PAVING a Woman’s Path through Menopause and Beyond with Michelle Tollefson, MD (Episode 114)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In many ways, health care is actually sick care. We are enormously grateful for physicians who can address pathology and treat disease. But often the emphasis is on surviving, not thriving. That’s where Lifestyle Medicine comes in. It’s a system of health care that leans in on the power of social connections, personal psychology, exercise, nourishment, and more to prevent disease and optimize health. This week’s guest, Dr. Michelle Tollefson is a Lifestyle Medicine expert and OB/GYN helping women use the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine to thrive through menopause. This week, she lays out the details and shares how she used Lifestyle Medicine to thrive through 16 rounds of chemotherapy, a bilateral mastectomy, removal of her ovaries, and several reconstructive surgeries following a diagnosis of stage 2, grade 3 breast cancer when she was just 42.

Michelle Tollefson, MD, is a Lifestyle Medicine expert and obstetrician-gynecologist. She is a pioneer in women’s health and Lifestyle Medicine and a professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She is currently on the executive boards of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and PAVING the Path to Wellness. She edited the textbook Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan and wrote PAVING a Woman’s Path through Menopause and Beyond. Dr. Tollefson was one of the first physicians ever trained as a wellness coach. She is an international speaker, women’s health consultant, mother to three kids, and a breast cancer survivor/thriver.

Resources:

PAVING a Woman’s Path through Menopause and Beyond

Her cancer journey:

https://365health.org/blog/breast-cancer-awareness-month-following-one-womans-journey/

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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.
0:30.2	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:32.7	So this week, we are getting back to basics and talking about all the things that we can do
0:38.2	nutritionally, physically, psychologically, and even socially that enhance our life and our health
0:45.0	through menopause and beyond. And we are speaking with the very wonderful Dr. Michelle
0:50.2	Talafson, who is the co-author along with past guests, Dr. Amy Commander, and Dr. Beth
0:55.9	Fradies of paving a woman's path through menopause and beyond. Michelle is a board-certified
1:02.7	lifestyle medicine expert and OBGYN in Denver, Colorado. She is also a professor in the
1:09.0	Health Professions Department at Metropolitan State
1:11.6	University of Denver, where she created and oversees the Lifestyle Medicine Program.
1:17.5	And she is seen as a pioneer in women's health and lifestyle medicine.
1:22.3	And she came into lifestyle medicine because she was acutely aware that health care is really sick care.
1:30.0	As most of you know, doctors aren't really well versed in nutrition or exercise or a lifestyle.
1:36.7	They're schooled in pathology and to treat disease. So you survive, but do you really thrive?
1:43.9	And Michelle is 100% about thriving. At age 42,
1:48.8	Michelle was diagnosed with grade three stage two breast cancer, which means it's fast growing
1:53.8	and has spread to nearby tissues. This despite having no risk factors, having breastfed
2:00.5	all three of her children, and eating well and keeping active.
2:04.3	So she shares that journey in this episode and how she used the pillars of lifestyle medicine to get through 16 rounds of chemotherapy and a bilateral mastectomy.
2:15.0	It's a powerful story and I'm honored she shared it with us because she is
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