Ditching Destructive Menopause Diet & Fitness Narratives with Meredith Root (Episode 155)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Women in menopause get a lot of nutrition and fitness advice. Some of it is sound. Some less so. Quite a bit of it is downright predatory. That is why the best nutrition and fitness advice for menopausal women is often not about grams of protein or hours of exercise, but rather a hard look at our own attitudes and beliefs about how we eat (or don’t eat) and move our bodies. What narratives form our nutrition and fitness foundations? Are they even true? This week we dig deep into those narratives–and how to change them–with Meredith Root, co-founder of Tactic Functional Nutrition and Tactic Functional Fitness, both of which are grounded in empathy and behavioral change.

Meredith Root has a B.S. in Biological Engineering and 6 years experience in biopharmacetutical process development. She is an active member of the Canadian and American Society for Nutrition and contributing writer for The Morning Chalk Up. She has been a nutrition coach since 2015 and along with her partner, Alex Parker, founded Tactic Functional Nutrition in 2018. Tactic now employees a team of 10 coaches and works with people from all over the globe on health and habits. Together, Meredith and Alex run Tactic's Instagram page which has garnered over 210k followers as well as their podcast, Afternoon Snack, which allows them to amplify their messaging even further. Fundamentally, the Tactic methodology is one that emphasizes consistency with basic nutrition and fitness principles that compound over time; communicated in a way that inspires trust, confidence, and self-determination. Their new business, Tactic Functional Fitness aims to bring uncommonly good fitness to common people. You can learn more at tacticmethod.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.
0:14.6	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.
0:30.9	Hello, strong feisty women. I hope you all are well.
0:36.0	So just a few notes before we get into it this week. First, I want to
0:40.4	thank you for your kind words on the question and answer episode that we did a couple of weeks ago.
0:47.1	Those are always a little more work for me to do because I want to give useful info and it's
0:51.8	super important for me to get things right. So it's really satisfying when I get positive feedback there.
0:57.6	And I was especially pleased to hear from a plastic surgeon in the audience who said she was
1:03.2	impressed and may be surprised at, quote, my excellent and balanced response to the plastic
1:09.6	surgery question.
1:12.9	And I'm guessing she was surprised because she expected it wouldn't be quite so balanced. But even though it was clear, I'm sure,
1:20.2	that I am not exactly pro-plastic surgery and I wasn't in this case, I don't ever want to be
1:26.5	dismissive or judgmental because I do see
1:29.9	that there are lots of women in our community who have gone that route. And I'm not here to tell
1:34.9	anyone what they should or shouldn't do or pass judgment on any of that. So anyway, the surgeon
1:40.0	went on to say that she definitely makes sure that women are optimized non-surgically before resorting
1:45.9	to any form of surgery. And she often refers people to the show and to the book Next Level.
1:51.8	And I just wanted to say, thank you for taking the time to drop me that note. It really means a lot.
1:58.0	And also, Kate Sell dropped me a line as well. She was the one who had migraines and was
2:03.4	kind of upset that she couldn't use hormone therapy because she was a bit older. And she wanted
2:09.2	to let me know that she did indeed find a provider who is working with her. And she is now
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