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One of my favorite teachers and mentors, Andrea Nakayama, joined me today to discuss what she believes is missing in traditional healthcare: our personal stories.

So many of us are hyper focused on what we can do, what supplement we need, what lab to get done, what protocol to follow, how much protein to eat, etc. We are grasping for a fix. While these can be helpful, we often forget that the individual plays a critical role. Understanding our own narratives—reflecting on our life experiences, emotions, and individual histories—is often the missing piece.

Engaging with the humanities (like poetry, art, and storytelling) cultivates deeper listening and understanding of who we are. Andrea underscores that this deeper connection can facilitate healing, especially for women navigating significant hormonal and life changes in perimenopause, menopause and post menopause.

What moves us—our emotions and truths—can offer insight into our health and healing journeys. Andrea urges us to embrace our stories as powerful tools for improving our health and well-being and to include them as part of our healing journey. 

Andrea believes Narrative Medicine is what we are missing in Healthcare today.

I deeply enjoyed this rich discussion with Andrea and I know you will too. 

BIO- Andrea Nakayama is a Functional Medicine Nutritionist and educator, who has led thousands of clients, and now teaches even more coaches and clinicians around the world in a revolution reclaiming ownership of both their own and their clients’ health. As the host of the 15-Minute Matrix Podcast and the founder and former CEO of Functional Nutrition Alliance, Andrea draws on systems biology, mental models, root cause methodology and the therapeutic partnership to offer long-awaited solutions for the rapidly growing chronic illness epidemic.After losing her young husband to a brain tumor in 2002, she discovered a passion for using food as personalized medicine and is now regularly consulted as the nutrition expert for the toughest clinical cases in the practices of many world-renowned doctors. She trains nearly four thousand practitioners each year in her methodologies so that they too can become the last stop for their clients and patients as well as a trusted referral partner for doctors in their area. You can find her on instagram here @andreanakayama and onl

You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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Janet Stone has been one of my favorite yoga teachers for the last 10 years and I loved our conversation about hormone changes in Perimenopause and Menopause. 

This was a wonderful and rich conversation about tangible ways yoga and yoga teachings and yoga rituals can improve how we experience perimenopause and menopause. 

Janet gives us several of her favorite daily practices to try and it turns out we are quite close in our journey towards menopause.

You will love this chat

Janet Stone is online at https://www.janetstoneyoga.com/
You can find her on instagram here @janetstoneyoga

You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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Kate Smith is back and this time we discuss how blood sugar contributes to so many of our symptoms and most of us have no idea.

Our modern world makes it hard to have optimal blood sugar.  Things like chronic stress, processed foods, snacking, and lack of sleep contribute to this.

Symptoms associated with blood sugar high/lows include headaches, anxiety, brain fog, fatigue, weight gain, hot flashes, insomnia, afternoon bonks, needing caffeine, cravings, and more.

Dig in with us!

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You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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Ali Anderson joined me to discuss the microbiome, why it is important for anyone wanting to improve health, why  it is so confusing, and our favorite ways to improve it. 

Ali is a functional nutrition coach who specializes in helping people with autoimmune conditions. 

We chatted about leaky gut, chronic inflammation, hormones, cravings, and more

I know you are going to love this one as much as I did.  Be sure to share it with a pal who cares about optimizing health today and as they age and.... let me know what you do to take care of your microbiome especially if we didnt mention it

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You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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Is gas, bloating, heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, cramping, etc normal? Why is it important to remedy this? What causes these problems? How do I support my digestive system? Erin Harner and I sit down to discuss this important topic.

Erin is an Integrative Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), a Functional Nutrition & Lifestyle Practitioner (FNLP), certified health coach, author, and speaker based in upstate NY.

Erin guides women to uncover and remedy the root causes of their disruptive stomach issues like gas, bloating, abdominal discomfort, constipation, diarrhea, reflux, and IBS .  You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, or Online


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You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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If you are in midlife and want to keep playing hard in the mountains, you are going to want to listen to this talk as we go over Alexa's formula for training smarter in midlife.

Alexa Hasman has her masters in both exercise science and sports psychology and works as a coach for Uphill Athlete.

You can find Alexa online at Uphill Athlete
You can find her on instagram at @alexahasman
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You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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Perimenopause is a wild ride! 

Different tools help at various stages of the Perimenopause and Menopause journey. Perimenopause can start 3-10 years before menopause, which catches a lot of women off guard. Understanding your body can help you find the right tool to relieve or reduce symptoms like hot flashes, insomnia, weight gain, anxiety, heavy periods, and others. 

Kate is one of my favorite people to have on my podcast. I know you will love her and enjoy this episode. Listen, Watch, and Read below. 

Are you planning to celebrate Menopause? Did you? I would love to hear about that. 

 

You can find Kate online here (Essentially Healthy With Kate Smith)
and on Instagram here @essentiallyhealthywithkate

You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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My colleague Karen Mitchell joined me today to discuss Intermittent Fasting.  I love talking with Karen.  We dig into what exactly intermittent fasting is, what the researched benefits are, who should avoid intermittent fasting, who might want to consider it, how to do it in a safe and effective way, and why it is still debated as a tool.

Intermittent Fasting can help with metabolic flexibility, fat burning, energy, and boosting metabolism in midlife but it is important to go about it in a way that is helpful in the longterm as well as short term and it is not helpful for everyone.

You can find Karen here

We talk a lot about intermittent fasting in The Energy Club. 

You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

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Today Bree Argetsinger, aka Betty Rocker, joined me to talk about how hormones impact our muscles and body composition in midlife.  As hormones change in perimenopause and menopause, our workouts need to change too.
 
Staying strong is always important but even more so as hormones change.
Plus, we lose muscle mass as we get older so changing things is key. 
 
Bree shared effective ways to change our workouts in midlife to reach our goals.   Betty Rocker kicks ass.  You will love her

You can find Bree and her awesome Betty Rocker workout courses online here
You can find the transcript to this talk here

You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

See podcast episodes on YouTube

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Kim Vopni is brilliant and she has critical information to share about pelvic health in midlife, when women are dealing with changes from Perimenopause and Menopause.

We discuss incontinence, prolapse, kegals, topical estrogen, collagen, vaginal atrophy, and more.  She tells us what is normal, what we can improve, and gives us tangible tools to help. 

You can find Kim and her buff muff course here
You can find Kim on instagram here- https://www.instagram.com/vaginacoach
Here is her article on Vaginal Estrogen that we discuss

You can find Janel online at Mountain Rebalance
or on instagram at @mountain.rebalance.janel

This podcast is for midlife women, in Perimenopause or Menopause, who want to understand their body better and improve how they feel, function, and age.

Janel is a board certified nutrition consultant, a certified functional nutrition and lifestyle practitioner, a doctor of natural medicine, and a lover of the wild.

• The Midlife Hormone Club- Understand your body and improve health in Perimenopause and Menopause
• The Energy Club- Metabolism and Blood Sugar at Midlife.

See podcast episodes on YouTube