Not Your Mother's Menopause with Dr. Fiona Lovely

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in restorative endocrinology, functional neurology and functional medicine. Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause. Today, Dr. Lovely is sharing the tools you need to speak to your doctor about HRT. The hottest topic in women's health currently, it's hard to know who is a candidate for hormone therapy. Listen in while Dr. Lovely breaks it all down for you - she is talking benefits, risks, research and actual products to request. Please listen, learn and share.

Online meno clinics: @midihealth, @myalloy, @evernow (Dr. Lovely has no affiliation with these clinics, or personal experience with them. Please do your due diligence before engaging in care)

Look for a practitioner in your area here: menopause.org, ifm.org, A4m.com

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Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine. She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.

A very timely topic on the show today - women and tesosterone therapy at menopause. Not just a hormone for the guys, testosterone is a crucial part of the HRT picture for women. When we are cycling, we make a huge amount of testosterone, but we don't hear about that as much as we hear about estrogen and progesterone.

I am speaking with Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith - a gynecologist with a specialty practice in menopause care in Houston, Texas. She is a certified menopause practitioner and the Founder of the Complete Midlife Wellness Center. She is also a podcaster, author and triathlete. Testosterone therapy is helpful for bone and muscle health, moods and mental health and sexual health for men and women! There is some controversy with this topic as the FDA doesn't yet have an approved for women testosterone product! It's not just a male hormone. Listen in to learn all about this helpful hormone for women in the menopause transition.

You can find out more about Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith on her website and on Instagram @completemidlifewellness.

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Ways to work with Dr. Lovely:

We get many requests for this info, so here it is! Thank you for listening to the podcast. ❤️

Follow Dr. Lovely on IG and tiktok: @drfionalovely

Follow the podcast on Facebook: www.facebook.com/@notyourmothersmenopausepodcast

There are resources available on our website: www.drlovely.com

Please sign up for our newsletter - Fiona's Friday Favourites! This is where we make the first announcements, share course offerings or group coaching, drop new episodes, etc. drlovely.com

Finally, a humble request:

If you love the podcast, please leave us a review! It helps more people find useful info for a challenging time: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/not-your-mothers-menopause-with-dr-fiona-lovely/id1097326296 Please scroll to the bottom of the page to leave a review. Thank you! 💕🤗

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine. She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.

Today I welcome Sarah Kennedy, founder and CEO of Calocurb, for an insightful conversation demystifying weight management and appetite modulation, particularly in the context of perimenopause and menopause. Discover the physiological changes women experience at midlife, the often-frustrating weight gain, and the truth behind cravings and willpower.

Key Discussion Points:

• The Menopause Weight Struggle is Real: Many women experience frustrating weight gain during perimenopause, with the SWAN study indicating an average gain of 22 pounds. Often, the advice given is simply to eat less, which overlooks significant physiological shifts.
• Physiological Changes at Midlife: Understand the impact of dropping estrogen levels, decreasing metabolism, changes in fat distribution (visceral fat), and increased insulin resistance during perimenopause.
• The Myth of Willpower: Learn why hunger and eating are primal, biologically controlled instincts originating in the hypothalamus. Stress, hormones, lack of sleep, and alcohol can easily override frontal lobe willpower.
• The Importance of Protein and Muscle Mass: Maintaining muscle mass is crucial during menopause to prevent sarcopenia and frailty. Ensure adequate protein intake (around 120 grams for post-menopausal/perimenopausal women is suggested) and engage in resistance exercise. This is especially important when using one of the weight-loss injectables.
• Sarah Kennedy's Story: Sarah shares her personal journey of yo-yo dieting and how Calocurb (a GLP-1 activator) has positively changed her relationship with food. Her background in R&D for a major dairy company also highlights her passion for protein and muscle health.
• Hope for Post-Menopause: Sarah offers an encouraging perspective, sharing that she is the same size now as she was at 25 and feels at peace. Many women find that life gets better on the other side of menopause.

This episode provides a comprehensive look at the physiological factors influencing weight during menopause and explores a natural, scientifically-backed approach to appetite modulation with a GLP-1 activator like Calocurb. It emphasises that hunger is not simply a matter of willpower and offers hope and practical strategies for managing weight and cravings at midlife and beyond.

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Ways to work with Dr. Lovely:

We get many requests for this info, so here it is! Thank you for listening to the podcast. ❤️

Follow Dr. Lovely on IG and TikTok: @drfionalovely

Follow the podcast on Facebook: www.facebook.com/@notyourmothersmenopausepodcast

There are resources available on our website: www.drlovely.com

Please sign up for our newsletter - Fiona's Friday Favourites! This is where we make the first announcements, share course offerings or group coaching, drop new episodes, etc. drlovely.com

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Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine. She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.

Many of us have heard that magnesium is important for our health, but have we heard why? Dr. Greg Kelly returns to the show in this episode to discuss the powerhouse of magnesium. Turns out, you cannot go wrong by adding magnesium to your supplements! More than 50% of us are deficient and the kind of magnesium you want to supplement with, can be confusing. Not all magnesium is the same and the bioavailability makes a huge difference.

We discuss the role of magnesium in aging hallmarks, in energy production, in brain health and menstrual health too. Magnesium protects us from the effects of chronic stress too.

Dr. Kelly and I also discuss the role of Akkermansia in the microbiome of people who have smaller bodies and whether therapy with it can help solve the conundrum of weight for some of us. This is an exciting development!

Greg also shares the updates to cellular senescence - cellular aging, the right cutting edge of anti-aging medicine. We talk about muscle stem cells and more. As always, Dr. Kelly brings the science to the people, and we are better for it!

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Thank you to our sponsors for this episode:

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Ways to work with Dr. Lovely:

We get many requests for this info, so here it is! Thank you for listening to the podcast. ❤️

Follow Dr. Lovely on IG and tiktok: @drfionalovely

Follow the podcast on Facebook: www.facebook.com/@notyourmothersmenopausepodcast

There are resources available on our website: www.drlovely.com

Please sign up for our newsletter - Fiona's Friday Favourites! This is where we make the first announcements, share course offerings or group coaching, drop new episodes, etc. drlovely.com

Finally, a humble request:

If you love the podcast, please leave us a review! It helps more people find useful info for a challenging time: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/not-your-mothers-menopause-with-dr-fiona-lovely/id1097326296 Please scroll to the bottom of the page to leave a review. Thank you! 💕🤗

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine. She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.

What does it take to optimize health at perimenopause and menopause? Dr. Scott Sherr is here to help us sort through the details of making the second half of your life, the best half! Let's prioritize wellness above all else.

The root cause of health is quite simple: it's all the things you think it should be - food, movement, sleep, relationships, etc. And it's paying attention to your metabolic and mitochondrial health. We might hear these words thrown around but do we really know what to do to help ourselves?

Dr Scott Sherr suggests we can set the disease aside and optimize our health measures.

We talk about methylene blue for our mitochondria (think: brain fog, low energy, sleep issues, sluggish detox and more) and I am all in on this health-hack (check out Troscriptions link below for where I get my methylene blue), and I bet you will be too! Scott suggests we act as a bridge between medicine and alternative medicine, opening up the information access for all.

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Ways to work with Dr. Lovely:

We get many requests for this info, so here it is! Thank you for listening to the podcast. ❤️

Follow Dr. Lovely on IG and tiktok: @drfionalovely

Follow the podcast on Facebook: www.facebook.com/@notyourmothersmenopausepodcast

There are resources available on our website: www.drlovely.com

Please sign up for our newsletter - Fiona's Friday Favourites! This is where we make the first announcements, share course offerings or group coaching, drop new episodes, etc. drlovely.com

Finally, a humble request:

If you love the podcast, please leave us a review! It helps more people find useful info for a challenging time: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/not-your-mothers-menopause-with-dr-fiona-lovely/id1097326296 Please scroll to the bottom of the page to leave a review. Thank you! 💕🤗