Healthspan on Her Terms with Dr. Sheri

Have you ever looked at your life and thought, "I don't feel like myself anymore"... but you couldn't explain why? You're functioning. You're getting through your days. Your labs may even be "normal." But something feels different. Maybe you're exhausted even after sleeping.  Maybe you're forgetting words.  Maybe your workouts leave you sore for da...

A single scary headline from 2002 changed women’s health care for a generation and we’re still paying for it. We dig into why “hormone therapy is dangerous” became the default narrative, what the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) actually studied, and how the real clinical picture depends on timing, formulation, and delivery method. We talk through the timing hypothesis or “window of opportunity,” w...

Have you ever been told your labs are “normal” while your body insists something is off? We’re pulling apart the hormone myths that keep women stuck in that exact gap, where fatigue, brain fog, sleep problems, weight changes, mood shifts, and low libido get chalked up to stress or “just getting older.” I’m Dr. Sheri Erwin, an integrative nurse practitioner, and I want you to leave with real biolog...

Brain fog can be one of the most unsettling changes in midlife because it is hard to explain and easy for other people to dismiss. You might lose your train of thought mid-sentence, search for words that used to come instantly, or feel like your mind is moving through wet cement. I want to make this simple and validating: brain fog is common, it often comes and goes, and normal labs do not automat...

You can be “fine” on paper and still feel wrong in your body. If you’re getting through the day, exercising, eating pretty well, and your labs look normal, but you feel flat, foggy, reactive, or stuck, we want to offer a better frame: under-recovery. I’m Dr. Sheri Erwin, an integrative nurse practitioner, and I’m walking you through why this shows up so often for high-performing women in their 40s...

Anxiety can be real and still be the wrong diagnosis for what you’re feeling. If you’ve noticed a sudden shift in stress tolerance, sleep, mood, or feeling “wired” at night, we walk through a different lens: anxiety-like symptoms as stress physiology. I’m a nurse practitioner and integrative women’s health educator, and I want you to understand what your nervous system might be trying to communica...

Most women hear “HRT” and assume it’s one uniform treatment. That single label hides a crucial truth: systemic hormone therapy and local vaginal estrogen are different therapies, used for different symptoms, in different tissues, with different goals and expectations. We walk through what systemic hormones actually mean (hormones circulating in the bloodstream) and why they can be so effective for...

“Your labs are normal.” If you’ve heard that and still felt exhausted, foggy, achy, moody, or like your body is changing without an explanation, we made this for you. Normal bloodwork can be genuinely reassuring, but it can also be incomplete because standard lab panels are built to detect disease, not to optimize health span or explain early dysfunction.  We walk through the biggest places “norma...

Eating less and working out more used to work, and now it doesn’t. If that’s your reality in your 40s or 50s, I want you to hear this clearly: you’re not broken, and you’re not failing your metabolism. Your body is running a different system than it did at 25, and midlife metabolism demands a new strategy that fits perimenopause and menopause physiology. I walk through what’s changing under the ho...

Menopause maxing means taking early symptoms seriously and using the menopausal transition as a turning point toward a stronger next decade.  A lot of women feel the shift much earlier, such as fragile sleep, 2 to 4 a.m. wake-ups, anxiety, irritability, brain fog, stubborn midsection weight gain, and joints that suddenly ache and stiffen. When those signs get brushed off as “stress” or “normal agi...

Perimenopause doesn’t start the day your period stops. For many women, it’s a long, messy transition that can stretch seven to ten years and still look “normal” on the calendar, which is exactly why so many women spend their late 30s and 40s feeling off without a name for what’s happening. In this episode, we’ll clarify the difference between perimenopause and menopause , and get specific about wh...

Your 30s can feel like you’re supposed to be “fine” even when you’re tired, your sleep is shifting, and your body feels less forgiving than it used to. That quiet gap between looking okay on the outside and not feeling like yourself on the inside is exactly where healthspan work begins, because your 30s are not a maintenance decade. They’re a setup decade. I walk through what’s changing under the...

Muscle is not just how we look ; it’s a healthspan organ that protects our metabolism, blood sugar, bones, balance, and independence as we age. I share a real midlife story, bust common strength myths, and lay out simple ways to start strength training even with a busy schedule.  a story of “my world is getting smaller” and how strength loss quietly shows up  why muscle supports metabolism and ste...

At what point did we start accepting feeling “off” as normal? Because somewhere along the way, women were told this is just part of getting older.  The fatigue.  The weight changes.  The sleep issues.  The feeling like something isn’t quite right. And most of the time… no one really explains why. In this first episode of Healthspan on Her Terms , we’re talking about what’s actually happening and w...

This is the trailer for Healthspan on Her Terms, a podcast for women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond who feel too young to feel this old and want to protect the quality of their years, not just the number of them. Hosted by Dr. Sheri Erwin, an integrative clinician and founder of Root & Remedy Integrative Care, this show covers strength, metabolism, hormones, brain fog, mood, sleep, stress,...