We created Morphus to spark change in the conversation around perimenopause and menopause wellness, to bring together women seeking support and information, and to provide research-backed supplements for women in perimenopause and menopause. As Health Experts with over 23 years of experience as wellness educators, we bring you expert insights on perimenopause and menopause, along with the latest evidence-based scientific research.
Our goals are to help you navigate this time in your life, empower you to take charge of your health, and arm you with the resources and education to make the right decisions for yourself and your changing body.
Our name was inspired by the symbolism of butterflies, which represent beauty, transformation, and hope. Morphus combines the words "metamorphosis" + "us" (Morph/us) to represent the transformation we are all going through.
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Ep #170: From Overwhelmed to Empowered in Perimenopause & Menopause with Lisa Brookman, MSW, PSW
Friday, November 7, 2025 • Duration 39:03
In this interview, Andrea Donsky, nutritionist, menopause educator and published researcher, and cofounder of WeAreMorphus.com talks with psychotherapist, Lisa Brookman, MSW, PSW from West Island Therpay and Wellness Centre.
Topics:
What are women experiencing, and why do they feel “different”?
How to evaluate root causes of anxiety, depression, mood issues and feeling overwhelmed.
Finding the right therapist: How do you choose and what can you expect?
Learn more at https://www.westislandtherapycentre.com/
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Encore Ep #141: Hormone Therapy with Dr. Anna Cabeca, MD
Thursday, October 30, 2025 • Duration 53:57
In this episode, Andrea Donsky, nutritionist, published menopause researcher and menopause educator, and co-founder of WeAreMorphus.com, interviews Anna Cabeca, “The Girlfriend Doctor” DO, OBGYN, FACOG, who is a best-selling author and triple-board-certified physician specializing in gynecology, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She is known for her expertise in women's health, hormone balance, and sexual health. Our podcast has been recognized as the top-ranked menopause podcast worldwide on Feedspot’s 2025 list of best Menopause Podcasts and Perimenopause Podcasts.
This must-listen episode addresses the controversies around hormone replacement and what you need to know about the safety and effectiveness of various treatments.
Topics Covered:
The key differences between birth control pills (which suppress hormones) and bioidentical hormones (which work with your body naturally)
Understanding menopause hormone therapy (MHT) and how to personalize it for your unique needs
Practical tips for starting hormone therapy and why patches or creams might work better than pills
The truth about the Women's Health Initiative study and why its findings don't apply to all types of hormone therapy
Simple ways to support your body's natural hormone detoxification processes
Dr. Cabeca's holistic approach to hormone health - looking beyond quick fixes to find real solutions
Why testing matters
The surprising connection between cholesterol and brain health through hormone production
How your thyroid, vitamin D levels, and gut health affect your hormones
Tips for maintaining intimate health, including safe use of DHEA cream (Julva)
A fresh perspective on PCOS and what it means for you
Which ingredients to avoid in hormone creams and why
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Dr. Anna Cabeca's Website: https://drannacabeca.com/
Ep #161: Beyond Calorie Counting: Solutions for Menopausal Weight Gain with Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried
Friday, August 29, 2025 • Duration 46:22
In this encore episode, Andrea Donsky, a nutritionist with over 20 years of experience, menopause educator, published menopause researcher, and co-founder of WeAreMorphus, sits down with Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried, MD, to discuss Sara's personal experience with weight gain and how she uncovered the connection between diet, hormones, and weight loss in women, particularly during perimenopause and menopause.
Topics Covered:
Why keto diets often fail women
How carbohydrates aren't the enemy, and why women in perimenopause and menopause need carbs, and which ones are best.
How a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) can help you understand how your body responds to food and how this relates to insulin resistance and belly fat gain.
Why calorie restriction fails in perimenopause and menopause.
Dr. Gottfried's 4-week program.
How to open detox pathways.
How mindset can impact success in weight management and convey messages of hope.
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Ep #70: The Power of Aggressive Positivity: A Conversation with Limore Zisckind
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 • Duration 51:38
Join us for this moving and inspiring interview with Limore Ziskind, who defied the odds by triumphing over an aggressive type of breast cancer. During her treatment, she produced an album and now has a book, Aggressive Positivity, that offers hope to those in challenging circumstances.
4:30 Limore's story as a singer and songwriter. She tapped into her passion to work through the fear of her diagnosis.
6:37 How her songs helped her express what she needed to say.
8:03 More about Limore's amazing gift
10:56 The creative process Limore went through to bring her album and book to fruition. Her book outlines how she achieved the mental state of Aggressive Positivity and she explains to us how she maintained this state for herself.
17:20 Limore leads us through an aggressive positivity exercise and how to maintain that state for ourselves.
20:35 The changes she experienced by being forced into menopause.
24:00 The difference between Aggressive Positivity and toxic positivity and how Limore experienced it during her moments of fear.
29:05 She has been six years clean.
30:44 Limore talks about releasing anger and how wonderful it is to let that go.
33:10 The importance of having a community and a bright outlook of the future and having a plan for the worst outcomes.
38:49 What do you say to your partner and family when you are faced with this type of diagnosis? Never be afraid to ask for help.
41:07 What do you say to others who are going through a similar situation?
43:30 The expectations we have from the stories we tell ourselves in our heads vs the reality of what we experience. And how aggressive positivity can help with procedures.
Ep #69: Calm Your Nervous System and Boost Brain Health in Perimenopause and Menopause with Dr. Fiona Lovely
Thursday, June 15, 2023 • Duration 48:11
Today's interview is with Dr. Fiona Lovely, a Chiropractor who is passionate about women's health, perimenopause and menopause, and holistic health. I was a guest on her podcast as well, and I'm so excited to have her on mine. There are some fantastic nuggets around women, how our brains and pleasure experience are different than men's, and how the beliefs we are brought up with can impact our stress at this time in our lives.
1:10 How Dr. Fiona Lovely got interested in women's health, perimenopause, and menopause, and why she became a chiropractor 5:14 The brain and its relationship to common symptoms like brain fog, memory lapse, forgetfulness, anxiety, and lack of focus. How metabolic and hormonal changes impact brain health. 9:40 The PINE System explained. (Psychology, immunology, neurology, and endocrinology.) The mind vs the brain and how a woman experiences her body based on her psychology and its effects on the different systems in a woman's body. 11:48 Coming into our own in this phase of life. We stop people pleasing and we don't want to take care of everyone else anymore. 18:43 How we detoured for procreation and signed up for two jobs and be great "little men." 20:14 How we forgot our job is to receive. 21:20 Distinctions between a woman's brain and a man's brain when it comes to pleasure. 23:25 The importance of stress management and our belief system about this stage of life. How you respond to manage stress is in your control and how you can rewire your system to feel safe. 31:20 Overthinking and calming the nervous system by getting into your body with movement. How we've been taught to forget to take care of ourselves by being productive and its impact on our health. Discharging trauma and the inheritance of trauma. How our generation's experience of this phase differs from generations before us. We will likely live for decades after our last menstrual period. Be gentle with yourself and your final words. Take 25% of what you do every day and take it off the table and get into your creative self.Morphus Menopause Research-Fill in our surveys and review our results The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer's Disease by Lisa Mosconi Ted Talk about Stress Management How to make str
Ep #68: Hot and Bothered Menopause Talk with Author Jancee Dunn
Thursday, May 18, 2023 • Duration 20:52
Welcome to the Menopause Reimagined podcast. I'm your host, Andrea Donsky. I'm a Nutritionist (18 years) and I'm IN menopause. I'm a Menopause Educator and Menopause Researcher.
I have some exciting news to share! Our podcast we recently named one of the Top 10 most popular menopause podcasts globally by Feedspot! We are honored and appreciate all of your support.
[1:06] I congratulate her for writing a book on menopause.
[1:36] Jancee shares her personal experience with perimenopause and how she initially mistook the symptoms for pregnancy.
[5:23] Jancee talks about the lack of information and resources available on menopause and the motivation behind writing her book.
[6:36] Jancee and I discuss the stigmas, taboos, and lack of conversation surrounding menopause.
[7:10] Jancee mentions the factors contributing to the slow progress in addressing menopause, including racism, ageism, sexism, and lack of research funding.
[8:33] We highlight the positive impact celebrities have by openly discussing menopause and the hope for younger generations to be more transparent about it.
[10:26] We emphasize the importance of educating children about menopause and normalizing the conversation.Check out my last interview with Dr. Thomas Perls on Longevity. You can listen here:Be sure to follow me on TikTok: @andreadonsky and on Instagram @wearemorphusCheck out our menopause supplements at: www.wearemorphus.com. All of our supplements are made for women+ in perimenopause and menopause, by women in menopause. They are high-quality, backed by science and approved by me, a Nutritionist IN menopause.Thanks for listening and please share our podcast because the more you share, shows you care.
Ep #67: Longevity Tips From Centenarians with Dr. Thomas Perls
Friday, April 28, 2023 • Duration 01:03:28
Andrea Donsky, nutritionist, Menopause Researcher and Educator, interviews Dr. Thomas Perls, Founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world.
1:07 Introduction to Dr. Perls and the longevity connection to women having babies in their 40s
4:00 Dr. Perls shares some of his research on centenarians. 85% of centenarians are women. He studies how they escape agin related diseases and their subjects are as old as 112.
6:00 The reasons they are able to live so long in a disease-free way.
10:15 Red meat and cardiovascular disease and the complexity of the relationship with iron and menopause.
22:10 The symptoms of perimenopause and menopause and fatigue and other things like thyroid health to keep in mind and the tests to ask your doctor for.
30:19 The importance of protein and other sources
32:00 Genetics and menopause, child-bearing, and longevity
44:10 Cognitive health and life expectancy and how it relates to women, longevity and dementia or Alzheimer's disease
50:50 Tips for brain health
54:51 The one thing he has incorporated into his life from what he has learned
Ep #66: Histamine Intolerance in Perimenopause and Menopause with Dr. Tania Dempsey
Thursday, April 6, 2023 • Duration 55:56
Dr. Tania Dempsey is our special guest for this interview. Dr. Dempsey is an expert in chronic disease, autoimmune disorders, and mast cell activation syndrome. She talks about PCOS, histamine intolerance, mast cells, and mast cell activation syndrome.
1:09 Introduction to Dr. Tania Dempsey, MD
1:26 Histamines-What they are? How Histamines affect perimenopause and menopause
3:30 Mast cell activation and methylation metabolism of histamines and why that is important
5:15 Mast cells and the link to hormones and inflammation
9:18 Women are more prone to mast cell syndrome and Dr. Dempsey explains this
11:14 Things to keep in mind with hormone therapy and mast cell activation
12:20 Is this a new thing that could be happening or exacerbated during perimenopause and menopause?
15:20 The lightbulb moment for Dr. Dempsey and mast cells
17:10 The good news
18:19 How diet is important to mast cell activation and inflammation, support methylation, support liver detox pathways, support the immune system
19:20 Immune dysregulation in perimenopause and menopause and how this differs from auto-immune conditions
23:02 How would someone know if they have mast cell syndrome?
26:20 Relationship to heavy periods
27:40 What is suggested for women with histamine intolerance or mast cell syndrome?
30:00 Nutritional suggestions and a low histamine diet (link to her blog) and figuring out what works for you. Why you need to be aware of leftover foods and restricting foods so much that you end up with nutritional deficiencies.
32:40 Supplement suggestions DAO Enzyme, Vitamin C, and Quercitin. The importance of knowing your COMT enzymes when taking Quercetin.
36:26 Vitamin D is an essential hormone we don't make and key to immune function
Ep #65: Tocotrienols and Perimenopause and Menopause with Dr. Barrie Tan
Friday, March 31, 2023 • Duration 01:06:59
In this interview, Andrea Donsky and Dr. Barrie Tan, a trailblazer and the world’s foremost expert on vitamin E, sit down to talk about all things vitamin E as they relate to perimenopause and menopause and our overall health.
1:15 Why research on ingredients has been a focus for Andrea in developing products for Morphus. 3:56 What is tocotrienol? 11:22 Why antioxidants are so important for our health as we age. 14:40 Tocotrienols and their incredible benefits for hair growth, hot flashes, and chronic conditions like high cholesterol, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver disease, and obesity. 20:28 Insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and tocotrienols 27:10 Fatty liver disease and tocotrienols 29:10 Weight loss benefits of tocotrienols 37:55 Liver detox and its importance 39:09 Improving bone density with tocotrienols 44:07 Inflammation markers improve with the use of tocotrienols and findings with IBS, Crohn’s, and Colitis 51:19 Who should be taking tocotrienol, how much to take, and what contraindications there are 55:10 Memory impairment and tocotrienols improve memory
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Ep #64: 4 Nutritional Pillars to Great Skin, Hair, Nails, and Bones in Perimenopause and Menopause with Dr. Cate Shanahan
Thursday, March 23, 2023 • Duration 58:09
In this interview, Andrea Donsky, co-founder of Morphus for Menopause, interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan, a leading authority on nutrition and human metabolism. A board-certified Family Physician with over 20 years of clinical experience and NY Times bestselling author of The FatBurn Fix, Deep Nutrition, and Food Rules. Cate explains how the four nutritional pillars to better hair, skin, nails, and bone health in perimenopause and menopause.
Delving into body fat and the links to hormonal changes in perimenopause and menopause and how that affects our face’s appearance
Looking at the body as a whole and what happens when we go through menopause and why that can make our shape change.
Where are the different compartments of fat in our body?
Subcutaneous fat under our skin
Visceral or abdominal fat and why it is considered unhealthy
The type of fat in our faces and how weight and hormones affect their balance
What can you do about it?
Why you need to avoid seed oils (corn, canola, cottonseed, soy, sunflower, safflower, grape seed oil, and rice bran oil)
Deep nutrition and how we should be eating a traditional diet that impacts your hair, skin, and nails
The benefits of eating organ meats
The importance of “fresh” foods and not overcooking foods
Fermented and sprouted foods and how to incorporate them when you have histamine intolerance or SIBO
How do these four pillars affect our skin
How much bone broth should we consume and its impact on our bone health
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39:35 The symptoms your might be experiencing and the overlap between signs and symptoms in perimenopause and menopause
43:56 Foods that are high in histamines or foods that cause an increase a release in histamines
46:50 Is there a recovery process where you are more tolerant or stabilization of mast cells?
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