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.

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Hello, strong feisty women.

Okay, time for some anti-diet talk. Anyone who knows me knows that I was deep in the belly of the

diet industry for a long time as a writer for many, many, many weight loss articles in mainstream

magazines like prevention, fitness, and lots more. And I never really thought of it as the diet industry,

honestly. I just thought we were giving people tools to help themselves. And somewhere along the

line, it became clear to me that diets don't work. We'd put some people on a diet,

some would lose weight, others wouldn't. We'd tell the stories of

those who did. And they'd inevitably gain the weight back down the line. Wash, rinse, repeat

with another diet. Now I'm in this menopause space and the diet culture feels harder and

heavier than ever. And one that comes up a lot

as a way to balance hormones, improve sleep and pretty much do everything but the dishes is the

keto diet. So I really wanted to sit down and dig into what the keto diet is, what it was

originally designed for, and the impact it can have on

women's hormones. So I'm happy to bring you this conversation with this week's guest, Dr. Jen

Salib Huber. Jen is a Canadian registered dietitian, a naturopathic doctor, and an intuitive

eating coach. She helps women navigate the physical and emotional changes that happen during

perimenopause and menopause, including the search for food, freedom, and body confidence,

which comes up an awful lot on this show. She's also the host of the Midlife Feast podcast and

runs a group support program called Beyond the Scale, which helps women undiate their lives after 40,

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