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Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

344: What is Happening to Our Midlife Hormones? with Wise and Well

Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill

Natalie Jill

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, you will learn:

  • Why taking hormones is a must for midlife women
  • How estrogen interacts with your body to keep you healthy
  • The effects of estrogen on your muscles
  • Skin & Vaginal Health 

About Kristin Johnson

Kristin is a functional nutritionist with advanced training in holistic nutrition as well as a specialty in peri-menopause and menopause health.  She is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition through the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, a certified DUTCH hormone test practitioner, and a graduate of the Nutritional Therapy Association’s Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner program. In addition, she has special training in amino acid therapy for anxiety and mood disorders as well as mindset coaching to facilitate change. Kristin completed a professional mentorship with naturopathic endocrinologist Dr. Rebecca Provorse in 2020 and am also a “recovering” corporate attorney. She will perform a comprehensive functional analysis of your health history, nutrition status and lab tests to create an individualized protocol aimed at rebalancing your body’s systems and solving for any deficiencies. She then guides you through shifts in diet, lifestyle and mindset while educating you on options to restore or support your hormones and optimize your health!

About Maria Claps

Maria is a functional health coach with a specialty in peri-menopause and menopause. She graduated from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2013 and then went on to study in a hormone program for practitioners with Dr Sara Gottfried in 2014. She spent the first 8 months of 2015 completing the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Certification Program and, in 2017, completed the Menopause Method Program for Physicians with Dr David Rosensweet.  Maria has been personally mentored by hormone scholar Dr Lindsey Berkson and naturopathic endocrinologist Dr Rebecca Provorse. She now mentors other health coaches and nutritionists to help them understand the unique and profound hormone changes of midlife.  She combines holistic health coaching with functional lab tests to help you identify and assess your hormonal deficiencies, gut health and metabolic status.  She then educates you on your options for hormone therapy so that you can work with a hormone provider (either your own or one of ours) from a position of knowledge and clarity instead of fear and confusion. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

So we hear women saying, I'm so scared of Alzheimer's.

0:02.9

Well, guess what, ladies, we need estrogen and progesterone, uterus or not, in order to protect

0:08.3

our brains.

0:09.0

And that's just a fact because those two hormone molecules signal at the receptors in our brain

0:15.4

tissue.

0:18.1

Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, and I help women in theirs, 50s, and beyond redefine, rebrand, and

0:23.4

laugh with aging. Welcome to midlife conversations. On this podcast, I do what I do best,

0:29.9

taking complicated information that is relevant in this point of our lives now and break it down

0:35.4

simply with actionable steps you can implement to level up your

0:39.3

life. I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring people living their best midlife years now.

0:45.9

On this show, I cover topics about our shifting hormones, weight struggles, our mood and focus

0:50.9

changes, raising teenagers, our relationships, career changes, beauty,

0:55.0

and more. If you are new here, I encourage you go back and listen from episode one when this

1:00.0

podcast was previously called Listen Up for the full transformative experience.

1:06.9

I've got my favorite hormone girls back. Kristen and Maria with Wise and Well.

1:12.9

They are my go-to with all the hormone questions.

1:15.5

I love following them on Instagram.

1:17.1

They are one of my most downloaded podcast episodes.

1:20.6

They were one of my favorite interviews on my summit.

1:23.1

So they're who I'm messaging, DMing them.

1:25.8

I don't suggest you do this.

1:27.1

They're doing me favors because I'm a

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