LED masks, hair growth helmets, at-home laser, vaginal rejuvenation, inflatable lymph drainage boots. We get tooled up for our gadgets special (head over to YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@hormonesandhandstands for our live video recording).

We talk about the new trend for ‘organ meat’ protein powders, hormone disrupting coffee cups and supps to keep bugs at bay.

LED

• Budget: Beauty Pie Dynamo Deep
• Mid-price: Bon Charge LED Light therapy mask, and Neck and Chest Mask shop here code Pippa15
• Most powerful: Nooance Paris Elite X600, £539  shop here with code woodhall15
   
• Noaance Paris Scalp Health and Anti Hair Loss Helmet (laser and LED) £855 shop here with code woodhall15 
• Currentbody LED Hair Growth Helmet £649.99 shop here with code vwoodhallcb for 15% off sitewide.

More gadgets 

• Bon Charge LED cube shop here code Pippa15
• Currentbody Leg Recovery Compression Boots £739.99 15% off sitewide here with code vwoodhallcb 
• Nira Pro 2 Laser Nira pro 2 laser £579, currently £445 and use code victoriawoodhall here for another £44.50 off.
• Issviva Joylux vaginal rejuvenation device, £359 

Other mentions

Perfect Amino £42.39 on Pippa Loves. Get 10% off here

Chillys reusable Insulated Coffee Cup , £32 shop here 

Nuzest Vegan Protein Powder, £23.79 shop here 

Xlear natural nasal spray oregano and tea tree, £13.58 shop here

Attitude Dishwasher pods £13 for 70 shop here

Pippa Campbell Health Vitamin C £29.99 shop here

Organised Beef Organs Protein Powder, £89 https://organised.co/pages/organised

Happy gut, happy hormones. We explore the bi-directional gut-hormone connection, why food intolerances are rarely about the food itself, why fart walks are trending, the limits of the Low Fodmap diet, bottom pain, hypnotherapy for IBS and the real reason why you might have itchy skin. Plus, the bizarre world of parasite cleanses and the woman who made a killing selling her farts in jars.

Do you really need to detox? Isn’t that what your liver and kidneys are for? With so many more toxins in our lives these days, our liver especially needs extra help. But what’s the best way to go about it? We take down some social media detox myths –  juice cleanses get a bit fat no from Pippa – and sing the praises of daily liver-loving cruciferous veg. Should you you sweat out toxins? And are cold plunges for women are really a good thing? Listen in, you might be surprised! 

We hope you enjoy listening on Apple, Spotify and YouTube – wherever you get your podcasts.

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Pippa's Links:

Website: https://www.pippacampbellhealth.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pippacampbell_health/

Victoria's Links:

Website: https://victoriawoodhall.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriawoodhall/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@victoriawoodhallyoga

We catch up mid way through Victoria’s annual fasting stay at the Buchinger Wilhelm clinic in Germany. It’s art spa part integrative medical fasting centre – it’s her third time there, but she’s not there for weight loss as there’s so much more to fasting. Victoria describes the longevity, immune system, skin, liver, muscle and gut health benefits, as well as the profound mental rest she experiences during a nine-day fast, And there’s plenty of nitty gritty: what can you eat (if anything) what do you do all day? Do you HAVE to have the enemas, why do your armpits smell more? How to survive the Day 3 Slump. Do you get ‘fasting flu’? And how much nakedness is there in the saunas? 

We look at fasting at home for women – why Pippa’s not a fan of water fasting, and what’s the most sustainable way for women to get the benefits of fasting while keeping our hormones balanced. 

Victoria’s stay was gifted for review. Prices start art around 430 Euros per night https://www.buchinger-wilhelmi.com/en/  See the Fasting’ highlight on her Instagram for more.

Kiyoveda Organic Castor Oil pack  £29.99 

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We sometime use affiliate links

Goodbye blood sugar monitor,

is a continuous blood pressure monitor the new wearable for 2026?

The weight loss jab conversation is taking a new turn this year with the advent this spring of the GLP1 pill – but what do we think?

We’re all over protein or course and now ‘fibre-maxing’ for gut health and hormone detox is the new must-do, especially as 96% percent of UK adults don’t get the recommended 30g per day. We pick our favourite fibre supps and surprising fibre-rich foods.

Hair salons are having an upgrade, with cosmetic treatment and jabs to support hair growth (and there’s a new LED hair helmet Victoria loves, see below).

And is your makeup in a midlife rut? We share the brands we swear by for a grown-up glow.

Victoria’s mentions 

-     Hilo Band continuous blood pressure monitor, £209.99

- Artah Essential Fibre+, £40.50

- Indi Gut Bars, £20 for 12

- No7 Pro Artist Makeup Collection (I love the Soft Glow Cream Bronzer and Weightless Silk Sheer Foundation, both £19.95)

- Nooance Paris Anti-Hair Loss and Regrowth Helmet, £855. Use my code WOODHALL15 for an extra 15% off sitewide.their Led masks are excellent.

-    Yoga Nidra (guided relaxation) for stress

relief. Watch my free 8 min video on yoga nidra here  and try this 30-min

relaxation here.

- Victoria’s website https://victoriawoodhall.com/

Pippa’s mentions  

-    Pippa

Campbell Health Gut Repair, £49.99

-     PCH Metaboost Weight Loss

Formula, £53.99

-     Makeup Westman

Atelier, Victoria Beckham Beauty, Ilia

-  incidecoder.com

-     Eat Right Lose Weight, by Pippa Campbell, £13.19

- Perfect Amino chocolate powder, £31.59 and Perfect Amino Brownie Bar, £51.59 for 12 here

- Website: https://www.pippacampbellhealth.com/

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 https://www.instagram.com/victoriawoodhall/

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We sometime use affiliate links

Welcome back to season 2 of Hormones and Handstands with functional hormone nutritionist Pippa Campbell and beauty editor and yoga teacher Victoria Woodhall.

We’re friends who met through work and are constantly picking each other’s brains for insights and tips and decided that this could potentially be really useful stuff for other women.

To kick off 2026, week we discuss our beauty and wellness highlights of 2025, why knowing your metabolic type can help you lose weight ‘the old fashioned way’ (as opposed to weight loss jabs), menopausal reflux, should you put oestrogen on your face? yoga poses for weight loss (do they even exist?) and what an itchy bottom and smelly farts are telling you. 

We’ve both changed our HRT recently. Permenopausal Pippa’s periods are less frequent, she’s feeing ‘flushy’ and has started taking progesterone. Victoria added vaginal oestrogen into her HRT mix, but after a conversation with gynaecologist Dr Tania Adib has moved onto the a bespoke oestrogen and testosterone vagina/vulva cream to support dryness and bladder symptoms.

We both love creatine, Pippa takes her forthcoming Pippa Campbell Health TruePure Creatine launching here in February.Victoria takes Artah Essential Creatine, £25.20. Pippa has increased from 5g to 20g and it’s helping her muscles mass.

Victoria’s mentions 

-   Labareau The AHA Peel, £95. Use 3x week for glow LINK

-   Chai Guys Masala Chai tea, £21.95

-   Weights/strength training to bolster my dynamic yoga practice. I love Owning Your Menopause platform and teach a 45-min online yoga class at 8am on it on a Saturday.

-   Hair Sculpt keratin treatment with Gustav Fouche – goodbye frizz, hello easy beach waves. Read my article on getthegloss.com.

-   Contrast Cryotherapy at Ice Health Cryo in London – great if you are a ‘cortisol’ metabolic type and find cold plunge too stressful.   

-    Yoga Nidra (guided relaxation) for stress relief. Watch my free 8 min video on yoga nidra here  and try this 30-min relaxation here.

 Pippa’s mentions  

-   Golden Hour Facial Beauty Serum, £49 

-   Golden Hour Vaginal Beauty Serum £24.99

-   Pippa Campbell Health Aloe Vera, £31.99

-   PCH Metaboost Weight Loss Formula, £53.99

-   Marshmallow Root Tea, for reflux £7.99

-   Chewable Licorice Root tablets for reflux, £9.44

-   Eat Right Lose Weight, by Pippa Campbell, £13.19

We're on episode 5 already of @hormones.and.handstands and this week it’s all about stress hormones - and how we manage them.

Victoria talks about Yoga Nidra (yoga sleep) a type of guided relaxation that she practices and teaches, also known as NSDR

- Why it’s the ultimate power nap, 20 minutes is said to be the equivalent of 2 hours sleep
- How she used to do it the stationery cupboard at work at The Mail on Sunday to save her sanity!
- How it’s similar to hypnosis and manifesting, helping you shape your future
- How it can helps recover after illness, manage menopause symptoms such as anxiety and reshape unhelpful beliefsEvery week Pippa tackles a different hormone and in this episode it’s cortisol. It’s our main stress hormone but it’s also a lot more.
- It affects weight and resilience
- It peaks in the morning top get us out of bed, but if it’s still high at night it suppresses melatonin the sleep hormone
- lt’s anti-inflammatory in a good amount
- Too high and its suppresses the immune system and damages gut liningWe discuss the supplements and lifestyle practices we rely in to manage stress. Magnesium is Pippa’s top pick.

Pippa's Links:

Website: https://www.pippacampbellhealth.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pippacampbell_health/

Victoria's Links:

Website: https://victoriawoodhall.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriawoodhall

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@victoriawoodhallyoga

Enjoy and please leave us a review!

Disclaimer: The information in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always seek the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional with any questions you may have regarding your health, medical condition, or treatment. Do not make any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or medications without consulting a professional.

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Underactive thyroid is a problem for so many women and in Pippa’s clinical experience more women have it as we get older. It’s often un- or misdiagnosed. Pippa explains some signs to look out for such as loss of outer third of your eyebrow, puffy under eyes, cold hands and feet and constipation.Victoria looks at eyes from a beauty and a yoga perspective – do you really need and an eye cream and what kind? What causes dark circles and how to get rid of them with skincare creams and clinic treatments? Can eye yoga really improve your eyesight – plus the exercises and practices you can do now to relieve eye strain. And if you’re feeling distracted and struggling to focus, why your eyes might be leading you astray.

Nira Skin Laser - get at last 10% off with code victoriawoodhall (discount varies throughout the year)
https://www.niraskin.com/en-gb

Couture Brows with Suzanne Martin
https://www.lanesboroughclubandspa.com/spa-consultants/suzanne-martin/

Botox Brow Lift with Dr Ahmed El Muntasar 

https://theaestheticsdoctor.com/

Hydropeptide Polypeptide Collagel Eye Patches 

https://hydropeptide.co.uk/products/polypeptide-collagel-eye-masks

Powder Brows with Bows by Sarah Fogg

https://www.brows-by-sarah.com/

Plinest Polynucleotides with Dr Yusra Al Mukhtar 

https://dryusra.com/blog/polynucleotides-the-next-frontier-in-skin-rejuvenation/

Pippa's Links:

Website: https://www.pippacampbellhealth.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pippacampbell_health/

Victoria's Links:

Website: https://victoriawoodhall.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriawoodhall

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@victoriawoodhallyoga

Enjoy and please leave us a review!

Disclaimer: The information in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always seek the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional with any questions you may have regarding your health, medical condition, or treatment. Do not make any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or medications without consulting a professional.

If any products are mentioned we may use affiliate links.

Testosterone isn’t just for libido, it’s our mood, motivation and muscle hormone. Should you try testosterone replacement therapy? How do you get it from your GP? Pippa answers all the big questions. Victoria shares her mixed experience on testosterone cream, and how she has to be careful not to exacerbate her androgenetic hair loss. 

Our beauty topic this week is lips and Victoria explains the surprising things that happen to them as we age (like everything they get thinner and droopier…!), makeup hacks for fuller lips, why everyone’s talking about the Lip Flip treatment and how she nearly got stuck with a trout pout after having the salmon sperm treatment (polynucleotides).

We discuss fluoride in toothpaste –  is it bad for you and what are the alternatives, productivity journals and collagen bars

Here are links to some of the products and treatments we reference 

Bon Charge PEMF mat https://www.pippacampbellhealth.com/nutritionist-pippa-campbells-favourite-products/#supplements

https://www.philipkingsley.com/

Dr Yura Al Mukhtar, where Victoria had her Collagen Lips treatment  https://dryusra.com/

Get The Gloss Lip Flip review https://www.getthegloss.com/beauty/lip-flip-review/

Kimmel lemon collagen bar https://kimmel.life/

Intelligent change prodictivity journal and 5 minute journal

https://www.intelligentchange.com

Studio 10 Lip Liner 

https://www.studio10beauty.com/products/age-reverse-perfecting-lip-liner

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Website: https://www.pippacampbellhealth.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pippacampbell_health/

Victoria's Links:

Website: https://victoriawoodhall.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriawoodhall

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@victoriawoodhallyoga

Enjoy and please leave us a review!

Disclaimer: The information in this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always seek the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional with any questions you may have regarding your health, medical condition, or treatment. Do not make any changes to your diet, lifestyle, or medications without consulting a professional.

If any products are mentioned we may use affiliate links.