The Ovary Club with Alisa Vitti

Perimenopause is one of those phases women are often taught to recognize only after it becomes obvious. The cycle can still look regular, labs can still look normal on paper, and one appointment may not give enough context to explain why the body suddenly feels different. In this episode of The Ovary Club, I'm joined by Dr. Robin Berzin to talk about how to build a clearer picture of early perimen...

When you scroll through wellness content nowadays, you are going to see a lot of influencers sharing the next biohack women should try to balance their hormones, increase energy, reduce inflammation, or finally feel like themselves again. Cold plunges, supplement stacks, red light devices, fasting protocols, expensive wearables, and morning routines that look impossible to keep up with. And if you...

"Balance your hormones" sounds like the goal. It is on supplement labels, wellness posts, detox programs, hormone hacks, and every quick-fix promise that makes women feel like their body is a problem to solve. But your hormones do not get "balanced." They respond. They respond to whether you are eating enough, sleeping deeply, managing stress, clearing estrogen, moving with your cycle, and living...

Women are often told that aging is something that simply happens to them, especially once hormones begin to shift. But Dr. Kara Fitzgerald explains that stress, poor sleep, hormone changes, extreme dieting, and lifestyle patterns can all affect how fast your body ages. That means your biological age may be older than the number of birthdays you have had. But if your daily choices can push your bod...

Have you ever had one week where you feel strong, clear, productive, and totally on top of things… and then the next week, the exact same routine suddenly feels awful? Your workouts feel harder. Your mood shifts. You're hungrier, more tired, less focused, and you start wondering what happened. A lot of women take that as a sign they need to be stricter, more disciplined, more in control. But what...

Some months the dysmenorrhea is so painful you're counting minutes until the next dose of painkillers, living with a heating pad glued to your stomach, and trying to function like you didn't just lose a night of sleep to cramps. With all that happening on repeat, I can't blame women for chasing ways to suppress menstruation and "skip the hassle." But suppressing your period is not the relief it ha...

Women have been told that the more disciplined they are with their wellness, the better they will feel. So they fast longer, do more cardio, restrict more, and push harder. And somehow they still feel exhausted, hormonally off, and like their body is working against them. What nobody told them is that almost every protocol they are following was designed for male biology and tested on male bodies....

Have you ever been told that PMS is just part of being a woman, that birth control will fix your period problems, and that the weight gain in your 40s is simply what happens when you get older and stop trying as hard? Every single one of those things is wrong. And believing them is exactly what is costing women their fertility, their cycles, their energy, and decades of hormonal health they will n...

Biohacking is everywhere right now. The fasting protocols, the cold plunges, the 5am power mornings, the high intensity everything. And women are doing all of it, following the same advice, putting in the same effort, and still feeling exhausted, hormonally off, and like their body is somehow working against them. Here is what nobody in that conversation is saying out loud. Almost every biohack th...

Every time a woman is told her labs are normal while she feels anything but, the problem is rarely that nothing is wrong; it is that she was given the incorrect tests, checked at the wrong time in her cycle, and compared against reference ranges that were never built for her biology in the first place. The healthcare system was not designed around the female hormonal cycle, and that gap is costing...

Perimenopause is usually expected to begin in the 40s. But more and more women are starting to see signs of it much earlier than that. Night sweats in the late 30s. Hot flashes that feel way too soon. Cycles changing earlier than expected. Trouble conceiving under 30. And most of the time, these symptoms are brushed off as stress, bad luck, or just part of being a woman. What most women do not kno...

Welcome to The Ovary Club with me, Alisa Vitti, your source for women's hormone truth from someone who's been pioneering this conversation for over 20 years. If you want to join the club, here's what you need to know: your ovaries are a key driver of how you feel, function and age. They track everything and it's time you start working with them. And no, your body doesn't operate like a man's, so y...