Menopause Metabolism Myths & More with Val Schonberg, RDN, CSSD (Episode 171)
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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Your metabolism is broken. You need to stop eating carbs. All weight gain is bad! If you’re a woman in menopause, you’ve been on the receiving end of a steady stream of overwhelmingly negative messages about your midlife body. Many of them are simply not true. That’s why we wanted to have a more nuanced conversation about the body composition changes many of us experience during this time of life. And this week’s guest, midlife health and nutrition specialist Val Schonberg was just the woman to have it with. This week, Val walks us through a lot of the myths, misunderstandings, and maybe even outright misinformation swirling around menopause metabolism, and much, much more.
Val Schonberg RDN, CSSD, is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition science from the University of Minnesota. She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics, a Certified Menopause Practitioner with The Menopause Society, and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Val owns a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia where she specializes in midlife health and menopause, recreational and professional sports nutrition, all types of eating disorders and helping individuals break free from dieting and disordered eating. She is the consulting dietitian for Emory Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Atlanta Ballet, and the Atlanta Dream Women’s NBA team. Val is passionate about providing nutrition care to populations vulnerable to disordered eating and promoting positive nutrition messages that help people make informed decisions about their health and live a life where they are at peace in their relationship with food and their body. You can learn more about her at valschonberg.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. |
| 0:14.6 | 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. |
| 0:25.0 | This show is a production of Live Feisty Media. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, strong feisty women. |
| 0:33.5 | I hope you all are well. |
| 0:36.4 | So, as I'm recording this, I am fresh off of our weighty matters module |
| 0:42.5 | of our new Navicate Menopause course. And boy, oh boy, did we really have what came down |
| 0:51.0 | to a very large group therapy session with a hundred other women last night, |
| 0:56.8 | just talking about this weighty matter, you know, the body composition changes that happen |
| 1:02.9 | during midlife and menopause. Because the body composition changes that happen are hard. |
| 1:09.8 | They're hard for everyone. Some women, |
| 1:12.5 | more or less than others, but I don't know anyone who has just sailed through this and has |
| 1:17.7 | been like, I'm perfectly happy with all of this. And, you know, women have a lot of questions, |
| 1:23.2 | primarily surrounding weight loss. And I am always incredibly honest and forthright about this. |
| 1:30.9 | Nobody has the answers. |
| 1:33.4 | Every single one of our bodies is going to change with age and menopause. |
| 1:38.8 | That's not to say that there aren't actions that we can take. |
| 1:41.9 | We talk about those, including like fiber and protein and heavy |
| 1:46.6 | lifting and, you know, planning your eating so you're fueled for your workouts, all of that, |
| 1:51.7 | each and every week here. But it is to say that there's a reason that there are literally |
| 1:58.5 | thousands of studies on weight gain and loss and maintenance |
| 2:03.0 | and billions of dollars worth of books sold over the past decades, especially to midlife women, |
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