The New Rules of Exercise for Menopause with Dr. Stacy Sims (Re-Release)
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Women in midlife are being told everywhere to "lift heavy," "stop doing cardio," and "hack your hormones" for better metabolic health. But what is actually TRUE for the menopausal body?
In this timely re-release, I'm bringing back one of the most important and misunderstood conversations I've ever had — with exercise physiologist and researcher Dr. Stacy Sims. If you've been confused about how to work out in your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond, this episode will give you clarity, confidence, and a science-backed plan to finally feel strong in your body again.
Stacy and I walk through strength training, sprint intervals, "soul food" cardio, injury prevention, brain health, protein and carb timing, plant-based vs omnivore nutrition, creatine, and how to combine fasting with training in a safe and supportive way.
And if you've ever wondered whether Stacy and I actually disagree about fasting — this episode will give you the nuance that short-form content never allows.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of the Resetter podcast, I am actually reissuing an old interview that I did a few years back with Dr. Stacey Sims. |
| 0:12.0 | Now, let me tell you why I'm reissuing this, because it keeps coming up. |
| 0:17.0 | And what is the messaging that you all are receiving from Stacey Sims? |
| 0:23.3 | If you are a menopausal or postmenopausal woman is you should not fast. |
| 0:28.5 | And there's a lot of nuance for you to know and I want you to hear it directly from a conversation |
| 0:34.4 | that Stacy and I had. |
| 0:36.4 | And before I bring you that conversation, I want to bring up a |
| 0:39.5 | couple of key points. And I like Stacey. We had a great conversation. It's funny how everybody |
| 0:45.8 | wants to pit us against each other, but we actually had more in common than we had separate. |
| 0:51.8 | So the first thing that I want to say is the most important blood marker for any |
| 0:57.8 | woman's hormonal health is hemoglobin A1C. However you get your hemoglobin A1C down is incredibly |
| 1:05.6 | important. I find that it's through fasting and eating good quality food and learning how to metabolically |
| 1:13.3 | switch from your sugar burner to fat burner system that will get that hemoglobin A1C down |
| 1:19.2 | the quickest. |
| 1:21.2 | Okay. |
| 1:21.7 | Second thing is you're going to hear a lot about timing of food. |
| 1:25.8 | You control your fasting and eating window. If you listen to |
| 1:30.9 | this and you're like, wait, I do better before I work out if I eat, then eat before you work out. |
| 1:36.4 | I think that's phenomenal. But if you want to benefit from ketones and autophagy and resetting your gut and resetting your dopamine system. |
| 1:46.5 | And if you want accelerated weight loss, fasting is the most proficient tool at doing that, |
| 1:53.9 | free tool. So understand that Dr. Stacey Sims is an expert in not just female physiology, but for endurance |
| 2:05.1 | athletes. That is her slant. Is how do we prepare the woman who's going to work out and maybe |
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