The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Tim is one of those guys that will leave you feeling younger and more energetic just by hearing him speak. He's turning 49 but feels like he's 18 (with more energy!) What's his secret?

After suffering from multiple health issues, including rectal bleeding, two separate skin issues, chronic acid indigestion and surgery to remove one of his organs due to serious digestive issues, Tim knew something had to change.

But it was only after watching his closest ones die of cancer and the untimely death of his younger brother that he finally decided to take action. Tim's journey led him to a shocking discovery that helped his friend beat cancer and transform every area of his life. Feeling charged with a duty to help others he started sharing his knowledge with anyone that would listen.

In this episode;

• Tim's and his friends incredible story of healing
• The power of live foods
• what colonics can do for the body
• the 3 major things that are causing all our health issues
• the number of chemicals in our environment and where they are hidden
• why BPA free is a scam
• the power of minerals for detox
• glyphosate EMF and why you need to worry about them
• why all supplements are not created equal
• how to detox your environment

and more!

Tim James: https://www.chemicalfreebody.com/

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Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

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Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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Adiponectin is what helps you to burn fat! Find out everything you need to know about this, not talked about, hormone that could be stopping you from losing weight.

Download the podcast Wits & Weights: Strength and Nutrition for Skeptics using your favorite podcast app, or go to witsandweights.com/podcast to listen and get motivated to change your life. Download the FREE"Protein Power Transformation Program" at witsandweights.com.

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Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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Dr. Tabatha Barber is triple board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, menopause, and functional medicine. She has the unique situation of being licensed to practice medicine in over half the country, so you now have the ability to work with a functional physician virtually. She is the host of The Functional Gynecologist Podcast; where she shares her wisdom and knowledge with women everywhere to reclaim their health. She is also a keynote speaker, mentor, wife, mom, and grandma! By incorporating functional medicine into her women's health practice, she is able to provide women with the tools they need to optimize their health and happiness, which, in turn, allows those women to pursue their purpose in life.

In this episode;

• why gynecologists and endocrinologists don't understand perimenopause and menopause.
• why Dr. Tabatha decided to leave mainstream medicine and become a functional gynecologist
• synthetic hormones versus bioidentical
• the dangers of birth control pills
• finding the right research to prove hormones are safe and why you have to be careful looking at some of the studies.
• why women are choosing to stay on their HRT for life and are they safe?
• side effects of losing your hormones
• the impact of stress on hormones as you age
• the impact of gut health on your estrogen metabolism
• how to optimize your body for HRT and more! https://www.drtabatha.com/

Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Purchase your home Hormone Test Kits here.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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Does counting calories and macros help you lose weight?

What is better fasting or calorie restriction for weight loss?

How do we lose weight without harming our metabolism?

What does the research tell us?

In this episode, I answer these questions and more! Plus find out the BEST way to sustainably lose weight and keep it off for GOOD!

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Steven Wright is a medical engineer, Kalish Functional Medicine Institute Graduate, and gut health specialist. He spent close to $400,000 overcoming his own health challenges using everything from western medicine to shamans. Steven is the founder of healthygut.com. He lives in Boulder, CO with his fiancé Shay and their two dogs.

In this episode

• Steven's story of going from severe IBS with chronic diarrhea, estrogen dominance, and low testosterone to a healthy functioning gut and body.
• Hormones and the gut connection.
• Why you have to prepare the gut before using bioidentical hormones.
• Why healing diets are sometimes not enough and what to do next.
• The power of listening to your intuition.
• When supplements may be needed.
• How an unhealthy gut affects your weight.
• How your gut health will affect your mental health.
• What is really going on with histamine intolerance.
• The latest on SIBO.
• The power of butyrate to heal the gut.
• The best supplements to take to help health the gut.
• The importance of stomach acid and much more!

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Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Purchase your home Hormone Test Kits here.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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Dr. Mache Seibel is a leading menopause expert who helps women get the information they need to feel better and have more control over their life, their work and their relationships. He is a 25-year member of the Harvard Medical Faculty, author of the best-selling books, The Estrogen Window and The Estrogen Fix, and Editor of the #1 digital magazine for midlife women HotYearsMag.com.

His latest book, written with his wife Dr. Sharon Seibel, is Working Through Menopause: The Impact on Women, Businesses and The Bottom Line. Before transitioning to focus on menopause, Dr. Mache was a leading expert in infertility who performed some of the first In vitro fertilization successes in the United States. Dr. Mache has published over 200 scientific articles and 17 books for both professionals and consumers and has received multiple national awards for patient education, research and writing.

Dr. Mache has years of experience providing coaching to women from around the world, helping them become a partner with their healthcare providers available at MenopauseCoaching.com.

• Women in the workforce in perimenopause and menopause make up nearly one-fourth of the workforce.
• Less than one percent of businesses have a menopause policy in place.
• How addressing women's workplace health would lead to greater employee retention and improve the company's bottom line.
• How big of an issue is menopause in the workplace?
• How does menopause affect women at work?
• What can women do to improve their situation?
• What are businesses doing to support midlife women in the workplace?

Dr. Mache Seibel — Menopause Treatment Speaker, Consultant & Coach Mache Seibel, M.D. (drmache.com)

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Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Purchase your home Hormone Test Kits here.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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In part 2 of my round table with Maty and Marty, we answer listeners' questions.

• Does cholesterol level correlate with insulin and blood glucose level. If yes - why, what is a physiological explanation. If not, again why?
• Do I have to dial in macros to have success with DDF?
• I'm surgically menopausal (gees back in 2015) why can't I have any good carbs? I can only lose the weight/fat eating a lion diet.
• How to help the rise in morning blood glucose from a cortisol release?
• In reference to changing hormones (for women), to match your other half, to build a better relationship sexually, is there a negative result of "tweaking" hormones to do these adjustments vs letting the body's hormones adjust naturally on their own?
• General best practices for surgical menopause HRT with family history of breast cancer and personal history of PCOS.
• Should everyone avoid gluten?
• Cold immersion for women. Pro's & Con's?
• Is menopause really going to be the death sentence everyone makes it sound like?
• Will the vaccine affect my weight loss?
• Is the carnivore diet the holy grail of weight loss

and more!

Marty Kendall is the author of the book Big Fat Keto Lies. Marty is an engineer who seeks to optimize nutrition using a data-driven approach. His interest in nutrition began eighteen years ago in an effort to help his wife Monica gain better control of her Type 1 Diabetes. But since then, he has worked to develop a systematized approach to nutrition tailored for a wide range of goals.

Mart Kendall Website

Matty Lansdown is a scientist, nutritionist and health coach that specializes in weight loss and self-confidence for women and busy mothers.

Matty's extensive experience with nutrition led him to uncover the deeper challenge people have with health which isn't about calories or kale but in fact mindset and behavior change. Having been on his own personal development journey, Matty is now super-passionate about showing people how to level up their health so that healthy habits and the best food choices are easy and natural.

Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Purchase your home Hormone Test Kits here.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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Get ready for an epic conversation on the latest diet trends from the top weight loss coaches in the industry!

In this episode, I am joined by my two fav Aussies Marty Kendall and Matty Lansdown. We dive deep into some of the hottest diet trends out there today.

• Fasting when is too much and why women need to be careful.
• How do we reap the benefits of fasting without taking it to the extreme.
• Why high fat keto diets can make you gain weight.
• The benefits and the challenges of tracking your food and my own experience with it.
• Why it can be challenging to eat a lot of protein.
• How to get your body to release more fat.
• The energy from food and what you need to prioritize in order to optimize weight loss.
• What types of animal protein can make you more hungry and possibly spike blood glucose and which ones are best to eat for satiety.
• The pros and cons of the protein-sparing modified fast and how it can help you to jump-start weight loss.
• How to avoid rebound weight gain from any diet.
• Why diets work in the beginning but then plateau.
• What percentage of protein do you need to eat when dieting to maintain muscle mass.
• Realistic weight loss time frames.
• The giant missing piece of the majority of diets on the market.
• The role of dopamine in our life and how it could be negatively affecting our diet.

Marty Kendall is the author of the book Big Fat Keto Lies. Marty is an engineer who seeks to optimize nutrition using a data-driven approach. His interest in nutrition began eighteen years ago in an effort to help his wife Monica gain better control of her Type 1 Diabetes. But since then, he has worked to develop a systematized approach to nutrition tailored for a wide range of goals.

Mart Kendall Website

Listen to my interview with Marty 'Big Fat Keto Lies'.

Matty Lansdown is a scientist, nutritionist and health coach that specializes in weight loss and self-confidence for women and busy mothers.

Matty's extensive experience with nutrition led him to uncover the deeper challenge people have with health which isn't about calories or kale but in fact mindset and behavior change. Having been on his own personal development journey, Matty is now super-passionate about showing people how to level up their health so that healthy habits and the best food choices are easy and natural.

Listen to my interview with Matty Lansdown 'How to Change Your Poor Eating Habits & Self Sabotaging Behavior.'

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Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Purchase your home Hormone Test Kits here.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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Dr. Samuel Shay, DC, IFMCP helps busy, health-conscious entrepreneurs & Mom-preneurs attain and sustain high performance, so that they can create more freedom for themselves and others. He has dedicated his life to helping others through functional medicine and functional genetics.

Dr. Shay has recently authored a new eBook on Genetics where you can learn the different types of genetics-based weight gain, how to future-proof your brain, food triggers, how to genetically determine your optimal carb-tolerance, vitamin D absorption, and immunity support.

You can find him at drsamshay.com

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Today's episode is sponsored by Relish Life. Get $100 off your first month with coupon code KAREN. Listen to an interview with the owners of Relish Life here.

Get the details and apply to be part of my 3-month Mastering Peri & Post Menopause coaching program.

Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Purchase your home Hormone Test Kits here.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

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In this episode, I set the record straight about estrogen dominance and what it really is.

It is important to understand the many different types of estrogen dominance. How to test for it and how to remedy it.

Many alternative practitioners believe that women have too much estrogen and are quick to recommend a supplement called diindolylmethane (DIM). There are dangers to taking DIM that you need to know about. Find out why in this episode.

Today's episode is sponsored by Relish Life. Get $100 off your first month with coupon code KAREN. Listen to an interview with the owners of Relish Life here.

Get the details and apply to be part of my 3-month Mastering Peri & Post Menopause coaching program.

Are struggling with perimenopausal symptoms? Hot flashes, weight gain, weight loss resistance, low libido?

Check out the most comprehensive and affordable peri and post-menopause monthly course OnTrack. OnTrack is a group coaching program to help you balance your hormones, lose weight and sail through peri and post-menopause at a fraction of what it costs to work with me privately.

Purchase your home Hormone Test Kits here.

Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert.

Visit https://karenmartel.com/

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