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The mindbodygreen Podcast

628: The truth about lean muscle, GLP-1s & women’s metabolism | Ana Kausel, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

mindbodygreen

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

“If you really want to be strong and you want to do strength training, you need to eat carbohydrates,” explains Ana Kausel, M.D.  Ana Kausel, M.D., a board-certified endocrinologist and women’s health expert, joins us today to share how women can build metabolic strength from the inside out—through muscle, nutrition, hormones, and lifestyle. - Her experience gaining 9 lbs of muscle (~3:40) - GLP-1 dosage (~6:10) - The importance of lifestyle on GLP-1s (~6:45) - Her approach to training (~11:00) - Balancing fat & protein (~14:15) - Increasing protein intake (~17:00) - The role of carbs (~17:30) - Improving metabolic health (~19:00) - Creatine & taurine (~21:00) - Testing female hormones (~22:15) - Symptoms vs. lab work (~23:45) - HRT: Compounding vs. bioidentical (~27:40) - Her take on DHEA (~28:45) - Testosterone levels (~31:15) - Use cases of GLP-1s (~35:55) - Her nutrition philosophy (~37:20) - Are NAD supplements worth it? (~47:25) - The importance of calcium (~48:00) Referenced in the episode:  - Follow Kausel on Instagram (@dranakausel)  - Check out her YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@DraAnaKausel)  - Work with her (https://anzarahealth.com/)  We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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