So Money episode, 1659, Ask Farnush.

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Welcome to So Money, everyone. I'm Farnush Terabi. It is Friday, April 19th. I've been

intermittent fasting this week. Don't laugh at me. I'm 44. I have to start changing the way that I feed myself, apparently.

That's what all the doctors say. The days of skipping breakfast and eating a light lunch and eating whatever I want for dinner.

It's just not working out for me right now in a number of ways.

I just picked up a book called The Galveston Diet.

I've been really into Mary Claire Haver's work. She has a new book

out coming out about menopause. I'm not there yet, but I want to know what's ahead.

And I've been following her work. She is a doctor, OOGYN. And really there's such

little information about how women in their 40s and 50s can live healthier lives and how to be better eaters and how to be better eaters and how to be more mindful of the things

that we're putting in our bodies, the things that would help with like inflammation and energy. Gosh I've been eating pumpkin seeds this week.

My life is changing. If you have tips for me, call me 1-800 Farnoosh. I need some advice that the 40s have been hard. Let me tell you and more recently like

44 pushing 45 I feel my body changing and I know that I don't have the same agility and energy as I did

when I was 35 or 25. I get a lot in me still but I know now I'm like I'm a

believer things have to change. This transitions me well into another

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