Why Women and Men Age Differently and the Secret Benefits of Menopause - With Dr. Mindy Pelz

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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For decades, the topic of menopause has been overlooked, misunderstood, and undertreated. As more science emerges, more experts are sharing the truth about how women’s brains and bodies shift during this important, transformative change. On today’s show, you’re going to learn about what actually happens during menopause and how to embrace and reclaim menopause. Today’s guest, Dr. Mindy Pelz, is a New York Times bestselling author, functional health expert, and a leading voice in women’s health, hormonal health, and aging. She’s back on this episode of The Model Health Show to share the science and tangible takeaways from her new book, Age Like a Girl. In this interview, Dr. Mindy is sharing details about the hormonal shift that happens during menopause, and how women (and their families) can honor this transition. You’re going to learn about how using lifestyle practices like weightlifting and fasting can help women balance hormones, eliminate brain fog, and boost their energy levels. You’ll learn why there is so much misinformation and outdated narratives surrounding menopause, the science of neurochemical shifts, and how midlife can be a time to step into leadership and purpose. I hope you enjoy this interview with the one and only, Dr. Mindy Pelz! In this episode you’ll discover: The meaning behind Dr. Mindy’s new book, Age Like a Girl. (3:47) How the female brain rewires during menopause. (4:22) What the relational brain is and how it is impacted by hormones. (10:04) How environmental factors are changing the menstrual cycle. (13:40) What the grandmother hypothesis is. (22:21) The two main metabolic systems and how they work. (25:02) What estrogen’s girl gang is. (26:28) How levels of insulin and glucose change during menopause. (27:42) The relationship between estrogen and dopamine. (32:59) Which supplement is a nutritional necessity for post-menopausal women. (42:01) How to naturally increase BDNF levels. (43:06) The importance of in-person knowledge sharing and storytelling. (46:27) What the toxic dump of menopause is. (58:48) Free or low-cost ways to naturally detoxify. (1:04:39) How men can support their partners through the process of menopause. (1:10:35) Items mentioned in this episode include: ⁠Thelumebox.com/model⁠ ß Get an exclusive $260 off your red light therapy device! ⁠Piquelife.com/model⁠ ß Get exclusive savings on bundles & subscriptions! Age Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz⁠ ß Preorder your copy of the book today! Connect with Dr. Mindy Pelz ⁠Website⁠ / ⁠Podcast⁠ / ⁠Facebook⁠ / ⁠Instagram⁠ / ⁠YouTube⁠ Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to automatically receive your episodes:  Apple Podcasts Spotify Soundcloud Pandora YouTube This episode of The Model Health Show is brought to you by Lumebox and Pique. The LUMEBOX is clinically designed to deliver both red (660 nm) and near-infrared (850 nm) wavelengths in one sleek handheld device. Independently lab-tested for performance: more coverage, higher irradiance, and a greater effect. Enjoy an exclusive $260 off the premium LUMEBOX red light therapy system, designed to boost recovery, skin health, and overall vitality by using my exclusive link: thelumebox.com/model. Go to Piquelife.com/model for exclusive savings on bundles & subscriptions on cutting-edge solutions for your head-to-toe health and beauty transformation.

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0:00.0	You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com.
0:09.8	Welcome to the Model Health Show. I've got a question for you. Do you think that there's a difference between the way that men age versus the way that women age?
0:19.8	Now, this might be something that you never thought about,
0:22.6	but I think the answer is going to be something super obvious. Yes, there are significant differences
0:28.7	between how the sexes age. Now, with this being said, what does it look like to age like a girl
0:37.4	or age like a woman? Today, more than ever,
0:41.0	there's emerging science and conversations happening around menopause and women's health.
0:48.0	Thank goodness. Super important. Thankfully, this change is happening. Now, with that being said, this is also a place
0:56.8	for us men to be aware and supportive and help to push this education forward and keep this
1:04.9	conversation growing and getting bigger because it matters for us all. Now this could be, of course, in the context of a relational
1:13.3	thing, something that our significant other might go through with perimenopause and menopause
1:19.8	and they might want to put their paws on us and we're like, why I didn't do anything. Okay?
1:27.2	And we're the ones who need to pause and reflect and to understand and to support what's going on. And with that said, now I'm not advocating anybody putting no pause on nobody. Okay. But this is something that can affect us relationally, you know, with our, with our mothers, with our sisters,
1:45.7	with our significant others, our daughters. So being aware that this education is
1:50.8	massively important today, but also there's so many misnomer's and complexity that we need
1:59.9	to just push to the side and focus on how can we
2:03.9	support our loved ones. And in that, providing today a masterclass on in our society that is
2:13.3	often forcing opposition against aging healthfully.
2:19.3	How can women age like a girl, age like a woman,
2:23.9	in the version of that that is expressive of health and of empowerment
2:29.9	instead of the opposite, which has come to be all too common.
2:35.1	And so with this, I have on one of the world's leading experts in this subject matter,
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