If you’re a midlife woman, then your bone health should be at the top of your list to check. As we age and transition from peri-menopause, to menopause, to post-menopause, our bone health is at risk, for some more than others.

Here’s a stat from the Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation:

Of the estimated 10 million Americans with osteoporosis, about eight million or 80% are women. Approximately one in two women over age 50 will break a bone because of osteoporosis. A woman's risk of breaking a hip is equal to her combined risk of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer.

Our healthcare system isn’t about preventive medicine but waiting until the fire is burning to come in for the rescue. Perimenopause can start for women in their 30’s, the average age of menopause is 51. There’s a possible 15-20 years that your bone health could be declining, in conjunction with declining and fluctuating hormones, let alone years of a sub-optimal lifestyle and diet choices.

One of the tests I recommend for all my midlife women clients to take is a DEXA scan, which is the gold standard for assessing your bone mineral density, and risk of osteoporosis. Unfortunately, most health insurance companies will not pay for this test as a preventive measure until you are 65 years old, 70 for men unless you have prior risk factors. You will want to be working with a doctor, practitioner, or health coach who is trained to properly read the results and help you navigate any bone health issues that you may have with lifestyle/diet, supplements, and possibly medications. You do not need a doctor’s prescription to go ahead and get a DXA scan, but if you want to try and have your health insurance cover it, then you do.

Dr. Kristi DeSapri is back for a second time to go over what a DXA scan is, how it works, how to read the report, and then what the next steps are to take if needed. We will use my very recent DXA as an example. Dr. Kristi DeSapri is a board-certified internist specializing in midlife women’s health. After fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic, she has worked in private practice and academic medicine for over 13 years, including as the director of the Northwestern Women’s Bone Health program at the Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. She is currently opening Bone and Body Women’s Health, a concierge midlife women’s health practice in the Chicago area, focused on consultation and management of perimenopause, menopause, osteoporosis, and sexual health.

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Menopause is not just about gaining weight, having hot flashes, and not sleeping well. It’s also about the decline of our cellular health, which contains these essential organelles called mitochondria. I’ve talked about mitochondria in passing on numerous podcasts, and dedicated a full episode on Urolithin A, a gut metabolite that induces mitophagy, or the cleaning up of our mitochondria, so be sure to check that one out.

As we age and start the process of menopause, which includes perimenopause, the strength, efficacy, and quantity of our mitochondria decline. So, the trick is to support these cellular powerhouses with lifestyle interventions (sleep, nutrition, stress management, exercise, mindfulness) and personalized supplements.

Here’s what the science shows:

1. A midlife woman’s gut health, her microbiome, changes during perimenopause.

2. That optimal gut health is vital to overall health and longevity.

3. Poor gut health, and menopause, open the door to chronic disease states.

I tell my clients all the time, “You’re only as healthy as your cells”. During midlife, it is very important to support cellular health and energy so that you can reach your health goals. If your cells are struggling, you will struggle. Hair loss, weight gain, skin issues, low energy, brain fog, and stress are all signs of declining cell health.

My guest today is an expert in cellular health. Dr. Monisha Bhanote, MD, FCAP, ABOIM, best-selling author of The Anatomy of Wellbeing, is an esteemed physician with quintuple medical board certifications, distinguishing her among the nation's luminaries in integrative medicine, functional culinary medicine, cytopathology, and anatomic/clinical pathology. Her brainchild, WELLKULÅ, combines ancient wisdom with modern mind-body science to envision a path toward optimizing health and longevity. Her interests include nutrition and the microbiome, the role of stress and inflammation in disease manifestation, applying mindfulness as a lifestyle practice, and cancer and disease prevention.

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How can we take an ancient practice, modernize it, and use it during a time in a woman’s life when we are vulnerable and want to feel and look our very best? Some women are all in when it comes to taking hormones during the menopause transition, while others want a more holistic approach. How about combining the two? Is it possible?

I have the perfect guest joining me today to break down what Ayurvedic medicine is and how it can fit into our modern society's need to feel and look great, mitigate menopausal symptoms, and live a life full of vibrancy. Dr. Shivani Gupta PhD. received her master's degree in Ayurvedic Sciences and her Ph.D. in turmeric. She has fused Eastern and Western medicine into a modern Ayurvedic approach making this ancient wisdom more accessible to the masses. She’s also created her line of supplements, called Fusionary Formulas, and is an author, podcast host, and mother.

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In Parts 1 and 2, Dr. Savage and I dove deep into the early detection and prevention of chronic disease states. If you have not listened to those episodes yet, check out #60 and #62, where you will learn about the importance of discovering your unique health equation and how to support optimal health through labs and other tests. In this podcast, we dive deep into what intervention is, how to apply it in your anti-aging plan, and when to know it's time to intervene with a medical provider.

When you have tried your very best to fix a health issue, such as constipation, hair loss, chronic fatigue, or weight loss and you just cannot reach your goal, you then seek intervention. Working with a medical provider, practitioner, or health coach is the intervention.

Peptide therapy, hormone replacement therapy, exosomes, and TPE, or Therapeutic Plasma Exchange are all examples of interventions. Dr. Savage shares his expertise on each intervention, who are the best candidates, and when to use them during your health journey.

Dr. Paul Savage is the founder and CEO of MDLifespan and has been a leader in longevity medicine since the late 1990s. Over the last 25 years of his medical career, he has focused on anti-aging and longevity therapies. He has developed a unique approach to building your longevity plan that includes detection, prevention, and intervention. He has built over 50 clinics across the United States and wrote the code for the industry standard software that’s helped millions of patients.

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Chronic disease states start in the gut. Stool testing has been gaining traction to help people reach their health goals by working on their gut health and overall well-being. Stool testing can take a look inside your gut microbiome and identify pathogens, parasites, keystone species, nutrients, genetic material, and more. Clinicians and doctors can utilize this valuable data to continue to prevent disease and turn around health conditions by making lifestyle changes and personalizing supplements, including specific probiotic strains.

So many people are struggling with their gut health, due to diet, lifestyle, genetics, and chronic stress. Women transitioning through menopause will experience changes going on in the gut microbiome as well. I’ve recorded a different podcast on midlife women and their gut health with Microbiome Labs co-founder, Kiran Krishnan, so be sure to check out episode #63 on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon, and YouTube, as well as on my website at jillfooswellness.com.

Today, I’m speaking to Kara Siedman. Kara is a registered dietitian, clinical liaison for Microbiome Labs, and certified diabetes educator with more than 13 years of clinical experience. Most recently, Kara spent the last 8 years working in a large gastroenterology practice, building a program that integrates functional medicine and nutrition into their patient care model. With a strong focus on the microbiome and overall health, Kara has guided many patients on a journey to reclaim their health and well-being. She continues to grow her knowledge in this evolving field to provide the tools for patients and offer up-to-date and current research surrounding all things microbiome-related.

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Inside most of our cells, as well as plants, fungi, and animals, are the mitochondria, or power plants of cells. These little organelles make chemical energy, called ATP, or Adenosine Triphosphate, which is our body’s energy currency. About hair growth, for example, the cells that make up our hair follicles need a lot of energy to grow hair. About our skin cells, if we don’t have healthy mitochondria making enough ATP, we won’t have healthy, youthful-looking skin. This is true for our kidneys, liver, heart, brain, and muscle cells. They all need optimal amounts of healthy mitochondria to produce optimal amounts of ATP. You can see how this topic is a priority when thinking about your longevity plan.

It’s important to know this information and understand how you can pivot your lifestyle in a direction that supports mitochondrial health, especially as you age. As women age, and go through menopause, their mitochondrial function is less optimal in both quantity and quality, and they become damaged, thus, they can’t take care of business.

My guest today, Jennifer Scheinman, is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a master’s degree in integrative and functional nutrition. She has spent over 20 years of her career working at some of the country’s leading institutes for health and wellness where she developed and executed the health coaching programs and content strategy. With expertise in healthy aging and disease prevention, Jen brings her passion for improving health and longevity to Timeline. This company produces Urolithin A supplements, and she leads the efforts to educate healthcare practitioners and consumers on the incredible benefits of Mitopure. We will dig into what mitochondria are, how they work, why they matter, and how Urolithin A connects the dots. If you have never heard of Urolithin A, tune in because it’s crucial to our overall health and aging process.

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Every day we hear more and more about the importance of gut health and how it relates to all chronic disease states, such as cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Our conventional healthcare system is not well-versed in preventive approaches to overall health, especially when it comes to gut health. More often than not, doctors we see are not asking us about the foods we are eating, or not eating, our level of daily stress, sleep, or exercise routine- all of which influence our gut health.

Poor gut health can now be scientifically tied to poor mental health, low libido, weight gain, hair loss, disrupted sleep, and so much more. Layer on top of that the menopause transition that all women will go through. The Menopause transition opens up the doors to chronic disease states, and so much more. One of the first lines of defense is getting our gut health in order. Science is now showing how the microbiome changes during menopause, causing gut dysbiosis, inflammation, weight gain, skin and hair issues, and more

Kiran Krishnan is a research microbiologist and a health and wellness expert who aims to make complex information understandable to all. He has founded a number of successful health and supplement companies over the last 15 years including co-founding and leading Microbiome Labs, the preeminent, microbiome therapeutics-focused brand among healthcare professionals. He has conducted and published several research studies in scientific journals, has published chapters in scientific textbooks/reference books, has global patents, and is a sought-after speaker on human health and the microbiome.

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Our current healthcare model is set up for sick care and acute care- so if you are already sick with cancer and receiving treatment, or cut your hand with a kitchen knife by accident, our healthcare system is helpful. What it isn’t set up for is preventive care. Lifestyle interventions are your first lines of defense- think about how nutrition, sleep, stress management, and exercise impact your life. Beyond that, what else could you be doing to prevent chronic disease states, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease? Early detection and prevention tools are important to use before any of the big 4 horsemen of chronic disease states show up in your life.

Dr. Savage MD is the founder and CEO of MDLifespan and has been a leader in longevity medicine since the late 1990s. Over the last 25 years of his medical career, he has focused on anti-aging and longevity therapies. Built over 50 clinics across the United States and literally wrote the code for the industry standard software that’s helped millions of patients. He has developed a 3-step process to build one’s longevity blueprint, including detection, prevention, and intervention. He joined the Health Trip Podcast for a second time to discuss what early detection means, how to implement the options available, and why it's a crucial step in your longevity plan.

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Menopause and fat loss- will they ever be friends? Women are not small men and the art of fat loss for menopausal and post-menopausal women can be challenging. Hormonal changes, especially with a decline in estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone levels during menopause often lead to a slower metabolism, loss of lean muscle mass, increased visceral fat level, decrease in bone mineral density, increased anxiety, poor sleep, and loss of overall strength. Sarcopenia, or muscle wasting, is a disease of the elderly, and is now being seen in much younger populations- think of your great-grandparent withering away in front of your eyes, but in younger people.

Obesity opens the door to the four horsemen of chronic disease states: Alzheimer's/dementia, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Weight loss is just a number on the scale, but fat loss and muscle gains are about body composition, overall health, and longevity. So, what’s the magic of fat loss for midlife women?

Dr. Bill Campbell PhD, is a Professor of Exercise Science and Director of the Performance and Physique Enhancement Laboratory at the University of South Florida. He is the creator of ‘Body by Science’—a comprehensive research review summarizing the latest and best research related to building muscle and losing body fat. His research focuses on physique enhancement within a maintainable lifestyle. His pioneering research includes dietary protein intakes, rapid fat loss, and diet breaks for physique athletes and bodybuilders.

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Longevity refers to how long you can live in a healthy state, void of chronic disease. The big 4 horsemen of chronic disease are Alzheimer’s Disease, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. If you could take the guesswork out and know what your body needed in order to thrive so you could live your most optimal life for as long as possible, would you be up for that? Most people are complacent when it comes to their lifespan, or the length of years they live, regardless of their health.

As we age, the mitochondria inside our cells, begin to weaken in strength and numbers. Remember, mitochondria are the powerhouses of our cells and use the nutrients you bring in through your diet and supplementation to produce ATP, your body’s energy source. When they are not working well, your body isn’t working well. Our genes also have a lot to do with our longevity. You’re born with a deck of genes, but it’s how you live your life or the epigenetics, that influence how your genes are expressed.

There are simple and complex things you can do to discover your longevity code- mitochondrial health and genetics are just 2 components. I’ve invited a special guest today to talk about longevity and how you can start the process of mapping yours out.

Dr. Paul Savage is the founder and CEO of MDLifespan and has been a leader in longevity medicine since the late 1990s. Over the last 25 years of his medical career, he has focused on anti-aging and longevity therapies. He has developed a unique approach to building your longevity plan that includes detection, prevention, and intervention. He has built over 50 clinics across the United States and literally wrote the code for the industry standard software that’s helped millions of patients.

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