Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency in space to simplify

and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends, are you feeling perpetually off and are totally over it? Today, I'm talking to

the wonderful Dr. Gillian Goddard, an endocrinologist, professor, and author of The Hormone

Loop, an empowering guide to restoring hormonal harmony from puberty to menopause.

She also writes the savvy patient newsletter, where she breaks down the latest data about women's

hormonal health in service of helping you better self-advocate at the doctor's office.

In this conversation, we talk about what feels like bodily betrayal, the hormone loop, advocacy,

and more. Let's get right to it.

Hello and welcome, Jillian. I'm so excited to have you on the show today. Hi. Hi. I'm so thrilled to be here. I know. We met very

briefly in person in Boston. And it's really fun to see your book now coming to fruition. So

congratulations. It's like having a baby. It is so much like having a baby. Thank you so much.

Yes. Yes. Well, I will have already talked about you in the

intro. So let's get right to our juicy questions. And I always like to start a little higher level

with a little grounding. And, you know, one thing I hear a lot from women in my community is some

version of, I'm really trying. I'm putting in the

effort. I'm trying to do the right things. I'm eating my kale. I'm, you know, lifting my weights.

And I still just feel tired and foggy and off. So let's start here. Can you explain why so many

women feel like their bodies are suddenly betraying them in

midlife? And how can we work to reframe that experience? Not discounting the feeling, of course,

but just kind of more like a science-backed understanding of what's happening. Yeah. So I think one of the

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