Not Your Mother’s Midlife

Send us Fan Mail You've probably seen the headlines — GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy may reduce breast cancer risk. But what did the study actually find, and what can't it tell us? Johanna breaks down the research, the biology connecting fat tissue and breast cancer after menopause, and what it actually means for women in midlife. Support the show 🎯Subscribe to me on Youtube...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing a conversation from The Model Health Show — Shawn Stevenson sitting down with Harvard Business School professor Dr. Leslie John, whose new book Revealing makes the case that most of us are holding back far more than we should. Not the dramatic stuff — the everyday things we swallow, edit, and never say. And it's quietly doing damage to our relationships, ou...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing a conversation from the You Are Not Broken podcast — Dr. Kelly Casperson sitting down with urologist and hormone health advocate Dr. Helen Bernie. They cover why testosterone remains one of the most misunderstood, over-regulated, and under-prescribed hormones in modern medicine — for both men and women — what the FDA's regulatory history has to do with that...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing an episode from Betwixt the Sheets — sex historian Dr. Kate Lister taking a deep dive into why cunnilingus has been stigmatised, feared, and condemned across cultures and centuries. It's history, it's fascinating, and it tells you a lot about how female pleasure has been treated throughout time. Also: Dr. Kate Lister has a new book out, and it's w...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing another conversation from the unPAUSED podcast — Dr. Mary Claire Haver with Dr. Tony Youn, board certified plastic surgeon and bestselling author of Younger for Life. This one moves from the science of skin into the practical: in-office treatments, at-home devices, and how to think about anti-aging without going down a rabbit hole. IPL, fractional CO2 lasers, ch...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing an episode from Dr. Tyna Moore's podcast where she talks how frailty is something most people don’t think about until it’s too late, but it’s one of the biggest predictors of whether you survive illness, recover from injury, or maintain independence as you age. It’s also the harbinger of doom for all cause mortality and dementia. In this episode, she breaks...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing a conversation from the unPAUSED podcast where Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Tony Youn — board certified plastic surgeon, bestselling author of Younger for Life, and the most followed plastic surgeon on social media. They cover something most doctors have never connected for their patients: what estrogen is actually doing to the skin, and why menopaus...

Send us Fan Mail Belly fat in perimenopause and menopause isn't a willpower problem. It's a hormone problem. And a lot of the advice we've been following for years is quietly making it worse. Johanna breaks down what's actually driving visceral fat in midlife, why undereating and over-exercising are both backfiring. 🤩The Model Health Show https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing an episode of Consider Before Consuming featuring Dr. Nicholas Lawless — clinical psychologist and couples therapist — on how pornography affects relationships. Not in a preachy way. In a 'here's what's actually happening, here's what the research shows, here's what couples therapists see in the room' way. If something has felt off...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna is sharing an episode of unPAUSED where Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Kelly Casperson — urologist, author of You Are Not Broken and The Menopause Moment, and host of a podcast that should frankly be required listening for every woman over 35. In this conversation, they get into everything women were never taught about female sexual health, libido, desire, and dy...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna shares an episode from Dr. Tyna Moore and UK women’s health practitioner Adele Wimsett break down why perimenopause makes every coping strategy you’ve ever had stop working — the hormonal perfect storm, ADHD medication across the cycle and GLP-1s in neurodivergent brains. 🎯 Dr Tyna Show Link 🤩 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dr-tyna-show/id1577258582?i=10007067...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna shares a two-part Dr. Daniel Amen episode on  ADHD and intimacy. The conflict-seeking, the forgotten commitments, the rejection spirals and the medications that can making everything worse. If your relationship has ever felt harder than it should, this one might explain a lot. 🎯 Links to episodes 🤩 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-your-brain-every-day/id11783...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna shares a Dr. Daniel Amen episode on ADHD in women — Chronically overwhelmed , anxiety, relationships that keep falling apart, working twice as hard for half the result. If any of that sounds familiar, this one’s for you.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🤓 Dr Daniel Amen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-your-brain-every-day/id1178337794?i=1000741007826 Support the show 🎯Subscr...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna breaks down one of the most misunderstood conversations in women's health — hormones after breast cancer.  Johanna unpacks what the research actually says about HRT, why so many women are told "no" without explanation, and why suffering through a decade of treatment side effects in silence is not the only option. 🎯 • Dr. Tyna Show Episode 218: Hormones Afte...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna breaks down one of the most dangerous threats targeting teenagers right now — and most parents have never heard of it. The Yahoo Boys are organised cybercriminal networks running sophisticated sextortion scams on the exact apps your kids use every day. Johanna walks through how it works, why teenagers are so vulnerable, and what one conversation tonight could do to protect...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna explores one of the most talked-about shifts in mental health right now — people turning to AI when they can't sleep, can't cope, and can't get an appointment. She covers the apps people are actually using, what the research says, and the very real benefits of having support available at 3am. But she also goes to the darker side — the stories of people who f...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna breaks down a conversation from the unPaused podcast that every woman in midlife needs to hear. Dr. Louisa Nicola — neurophysiologist and Alzheimer's researcher — explains why almost two thirds of Alzheimer's patients are women, why the disease starts building in your thirties and forties, and what the research actually says you can do about it right now. - u nPa...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna breaks down seven subtle signs of low testosterone that have nothing to do with libido — and why every woman and man in midlife needs to know them. Drawing on an episode of The Dr. Tyna Show, she walks through the quiet symptoms doctors miss: the emotional flatness, the disappearing muscle, the burnout that never lifts, the joint pain that came from nowhere. Plus — Austral...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna has always had toddler-fine hair and it's been thinning around her hairline for a while now. In this episode of Not Your Mother's Midlife, she's trying minoxidil to see if it will help thicken things up. She'll be documenting her progress so you can see exactly what happens. Let's see if this stuff actually works. 🤩 Youtube link https://youtu.be/b...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna talks about her recent discovery of Dr. James Simon, a sexual medicine physician who has spent his career treating couples together and getting to the truth of what’s really happening to sex and desire in midlife. If you’ve noticed changes in your sex life and thought it was just a part of getting older, or you just want to prepare for the future so it doesn’t happen to yo...

Send us Fan Mail When Cancer Options Run Low: Off‑Label Hope  Some People Are Talking about could affordable, decades-old medications offer a new line of defense against cancer? In this episode, I’m exploring the science of drug repurposing and how certain low-cost treatments can help disrupt cancer growth alongside traditional chemotherapy. We are diving into why these accessible options aren&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Not Your Mother’s Midlife , Johanna Hart opens up about her thinning, toddler-fine hair from hormones, aging, and a bad DIY bleach job. She explains common causes—estrogen drop, genetics, iron/thyroid problems, stress shedding—and shares evidence-based fixes: low-level laser therapy, collagen peptides for thickness, protein for strong keratin, plus minoxidil and...

Send us Fan Mail The Voice You Trust Isn’t Human What if the voice you trust online isn’t human? Johanna  explores AI influencers, engineered ads, and how they quietly chip away at your ability to tell genuine human voices from synthetic ones. She explains how to spot them, how to stay ahead of them, and how to safeguard your online life 🤩AI model influencers Aitana López Baddie Betty- @badiebeth...

Send us Fan Mail Johanna explores the sleep trend of mouth taping—does sealing your lips at night really improve rest, stop snoring, and boost energy? Hear her personal results and what science says about nasal vs. mouth breathing. 🤩Queen Tape https://www.queentape.com?bg_ref=0iCVnHvmmq 🤩Youtube Episode https://youtu.be/XxJfc5uI0kw Support the show 🎯Subscribe to me on Youtube for video content ...

Send us Fan Mail Discover why willpower isn’t the problem—and what is. In this episode, we break down how ultra-processed foods hijack your biology, then lay out three realistic ways to get healthier: shifting to real food your great-grandmother would recognize, moving your body and using simple breath work to calm your nervous system, and prioritizing recovery with quality sleep, sauna, and smart...