Menopause and CVD: How to Reduce Risk with Jessica Brown

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Episode Highlights With Jessica Why does cardiovascular disease risk rise in menopause to match the rate of men?What happens to hormones and the heart when a woman goes through menopause?45% of women have some marker of cardiovascular diseaseHow the loss of estrogen in menopause is the tipping point1 in 3 women will die of cardiovascular disease which is more than all cancers combinedWhat to monitor and look out for starting in our 20s50% of people in the US have high blood pressure and this ...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I'm Katie from Wellnesswama.com. And this episode
0:05.5	covers all things menopause and cardiovascular disease risk and how especially we can reduce our risk
0:12.6	and be aware of it naturally with tools that are at our disposal. And Jessica gives us some very
0:18.3	evidence-backed strategies to do this, as well as talks about the
0:21.5	staggering statistics about the number of people who have some marker of metabolic or
0:25.8	cardiovascular dysfunction, even as early as our 20s, and what we can do about that, as well as some
0:31.5	tools that you might not have considered for getting accurate ways to monitor your cardiovascular
0:36.1	disease risk. She explains that women's risk
0:38.9	goes up to that of men's after menopause and some of the reasons this is the case. And that while
0:44.4	we often talk about cancer, one in three women will actually die of cardiovascular disease. So this
0:50.1	episode tackles how to make that risk go down for you in particular related to your own
0:56.6	factors. And Jessica is an absolute wealth of knowledge. She is a Stanford certified compassion
1:01.7	teacher, clinical nutritionist, and author. She has done this work for over 25 years and helped
1:06.9	thousands of people heal physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. And she is a
1:12.4	creator of the loving diet, which is one of the first mind-body programs supporting those with
1:16.3	autoimmune disease. And I got some practical takeaways from this episode. I know that you will as
1:22.3	well. So let's join Jessica. Jessica, welcome back. Thank you for being here again. Hi, Katie. Thanks for having me.
1:29.6	Well, if you guys missed it, Jessica and I had an amazing first episode together about some of the
1:34.9	really core work that can actually be related to so many things in your life, including
1:38.9	emotional eating and disordered eating and really touches on core needs from childhood and how
1:43.9	to reparent yourself.
1:45.1	It was absolutely phenomenal. And in this episode, we're going to switch gears a lot and talk
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