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Healthy By Heather Brown

Perimenopause, Blood Sugar & Hormones Made Simple With Cara Clark EP 141

Healthy By Heather Brown

Heather Brown

Education, Christianity, How To, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Healthy by Heather Brown, Heather sits down with health educator Cara Clark to talk about what it really looks like to feel good in your body—especially during seasons of hormonal change.Cara shares her personal health journey and introduces her “Feel Good Way” approach, breaking down how blood sugar balance, stress, nutrition, and recovery all work together to support women’s health. They dive into practical strategies for women navigating perimenopause, including meal planning for families, fasting, sleep support, and daily habits that stabilize hormones and energy levels.This conversation also tackles common myths around perimenopause, the role of mindset and identity in healing, and simple, actionable steps women can take to get unstuck and move toward sustainable health—without extremes.If you’re looking for realistic, grace-filled guidance for supporting your body in a busy season of life, this episode is for you. 

00:00 Introduction to Healthy Living
02:51 Cara Clark's Journey and Philosophy
05:34 The Feel Good Way: Concept and Approach
08:41 Understanding Blood Sugar and Hormones
11:27 Practical Steps for Women in Perimenopause
14:37 Nutrition and Its Impact on Well-being
17:17 The Role of Stress and Recovery
20:28 Fasting and Its Benefits
23:26 Practical Meal Planning for Families
24:13 Understanding Carbohydrates and Women's Health
27:15 Natural Remedies for Coughs and Sickness
30:00 Practical Steps for Women to Get Unstuck
30:55 Mindset and Identity in Health
34:57 Debunking Myths About Perimenopause
41:07 Managing Hormonal Changes and Sleep
44:18 Daily Blood Sugar Anchors for Women

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Links from this episode:
  • Cara Clark’s website: https://caraclarknutrition.com/
  • Cara Clark’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caraclarknutrition/?hl=en
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  • All books, supplements & other Amazon finds mentioned in this episode: https://amzlink.to/az02Bko8D7V84 


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0:00.0

Hey y'all and welcome to the Healthy by Heather Brown podcast, where I encourage you in healthy, mind, body, and spirit through my Sunday reset.

0:08.8

Let's get into it.

0:14.0

Today, I'm sitting down with integrative nutritionist and author Kara Clark, whose book The Feel Way, simplifies something every woman in paramedipause

0:22.5

needs to understand. Blood sugar isn't just about weight. It impacts your hormones, your mood,

0:28.8

your cravings, your inflammation, your sleep, and the entire stuck feeling so many of us are living in

0:34.2

right now. If you felt like your body has changed overnight, if your jeans

0:37.7

don't fit the same, if you're exhausted, puffy, craving sugar, or you cannot lose weight, no matter

0:42.6

what, this episode is your reset. We're about to connect dots. No one explained to us in health

0:47.9

class. Okay, Kara, so we were just talking about how you're a mom of four, you've got four

0:53.2

girls. We actually have all these common friends, Like she went out to Alex Clark's studio, recorded with her. I just had Alex on the show this season. We've got Carrie Cam Packas here in Birmingham. She lives in like one of my best friends in Nashville's backyard. You've got it going on. But tell everybody a little bit about if they don't know who you are. How did you get started down this path?

1:12.9

Tell them all your credentials, just like a little bit of a snapshot of who Kare Clark is.

1:16.9

Yeah, the snapshot is I've been doing this for 18 years, maybe a little longer because I don't think I math well anymore.

1:23.7

But since I was 22 years old, I studied broadcast journalism in college, which actually

1:29.9

helped me out a lot. But I was a collegiate athlete, which I always share because it really shaped

1:34.6

the way I understood the body, I think, on a higher level. And I anticipated wanting to perform

1:41.0

every day the rest of my life. And so that's how I kind of built my business and my philosophy around performance,

1:47.1

nutrition, whether you're an athlete or not.

1:49.7

So that's kind of the long short or the short version of the long story of how I got started.

1:55.7

I did a nutrition certification right out of college.

2:00.7

And then I enrolled in master's program nutrition

2:03.3

of science and studied it from the clinical perspective of what I wanted to study. I had already

2:11.3

ruled out dietitian at that point and no offense to anybody who's done that route, but there were

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