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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

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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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There are several ways our microbiome directly impacts our hormones and health. Microbiologist and Microbiome expert, Kiran Krishan, joined me today to break down several of the ways our microbiome affects hormones and symptoms we may experience all over the body.

The relationship between the microbiome and hormones is fascinating, particularly in midlife as our hormones are changing.

It turns out improving our microbiome is one way to improve how we experience perimenopause and the transition to menopause. Our microbiome impacts our metabolism, brain, mood, digestion, immune function, and common symptoms like weight gain, hot flashes, memory issues, anxiety, joint pain, and more. (And the microbiome is one of the things we focus on at The Midlife Hormone Club). 

You can find Kiran Krishnan on instagram here

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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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Herbs are an incredibly effective tool to support the nervous system  and  bring ease into the body. I loved this weeks talk with herbalist and apothecary owner Rebecca Luna.

Reducing stress and calming the nervous system is critical at midlife as we are more sensitive to stress AND fluctuating hormones create more stress on our body. 

Reducing stress in midlife is key to feeling better and aging our best.

Rebecca gives us her favorite herbs to relieve stress, explains how to use them, and speaks into the brilliance and power of herbal medicine.   

You are going to love this discussion and I hope you walk away feeling excited and confident playing more with herbs.  And I know this will help you feel more calm and at east in Perimenopause or Menopause.

You can find Rebecca and her Apothecary online here
You can find her on instagram 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.

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Monica Paz MS, FNLP was a practicing dietician who discovered she needed to learn new skills to improve her energy, mood, blood sugar, body pains, sleep, and ultimately take control of her health.
She turned to functional nutrition and quickly learned how food, when she ate, her stress, toxins, and other factors were tanking her health.
She shares how mood and anxiety can be symptoms of dysregulated blood sugar and steps to improve how your body makes energy. 

You can find Monica online here
You can find Monica on Instagram 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.

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Today I sat down with my old river guiding friend, Dr Kaisa Copalla, to discuss the role stress plays in our perimenopause journey and how addressing it helps us uplevel to our fullest capacity in Menopause. 

When our hormones change in midlife our adrenals BEG for our attention.  There are so many real demands on us at midlife but there are a few small things we can do to improve our stress response and Kaisa shares several secrets that I cannot wait to try.

Kaisa and I both believe Menopause is a time of wise badassary and look forward to it being our most empowered years. 

You can find a couple of old river guiding pics of us over on the podcast website

You can find Kaisa online at her clinic Harmony Wellness
You can also find her on instagram 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.

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Food impacts our mood in various ways including through our microbiome, the gut brain connection, leaky gut, blood sugar swings, and chronic inflammation.   Camilla and I discuss foods that disrupt mood and foods that support feeling calm and balanced.

With changing hormones in Perimenopause, being mindful of our food choices becomes even more important if we want to feel calm and peaceful and reduce anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, and irritability. 

You can find Camilla online 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.

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Jules Blaine Davis  "is on a fierce journey to spread permission, freedom, beauty and LOVE like wildfire all over our phenomenal lives, in and out of the kitchen."
Jules and I discuss how the kitchen shapes us, she gives us tangible ways to connect with ourselves and to slow life down so we can be present, nourished, and live our fullest life.

And if you ask me, this is all more important as we transition in perimenopause to menopause and are called to come into alignment with our authentic selves 

You can find Jules on her website
You can also find her on Instagram

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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Author and Naturopath, Dr. Lara Briden, joined me today to talk about Perimenopause and Menopause.
We discussed ways the modern world creates an evolutionary mismatch, which makes hormone transitions more challenging.
Lara discuses the phases of Perimenopause (even a new phase she just added), and explains how understanding the science helps us trust our body and find solutions to improve common symptoms like weight gain, sleep problems, mood changes, and more.
Lara has written several empowering books for women.
You can find Lara and her books online 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.

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Nicole Koch joined me today to discuss ways to lean into fall, why it is important and what Qigong, Ayurveda, and Hormonal Cycle Awareness teaches us about Fall.

It is mind blowing how much these things align with one another and how important this is in midlife, as the inner season of Perimenopause is fall.

The truth is everything cycles.  Do you lean in to the different energies of each season? It can feel incredible and even impacts our health.

Nicole Koch has studied, practiced and taught yoga for over 30 years, she also teaches qigong, breathwork, all about flow states, and deep relaxation

You can find her online here
You can find her on instagram 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