Nourishing Menopause: Food, Stress, Sleep, Supplements & More with Andrea Donsky, RHN

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to fix, cure, hack, medicate, and manage menopause. Often, what we really need is nourishment, says this week’s guest Andrea Donsky, RHN, author of Nourishing Menopause: Powerful Nutrition and Lifestyle Strategies to Feel Your Best. Andrea’s 14‑year journey through perimenopause led her to blend naturopathic and conventional medicine into a complementary approach that focuses on gut health, nervous system regulation, blood sugar management, and other strategies that give your body, mind, and spirit what they need to thrive through and beyond the menopause transition. We dig into all of it—plus midlife identity, the power of community, and much more.

Andrea Donsky is a menopause nutritionist, 7X published menopause researcher, certified perimenopause and menopause health coach, and author known as the “Menopause Researcher” to her 350,000+ TikTok followers. She founded Morphus, hosts the Menopause Reimagined podcast, and is the author of Nourishing Menopause: Powerful Nutrition and Lifestyle Strategies to Feel Your Best. You can learn more about her and her work, and find her book at andreadonsky.com

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0:52.9	You are listening to Hit Play Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:59.7	I am your host, Celine Yeager.
1:01.8	Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform your best no matter what your hormones are doing.
1:10.3	This show is a production of Feisty Media.
1:14.7	Hello, strong feisty women. I hope you all are well.
1:19.2	So this week we are talking about nourishing menopause, which, as you'll hear, goes well
1:26.7	beyond the food we eat or the supplements we take.
1:30.0	It's everything. And honestly, it's a whole lot that we too often disregard. Because in our quest
1:37.2	to hack, fix, manage, medicate, all of the things with menopause, we sometimes forget that the best
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