health and Detoxification with Sulforaphane and Berberine with David Roberts
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
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The Women's Hormone Masterclass with Dr. Kyle Gillett: A Deep Dive Into Testosterone, Dutasteride, SHBG, & Menopause Weight Gain
The Hormone Solution Podcast with Karen Martel
Dr. Kyle Gillett enjoys providing holistic individualized care to his patients. His practice includes preventative medicine, aesthetics, sports medicine, hormone optimization, obstetrics and infertility, integrative medicine, and precision medicine including genomics. He believes that each human is a unique creation that requires attention to their body, mind, and soul. He uses shared decision-making and an evidence-based approach. He firmly believes “food is medicine” and “exercise is medicine”. Dr. Gillett describes the “7 pillars of health”: exercise, diet, sleep, stress,...
info_outlineDr. Fiona Lovely is a women’s health expert with specialties in functional medicine, functional neurology and restorative endocrinology. She has lectured on the topics of women’s health, hormone balance and brain function extensively. She is the creator and host of a popular long-running podcast on the passage of peri-menopause called Not Your Mother’s Menopause. A million + people around the world have downloaded the podcast, listening in to learn about the physical, mental and spiritual journey of menopause.
Her mission is to share info to empower women and pull back the curtain to reveal the good-ness that is possible at mid life. She has a vision of the time where the world is a kinder, gentler place and the taboos of menopause no longer exist.
Have you ever considered that menopause may be brain-related? That’s what we’ll be discussing in this episode. Fiona explains the role that hormones and genetics play towards your level of Alzheimer’s risk, the benefits of replacing hormones, and how brain health influences your sexuality.
In this episode:
● Why medical professionals need to stop operating from old information.
● What the hormones from the pituitary gland signal the ovaries to do.
● The effects of the egress of estrogen and progesterone on the brain.
● Symptoms that are brain-based which happen in peri-menopause.
● Why the egress of estrogen can act like a switch for Alzheimer’s.
● Paying close attention to your genetics that may indicate a higher risk of Alzheimer’s.
● Karen’s recent visit to a genetics specialist.
● The three types of estrogen and which one is mort important for the brain.
● What benefits happen from replacing hormones.
● Why some studies about hormone replacement are flawed.
● How to properly assert to your doctor that you want hormone replacement.
● Why midlife, and not waiting for a diagnosis, is the time to take action.
● Situations where hormones can be more effective than antidepressants.
● Why taking care of brain health is the most important thing for a healthy sexuality.
● The reason that wearing socks during sex can help women achieve orgasm.
● Being stuck in “fight or flight” mode and how to fix it.
● Fiona’s course that is being offered again this year.