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The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life

167: Menopause, bioidentical hormones, and women's health with Dr. Liz Lyster

The Fitnessista Podcast: Healthy In Real Life

Gina Harney

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9522 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Hi friends! I have a new podcast episode live and am so excited to have Dr. Liz Lyster on the show today.

167: Menopause, bioidentical hormones, and women's health with Dr. Liz Lyster

Here's what we talk about in today's episode:

- Why is menopause happening earlier and earlier?

- What are some signs that you're in perimenopause

- Should women with cancer in their family be scared about hormone replacement?

- Her thoughts on bio-identical hormones, including pellet therapy

and so.much.more

Here's more about Dr. Lyster and her background:

Dr. Liz Lyster is an OB/GYN medical doctor, best-selling author and speaker, and an expert in perimenopause and menopause. In her private practice in the San Francisco Bay area, she helps women and men in midlife and beyond lose weight, have more energy, increase their motivation and drive, and generally feel great.

She graduated from Cornell University, went to medical school at UC Irvine, and got her Masters degree at UCLA in Community Health Education.

Dr. Liz walks her own talk – when she turned 50 a few years ago, she celebrated by climbing to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa.
Dr. Liz has two awesome young adult sons, and enjoys hiking and Argentine tango with her amazing husband.

Connect with her on her website and on Instagram. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, and I'll just count us down and we'll get started from there.

0:05.0

Okay, sounds awesome. I'm ready to go.

0:07.9

All right. Three, two. Hey, Dr. Leister. Thank you so much for being here today.

0:14.6

My pleasure. Absolutely.

0:16.8

Yes, I'm so excited to chat with you. Would you mind sharing some more info about yourself and what made you decide to focus more on menopause and perimenopause?

0:26.8

Yeah, absolutely. I was, of course, in medical school, we rotate through different specialties and we get to see what we enjoy. And I liked OBGYN from the beginning. So I went into

0:40.1

that. And then over the years, I just kept narrowing things down. What sparked my interest in

0:47.2

medical school was following the doctor who I was shadowing her that day into a room with a

0:53.9

patient who was having a lot of menopause

0:56.0

symptoms and really suffering. And by the time we walked out, she felt so much better. I'm not

1:01.8

sure what we actually gave her, like prescriptions or anything, but just from the listening to her,

1:08.3

she felt so much better. So it was always my interest. So over the years,

1:13.0

you know, I did my life, had my children, delivered babies for a while, and then just started

1:21.1

narrowing it down. So I stopped the babies. They tend to arrive at night. And I like to sleep at night.

1:30.2

So that was the first to narrow.

1:32.8

And then just this and that that was happening in my life,

1:37.2

I stopped doing the major surgeries, then the minor surgeries.

1:40.2

And there I was, and I was learning at the same time about biodenical hormones. I was

1:47.0

entering my 40s. And then I was 43 and went into menopause. So that all happened as I was narrowing my

1:58.2

practice. And now I have the joy of focusing completely on menopause,

2:06.5

perimenopause, and also helping men about 10% of my practices helping the guys. All things hormonal.

2:14.5

It's a lot of fun. I love it. Yes, I love that. And I feel like in my 20s, menopause was just kind of this mystery thing that happened to your body that no one talked about. I'm like, oh, I guess this just happens at some point. So I feel like the information is getting out there a lot more. It's becoming a lot more prevalent

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