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Low Carb MD Podcast

Episode 347: Maria Claps and Kristin Johnson

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast.

Kristin Johnson is a functional nutritionist with advanced training in holistic nutrition as well as a specialty in peri-menopause and menopause health.  She is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition through the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, a certified DUTCH hormone test practitioner, and a graduate of the Nutritional Therapy Association's Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner program. In addition, she has special training in amino acid therapy for anxiety and mood disorders as well as mindset coaching to facilitate change. She completed a professional mentorship with naturopathic endocrinologist Dr. Rebecca Provorse in 2020 and is also a "recovering" corporate attorney.

Maria Claps is a functional health coach with a specialty in peri-menopause and menopause. She graduated from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2013 and then went on to study in a hormone program for practitioners with Dr Sara Gottfried in 2014. She spent the first 8 months of 2015 completing the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Certification Program and, in 2017, completed the Menopause Method Program for Physicians with Dr David Rosensweet. She has been personally mentored by hormone scholar Dr Lindsey Berkson and naturopathic endocrinologist Dr Rebecca Provorse. She now mentors other health coaches and nutritionists to help them understand the unique and profound hormone changes of midlife.

In this conversation, Brian, Tro, Maria, and Kristin talk about…

  • Kristin and Maria's book, The Great Menopause Myth
  • The usage of bio identical hormones in treating menopausal women
  • The insufficiency of the standard medical response to women going through menopause
  • How doctors can better respond to and treat women going through menopause
  • How the health of every part of a woman's body—from toenails to eyes—is dependent upon estrogen
  • How to effectively deal with stress

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Low Carb MD podcast.

0:03.6

No one is beyond help.

0:05.5

No one is beyond hope.

0:08.0

As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting edge science,

0:12.0

but none of this is medical advice.

0:15.4

Please seek out input from your own doctor.

0:24.5

Hello. input from your own doctor. Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast.

0:27.4

Trow, you're in Canada.

0:30.1

Yeah, I'm in Canada, but I'm excited about today.

0:33.9

Oh, yeah, I'm on vacation, but I did not want to miss this interview.

0:37.3

I did not want to miss this interview. It's good to have it. Actually, people that are coming back. That's how much we respect them and how much we respect their work. And we never get people to do. No, no one ever wants to come back and spend another hour with us, Tros, so this is good for us.

0:55.3

But this is a critically important topic.

0:57.2

I think this is one of the topics that, you know, for all of us, you know, we just really,

1:02.2

especially as older guys who have wives maybe going through menopause, like understanding

1:07.2

it.

1:07.6

There's so much misinformation out there and so much confusion and frustration.

1:11.5

And so it's good to have the experts here to educate us.

1:15.5

So today we have, we, we don't need an introduction, but I'll go through them.

1:20.5

Kristen Johnson and Maria Klapps from Wise and Well, if you don't follow them on Instagram,

1:26.0

go follow them. I have had the pleasure of actually getting an advanced copy of their book and actually

1:33.3

reading their book.

1:34.6

And all I can say right now is go out and get the book, The Great Menopause Myth,

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