Hack My Age

Dr. Heather Hirsch clears the confusion on hormone therapy, cancer risk and testing for hormones in midlife. We cover the most common questions women ask about menopause. By the end of this podcast you should feel empowered and informed so you know how to approach your own doctor with your questions on menopause. 

Dr. Heather Hirsch is a certified internist practicing private telemedicine and founder of the Menopause & Midlife clinic at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hirsch is board certified in Internal Medicine and has advanced fellowship training in Women’s Health at the Cleveland Clinic. She specializes in menopausal hormone therapy, breast cancer survivorship, sexual dysfunction, bone health, and so many other conditions we are concerned about in midlife. 

Dr. Hirsch is an active and contributing member of the Menopause Society, formerly known as NAMS and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health. She also serves on the medical advisory board of Midi Health, which is the first digital platform designed for women’s unique needs in midlife. 

You may see her at her private telemedicine practice and you can book visits directly at heatherhirschmd.com

Dr. Hirsch has been featured on Oprah, NPR, Women’sHealth, InStyle and Forbes. 

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Dr. John Lieurance is organizing The Women’s Health Summit on April 26th, 2024 at his regenerative medicine clinic called Advanced Rejuvenation in Sarasota, Florida. Dr. Lieurance has held many conferences bringing together amazing biohackers from Ben Greenfield to Dr. Mindy Pelz. And this time around our biohacking besties Nathalie Niddam and Karen Martel will be there so I know this is going to be amazing.


Dr. Lieurance attended Parker College of Chiropractic & received his Naturopathic degree in 2001 from St. Luke's School of Medicine. He has practiced Functional Neurology, Naturopathic medicine, and Regenerative Medicine, using stem cell therapy in Sarasota for 25 years. Founder of the Advanced Rejuvenation Center in Sarasota, Florida, and founder of Functional Cranial Release.

Dr. Lieurance has been involved in multiple clinical trials including an investigation into the use of stem cells for Parkinson's Disease, COPD, and osteoarthritis of the knee and hip. He has a clinical focus on mold illness, Lyme disease, and chronic viral infections. Using natural Eastern and Western approaches to healing the true source of disease.

Dr Debbie Rice is the Director of Clinical Education at the DUTCH test. She maintains a micro practice focused on hormones for males and females. She has extensive training in hormones working with experts in the world of hormones. She is passionate about health care access in all levels of life. 

​​DISCLAIMER

Our discussion does not merit medical advice and is for educational purposes only.

Enjoy this solo episode explaining the different stages of menopause and how to know if you are in it or not.

Today we have my menopause bestie Karen Martel. Our first interview was back in August 2022. We covered so much – hormone therapy, struggles with weight loss, peptides, nutrition, DIM, estrogen metabolism and so much more.. This time we take a deeper dive and discuss how women take hormone therapy. It can get very confusing when you just get started. 

Karen is on a mission to help women in this phase of life.  She is not only a Certified Hormone Specialist, but she is also a Transformational Nutrition Coach, and an authority on women's weight loss. She is the host of one of my favorite podcasts called The Hormone Solution, where she unravels the enigmas of female fat loss and hormone imbalances. 

Karen has created a revolutionary approach to women's hormone health and weight management. She goes beyond the regular advice of diet and exercise, even disrupting what we think we know about weight loss. 

The best menopause diet and weight loss hacks: https://hackmyage.com/the-best-menopause-diet-new-weight-loss-hacks-karen-martel/

Today we have my menopause bestie Karen Martel. Our first interview was back in August 2022. We covered so much – hormone therapy, struggles with weight loss, peptides, nutrition, DIM, estrogen metabolism and so much more.. This time we take a deeper dive and discuss how women take hormone therapy. It can get very confusing when you just get started. 

Karen is on a mission to help women in this phase of life.  She is not only a Certified Hormone Specialist, but she is also a Transformational Nutrition Coach, and an authority on women's weight loss. She is the host of one of my favorite podcasts called The Hormone Solution, where she unravels the enigmas of female fat loss and hormone imbalances. 

Karen has created a revolutionary approach to women's hormone health and weight management. She goes beyond the regular advice of diet and exercise, even disrupting what we think we know about weight loss. 

The best menopause diet and weight loss hacks: https://hackmyage.com/the-best-menopause-diet-new-weight-loss-hacks-karen-martel/

Kelly Howard is called a Fitness Consistency Expert with a touch of Adventure. Today we talk about getting fit, staying consistent and getting outdoors. She has a book you can download called FIT: Active & Ageless for Life. Kelly is now 63 and she has been helping women prioritize fitness for over 25 years. She has wisdom and experience that can help us feel great and have more fun in this second half of life. She inspires women to adventure out of their comfort zones by trying new experiences they may have only dreamt of previously.

Kelly also has a podcast for older women called Fit is Freedom. She also has a coaching business, online courses, and retreats geared towards an older woman. She’s the creator of the FOX TV Outdoor Houston Adventure series and currently calls Houston, Texas, home. But her home is really outdoors in the wild where she is found kayaking rivers and traveling trails around the world.

The Over 40 and Fabulous Summit is over, but you can enjoy the replay of my interview with summit organizer Leah Vachani.

We cover:

• What is biohacking menopause?

• Foundations of biohacking

• What women in their 20s and 30s need to know about menopause

• Menopause experiences of women in other parts of the world

• What women without symptoms need to know

• The dangers of going through menopause without symptoms

• Myths vs truths about menopause

• What happens post menopause

Today we have Dr. Wendie Trubow, who is a functional medicine gynecologist. If you listen to her podcast Feel Freakin Amazing, you can tell she is someone who is so passionate about helping women optimize their health. She even had her own struggles with mold and metal toxicity, Celiac disease, and other health issues, so she has developed an incredibly deep sense of compassion and expertise for what her patients are dealing with.She is the co-author of a book called Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel Freaking Amazing. So you can guess that we are taking  a deep dive into toxins and detoxification.

You may have come across some of Dr. Trubow’s work before, because she has been regularly featured in MindBodyGreen and the Huffington Post.Dr. Wendie is on the faculty at A4M, which is the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. This is an organization that is always on the forefront of cutting edge technology and science to help us live longer better. 

Today we answer some critical questions you have about hormone therapy and take a deep dive into the different methods with two very knowledgeable and experienced people. Dr. Daved Rosensweet and Jill Chmielewski.

Daved Rosensweet is a medical doctor who has been treating women in menopause for over 30 years. He is the Founder of The Institute of BioIdentical Medicine and The Menopause Method. This is the program I just completed and absolutely loved. 

Dr. Rosensweet also wrote three books on the subject of hormones and menopause with the latest one being "Happy Healthy Hormones". You may have already seen him speak, because he has been traveling the world lecturing on the topic of hormones and functional medicine.   He really is a pioneer in this field. He was the one who trained the first nurse practitioners in the United States and was in charge of health promotion for the State of New Mexico. Now, Dr. Rosensweet spends most of his time as the Medical Director of The Institute of BioIdentical Medicine, where he trains medical practitioners to specialize in menopause and andropause medicine. 

Jill Chmielewski is a board member of Dr. Rosensweet’s Institute of Bioidentical Medicine, a Registered Nurse, Certified Health Coach, advocate for aging women, and is on a mission to change the way we approach menopause and aging. She helps midlife women break free from the mainstream way of thinking where disease and decline are accepted as an inevitable part of aging ~  and embrace the notion that it’s absolutely possible to feel vibrant, happy, healthy, balanced, sexy, and strong through midlife and beyond. 

Enjoy this solo episode explaining exactly what it means biohacking menopause and how you can learn to become your own biohacker through your menopause journey. You got this!

Chris Shade has a PhD in environmental science. He is the founder and CEO of Quicksilver Scientific®, specializes in the biological, environmental, and analytical chemistry of mercury in all its forms. He has patented a mercury speciation diagnostic process to analyze human toxicity and founded the only clinical lab in the world that gives a mercury speciation analysis. This means that they can determine where mercury toxicity may be coming from. 

Dr. Shade goes way beyond what most humans do and has designed cutting edge systems of nutraceuticals for detoxification and antioxidant protection, including advanced phospholipid delivery systems for both water- and fat-soluble compounds. If this just went over your head, don’t worry, he explains it all. He’s a scientist, and created a technology that increases the bioavailability of supplements and protocols which make them way more effective.Dr. Shade is in high demand all over the world to speak on the topics of mercury, environmental toxicities, neuroinflammation, immune dysregulation, and the human detoxification system. He has helped corporate executives, professional athletes, celebrities, children with autism, patients with chronic immune disorders and now women in menopause. He is passionate about changing the way the medical industry delivers care and helping us really understand health and our own bodies.

Today we talk about heavy metal toxicity and what we can do about it. 

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Enjoy this solo episode clearing the confusion on progesterone, what is it, when do we lose it, when do we replenish it, how to replenish it and what it does for our body. There are many things you may learn about this amazing hormone that you never knew before.

Andrea Nakayama is a Functional Medicine Nutritionist and educator, who has helped thousands of clients, and teaches coaches and clinicians around the world how to reclaim ownership of both their own and their clients’ health.
Andrea is also the host of the 15-Minute Matrix Podcast and the founder of the Functional Nutrition Alliance, where she draws on her experience and expertise to slow down our rapidly growing chronic illness epidemic.
Andrea has been through hardship and lost her husband to a brain tumor in 2002, but through this tragedy, she found out she had a passion for using food as personalized medicine and is now regularly consulted as the nutrition expert for some of the toughest clinical cases in the practices of many doctors. She trains nearly four thousand practitioners each year in her methodologies so that they too can become the last stop for their clients and patients as well as a trusted referral partner for doctors in their area.

Today we talk about nutrition, autoimmune disease and some of the problems women face in menopause as well as what we can do to resolve them.

I finally finished my training with the Menopause Method developed by Dr. Daved Rosensweet of the Institute of Bioidentical Medicine. I was accepted to take this course mainly designed for doctors and other medical professionals who prescribe bioidentical hormones. Although I do not prescribe hormones, I was curious to learn what happens from a doctor's perspective in order to empower women in my community with the right information and questions to ask their own doctor's when they are curious about hormone therapy for menopause.

I learned a ton and I am happy to share with you the five things that stood out for me in this course. It was so hard to decide, but I will keep following up with future podcasts to keep you informed.

Dr. Sarah Ballantyne is a bestselling author and a medical biophysicist who is a great educator to millions. Dr. Sarah believes the key to improving public health is scientific literacy. She makes us aware of the harm of healthism, diet culture, dogmatic misinformation and predatory marketing so that we can make the most informed choices.

What you may not know about Dr. Sarah is that she is also a very dedicated mother, she loves to cook, she is an artist and she even enjoys to perform stand up comedy!

Dr. Sarah’s latest project is Nutrivore. This is a website where we can find a positive and inclusive approach to dietary guidance, based in science and devoid of dogma, using nutrient density and sufficiency as its basic principles. We discuss exactly what Nutrivore is and how this applies to a woman going through menopause and learn about the top foods to include in our diets to help us ease into the menopause tradition as smoothly as possible.

JJ Virgin is a true pioneer in the world of health and wellness. Our first episode we recorded together covered fitness and strength in menopause (find link in the show notes)

JJ is someone I have been learning everything longevity from since 2016 through her podcast, now called “Well Beyond 40” when she was 2 years into her podcasting life. Now nearly 10 years, over 1000 episodes later and 17 million downloads, she is at the top of her game and smashing it. JJ is one of the first voices I ever heard on a podcast. I loved and still love the way she gives the simple truth and puts the science into words we can all understand with real practical tips.

JJ Virgin is a triple-board certified nutrition and fitness expert. She has launched 3 multimillion-dollar businesses and founded the Mindshare Collaborative, which is the most influential professional community in health. She also launched more New York Times bestselling books, PBS specials, and 7 figure brands than any other community. She has literally been on fire since her 40s and now 60s.

If you’re in the US, you may recognize JJ from TV. She co-hosted the show Freaky Eaters and was the nutrition expert for Dr. Phil’s Weight Loss Challenges. She’s also been on Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood, and The TODAY Show.

You’ll want to surely pick up her NY Times bestsellers like the Virgin Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, and JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook.

Today you'll meet Carol Petersen, who is a compounding pharmacist with decades of experience helping patients improve their quality of life through bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. Yes, decades…even when they weren’t fashionable.

I am really thrilled to have for the second time Dr. Felice Gersh to tell us about her new research into mammograms. We talk about the risks, the benefits, the alternatives and what a woman going through the menopause transition needs to know to make the best decision on how to monitor her breast health, and keep her risks for breast cancer as close to zero as possible.

Felice Gersh, M.D. is a multi-award winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, which provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine.

For 12 years, she taught obstetrics and gynecology as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Keck USC School of Medicine, where she was honored with the Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. She now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona School of Medicine, where she lectures and regularly grades the case presentations written by the Fellowship students for their final exams. Additionally, she is a sought after medical forensic expert and has worked on numerous high profile legal cases.
Dr. Felice loves writing and lecturing She has been around the world presenting on women’s health issues and she regularly publishes in peer-reviewed medical journals.

You may have already heard Dr. Felice on the podcasting circuit or in popular media like Cosmopolitan, Shape and Health magazines talking about her specialty - PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), menopause and other issues related to women’s health.

Menopause, health and fitness writer and professional athlete Selene Yeager is on again for a third time to talk about how to decipher some of the messages we hear about menopause and hormones from podcasts, books, reels and all the noise that’s accumulating out there so we can figure out what applies to us and what doesn’t.

Selene is leading the way for so many of us women who are older and active. She is host of one of my absolute favorite podcasts – Hit Play, Not Pause, which hopefully all of you are following by now. She is also the content manager at Feisty Menopause, and a best-selling professional health and fitness writer, including co-authoring ROAR and Next Level with Dr. Stacy Sims. I have links to all these important resources and our past podcast episodes we recorded together in the show notes.

Selene lives what she writes as a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal trainer, Precision Nutrition certified nutrition and menopause coach, off road racer, and former All-American Ironman triathlete. She’s athletic. She’s smart. She’s in menopause and she’s badass.

I can pretty much bet you’re going to listen to the very end of this podcast, because it is too juicy and too much fun. Today we are talking with two of my very dear friends Nicola (59) and Di (64) who are ahead of me in the menopause game and have been cruising through without much of a hitch, so they’re going to dish out their secrets for us today.

I first met Nicola Dale at one of my health retreats in Phuket, Thailand over 5 years ago. We hit it off like two peas in a pod. Then, less than a year later, Nicola brought one of her closest and longest lasting friends Di Edwards to the next retreat. And we also hit it off! We talk about how we met and what these women were going through during that time.

Nicola is a seasoned professional with a rich background in the aviation industry, having served as an International Flight Attendant with Quantas for over 30 years. Yep. She’s an Aussie! She is truly well traveled and has seen so much and has a passion for connecting with people across diverse domains.

Di Edwards is also from Australia. She has great experience as a television host in Australia and is in the real estate industry in addition to her new job. So she and Nicola decided to join forces to create Over The Back Fence. I featured on the podcast several weeks ago. We talked about sex, spermidine and menopause without any filters. See the link below for this episode.

ZORA ON OVER THE BACK FENCE (November 2023): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/zora-benhamou-hack-my-age-longevity-and-menopause/id1680386577?i=1000635336096

Today we talk about empowering yourself on menopause so you can ask your doctor the right questions when you are going through the menopause transition.

Stephanie Shaw gives us the right tools that she has used with her clients that are effective and simple. Stephanie is a health & wellness speaker and the host of the "Hello, Hot Flash." Podcast, which, you can guess, is a show, like mine, dedicated to a woman going through the menopause transition. Stephanie loves to educate and has transformed her journey of overcoming a challenging two year illness of her own into a thriving nutrition coaching and online menopause-educator career.
Stephanie has two holistic nutrition certifications and a Masters of Science from Northeastern University.   She helps her clients manage their hormones, take control of their weight, get their energy back, and slow down the aging process.

Mollie Eastman is sought out for her expertise, because she has not only dealt with her own struggles with sleep, but she has created a whole business around it and coached many others with her knowledge and expertise. She is the founder of the Sleep Is A Skill website and programs, but she is also the host of the Sleep Is A Skill podcast.

Mollie uses technology, accountability and behavioral change to help everyone optimize their sleep. She is trained in behavioral change techniques from the Nonverbal Group, Beyond Tells and has a degree in Psychology from Syracuse.

And today we focus on the sleep issues women have during the menopause transition like sleep disruptions, you know, those 2:00am awakenings, difficulty falling asleep and STAYING asleep, what about those “4:30am-wake-ups-and-just-can’t-go-back-to-sleep-again” syndrome, insomnia, sleep apnea and so much more. Mollie has got your back and will give us the reasons and the solutions.

Laini Gray is a Functional Health Practitioner truly dedicated to specializing in women's hormones and gut health.  She has a Master's Degree in Holistic Nutrition and is a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner.  She is also an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach and Precision Nutrition Coach. She has her own practice called Gray Star Health.

So, you’ll be happy to hear that Laini isn’t knew to this business of gut health. She’s been at it for over 20 years, supporting busy women on their journey to understand their hormones and get them back under control so they can get back to their old selves when they felt great and had plenty of energy. Laini is a whiz at lab testing, but she starts by foundation first. I really like her approach, because so many functional medicine doctors, especially in the gut health space, can over test us and it’s not always necessary. Laini gets this and respects each woman’s personal journey, her budget and approach to healing. She lives in the real world, understands what is sustainable and realistic for the majority of the women out there and gets a lot done, with the minimum of time, money and effort.

Pam Sherman is a menopausal woman and can speak to us, on our level, about fitness. She has been passionate about exercise her whole life. She became a group exercise instructor and personal trainer in 1997 and has loved inspiring women on their health/wellness journeys. She is also a coach on the FitRadio and TerraCore apps, an international speaker and a personal fitness coach.

Sandy Kruse is my biohacking bestie and my faithful partner in our Facebook group Biohacking Menopause. Join us there right now as you are listening to this to join a supportive community of like-minded women who are also going through this transition with you.

Sandy is an expert on hormones, menopause and biohacking. She’s my go to for everything about thyroid health and we already did a great podcast together discussing thyroid dysfunction and chronic stress.

Today, however, we are going to talk about hormone testing. So many women are confused on what to test, when to test, IF to test and how.

Sandy is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, a Certified Metabolic Balance coach who has also done certifications in functional lab testing for nutritionists, hormones & endocrinology and peptides and anti-aging.

Sandy is also trained in how the body, mind and spirit all connect, this is where the “holistic” comes in. She has been working for many years helping her clients, who are mostly over 40, be proactive with their wellness goals, ranging from gut health, hormone balancing, lowering inflammation and thyroid health.

OTHER EPISODES WITH SANDY KRUSE

Do you care about how your skin looks and feels? Then you’re going to love this conversation today with Rachel Varga who is a Double Board Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist. She’s been in the game for a while with over 20,000 procedures performed under her belt. Plus, she’s got a top rated podcast all dedicated to biohacking ourselves to become more radiant called, what else?, The Rachel Varga Podcast.

Rachel trains plenty of other physicians and nurses. She is also a celebrity skin expert who has been featured by other big time biohackers out there like Dave Asprey and JJ Virgin.

Rachel isn’t just about the superficial stuff. She actually has taken a deep dive into research and has published 5 academic papers and is an executive board member and peer reviewer for the Plastic and Aesthetic Nursing Journal, and a regular contributor to the Journal of Aesthetic Nursing.

Rachel is so sought out in the world of aesthetics, because she is one of the first to combine functional anti aging techniques, biohacking and modern medical aesthetics by teaching us how to tune into what the skin is really telling us about our internal health and what to do about it. Rachel educates and inspires women to enhance radiance by slowing cellular aging using her Holistic SCIENCE of BEAUTY method at RachelVarga.ca.

Dr. Elizabath Yurth is now appearing for the fourth time . She is truly passionate about educating people with the latest and greatest information in medicine. Our previous episodes covered osteoarthritis and joint pain, hormone therapy for women in menopause, mitochondria 101 and fatigue, and today we are going to cover the truths and myths of heart disease and cholesterol…all in the context of a woman going through menopause. Links to the past episodes in the show notes below.

Dr. Yurth is best known as a regenerative andanti-aging doctor who has helped hundreds of women just like us solve joint pain, menopause problems, inflammaging and just get back to our balanced and energetic selves.

She is even trained in cellular medicine. In 2006 she co-founded The Boulder Longevity Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Go to boulderlongevity.com and you can read all about her background as a double board-certified doctor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation AND Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine and all the fellowships and academies she is a part of.

OTHER PODCAST EPISODES WITH DR. YURTH

I have two guests on today who I am super excited to introduce to you and to each other. Nathalie Niddam and Alice Hart Davis. Both are previous guests to the Hack My Age podcast (scroll down for links to those podcast episodes).

I decided to gather these powerhouses in the biohacking and beauty industry to discuss the conundrum of beauty standards, medical aesthetics and try to figure out how to navigate our feelings, emotions and desires about beauty while going through the menopause transition and beyond as we hit our 60s and 70s.

I am in my 50s, Nathalie is approaching 60 and Alice is now in her 60s. Alice is a former specialist aesthetics journalist with 20 years of reporting on the beauty and the medical aesthetics industry. She is also the founder of the Tweakments Guide, which is a content and e-commerce business focused on aesthetic treatments and skincare. So she knows just about everything there is to know that is out there on the market.

Nathalie is not only expert in peptides, but also a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, an Apeiron Academy Epigenetic Coach and a member of the first graduating class of the Bulletproof Training Institute. Nathalie also has one of the best podcasts on the planet. It’s now rated in the top 100 podcasts in the US and Canada in her category. And there are millions of podcasts out there now, so it’s quite the achievement.

So a few weeks ago, Nathalie and I were talking about the trends of big lips, fillers and what people are getting into. We had so many interesting things to say, I thought the topic deserved a podcast to get information out to you. But I also wanted to hear from a woman with experience and wisdom to give us some guidance on how to navigate this actually pretty difficult transition in life still looking and feeling our best on any budget. And so Alice came to mind. She is really an authority in this area and her mission is to educate, be authentic and bring transparency into the world of aesthetics.

PAST EPISODES WITH NATHALIE NIDDAM

Biohacker Faraz Khan of Anti Aging Hacks is going to give us 3 new and unique ways to reverse the grays.

We had Faraz on the podcast a couple times before. First we spoke about hacking scars and skin. Then we met again to talk about how to hack thinning hair. Faraz always has really great new biohacks and has become quite the expert on skin and hair.

Faraz Khan is a former computer scientist turned longevity educator, speaker and biohacker. He started this journey into longevity and anti-aging when he first saw his parents literally age before his eyes.

So Faraz went from helping large media, entertainment, pharma and life sciences companies to helping everyday people like you and me beat back some of the unwanted signs and symptoms of aging. He launched his podcast “Anti-Aging Hacks” in 2019, where he interviews the top minds in longevity, anti-aging and health.

Through all these amazing interviews, his personal research and experience Faraz delved further into why hair starts to turn gray and has armed himself with science-based tactics to not only grow better hair and more confidence, but now how to beat the grays

Today we are taking a deep dive into melatonin for women going through menopause who seem to have some of the most problematic sleep with Dr. Deanna Minich who is a certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP), a nutrition scientist, international lecturer, educator, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement industries. So she really knows what is going on behind the scenes of supplement formulations and will give us the truth on this.

She is now the Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health, a company that makes health and wellness products. She has been super active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice with a company called Food & Spirit™. She is the author of six books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and over fifty scientific publications.

She has a crazy full academic background. She studied nutrition science, including a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995) and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1999).

She also served on the Nutrition Advisory Board for The Institute of Functional Medicine and on the Board of Directors for the American Nutrition Association. Currently, she teaches for the Institute for Functional Medicine, University of Western States, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and the Institute for Brain Potential.

Today we are talking with Dr. Jeffrey Gross who treats patients on a daily basis with stem cells for their back injuries, hip and knee osteoarthritis, shoulder tears and all the other joys that may come with aging and menopause.

Dr. Gross studied biochemistry and molecular cell biology at U.C. Berkeley. He decided to become a neurosurgeon, but then shifted his career into regenerative medicine. So now he focuses on treating athletic injuries of the spine, hip, knee and shoulder at the leading edge of the biological sciences so he can help people to depend less on their pharmaceuticals or avoid surgery if it’s not all that necessary.

He founded his regenerative medicine practice called ReCELLebrate in Nevada in the US where he activates our own stem cell health to heal our bodies and prevent other health issues down the road.

You are going to love this conversation today with my very special guest Dr. Amie Hornaman. Thanks to our mutual biohacking bestie Nathalie Niddam, I have gotten to know her protocols, her style and her amazing podcast called “The Thyroid-Fixer”, which is a top-rated podcast in medicine and alternative health. She has nearly 350 episodes already, so you have a LOT of catching up to do with her podcast now. And I promise, if you love mine, you’re going to absolutely eat up the information she’s dishing out on her podcast.

So I invited Dr. Amie to share her expertise on thyroid health, but we are also going to cover some hormones you never heard about, or never even thought about, that are so crucial for our transitions into menopause.

Dr. Amie is a doctor of clinical nutrition and a certified functional medicine practitioner, but she has taken her knowledge about thyroid function to a whole new level that even most doctors can’t even figure out. So she then went on to create The Institute for Thyroid and Hormone Optimization, which is basically an organization with transformational, proven approaches to address thyroid dysfunction and support you in returning to full health.

Dr. Amie is also the founder of The Fixxr™ Supplement line that specifically addresses the struggles Dr. Amie saw in her patients: like, the inability to lose weight, fatigue, low libido, hormone imbalance…you know what I’m talking about.
Dr. Amie literally grabs your hand, gives you answers about your health and then gives you the actual tools and personalized treatment to get to the root cause of the problem and returns you to the badass human self you’ve always been.

Thyroid Fixxr (T2) : http://thyroidfixxr.com/

I was so inspired by Julia Linn, that I had to invite her to the podcast and find out what her secrets to transforming her body from sick to healthy. Julia is a 66 year old body builder and online coach. When she was only 11 years old, she had to deal with diabetes, which caused kidney failure, heart disease, retinopathy (diabetic blindness) and nerve damage. Her doctors told her she wasn’t expected to even live to 40. But when she turned 34 she had a double organ transplant which cured the diabetes and gave her a working kidney. Fourteen years later when she was 48, Julia needed to have a triple cardiac bypass as her heart disease got worse, and then two years later she had to remove her thyroid.
When she hit the 30th anniversary of her life-saving transplant, she decided she had to honor her organ donor Gina by getting into the best shape of her life. Her goal was optimal health, NOT weight loss. She wanted the energy to continue living her dreams, and reaching her goals. Her true motivation was the tremendous gratitude for the gift of life
So she started a fitness program as an out-of-shape 62-year old, and then within two years she was competing on stage in two NPC Bikini Masters Body Building Competitions, where she came in first and third. Julia remembers days in the ICU when she didn’t know if she was ever going to go home. So for her, to be able to lift weights, feel strong, alive and energetic is the ultimate gift she wants to share with Queenagers.

Julia now is certified by the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) as a Personal Trainer. Julia is a true inspiration and wants all women to know that if she can do it, they can do it. And her goal is to help women in their power decades understand how to get in the best shape of their life.

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It is an honor to welcome a true trailblazer in the world of health and wellness to our podcast today – none other than JJ Virgin herself. She is one of the first voices I ever heard on a podcast. I can’t even remember how I found her, but it was somewhere around 2016 and I was looking for answers about fitness and nutrition for women over 40. And she was there to give the simple truth and put the science into words I could understand at the time, while also giving real practical advice to show me how to implement her tips that were the “little hinges that swing the big doors”.

I am pretty sure you already know JJ, but if you don’t, listen up and start following her and her podcast now called “Well Beyond 40”, which has over 1000 episodes and over 17 million downloads. JJ Virgin is a triple-board certified nutrition and fitness expert. I would also add biohacker to that list. JJ is a passionate advocate of the healing power of nutrition, and she is on a mission to change the way the world sees aging and longevity. She has launched 3 multimillion-dollar businesses and founded the Mindshare Collaborative, which is the most influential professional community in health. She also launched more New York Times bestselling books, PBS specials, and 7 figure brands than any other community.

JJ co-hosted the show Freaky Eaters and was the nutrition expert for Dr. Phil’s Weight Loss Challenges. She’s also been on Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood, and The TODAY Show. She’s an international speaker and has shared the stage with the biggest of the big like Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk and Dr. Mark Hyman.

You’ll want to surely pick up her NY Times bestsellers like the Virgin Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, and JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook. She also has an amazing book called the Miracle Mindset, which shares the powerful lessons in strength and positivity that she learned after her 16 year old son Grant was the victim of a brutal hit-and-run accident and nearly died.

Today we take a deep dive into something we really haven’t covered on the Hack My Age podcast. Rheumatoid arthritis. And we learn more about it from Indira Pulliadath who had her own struggles with rheumatoid arthritis and actually changed her profession as a pharmaeconomics researcher to a nutritional therapy practitioner (NTP) because of it. She also has a Master’s in Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy. But with all the knowledge she had on pharmaceuticals, she still found that medication alone wasn’t enough when her arthritis was so bad, she could hardly function. So she started looking into healing diets, which worked so well it motivated her to switch careers and move into the nutrition world.

Indira has since wrote a great cookbook, called 'AIP Indian Fusion', which has autoimmune protocol recipes inspired by Indian cuisine. You can also find her healthy recipes on her blog 'Cook2Nourish'. I will have links to all of Indira’s information in the shownotes.

Today’s guest is a perfect match for the Hack My Age podcast. She is a woman going through the menopause transition herself, she helps women in this phase of life AND she knows a ton about hormones and managing the unexplained weight gain some of us get in menopause. My guest today is Karen Martel. She is a Certified Hormone Specialist, Transformational Nutrition Coach, and authority on women's weight loss. Karen is also the host of the amazing women's health podcast The Other Side of Weight Loss, where she unravels the enigmas of female fat loss and hormone imbalances.
Karen went through her own health challenges, so she understands what you may be going through and has created a revolutionary approach to women's hormone health and weight management. She goes beyond the regular advice of diet and exercise, even disrupting what we think know about weight loss. Her true passion lies in supporting women during the transformative peri and post-menopausal phases, as well as guiding them to overcome weight management obstacles. You’re going to love this conversation and I know it will help you!

My biohacking bestie Leslie Kenny is on the podcast…AGAIN. Today we are going to talk about some new hacks for bone and ovarian health as well as the biggest mistake people make when buying their spermidine supplements.

Leslie is a native of Southern California living in Oxford. She is a certified health coach with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, she was in the first cohort of Dave Asprey’s Bulletproof training, she’s a great patient advocate, she graduated from Harvard & Berkley, she became a sexologist and now is the founder of Oxford Healthspan, which is a nutraceutical company promoting a healthier, longer life for everyone. Oxford Healthspan is also the maker of my all time favorite supplement Primeadine spermidine.

Leslie is a multitalented and busy person. She travels the world speaking at international conferences on aging. And now she shares her latest research with us.

Have you done a bone density test yet? If not, you will want to hear what my guest today, Dr. Doug Lucas says about that and osteoporosis. We discuss why women going through menopause need to be more attentive to this problem and what we can do to prevent or maybe even reverse it. If it’s not too late.

Dr. Lucas is a double board certified physician He did his foundational training at Stanford University and then started a traditional orthopedic surgery practice in Durango, CO. But after just 5 years in this traditional medical model Dr. Doug decided he needed to get a second fellowship and board certification in Anti-Aging and Metabolic Medicine so that he can take a different approach to treating people’s problems. And that’s why he started Optimal Human Health MD (OHH).

His work led him to his expertise in metabolic health, hormone optimization and bone health, because so many women were having problems in this area. So he gathered his knowledge alongside experts to create the Optimal Bone Health MD, which is a sister company that shares resources focusing exclusively on bone health.  

He believes that osteoporosis is a disease that requires a comprehensive approach to recognize WHY you are losing bone and then reversing those causes.

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Today’s guest tells us things we’ve never heard about and that just may change our life. Dr. Dayan Goodenowe is a researcher who dove into the world of plasmalogens. We learn how this molecule our body produces is so vital to diseases of aging and how we can control them to keep our cholesterol levels healthy, lower our risk of heart disease, dementia and many other neurological diseases as well as cancer.

Dr. Goodenowe started researching the biochemical mechanisms of disease in 1990. He’s got over 30 years of experience inventing cutting edge technology, creating medical grade supplements and identifying biochemical prodromes that are related to particular diseases, that we women want to know more about.  

Keep in mind that Dr. Goodenowe is a neuroscientist, not a medical doctor, and certainly not your doctor. He is also the founder of Prodrome sciences, the author of the book “Breaking Alzheimer’s and creator of the DrGoodenowe.com website where you can find everything about him, his research and the things we are going to cover today.

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This is Part 2 of a conversation with Dr. Jack Wolfson. Scroll down for the link to Part 1. He is a board-certified cardiologist who uses nutrition, lifestyle, and supplements to prevent and treat heart disease instead of medication and surgery. He originally spent 10 years as a hospital-based cardiologist performing angiograms, pacemakers, and other cardiac procedures, but decided to find a different approach to treating and preventing heart disease.

He completed a 4-year medical degree, 3-year internal medicine residency and, 3-year cardiology fellowship. He served as the Chief Fellow of his cardiology program, managing all of the other cardiology trainees. In an Arizona cardiology group he was the Chairman of Medicine, Director of Cardiology and, Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation. In 2012, Dr. Wolfson struck out on his own and founded the Natural Heart Doctor to offer patients a holistic approach to heart care. Dr. Wolfson has been featured on US television and news programs, live events, podcasts, and online interviews. He is best at teaching medical doctors and practitioners from all corners of the world. Dr. Wolfson was recognized as one of the Top 50 Holistic Medical Practitioners by the Dr Axe website alongside other practitioners like Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Sara Gottfried. He also wrote an Amazon best-selling book called The Paleo Cardiologist, The Natural Way to Heart Health and continues to write as a contributing author to The Textbook of Integrative Cardiology.

Part 1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/152-a-natural-approach-to-prevent-heart-attacks-in/id1531105768?i=1000620432806

Today we are talking peptides with one of my favorite guests and biohacking bestie Nathalie Niddam. We are going to discuss her top picks of peptides for longevity. And as a woman in menopause herself, we will take a little dip into her personal thoughts on peptides for issues concerning this cohort of women.

Nathalie is a total science geek with a passion for human health. She’s a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, an Apeiron Academy Epigenetic Coach and a member of the first graduating class of the Bulletproof Training Institute.

Nathalie also has a podcast that you have GOT to listen to called Biohacking SuperhumanPerformance, which is now rated as a top 100 podcast in the US and Canada in its category. She has been interviewing some of the most brilliant minds in the biohacking space and along the way gaining massive amounts of knowledge from each and every one of these experts. She also has a very active Facebook page called OPTIMIZING SUPERHUMAN PERFORMANCE as well as a very cool private group on Mighty Networks and a very comprehensive peptide program that teaches us everything we need to know about peptides and more!

Today is the first time we are talking about cancer on the show. It’s a topic that women going through menopause are concerned about, so I sought out an expert to help guide us in the world of nutrition for cancer. Dr. Krystle Zuniga is a clinician, educator, scientist, and science communicator in Austin, Texas with over 14 years of experience in nutrition and specifically nutrition for people who have cancer.

She completed her PhD in Nutritional Sciences and dietetic internship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Then she did her postdoctoral training in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

After that she became an Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Foods at Texas State University where her laboratory examined the relationship between diet quality, physical activity, and cognitive function in young adults, breast cancer survivors, and older adults.  

Dr. Zuniga then held a clinical role and faculty appointment at the Livestrong Cancer Institutes of the Dell Medical School at University of Texas at Austin.

Through all her experiences Dr. Zuniga saw that there was a gap in nutrition support for cancer survivors both during and after cancer treatment. So as a board certified oncology dietitian and owner of the private practice and social media account Cancer Nutrition HQ, she decided to combat misinformation, share the latest research in nutrition and cancer, and translate the science into everyday actions cancer survivors can take to support their health and quality of life with nutrition.

In addition to her private practice, she is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of Moving Beyond Cancer Collaborative, a non-profit that provides accessible integrative oncology health and wellness services.

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Jack Wolfson is a board-certified cardiologist who uses nutrition, lifestyle, and supplements to prevent and treat heart disease instead of medication and surgery. He originally spent 10 years as a hospital-based cardiologist performing angiograms, pacemakers, and other cardiac procedures, but decided to find a different approach to treating and preventing heart disease.

He completed a 4-year medical degree, 3-year internal medicine residency and, 3-year cardiology fellowship. He served as the Chief Fellow of his cardiology program, managing all of the other cardiology trainees.
In an Arizona cardiology group he was the Chairman of Medicine, Director of Cardiology and, Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation.
In 2012, Dr. Wolfson struck out on his own and founded the Natural Heart Doctor to offer patients a holistic approach to heart care.
Dr. Wolfson has been featured on US television and news programs, live events, podcasts, and online interviews. He is best at teaching medical doctors and practitioners from all corners of the world.
Dr. Wolfson was recognized as one of the Top 50 Holistic Medical Practitioners by the Dr Axe website alongside other practitioners like Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Sara Gottfried. He also wrote an Amazon best-selling book called The Paleo Cardiologist, The Natural Way to Heart Health and continues to write as a contributing author to The Textbook of Integrative Cardiology.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston is an obstetrician/gynecologist - someone who understands women’s health. She also is an expert in anti-aging medicine, metabolic function and functional medicine to help women in midlife solve some of their issues like midlife weight gain and fatigue. And it all started with herself. She had her own health issues and managed to lose a life changing 100 pounds in the process.

She has her own fabulous podcast called The Hormone Prescription. She is also the founder of Her Hormone Club, which is an all inclusive membership program giving women access to state of the art natural hormone therapy treatment throughout the US and the Midlife Metabolism Institute, which gives educational and coaching programs for women at midlife to fix their hormones, their metabolism and ultimately optimize their health.
Dr. Kyrin has been featured on a TEDx talk, CBS, NBC TV networks, in Reader’s Digest and The Huffington Post.

Today’s guest educates us on menopause and shares not only what the best tips are for managing hot flashes and nights sweats, but also gives us a very different perspective on menopause.

We geek out a little today with our guest Menno Henslemans, so grab your paper and pen for this one. Menno started his career as a business consultant, but his passion for science and fitness turned him into an international public speaker, scientific researcher and educator. His works have been published in over a dozen languages and his website was ranked the #1 fitness website by The Huffington Post.

Currently, Menno is a reviewer in the Cambridge University's ReachSci Society Mini-PhD Program 2023 and a scientist for the International Scientific Research Foundation for Fitness and Nutrition. He is also a board member of the Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences (INFS) of India, and FitZonderFabels, in the Netherlands.

Ever since my first podcast on peptides, I have been getting a lot of questions about them. And now, with weight loss peptides circulating the media showing celebrities using them, hearing about their side effects, but also hear they are effective…people are confused. Do we try them or not? That’s why I invited Dr. Eric Fete to clear all the confusion and to share his take on the drug.

Dr. Fete is the founder of PrimeX, which is a company all about preventive health, age management, and peak performance. They sell nutrition products, post educational materials, offer physician grade supplements, hormone therapy and personalized health plans to optimize your health. Dr. Eric’s motto is “Learning from the past, living for today, transforming the future.”

Dr. Eric Fete has a background in microbiology and a medical degree from the prestigious Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He’s an osteopath by training. He didn’t want to stop there so he got certified in Age Management Medicine by the Age Management Medicine Group, which is jointly sponsored by Cenegenics Education and Research Foundation (CERF) and the Foundation for Care Management.

These organizations are accredited by seven sponsoring organizations including the American Medical Association and the American Board of Medical Specialties. And Dr. Eric didn’t want to stop there either, so he got certified in Advanced Bio Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy by Worldlink Medical.

Dr. Fete is certified by the International Peptide Society and he is a member of the Seeds Scientific Research and Performance Institute (SSRP).

Please digest the content in this podcast for information purposes only. We are hearing just one point of view, so be health literate, do your due diligence, hear both sides of the story and then talk to your doctor.

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We take a very different perspective on anxiety during menopause today with my next guest Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary. She has a Ph.D. and is a professor of psychology and neuroscience, Director of the Emotion Regulation Lab, and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Health Technology at Hunter College in New York City, where the mission is to connect researchers, community stakeholders, and technology innovators to bridge the healthcare gap.

She has a very interesting role as a founder and CSO of Arcade Therapeutics, where she translates neuroscience and cognitive therapy techniques into gamified, clinically validated digital therapeutics for mental health. She is a busy momma and published over 100 scientific articles and delivered over 400 presentations at academic conferences and for corporate clients. You may have seen her in the media where she has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, The Today Show, and Bloomberg Television.