What's the Purpose of Menopause? (Why Your Brain Is Rewiring in Midlife) with Dr. Mindy Pelz
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What if menopause isn't something to fix, but something to understand?
In this solo episode, Dr. Mindy Pelz shares Chapter One of her new book Age Like a Girl and breaks down the real purpose of menopause through neuroscience, hormones, and evolution. She explains how the decline of estrogen and progesterone reshapes the female brain, why so many women experience anxiety, mood changes, and brain fog in midlife, and how this transition may actually be designed to reconnect women with their authentic voice, clarity, and power.
If this conversation resonates with you, the audiobook of Age Like a Girl continues this journey with deeper insights, personal stories, and guidance to help you navigate this phase with confidence.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of The Resetter podcast, I'm doing something very different that I've never done before. |
| 0:08.8 | I am offering up a chapter from my latest book, Age Like a Girl, to you all, to listen here. |
| 0:15.1 | And let me tell you why I'm doing that. |
| 0:17.2 | If you haven't heard me say this before, Age like a girl is a deeply personal book for me. |
| 0:23.6 | I really dove in to understanding what the purpose of menopause is. |
| 0:28.6 | And I've been on this research of like, why do women live 42.5% of their life without a major organ system? |
| 0:36.6 | I've been asking that question for over 10 years. |
| 0:40.3 | And so when I synthesize this book, I really found a through line that shows that |
| 0:47.3 | menopause is a really empowering moment for women if you understand it from a more holistic |
| 0:53.3 | point of view. |
| 0:55.4 | So what I want to do, I'm offering you up here, Chapter 1, what is the purpose of menopause? |
| 1:01.9 | This hopefully will help you see the information that I gathered, but most importantly, |
| 1:06.8 | it will help you discover a deeper part of you. |
| 1:09.9 | It will help you discover your personal menopause path. |
| 1:14.4 | And I never ever want anybody to feel hopeless with their health, which is why I brought |
| 1:19.6 | forward age like a girl, because menopause, as you were about to hear, is something's |
| 1:25.4 | really cool going on in our brains as we go through this major |
| 1:30.1 | hormonal shift and I want you to discover just how powerful you are. So enjoy. |
| 1:36.2 | Part one, the philosophy behind aging like a girl. |
| 1:49.2 | Chapter 1. What's the purpose of menopause? |
| 1:52.0 | Let's get real for a moment. |
| 1:57.9 | How many of you felt your brain go offline the minute you hit your 40s? |
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