The Flipping 50 Show

One of my all-time favorite guests on a hot topic for our Flipping 50 community is back with me on this episode. He’s talking about a topic we all care about today, metabolism and metabolism reset. And he’s got a resource I’m excited to share with you that you’re going to want to get your hands on.  Dr. Alan Christianson is a Naturopathic Endocrinologist who focuses on Thyroid function, adrenal he...

7 Things Men Need to Do to Stay Healthy Whether you want him to get healthy or stay healthy, whichever it is, this is the episode for your guy. Happy early Valentine’s Day!  My guest Dr. Jerry Bailey is a guy's guy. He is a Chiropractor, Acupuncturist and functional medicine doctor.  He is a dad to two amazing boys and loves the outdoor lifestyle in the pacific northwest. He has done Ironman, both...

Are You Sick of Technology? Staying Well in a Digital World Are you sick of tech? Could you be?  My guest is Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste, Digital Wellbeing and Ethics Evangelist (just flipped 50 in September) Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste is a behavioral scientist, best-selling author of Digital Self Mastery series and executive producer of the Evolving Digital Self podcast.  Her BE-ing@Work research revealed i...

Today’s episode is all about simple meal prep. We could all use a hand making the right thing the easy thing.  Do you know what’s for supper? Do you have a grocery list based on exactly what recipes you’re going to make next? My guest in this episode made simple meal prep a reality on several levels. The one lingering reason to listen to this episode might just be deeper than time. Sometimes the t...

Do you wish you could lose weight faster or get healthy easier? Are you looking for a male equivalent of Flipping 50 for someone you love? Have you started and stopped an exercise program before?  Are you perhaps dreading another year of wanting to lose weight without a new plan for making that a reality? If you said yes, to any of those this is your podcast. Allan Misner is a National Academy of...

Flipping 50’s 10 Most Popular Podcasts of 2018 This episode is one of my favorite of the year. It’s the round up of the most 10 popular podcasts of 2018. It includes the most downloaded, commented on, and shared and I thank you, listener, for voting! On the episode I counted down David Letterman style from 10 to 1, here they appear in order beginning with the most popular.  #1 10 Ways to Get Fit a...

This episode is the second of a special 2-part mini series intended to help you figure out how to make this oh-so important component of strength training exercise a regular part of your routine in 2019 and beyond. This after all is the time of year we’re all committing, or recommitting to our health and fitness. Just a shameless plug, this special series is brought to you by my program STRONGER,...

You may have noticed that this episode doesn’t have any music over the introduction. If you’ve listened to Flipping 50 for a while, you know that most of the episodes do. It’s when I get ideas and no time to send it off to my podcast support team that probably drives my team crazy. But I do believe that sometimes done IS better than perfect or good enough is good enough if the alternative is never...

7 Fitness Studies from 2018 for Exercise After 50 This round up of 2018 research and resources will help you age better, get stronger, and lose weight for good after menopause. Most of the studies were published, a couple were pilots presented at conferences and a bonus 8thresearch study from 2015 I throw in because of the significant results a sneaky little trick gives Flipping 50 students.  1 Yo...

  If you’re looking for inspiration, you’re in the right place. You may know I frequently share inspiring stories from my travels or Flipping 50 community members of women truly Flipping 50. Today is one of those moments. There are so many things to love about Helen Fritsch. Helen is a 61-year-old life-long competitive athlete, Flight Attendant, published fitness model, IFBB [international federat...

Could your biggest obstacle be something even you can't see? Do you have a hard time getting or staying motivated around fitness and health habits? You would defend that yes, you want to be fit, you want to be active and eat well and know you would feel better … but you seem to start and stop.   You want to be someone who gets up in the morning or goes for a walk every afternoon, who orders health...

How to Get the Fit Girl’s Deep Restful Sleep Do you struggle to fall asleep or find yourself staring at the ceiling at 2am and 3 and 4… Do you think you’re sleeping but find your Fit Bit says the times you’re restless are in double digits? You are not alone. Since you know that sleep is the key to making your exercise and nutrition efforts pay off or in making you feel like exercising and eating r...

Functional medicine and functional doctor are buzz words right now. Functional exercise for that matter, too, have us all wondering if we need to change but, more importantly have us wondering what that really is!  My guest is an Iowa-based functional doctor. I of course had to live in Colorado to meet!  Stephanie Gray, DNP, MS, ARNP, ANP-C, GNP-C, ABAAHP, FAARFM, has been working as a nurse pract...

    "Non-athletic." That's how 61-year-old Catherine Thomas described herself to me. As we began her interview so I could share her story of starting to train for a triathlon after 60, she told me she'd been a smoker for 45 years.  Three years ago she quit. She had, that pivotal moment when she wasn't "trying to quit," she did. It was then that she began riding her bike.  Questions we answer in th...

Do you struggle with fatigue? Do you want to take a nap in the afternoon but then have a hard time sleeping at night? Have you had to endure stress or put yourself on the back burner for long periods of time? If you're exercising and eating "right" and its not working. Instead of more energetic and thriving you feel like you're just getting from one day to the next. If that sounds familiar one of...

  Do you sauna? Why would you want to? How would you like a passive way to boost your energy? Not to mention detox, improve skin, sleep, heal wounds… And a convenient way to do it at home? In minutes? [Image: me next to a Sunlighten full model last August! Do you recognize fellow fitness pro Betty Rocker sitting inside?] I’ve discovered a passion for my personal sauna in the last six months and I...

The holidays are kicked off with Halloween. Will yours be a healthier Halloween or start a cascade of sugary treats that last through the New Year?  Whether you acknowledge it, deny it, or you're somewhere in the middle things aren't the same as when you were a kid no matter how old you are reading this!  If you're over 50 you may as I did get pounds and pounds of candy going door to door. We made...

What if you could be years younger in days? I lived it.  When I was driving to the airport last week I had the strangest feeling. I can’t remember a time – perhaps because its NEVER happened – when I just got on a plane and went somewhere without a schedule. I wasn’t going to deliver a presentation. I wasn’t going to deliver a hug. I wasn’t going to attend a lecture. No one would ever know if I sh...

Is your slow metabolism keeping you young? Is your effort to speed your metabolism accelerating aging?  My guest today is going to challenge your thinking.  Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, nutritional researcher and six-time New York Times best-selling author. He serves as the President of the Nutritional Research Foundation. Dr. Fuhrman has authored numerous research art...

Adrenal fatigue could knock you on your you-know-what for five years. Learning to listen to your body’s signals could avoid adrenal fatigue.  Debbie Potts has been in the fitness industry for over twenty-five years and a competitive endurance athlete for twenty years.  Along her journey, she has accomplished many goals including being nominated as one of the top one hundred best trainers in the U....

How to Poop Every Day Like Royalty with the Queen of Thrones NOTE: there are some technical difficulties in this episode we’ve tried to edit and could not. Thank you for listening with a non-judgmental ear! We felt it was more urgent to get the information in your hands than to wait to be perfect. Thanks for your understanding.   Constipated? Bloated? Gas? Diarrhea? All of the above? Life would be...

Fasting and anti-aging are two of the hottest topics among 50 and older women right now. The Flipping 50 podcast and blog have touched fasting lightly. Today we deep dive into my fasting experience, the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) I used and a guest who can address fasting from many angles. James LaValle is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, board certified clinical nutrit...

3 Habits You Can Change to Stick to Your Exercise Plan! If you find it so easy to start and so hard to stick to your exercise plan then this is for you! The saying goes that the hardest thing is to start. That my friend is a lie! The hardest thing isn’t to finish. The hardest thing is the middle. The getting up every morning early after the honeymoon period has worn off, the doing more laundry tha...

This post is about the hunt for the best bone broth. I didn't even know I was looking and there it was, on my doorstep. Meet Kettle & Fire and the family behind it.  Who doesn’t love a great soup? In this episode of Flipping 50 I introduce you to the founder of my favorite bone broth. I fell in love with the taste of Kettle & Fire before I knew the story behind it. And now, frankly, I’m hooked.  I...

Think Yourself Younger, Slimmer, Stronger Could you think yourself younger? In this post I’m exploring the question why can’t you lose weight from an angle I bring up from time to time. It’s popping up now because of several recent conversations I’ve had. I’m an exercise psychology expert in addition to a movement specialist and hormone-balancing exercise expert. A recent program, observations of...