Hack My Age : Menopause Upgrade

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...

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 m...

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. Carol graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and is also a Certified Nutritional Practitioner. She shares her passion of optimizing healt...

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 mul...

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 activ...

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 ret...

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, dedicat...

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 chan...

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...

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. This episode is s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 turne...

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...

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...

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 pod...

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 expect...

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...

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...

We already spoke about the benefits of red light therapy and how to choose a device with Dr. Zulia Frost . You should really listen to that podcast in the shownotes. But we didn't really cover red light sauna use, so I found an expert who can share with us the benefits, the drawbacks, all in the context of a woman going through menopause. She will clear some confusion on all the different types of...

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 we...

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...

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 Uni...