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Episode 126: The Menopause Connection with Dr. Beth Claxton
Beth is a Medical Doctor and board-certified OB/GYN. Her curiosity leads her to become a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and an Ayurvedic Yoga Health Coach. Most recently she became certified in Functional Medicine. Flagstaff Functional Medicine
The Magnificent Menopause Connection Summit 14-28th July 2022
Episode 125: Preparation for the Menopausal Transition
Your state of general health leading up to the beginning of peri-menopause is important. You can help ease your transition by better managing your current state of health.
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Episode 124: The Role of Your Digestive Health in Peri-Menopause
Have you ever considered your Gut Hormone Connection? The role your digestive health plays in regulating your hormones? It plays a massive role especially if you are in peri-menopause and experiencing signs of estrogen dominance.
Episode 123 Moods and Peri-Menopause with Andrea Donsky
The Menopausal Transition can sometimes take you by surprise. 5 years into her journey special guest Andrea Donsky started to realise her mood swings and other symptoms were actually a part of a bigger picture.
The Menopause Shift Summit has finished (21-23rd June 2022)
Episode 122: What does the Vagus Nerve have to do with Menopause?
Your Sympathetic Nervous System accelerates the stress response and may be linked with a more intense menopausal transition, your parasympathetic nervous system on the other hand applies the brakes and allows you to rest, and recover.
Episode 121: Midlife Depletion and Nutritional Deficiencies
Feeling depleted at midlife? Nutrient deficiency is at an all-time high. Today we tackle why that is and what you can do about it.
Episode 120: Zinc for Menopause
You may have heard of zinc for your immune health but did you know zinc plays a crucial role in hormonal health, it is valuable at all stages of the menopausal transition.
Episode 119: Lifestyle Habits and your Menopausal Transition
There are so many powerful habits you can build into your routine to improve your menopausal transition.
Patrick McKeown's book "The Breathing Cure"
Episode 118: Environmental Toxicity and Hormonal Health
Many environmental toxins cause hormonal disruption, insomnia, fatigue, mood swings, headaches, weight gain, brain fog, and more. Cleaning up your environment is essential if you want healthy balanced hormones.
Episode 117: The Role Diet plays in your Menopausal Transition
Diet can help set you up for an easier transition or a harder transition.
What will you choose?
Environmental Working Group - Food additives
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Episode 116: Tips for an easier transition into Menopause
It is possible to transition into menopause without symptoms. This episode discusses 7 reasons why you might be struggling and looks at different treatment options.
Tips for an easier transition into menopause
Episode 115: Music and Menopause
Plato "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything”.
Episode 114: What's the deal with Salt?
There are those that consume salt liberally and those that go out of their way to avoid it.
To salt or not to salt, it’s such a controversial topic.
Episode 113: Healthy Homes for Healthy Hormones
Have you considered the health of your home as being a factor in your menopausal transition and your ability to regulate your hormones? Well you should, it's a HUGE factor as your home is your biggest exposure source of hormone disruptive chemicals.
Healthy Homes for Healthy Hormones
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Episode 112: The Magic of Menopause with Lorraine Miano
Lorraine is a Certified Health Coach, author of the book "The Magic Of Menopause", and a post-menopausal woman.
She joins us on the podcast today to discuss her holistic guide to getting your happiness back, as well as reflecting over the year. Lorraine's links Website, Instagram, Facebook
Episode 111: Naturally Better Vision with Jake Steiner
Eyesight affects so much of everything in our lives: From posture, anxiety, social behavior, happiness, our entire physical experience.
Jake Steiner has been pioneering natural myopia control for the past 20 years. Check out his work at endmyopia.org
Episode 110: Nourishing your Libido with Dianne Shepherd
A common theme in midlife is lack of libido, lack of joy, anger, and disconnect. Dianne Shepherd started midlife feeling just like this but then she used her menopausal transition to recreate herself. She now looks at menopause as the Passion Portal. A sexual and spiritual rebirth into the richest chapter of a women's life.
Episode 109: Menopause Made Easy
Licensed Acupuncturist Laurie Stone, is the creator of Menopause Made Easy, a self-paced program where she teaches you simple routines using acupressure to support sleep, moods, and temperature regulation.
Episode 108: Black Cohosh
Black Cohosh has a long history of use both by Native Americans and European settlers. For a herb with such as long history of use, it is certainly misunderstood. It is feared by some and loved by others.
Episode 107: Why Western Women Suffer the Most!
Book Extract, previous extracts can be found on Podcast episode 38 and 39.
It’s fascinating to look at how women from different cultures and races view menopause. All women go through this change. For some women, it's a time of dread, while for others it's a time to look forward to.
Episode 106: The Master Menopause Mineral
Magnesium is my all-time favourite mineral for the menopausal transition.
This episode starts by looking at a patient of mine. Her main concerns included poor stress tolerance with frequent outbursts, anxiety, and depression. She had regular headaches, trouble with sleep, and painful leg cramps overnight. She was fatigued and experiencing brain fog. Learn how magnesium helped her.
Episode 105: Post Menopausal Anxiety with Clarissa Kristjansson
Menopause Expert Clarissa Kristjansson joins the podcast to chat about her peri-menopausal journey and her experience with anxiety.
Clarissa's links
Podcast, Website, Breathwork, Mindfulness
Episode 104: Shatavari - it's not just a libido herb
Shatavari is the most popular Ayurvedic herb used for the menopausal transition. It is famous for its libido-enhancing effects. In fact, the word Shatavari in Sanskrit translates to be “she who has 100 husbands”. But Shatavari is not just a libido herb.
Previous episodes on herbs
Discovery Call with Jen
Episode 103: Feeling hot, hot, hot. Tips for Hot Flash Relief
I was recently asked “What’s the best natural product for hot flashes? My answer was well that all depends...
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# 2 Hot Flushes and # 7 Menopausal Sleep
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Episode 102: 9 action steps to improve your bone health today
Did you realise 1 in 2 women aged over 50 is impacted with low bone quality or quantity leading to bone fracture?
This podcast contains 3 lifestyle factors, 3 dietary factors, and 3 supplemental considerations, please reach out if you need more personalised support, trust me your bones are worth it!
Episode 101: Why we age and how to slow it down with Dr. Sandra Kaufmann
We all know we are ageing, but do you know WHY we age? Join us as longevity expert Dr. Sandra Kaufmann explains why we are ageing and how we can minimize the effects of ageing to live longer healthier lives.
Her book the Kaufmann Protocol is available on Amazon.
Episode 100: It's Countdown Time!
Today is an exciting day. It is the podcast’s 100th episode!
It’s time to take a walk down memory lane and see what the 5 most popular episodes have been, in regards to downloads. Let’s start the countdown!
#5 is episode 63, Exercise is the ultimate medication with Colin Hoobler.
#4 is episode 52, Hormonal Constipation
#3 is episode 84, Post Menopause Concerns
#1 is episode 82, The most important dietary change to make in Menopause.
