962 | What Nobody Told You About Your Body After 40

The Rachel Hollis Podcast

Rachel Hollis

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Personal Growth, Personal Development, How To, Health And Wellness

4.4 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Upgrade to the Ad Free Premium Podcast Experience - https://rachelhollis.supercast.com Get your copy of Rachel's Book Here: Audible, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Millon, Bookshop.org, or wherever books are sold! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices In this episode of The Rachel Hollis podcast, she opens up about her personal experience with perimenopause, hormone imbalances, and the physical and emotional changes she began experiencing in her late 30s, emphasizing how little women are taught about their bodies and hormonal health. She discusses symptoms such as mood swings, anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, heavy periods, and depression, explaining how she initially mistook these changes for a mental health crisis before discovering through blood work that she had estrogen dominance. Throughout the episode, she encourages women to advocate for themselves by seeking doctors who specialize in women’s hormones and functional medicine, tracking their menstrual cycles, reducing stress, and paying closer attention to nutrition, sleep, and supplementation. Ultimately, she frames these symptoms not as something women should silently endure, but as important signals from the body that deserve attention, support, and compassionate care.

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0:00.9	Okay, guys, fair warning.
0:04.3	We're going to talk about our bodies.
0:07.5	And I say fair warning because in the mix of listeners of this podcast, there's always at least three dudes.
0:14.9	And I love you.
0:16.0	And I love that you care about women and you're willing to listen to a woman talk for hours and hours.
0:21.1	But in today's episode, there's a lot of uterus conversation.
0:25.6	There's a lot of hormones.
0:27.2	There's a lot of all the things.
0:30.4	And if you are not someone who has experienced the joys of uterus stewardship, today's episode probably isn't for you. But for the rest of
0:43.2	you, for the rest of us, I thought it would be interesting to talk about all the things that I
0:51.3	never really knew were going to happen to my body as I started to approach 40.
0:57.1	These are things that my doctor never told me.
1:02.1	These are things that the older women in my family never told me.
1:04.8	These are the things that I wish to goodness someone had bothered to mention before I got to my late 30s and started to think
1:15.0	that something was seriously wrong with me. What was actually happening was that my body was
1:20.8	changing and I needed more support in terms of nutrition and supplements and the way that I lived
1:25.8	my life. I needed all of those things.
1:28.0	But what I actually thought was happening was very different than what was really happening.
1:32.5	And just in case that's you, I thought it would be important to do an entire podcast episode
1:38.4	devoted to this topic.
1:41.2	Today is not medical advice.
1:43.0	Obviously, I am not a doctor. Talk to your actual doctor. I'm just a
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