REBROADCAST: Do You Need Hormone Therapy? with Carla DiGirolamo, M.D., Ph.D.

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Fitness, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Since we started this podcast, many women have gone from being afraid to take hormone therapy to being afraid not to take hormone therapy, as some in the menopause field are saying that menopause is really a “hormone deficiency” and we can’t age well without it. This week we dive in on what hormone therapy is; what it can do (especially for performance and health); what it can’t do, and what we’re still learning about all of it with Dr. Carla DiGirolamo.

Carla is a Double Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Obstetrician/Gynecologist specializing in infertility and menopausal medicine. She is also a Crossfit Level 1 trainer, Certified Nutrition Coach, and member of CrossFit Health. She runs an online personal training and nutrition coaching business, FitforLifeMD, specializing in the care of women in all age groups, but with a special interest in the comprehensive care of peri/postmenopausal women. She also writes a regular blog on Athletic Aging. Carla has the distinction of being the only repeat (and now threepeat!) guest on Hit Play Not Pause.

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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.
0:30.0	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:32.5	I hope you all have had and are having a wonderful holiday season.
0:40.7	We have one more rebroadcast for you this week as we wrap up our little podcast break. This week, enjoy a conversation that I had with Dr. Carla
0:48.0	D. D. Joralamo. We talk all about menopausal hormone therapy, what it is, what it does, what it doesn't do,
0:56.2	and whether or not we should all be on it. Carla is a double board certified endocrinologist,
1:02.2	an OBGYN, and she's a certified menopause practitioner. So she has a really unique
1:07.7	scientific perspective on what hormones can and cannot do in the body. And she's a lot of
1:14.3	experience as a clinician. So this show feels more important than ever. Give it a listen and I'll see
1:21.1	you back next week. Well, hello, my friend, Carla, D. Jolomo.
1:33.9	I'm so good at saying your name now.
1:35.8	Like, we had a blooper reel with me just being like all the F bombs.
1:39.9	And I honestly am like, I don't know if I can say this name.
1:42.3	I don't know what I'm going to do.
1:43.6	And now it just rolls off my tongue because you are a frequent guest and a friend of the
1:48.1	Fice, all things Fisty. So thank you for being here again. I'm very excited about this one.
1:53.1	It's my pleasure. I love being here. I am so excited about the show because I think I think
1:59.7	what we're doing, the subject we're talking about today is so, so important because we've gone from, you know, hormone replacement therapy, which now we've changed that name and we'll get into that is will it kill you and nobody should take it to way over to here like hormone replacement
2:20.1	therapy is for everyone because without it you're deficient and there's you know there's a lot of
2:25.5	wow there's a lot of um hard selling of hormones now as they go along with sort of the
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