285: The Lowdown on Declining Hormones and How they Impact Weight, Mood and Sleep w/ Maria Claps and Kristin Johnson

Energized with Dr. Mariza

Dr. Mariza Snyder

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 974 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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If You Want To Understand Your Hormones Better, You Should: Adapt your nutrition to include more animal protein and strength training to improve your metabolic health Acknowledge, embrace and make room for your stress Create routines and habits that enforce healthy behavior and promote longevity Here is some real talk you may not want to hear: your protective hormones decline with age, no matter how ‘clean’ your lifestyle is. The good news is that if you equip yourself with the knowledge necessary to pivot with those fluctuations, you can become an up-leveled version of yourself after this big hormone transition instead of declining too. Passionate About Women’s Health Mid-Life Maria, an FDN practitioner, and Kristin, a Board-certified nutritionist, are plainspoken friends and practitioners who share a passion for women's health, especially women's health at midlife. As both are themselves menopausal, they've refined the art and science of thriving as a midlife woman based on both clinical and personal experience. They combine individualized nutrition and lifestyle changes tailored to midlife women's needs with mindset coaching, lab testing, and hormone replacement therapy education to help women thrive so that they can stop or prevent their health from spinning out of control. Understanding Your Options The key to handling your declining hormones is to understand what your options are. You do not have to suffer in silence, and this can be the best part of your life if you prep your body in the right way. Lifestyle, stress, sleep, and modern life all impact whether your experience with perimenopause and menopause will be really quiet or really loud. Maria and Kristin aren’t here to tell you the conventional things you are going to hear from your doctor or OBGYN; they are here for real talk, real wisdom, and real recommendations to help you pivot along with your changing hormones. Deciding That You Matter As women, we want to take care of everyone else, which often leaves us on the backburner. In reality, if you don't take care of yourself, all bets are off for everyone else you are taking care of. By finding habits and routines that add to your longevity and performance, you can inspire the people around you by deciding that you matter and taking action towards that. Perimenopause and menopause are unique experiences that impact everything in your life. By empowering yourself with the knowledge of non-negotiables that you need for your individual body, you can set yourself and your body up for success. Are you ready to take the journey of perimenopause and menopause back into your own hands? Share which of Maria and Kristin’s tips you are going to try out first with me in the comments section of the episode page. In This Episode How your hormones change throughout the four major hormone transitions in your life (13:20) Discover the defining moment of menopause and what menopause really is (19:06) The foundational steps you need to take to pivot with your body's changes (21:47) Approaches that you can take to handle your stress while you take care of your family, career, and yourself (32:53) Tips for redefining what your menopause journey looks like going forward (40:15) Resources Mentioned: The Essential Oils Menopause Solution Mastering Midlife Mayhem Wise and Well Website Follow Kristin + Maria on Instagram Other Resources: Check out the full show notes page Keep up with everything Dr. Mariza Follow Dr. Mariza on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Youtube Podcast production & marketing support by the team at Counterweight Creative Related Episodes: Essentially You Episode #279: The Secret to Gliding Not Slamming Into Perimenopause and Beyond with Dr. Lakeischa, MD Essentially You Episode #269: Owning the Wisdom of Menopause with Dr. Christine Northrup, MD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	what we're trying to tell women is regardless of your choices, figure out what your options are.
0:38.0	Get educated, be an advocate for yourself, and then make those choices from that confident place of this is what I want
0:47.6	for myself and these are the things that I can handle. It doesn't take wealth, it takes knowledge. This is a chapter that is absolutely all yours. There's nothing selfish about it.
0:59.0	In fact, your husband's going to find you sexier when you start taking care of yourself in a way that exudes this confidence.
1:06.5	Your kids are going to be like, damn mom's a bad-s! It's a wonderful feeling when the people around you see that you have decided you matter and you put action into that.
1:19.0	Welcome back to the Essentially You Podcast.
1:23.2	I am your host Dr. Marissa Snyder,
1:26.2	and I am here to help you feel great in your body
1:28.8	and rock your hormones with so much ease and grace
1:32.2	so that you can reclaim more energy, vitality, and
1:35.0	joy and become the CEO of your health. Let's jump on in. A dose of real talk that I really wasn't ready for in my late 30s
1:47.0	is that our protective hormones decline with age
1:50.0	and if we don't pivot with those fluctuations and declines we will eventually decline too.
1:57.0	Ugh! I mean who wants to hear that? Even more so, most of us don't really understand what happens when our hormones decline.
2:05.5	And that estrogen and progestrone, well they aren't the only hormones declining or changing.
2:11.0	Now there is a lot more to the hormone puzzle and that's why it's so important that we have
2:15.7	hormone literacy, especially for these transitioning surges and times when our body is critically changing.
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