#250: Menopause and Running
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Ellison Weist, both fifty-somethings, get real, discussing myriad aspects of menopause (both positive and negative) and perimenopause with Dr. Susan Reed, a noted expert in midlife women’s health. As she’s also a mother and a long-time runner/triathlete, Dr. Reed speaks with a deep empathy of mother runners and how menopausal symptoms can throw us off our game (or, rather, workout routine!). Recognizing inability to sleep is a major concern, she offers numerous suggestions for getting more and better quality shut-eye. She talks extensively about various hormonal therapy options to treat symptoms of The Change, including several prescriptions normally used to prevent baby-making, as well as other types of Rx’s. Dr. Reed teases apart what side effects are related to aging versus menopause. Adding some brevity: a frank discussion for (yet another!) use for coconut oil, and find out what type of contest Sarah might enter (but hopefully not win!). Most important take-away from the good doc: Don’t...
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| 0:16.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm joined today by the lovely Ellison Weist. Hello. Hello. How you doing? I'm doing well. And I'm recovering from a fever. That's what I hear. Yeah. yeah, that's my body's go to, as you know from having known me all these years. |
| 0:27.0 | That's right. And yes, I had a sore throat last week and a little bit of stuff he knows and then woke up on Sunday morning. |
| 0:32.0 | I was supposed to run probably 10 miles with Molly. of a stuff he knows and then woke up on Sunday morning. |
| 0:32.6 | Supposed to run probably 10 miles with Molly. |
| 0:35.0 | Yikes. |
| 0:35.6 | And the night before we thought, oh, well, |
| 0:37.8 | we'll just have to play it by your, |
| 0:38.7 | depending on the rain. |
| 0:39.6 | It was like, oh, no, I can't go, I have a and I like I felt pretty alert for the half hour that I was |
| 0:46.7 | kind of dealing with it with her and then like waiting for her to text me back and |
| 0:50.1 | then I went back to bed and slept for three hours. Oh my word oh wow. and then took two more naps. |
| 0:52.8 | Oh my word. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:55.0 | So and then took two more naps. |
| 0:57.0 | Wow. |
| 0:58.0 | When did it break Sunday night or? |
| 1:00.0 | No, still had a tiny bit on Monday, I'd say Monday midday and then this morning we're recording for a Tuesday |
| 1:06.6 | just for something new and different and I ran six miles today. So yeah, good on you. Yeah, but you may want to in a P this afternoon oh I don't |
| 1:16.7 | oh I don't know if a nap's in my future but I like the idea of yeah yeah well |
| 1:20.8 | well I also say it's maintenance and just to take care of yourself. |
| 1:25.0 | Dr. Ellison is in the house. |
| 1:29.0 | Put an electronic sign on the door, otherwise when I was yeah so so when I told people on the |
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