The Flipping 50 Show

Increase your protein intake easily with little boost throughout your day. Whether you're busy, have a smaller appetite, tend to skip meals or are trying to lose weight, protein is a girl's best friend. Nothing compares to whole foods, but when you need some variety, some easy to bring along, or to boost a meal, these 10 ideas will start your wheels turning.  1. A Quick Breakfast Option Whether yo...

Wondering how to be confident now in the middle of life, middle of menopause? My guest is the exact woman to share it.  Bree Argetsinger, aka The Betty Rocker is an internationally known health and fitness coach, innovative entrepreneur and motivator of self growth. Over 3 million people have taken her free 30-day #makefatcry home workout challenge, and hundreds of thousands more enjoy success in...

If midlife has accelerated aging and you're feeling anything but red, hot, sexy and sailing through menopause, this is your episode. My guest has made it her mission to support women on their mission of a stronger, healthier second act. My guest: Dr. Sharon Stills is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor who helps perimenopausal and menopausal women to pause and evaluate life so they can live the second a...

In these times natural remedies for immune boosting, hormone balancing, and gut repair are growing in number. This interview episode features a guest whose own health scare led her away from a corporate life My guest: Kristy Garnet (Cl. H., M.Sc.) is a Holistic Living Empowerment Mentor & Clinical Herbalist serving high achieving professionals in healing naturally with clear & customized recommend...

Is the intermittent fasting lifestyle attractive to you? If you’re curious about it, new to it, or a raving fan of it, you’ll want to listen to this episode with author Gin Stephens. In the last few years the intermittent fasting lifestyle has caught the attention of all ages, both genders, health practitioners as well as the media. Used correctly under the right circumstances it can boost longevi...

It’s that time of year! Time to countdown the top 10 Flipping50 Podcasts for Menopause Health & Fitness in 2021! It’s all based on your votes by downloads. All things considered, not a big deal. It does show I didn’t have a good vision. I couldn’t have imagined that we’d be approaching 2 million downloads or supporting a community of over 250,000 women in menopause. Many of you came from my YouTub...

00:00 What if you had an opportunity to ask one of the visionary pioneers on The menopausal woman anything? Well, I did. As the Flipping 50 podcast launches into the second 500 episodes, I am honored to be joined on this episode by Dr. Christiane Northrup. She is not only an articulate and intelligent woman who has insights few others do; she is funny. Behind the scenes I told her after the interv...

I recorded an extra special episode for the Flipping 50 podcast that reveals everything you can find inside the STRONGER Tone & Define made for menopause program. On this episode I shared all of the workouts, the quick start guide, the science, the Facebook group and coaching, the course member’s area, pre-program materials, additional opportunities for exercise nutrition and the mindset taught in...

Finally, a book with simple, commonsense steps for health from a woman with an unlikely source of inspiration. Whether you’ve had adverse childhood trauma, know it, or not, this is an episode (and a book, and a woman) you will find inspirational. My Guest: Dani Williamson MSN, FNP owns Integrative Family Medicine in Franklin, TN; focusing on gut, autoimmune thyroid (Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is her...

This is my story of lessons of loss, and the gift waiting in grief. This special episode is our 500th together!  I am crying before I even walk in the door. I know that everyone else is already there. I know this is the beginning of one of the hardest, but unavoidable weekends of my life. My career path was really lit by walking with my mom the summer before my freshman year in college. Not accide...

Why would you sabotage your weight loss? Yet we do! This episode will show you insights from an expert in weight loss who has experienced many of the trials of weight gain and loss. Consider how what you've tried, how it started and how it ended. If you can treat it all as data or feedback, would it change anything? Would it change the way you feel about yourself? Would it change your willingness...

Moderate amounts of HIGH and of low intensity exercise vs “moderate” middle-of-the-intensity pyramid. zone 1 = your daily activities of life. You walk the dog. You go up and down stairs. You garden. You golf. You have an active job. Zone 2 = endurance, steady state exercise at a low all-day pace You go for a bike ride and could ride for hours if you have water and food as needed. You go for a hike...

Are you eating too little to lose weight? How would you know? Eating consistently less than your body wants will slow your metabolism. You will lose your metabolic flexibility. There is no way you can eat less and less, continue to exercise the same or more and not stress your body, causing a ripple of negative reactions.  That’s what this episode is all about. You may have reactions to this conte...

The Flipping50 membership is a labor of love in response to frustrations I heard for years with my own private clients and the hundreds of women in midlife training with staff members, then later the thousands of women I know weren’t wrong when they said, “I’m not settling” and “I’m not going to listen to a young male (or female trainer) tell me that I must be cheating or to stick with it even if...

This Flipping 50 Insider question comes from Joy who asks about any difference between post menopause fitness and menopause fitness recommendations. She wrote: I’ve been following Flipping 50 for some time and enjoy it! One question, do the same rules apply to post menopause (66) as to menopause? Thanks! -Joy The easy, short answer, is yes they do. Menopause fitness rules (we prefer formula, as in...

10 Years of increased physical activity (exercise) AFTER MIDLIFE can reduce mortality rate by 32% Publication: British Medical Journal Subjects: 2205 50 yr-olds in 1970-73 What: Re-examined at age 60, 70, 77, and 82 Results: After an increase in physical activity, subjects could not be distinguished [on the basis of differences in cardiovascular risk factor profile] from those who had always had h...

Susan from our Flipping50 Insiders group on Facebook asks a question about lowering cortisol levels and I respond in this episode. Who You Ask for Advice Matters Be sure when asking in a group where you don’t know the experience, expertise of the responders (and they don’t know if they have enough information to respond back to you) that you filter the information very selectively. You put yoursel...

It’s not just about how much protein. It’s about what kind, when, and what phase of life or training you’re in that could increase your protein need. In this episode, how much protein and when you need it as a woman in menopause.  It’s still not clear for many so I’m going to attempt to clarify this for you again. We also struggle internally! Cover the wide controversy and reason you still questio...

Fat burning during exercise sounds great right? Unless you’re burning in menopause hell to get it. This episode unpacks the science of pros and cons of caffeine before, during and after menopause and before your workout. If it’s that time of year when temps are dropping, the mornings are cool and a fire sounds nice, for some of us it can also be tempting to indulge in hot drinks. Doesn’t it sound...

There are so many more than 5 benefits of strength training. But If you just even need a reminder today, you need to stick your toe in the water, or you need to be reminded that cardio does NONE of these either at all or as effectively...here you go. 5 Benefits of Strength Training After 50: Accelerated Fat Loss (belly fat) Improved Bone Health Mitochondrial Health Brain & Mood Health Reverse Agin...

Too busy to exercise? I’ve got your quick-fix workouts to satisfy your desire for tone, strength, and metabolism right here. Think it takes an hour for effective exercise? Think again! Here’s 4 of my all-time favorite ways to get a strength workout in anything from 30 minutes to as little as 10. Good news. First, doing longer and more isn’t actually hormone balancing. Your long, drawn out, workout...

Is offsetting bone losses in menopause with high impact safe? Is it recommended? Aren’t you more prone to fractures? This episode explores the recent research in honor of Menopause Awareness Month (and Osteoporosis Day October 20, 2021). If you’re trying to prevent, if you’ve been diagnosed, or if you’ve got younger women in your life who need this information NOW to be better prepared than we cou...

I won’t keep you in suspense. Your biggest obstacle to fitness in menopause is stress. I’m going to look at stress from all angles but spend the majority of this episode pointing to how you can counter the allostatic (all sources) stress load. There’s stress from: Poor sleep Inadequate nutrition Insufficient nutrients Too much exercise Exposure to toxins Relationships Finances Life situations Horm...

If weight loss is elusive and faster weight loss is all you can think about, then this episode is for you. In this special interview we discuss things the two of us do for our clients and the confusion with decades-old dogma. You’ll get a clear view – or a refresher course – in lessons that are unintuitive and yet scientifically sound for women in midlife. And… got a partner who also needs some su...

Exercise can age you? Yes, in spite of the long list of benefits and disease-halting, preventing features the wrong exercise can age you. This episode unpacks the pros, cons, how’s, and what’s. Exercise training is one of the few non-pharmecuetical interventions that improves health span by delaying age-related diseases and preventing early death. That’s a happy statement that lands a little glum....