Strong Is Ageless: How to Age with Power, Strength & Science with Dr. Vonda Wright

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Understanding menopause is key to thriving through it! Dr. Vonda Wright shares insights on musculoskeletal health, strength training, and maintaining vitality. She explores the critical 'mental-essence' period, the importance of strength training, vital nutritional changes, and how these components come together to help women lead vibrant, empowered lives into their 80s and beyond. Discover the essential strategies to prevent osteoporosis, maintain muscle mass, and achieve overall health and wellness through every stage of life.

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Dr. Vonda Wright is a double-board-certified orthopedic surgeon and internationally recognized authority on human performance, longevity, and women's health. The founding director of the Performance and Research Initiative for Masters Athletes (PRIMA), she has served as a physician for athletes at the University of Pittsburgh, Georgia State, the Pittsburgh and Atlanta Ballet, World Rugby, and the PGA. A highly sought-after media expert, she has been featured on the Diary of a CEO, Jay Shetty, and Mel Robbins podcasts as well as the Today show, the Dr. Oz show, and in top publications including The New York Times, USA Today, and the Observer. She has authored five books, including Fitness After 40 and Guide to THRIVE. She lives with her husband, a retired two-time Stanley Cup champion, near Orlando, Florida.

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0:00.0	On this episode of The Resetter podcast, I bring you Dr. Vonda Wright, and we're going to talk about menopause
0:11.8	and the musculoskeletal system. And it's a really cool conversation for a variety of reasons,
0:18.5	but one of them is you're going to want to get a pen and a pad of paper
0:23.2	because has she got some incredible ways that we can keep our musculoskeletal system strong,
0:32.0	healthy and functioning well into our hundreds.
0:35.4	So let's talk about who Dr. Wright is. So she is an orthopedic surgeon.
0:41.9	She has worked with a lot of elite sports teams. She had, this isn't her first book. She actually
0:48.3	has a book coming out. She's done several books. And she has literally been in the trenches
0:53.9	with athletes, non-athletes, women,
0:59.1	men for years. And what I love about Dr. Wright and why I wanted to bring her to you is she now
1:06.9	has mastered a formula for musculoskeletal health and menopause. So what you're going to learn in
1:14.5	this conversation is you're going to learn that when estrogen goes down, this is the beginning
1:18.7	of things like injuries from our activities, joint replacement, osteoporosis. And there are some really simple ways that we can start to
1:31.7	prevent this. And it doesn't matter if you're 70 in hearing this or you're 30 in hearing it.
1:38.5	She has some really smart strategies for making sure that we prevent osteoporosis, we prevent hip replacement, and that
1:47.4	we stop injuring ourselves. So we go through that. We also spent a lot of time talking
1:54.3	about nutrition and what do we need to know about the way we eat for our musculoscalatal system? We broke down every single
2:03.5	exercise you could think of. We went from Pilates to yoga, to rucking, to weightlifting, to how
2:11.5	often should you be weightlifting, to what kind of muscles are you trying to activate when you weight lift? So a lot of times when I bring you
2:22.8	all podcasts, there's a lot of theories and philosophies and mindset. This one is application.
2:30.4	And I'm really excited to bring it to you. She has a new book coming out called Unbreakable.
2:36.1	We will leave links for it.
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