Harden the F Up No More: Bioharmony for Midlife Athletes with Dr. Tamsin Lewis (Episode 269)

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As athletic women, we often pride ourselves on grit—shoving down feelings, pushing through pain and measuring every metric in pursuit of optimization. But what does that cost us long-term? And how does it hold up in the chaos of midlife and menopause? This week, former Ironman champion and lifestyle medicine practitioner Dr. Tamsin Lewis joins us to explore the evolution from "harden the F up" culture toward bioharmony—a compassionate, context-driven alternative to the more rigid biohacking that’s popular today. Drawing from her high-performance athletic career and hard-won personal experience, she unpacks what she’s learned about female biology, hormones, and recovery. We also dig into hormone therapy, nervous system regulation, autophagy, regeneration, and embracing midlife as a "second spring"—a season for new pursuits that expand our identity, horizons, and even cognitive capacity. Prepare for a deep dive into the menopause transition through the lens of mindset, biology, and the nervous system.

Dr Tamsin Lewis, also known as Dr Tam, is a physician, longevity expert, and human‑flourishing advocate. Graduating with honours in Medicine from King’s College London and Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, with a BSc in Neuroscience and the Biology of Ageing, her work bridges psychiatry, sports & exercise medicine, nutritional and functional medicine. As Founder and Medical Director of Wellgevity®, she leads a personalised, diagnostics‑driven approach to health and emotional regulation—the Wellgevity® Method—integrating biomarkers, brain‑body synchrony, and evidence‑based recovery, while consulting at Reborne Longevity in London, where she delivers longevity medicine through a bioharmony lens. You can learn more about her and her work at www.wellgevity.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.
0:12.2	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 your best no matter what
0:21.7	your hormones are doing. This show is a production of feisty media.
0:27.2	Hello, strong feisty women. I hope you all are well. So, as athletic women, we often pride
0:34.3	ourselves on grit. Shoughing down feelings, pushing through pain, and measuring every metric in pursuit of optimization.
0:43.7	But what does that cost us long term and how does it hold up in the chaos of midlife and menopause?
0:50.3	This week, former Ironman champion and lifestyle medicine practitioner Dr. Tamson Lewis, or Dr. Tam as she's known,
0:58.5	joins us to explore the evolution from Hardin the F-Up and rigid biohacking culture toward bioharmony,
1:07.0	working with your physiology in a way that, well, works better.
1:12.2	Dr. Tam is a fascinating woman.
1:15.5	Again, not only was she a professional triathlete and a former Ironman champion,
1:20.3	she's overcome a lot of adversity in her life, including disordered eating, depression,
1:26.0	a traumatic brain injury from a ski accident that left her in a three-day coma,
1:31.2	and long COVID in 2020. She has spent plenty of time in the rigid optimization and biohacking world
1:39.3	before arriving where she is today. On the medical side, she's conventionally trained with honors in
1:46.0	medicine from King's College, London, and guys in St. Thomas's hospitals. Her clinical approach
1:51.6	integrates this background with specialist training in psychiatry, sports medicine, and
1:56.8	functional medicine to holistically address health issues and the women she treats.
2:02.2	As such, she impacts all that she has learned about female biology, hormones, and recovery.
2:09.3	We dig into hormone therapy, nervous system regulation, autophagy, regeneration, and embracing
2:16.0	midlife as a second spring, a season for new pursuits that expand
2:20.7	our identity, horizons, and even our cognitive capacity.
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