CrossFit Rx with Carla DiGirolamo, M.D. (Episode 32)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ask your doctor about the benefits of high intensity exercise, lifting heavy sh*t, and adaptogens and you may just get a shrug (or worse a patronizing smile). Ask your coach or trainer about medicine and…well, don’t ask your coach or trainer about medicine because that’s not their job. What’s left is a giant chasm where most women in menopause reside, scratching their heads, wondering how to find a wellness prescription that really works. This week’s guest Carla DiGirolamo, M.D., is making it her life’s mission to fill that gap, bridging the lack of knowledge between the medical and wellness communities as an active participant in groups like CrossFit Health, as well as through her own private practice, so menopausal women can avoid meds they don’t need and live their strongest, healthiest, most confident lives. Carla is a double Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist/Obstetrician Gynecologist working as a reproductive specialist at Boston IVF in Waltham, Massachusetts. She is ranked among the Top Doctors in the Boston Area, and is listed as a provider with the North American Menopause Society. She is also a Crossfit Level 1 trainer, Certified Nutrition Coach and Les Mills BodyCombat and BodyPump Instructor. She recently launched an online personal training and nutrition coaching business, FitforLifeMD, which you can check out at fitforlifemd.com, specializing in the care of women in all age groups, but with a special interest in the comprehensive care of peri/postmenopausal women. **Support the Podcast** InsideTracker: 25% off at insidetracker.com/feistymenopause Nuun Hydration: 30% off at nuunlife.com with the code FeistyMenopause Velorosa Cycling: 15% off with code HITPLAY at velorosacycling.com

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.0	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:29.9	Hello, Strong Fisty Women.
0:32.7	One of the beautiful things about working on this show and being part of this community is all the amazing women I meet through the Feisty Menopause membership and our social media channels.
0:43.3	And one such woman is this week's guest, Dr. Carla D. Girolamo.
0:49.3	We were having a discussion on the membership space, bemoaning how little the medical community
0:55.2	really knows about menopause.
0:58.0	And Carla joins in and says, I have been a practicing physician in the OBGYN field for
1:04.3	15 years, and it is shocking how little the medical community knows about wellness.
1:10.6	She went on, got on her soapbox and said,
1:13.8	that's why she is part of CrossFit Health,
1:16.8	which is, as it sounds, doctors who do CrossFit
1:19.5	and believe that exercise and a wellness-centered lifestyle
1:22.5	can be powerful medicine,
1:24.1	and that women need help and answers now,
1:27.2	not when the medical community catches up,
1:29.8	who knows when. So I immediately was like, hey, Carla, let's talk on the show. She has so much
1:37.2	to share. And we just had a really great conversation. We dig into the benefits of CrossFit and why
1:42.8	CrossFit hasn't always had the greatest
1:44.8	reputation. We talk about how older women still get this message that they are too
1:49.7	fragile to lift heavy, especially beyond age 50, and really how to overcome all these
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