S10 EP19: How to Biohack Menopause with Zora Benhamou
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Part 3 of our journey into biohacking. If you missed parts one and two, no worries, this isn’t about a distant galaxy far, far away, it’s all about YOU! Today we focus on a topic relevant to women under 50, and women over 50: Menopause. (And not just women approaching 50, you should know this at ANY AGE!) We have a remarkable guest on the podcast, Zora Benhamou, a gerontologist, biohacker, host of the Hack My Age Podcast, and advocate for women’s health during the menopause journey, which may begin much earlier than you think.
Zora speaks 6 languages and has traveled to more than 50 countries in her quest to answer the question: What does it mean to biohack menopause? She’s with us today to squash some myths surrounding menopause, clarify the stages, discuss hormones and hormone therapy and the most beneficial workout for women in their journey. Do you know your baseline? Want to take responsibility for your health? Don’t wait. Now is the time to do it.
Zora’s links:
Website: https://hackmyage.com/
Hack My Age Podcast https://hackmyage.com/podcast/
(00:00:00) Introducing Zora Benhamou, gerontologist and host of Hack My Age Podcast
(00:02:50) Why tip-toeing around the topic of aging for women is detrimental to us
(00:04:30) What is biohacking and what does it mean to biohack menopause?
(00:09:00) Introducing things to explore perhaps you and your doctor have never heard of
(00:11:15) Myths about menopause that have to die
(00:15:17) The stages of menopause and how you know if you’re in them
(00:21:34) The need for every women to get a routine bone density scan
(00:25:13) Perimenopause and optimizing your health markers at an early age
(00:32:14) Estrogen and the myth that taking hormones is dangerous
(00:39:11) Diet and lifestyle practices to protect our bones, heart and brains
(00:41:35) CVG community questions answered on workouts, HIIT, cardio and cortisol
(00:46:25) The importance of protein consumption and building muscle
(00:50:20) How listeners can find Zora
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, it's true. |
| 0:01.1 | Like you said, aging is inevitable or menopause is inevitable, but suffering is optional. |
| 0:05.6 | Well, let's learn about the tools and things that we can do to improve our menopause journey |
| 0:10.2 | and then longevity after menopause. |
| 0:17.1 | Hi, guys, and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Kelsey, and I have an awesome guest on for you today. |
| 0:25.4 | Zora is a geontologist, nomad, and podcast host of Hack My Age podcast, focusing on biohacking metapause. |
| 0:34.6 | You guys are going to love her. |
| 0:36.0 | I know that you have had so many questions about metapause, and guys are going to love her. I know that you have had so many questions |
| 0:38.6 | about metapause and she is here to answer a lot of them for you today. She combines cutting |
| 0:44.9 | edge scientific advancements, technological innovations with wisdom from ancient practices, |
| 0:51.8 | providing women with evidence-based solutions that encompass the best |
| 0:55.1 | of both worlds. Zora, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's so exciting to be here, |
| 1:01.4 | and I'm always so happy to share information about perimenopause and menopause. Yes. And we have so many |
| 1:10.8 | questions because as you know And we have so many questions because as, you know, we were chatting before we had |
| 1:16.7 | got started. And I just said, like, this space has become, well, first it was no information. |
| 1:23.1 | And then there was a ton of information that wasn't necessarily all true for everyone. And now it's |
| 1:30.2 | kind of like our job to sift through some of the information that's old, find some new |
| 1:35.8 | information, and then find out like what works for us individually. Yes, you're right. It was, |
| 1:42.0 | it's still also in many other countries, a little taboo to talk about |
| 1:46.0 | menopause. So if you followed me, I do these one-minute reels where I interview women all |
| 1:50.8 | around the world about their menopause experience. And very often I get rejected. You don't see those. |
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