Dr. Mindy Pelz on the Wisdom That Emerges from Menopause

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🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dr. Mindy Pelz is a New York Times bestselling author and clinician focused on women’s health, hormones, menopause, and aging. She sits down with Hoda to talk about her latest book, "Age Like a Girl," and how studying menopause changed the way she views the female body’s evolution through midlife. Plus, she shares why challenges later in life offer an opportunity to live more intentionally. Listeners should consult their healthcare provider before making changes to their diet or fasting routine.

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0:00.0	There are people who accept the world as it is, and there are people who refuse to believe that this is just how it is, is a complete answer.
0:16.7	Dr. Mindy Peltz is one of those people. She is a New York Times best-selling author, clinician, and one of the most influential voices
0:24.4	in women's health today.
0:26.2	She has written seven books, surpassed 110 million views on her YouTube channel, and seen
0:32.9	her podcast reached more than 11 million downloads.
0:36.8	Her work in fasting, hormones, metabolic health,
0:40.0	and aging has attracted a global community of more than 5 million people searching for a different
0:46.2	way to understand their bodies. After being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome in her early
0:51.4	20s, Dr. Mindy began a decades-long quest to find answers that
0:55.9	traditional medicine could not offer. What started as a personal search for healing became a mission
1:02.0	to challenge the idea that women's bodies are broken and to help women reclaim trust in their own
1:08.0	biology. Her new book, Age Like a Girl, is her most personal work yet.
1:13.4	It explores what happens when a woman stops overriding her body, stops rushing, and starts listening.
1:20.4	It reframes menopause, not as a decline, but as a powerful biological and neurological shift, inviting women to see this stage of life,
1:30.2	not as an end, but as a becoming.
1:33.4	In our conversation, Dr. Mindy opens up about what drives her to find answers,
1:37.8	what she's learned from working with women around the world,
1:40.9	and what you can do to make this time in your life a lot better.
1:45.2	I'm Hoda Koppi, and this is my podcast, Making Space.
1:57.8	First of all, I'm so happy to be sitting with you.
1:59.9	I've admired you from afar. I've listened to your podcasts on a lot of my good friends. And I was so excited to see this book, and it's called Age Like a Girl. And then I started reading, I saw the word menopause. And I was like, I know exactly what this book is going to be about. It's going to be about menopause. This is not that book.
2:18.1	This is a book that's not explaining or describing what we're going through. And I love the
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