You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

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.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Hello, strong feisty women.

So I was out in Patagonia, Arizona this weekend for the Spirit World Gravel Race, which is this rad event that

takes you out from Patagonia to the Mexican border and back through the high desert of the

borderlands region. And aside from it being a very rad event, once again, I met so many

feistys. And I just want to thank everyone who came up to me at the venue or out on course to say kind things about the podcast.

I am self-employed. So I sit here in my office with my fish and occasionally my cats, sending my spoken and written words into the universe and hoping they

make a difference. And it's super wonderful when I meet actual humans and hear that they've helped.

So thank you again. It is so cool seeing so many fyssey women at the start lines.

Okay. So last week, I teased that I was going to have a conversation with

Dr. Carla DiGerolamo for this week's show on testosterone. And we had some technical difficulties,

so you will be hearing that one next week. This week, I have an equally awesome show on tap

with sports nutritionist Lauren Antonucci, author of

high performance nutrition for master's athletes. Lauren reached out to me as an athletic expert and

an athlete herself, who has been dealing with perimenopause symptoms and some issues for the past

year and a half. She's 47 now.

So she took Dr. Stacey Sims menopause for athletes course, and she actually made adjustments

to her own training based on it and told me she's been feeling better than ever.

So I called her up and, you know, we had to talk all about that, what she learned, what she

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