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In part 2 of her interview with Buff Bones' Rebekah Rotstein tells Hotflash inc founder Ann Marie McQueen about the complexities of health during perimenopause and menopause, highlighting the importance of both mineral density, muscles, tendons, collagen and fascia. 

She outlines the Buff Bones comprehensive exercise plan to hit all the targets in a week, emphasizing personalized care and the importance of mobility and motor control exercises. They explore the impact of collagen, estrogen and (briefly) progesterone on bone health and dive into the fascinating role of fascia in the body's connective tissue system – and in menopause. 

02:01 Building bone and muscle through menopause
04:38 The importance of mobility
07:03 Collagen and bone density
09:40 Hormone therapy and bone health
18:46 The role of fascia in health

NB: These episodes were recorded in late 2023. 

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In this episode, host Ann Marie McQueen tries to explain her long and convoluted relationship to and quest for hormone therapy. 

This is an episode about her experiences, made more complicated by living abroad,  reluctant doctors and by years spent wandering in a wilderness of emotional and physical symptoms no one could explain. 

Until everything blew up. And let's not forget the gut issues.

In it you will see that even with all her resources, and a global platform all about menopause and midlife, Ann Marie is still trying to find the right recipe for her. The search continues. 

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Navigating Midlife Grief: A Personal Journey

In this deeply emotional and personal video, host Ann Marie McQueen  shares her experience of navigating midlife grief and loss, specifically focusing on the recent death of her father. 

An audio essay about grief, loss, Boomers and their stuff.

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TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide and suicide ideation. If you are feeling suicidal, please tell someone, reach out to your local suicide hotline or contact a licensed therapist. This podcast talks about a story I came across in a Norwich, England paper called the Eastern Daily Press Victoria Metcalf-Smith, a solicitor and mother of three who took her own life in April 2021.

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I'm journalist and Hotflash Inc founder Ann Marie McQueen and this is my first solo episode. Think of it like MTV Unplugged (GenX, I see you)... stripped down, bell-and-whistle-less. Just me in a hotel room in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, overstaying my late checkout and wondering about the world and our perimenoposse place in it.

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Amy Schmidt lost herself in her 40s – as so many of us do – and if she can find her confidence again, you can too.

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MK Czerwiec is a nurse and graphic artist (hence her handle, Comic Nurse) who edited 2020’s Menopause: A Comic Treatment. The book went on to be named on the New York Times’ year-end list of the best graphic novels and won two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, including one for best anthology. MK talks all about Graphic Medicine, an emerging field that uses comics to enhance medical education and patient care and help people process trauma and painful experiences. MK is also going through menopause, and she's very interested in finding ways to deal with hot flashes and some of the other symptoms we experience. And stay tuned, because near the end of the podcast she offers one of the best tips I’ve heard for creatively making a plan that we can turn to in our hardest, darkest times.

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Dr Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Beverly Hills, California who is passionate about integrative women’s health and has a book on menopause coming out in October.

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This episode and all of season 1 is sponsored by Become clothing.

Themes: seed oils, nutrition, hot flashes, supplements, perimenopause, menopause, processed foods, nutrition, insulin resistance

Summary: Andrea Donsky is a registered holistic nutritionist, entrepreneur and television personality based in Toronto; co-founder of naturallysavvy.com and new company called Morphus, which is all about menopause supplements. We talk about how to approach menopause via diet, lifestyle and supplements, what her menopause experience was like, and how much better life can be when you do some work on yourself through this transition.

Highlights:
•her own menopause experience (4.45)
•how she dealt with horrid hot flashes without HRT (8.45)
•why you need to be careful with menopause supplements (11.10)
•why you need a trusted wellness team - even if it's online (15.30)
•how exactly to switch up nutrition to lesson symptoms (17.45)
•the problem with seed oils (22.00)
•what foods can help and hinder during perimenopause (27.20)
•insulin resistance + menopausal weight gain (28.30)
•see a doctor even if it’s a known perimenopause symptom (31.25)
•the weirdest perimenopause symptoms (33.00)
•signs you are deficient in this important mineral (33.45)
•why this is so much more than a physical transition (47.45)

Where to find Andrea:
TikTok: @Andrea Donsky
Instagram: @wearemorphus @naturallysavvy
Web: Naturallysavvy.com
Podcast: Morphus for Menopause; Naturally Savvy 

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This episode and all of Season 1 are sponsored by Become clothing. 

Themes: Progesterone, perimenopause, hot flashes, anxiety, sore breasts, sleep, estrogen, HRT Summary: Dr Jerilynn Prior is a professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of British Columbia. She also runs CEMCOR, the Center For Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research. Dr Prior has been prescribing progesterone for postmenopausal women and perimenopausal women to treat hot flashes, night sweats, heavy flow, and sore breasts for over 25 years. She has conducted and published research showing that progesterone is an effective treatment for menopausal hot flashes and night sweats. She also wrote a novel to help illuminate some of her findings called Estrogen’s Storm Season. You are going to hear a completely different set of views in this interview, so buckle up. Everything she says is deeply rooted in research, clinical practice and personal experience. 

Highlights:
•Why Google’s explanation of the menstrual cycle is wrong (7.45)
•What everyone gets wrong about our menstrual cycle (11.00)
•How and why she came to focus on progesterone (15.58)
•Why wildly swinging estrogen is the quintessential characteristic of perimenopause (18.20)
•Why the narrow focus on estrogen and not progesterone is like “looking at the world through a straw” (23.00)
•The data backing progesterone for severe hot flashes and night sweats and sleep in menopause (25.00)
•Estrogen is addictive; progesterone is not (29.00)
•The relationship between marketing, menopause and academia (30.50)
•How to talk to your doctor about progesterone (32.30)
•One way to figure out if your estrogen levels are high (34.50)
•Is HRT safe… and do we need it regardless of symptoms? (41.25)
•Does HRT prevent osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and dementia? (43.00) •Why the resistance to progesterone isn’t scientific (45.45) 

Where to find Dr Prior’s work:
Web: CeMCOR
Youtube: CeMCOR
Facebook: Cemcor.research 

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