Hot Topic: Understanding Hormonal Shifts in Perimenopause
The Fasting Method Podcast
Megan Ramos Nutrition Inc
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Episode #214
This week, Terri is joined by Coach Amy Medling for a deep dive into the hormonal rollercoaster of perimenopause. Together, they unpack the changes that occur throughout a woman's cycle during this transitional phase. Coach Amy offers empowering insights into what's really happening behind the scenes—and shares practical strategies to help women support their bodies, find balance, and feel more in control during this often confusing time.
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Summary Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:08 Intro to Coach Amy Medling
02:29 Defining perimenopause
03:09 The role of progesterone and oestrogen during perimenopause
04:59 Thyroid issues
05:24 Increases in cortisol and impact on progesterone
08:01 Daily habits that help soothe your nervous system
09:20 The role estrogen plays in insulin response
11:04 Do more of what brings you joy
12:01 Benefits of grounding and breath work
14:52 Drivers of inflammation and ways to cool it
19:45 Protein and fiber
21:18 Carb cycling to support the luteal phase of your cycle and thyroid function
27:52 Fasting during perimenopause
30:45 The importance of being gentle with yourself
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| 0:00.0 | there's a lot that you can do by practicing daily habits that soothe your nervous system. |
| 0:05.1 | So that's one really important piece of the puzzle is to focus on ways to soothe your nervous |
| 0:15.0 | system. I find that women in perimenopause can often feel like you're always in overdrive. I think a lot of women |
| 0:24.8 | push themselves to go, go, go. And this is a time in life that we have to do the best that we can do |
| 0:33.1 | to sort of soothe and regulate the stress response. |
| 0:46.4 | Welcome back to another episode of the fasting method podcast. |
| 0:53.4 | This is Coach Terry Lance, and I am very excited to be joined today by coach Amy Meddling. |
| 0:57.2 | And Amy, in getting us started today, I wondered if you could just kind of tell us a little bit about you and the work that you do that is so |
| 1:03.0 | relevant to this topic that we're going to talk today about parmenopause. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. Well, thank you, Terry, so much for having me on the podcast. I'm really |
| 1:12.1 | looking forward to this conversation. I'm a coach at the fasting method and I really work with |
| 1:17.8 | women in all phases of life from their cycling years through perimenopause, menopause, |
| 1:23.9 | and beyond. And after spending over a decade coaching women with PCOS, I really now |
| 1:29.9 | help clients navigate that next phase of their hormonal adventure, perimenopause and menopause, |
| 1:38.8 | really helping clients work through those metabolic and hormonal shifts that happen as we age by using |
| 1:46.7 | fasting and lifestyle strategies that we learn about it, the fasting method. But I think it would |
| 1:53.7 | probably be a good exercise to just kind of define what hurry menopause is before we get into |
| 2:00.1 | the remedies for it. |
| 2:02.3 | Absolutely. |
| 2:03.3 | And again, I feel like this is such a great topic for so many of our listeners, |
| 2:09.3 | regardless of what phase of their cycle that they're in, |
| 2:13.7 | because if it's not currently happening for them, it will or it has. |
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