Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones

and teach you how to have healthy periods. Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's

health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your

healing journey.

We hope you enjoy it.

We have a very special episode for you this week focusing on midlife women and peri and postmenopause with Maria and Kristen from Wise and Well.

Maria and FDN practitioner and Kristen, a board certified nutritionist, are plain spoken friends and practitioners who share a passion for women's health, especially

women's health at midlife. As both are themselves menopausal, they've refined the art and

science of thriving as a midlife woman based on both clinical and personal experience. They

combine individualized nutrition and lifestyle changes tailored to midlife women's needs with

mindset coaching, lab testing,

and hormone replacement therapy education to help women thrive so that they can stop or

prevent their health from spinning out of control. You guys do a lot. I'm very excited to have you

here. We've been Instagram friends for a long time. So tell us more of your own specific background and story and just

what is midlife women's health? Why do you guys focus on that? My story, I'll try to keep it super

brief, is I started noticing some changes to my health, my mood, my body. It was probably

about 42, 43. Didn't like it. And so I set out to do

something about it. And I knew that I wasn't going to see. I was kind of holistically minded growing up.

And so I knew I just didn't want to get a prescription. And so I trekked into New York City to see a medical

doctor who I thought I did my research, but didn't really end up

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