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Is CBD the Answer? How Women Use CBD to Manage Menopause Jan 02, 2024

Show notes

Curious about when or how women use CBD to their best advantage? I’ve been using CBD off and on for about 6 years. I originally began after being gifted some products that then loved so much I shared with my mom for her lower back. I’ve used rubs and lotions for recovering from training rides and runs during triathlon training.

But I think there are now several indications as well as formats for using CBD that may make your head spin if you’re new to it. So this episode is designed to help clarify as well as to know what’s the difference between all the products you see available just everywhere now? What’s quality vs not really supportive at all?

But… there is SO MUCH more in this episode. Get to know your hormones better in the next 40 minutes. I promise.

My Guest:

Dr. Eric Dorninger ND, LAc is a Registered Naturopathic Doctor and Licensed Acupuncturist. He graduated from Bastyr University (www.bastyr.edu), the leading accredited university for science-based natural medicine. Prior to medical school, he received his B.A. in Kinesiology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1997. During this time he also finished his E.M.T. (Emergency Medical Technician) training and volunteering at Porter Care Hospice in Denver. This dual exposure of medical perspectives laid down the roots for Dr. Dorninger’s integrated approach to diagnosis, treatment, and healing. In addition to private practice, Dr. Dorninger teaches functional medicine for Apex Energetics.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

You have a very unique background, as a kinesiologist and the EMT and hospice time. How did that combination give you a unique perspective in understanding needs of and treating patients?
How long has CBD been used as a wellness tool?
There are a lot of products out there. How does a listener distinguish between quality and marketing?
How does CBD work in the body? What is the science?
How do you most often use it yourself or with patients?
How do you specifically see CBD as a supplement that works for adults age 50+?
Where have you seen CBD as most beneficial for your patients?
Tell us more about CBD and sleep.

Connect with Dr. Eric:

On Social:

Website: https://www.bluesky-cbd.com

On Social:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drericdorninger/

Podcast: the vitality hour https://www.youtube.com/@thevitalityhour1371

Resources:

Blue Sky CBD: 20 % off https://www.flippingfifty.com/blueskycbd

Other Episodes You Might Like:

Women’s Health Mismanagement: When You Can’t Fire Yourself

https://www.flippingfifty.com/manage-health/

Is a Chiropractor in Your Midlife Health Arsenal?

https://www.flippingfifty.com/chiropractor-in-your-midlife-health-arsenal/

Bone Health, Osteoporosis, Osteopenia Tips You’ve Never Heard

https://www.flippingfifty.com/bone-coach/

Flipping 50 Top 10 Podcasts of 2023 Dec 29, 2023

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In this, one of my favorite podcasts of the year, you’ll find all the top 10 podcasts of 2023 as voted by you and downloads. Whether you’re listening from the show notes pages at Flippingfifty.com, on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Spotify or any of 80 other platforms where this 10 year old podcast appears twice weekly, I am grateful for you.

My hope in starting this, which is my second podcast, in case you didn’t know. The She Means Fitness Business podcast (previously named Voice for Fitness Professionals, and Fitness Marketing Mastery) was the first podcast I began in 2012. So yes, I’ve been doing this for a minute.

It’s a lot of episodes, a lot of interviews and a lot of tips considering I’ve done 30 day sprints in 2020 even with a daily episode for the business podcast, weekly I provide two episodes a week each, and occasionally a bonus episode.

I’m a teacher and my goal is to use that sense of answering questions before you know to ask them in episodes where I’m diving into a topic based on a listener’s question or I’m interviewing someone like Dr. David Rosensweet, Gin Stephens, or hosting a group of over 60 bodybuilders.

I can’t wait to spend more time with you in 2024. If you love the podcast you also may be interested in the recordings from the 7-day summit I hosted in May 2023. The What, When & Why to Exercise for Women 40+ recording bundle comes with other perks and downloads plus 39 expert recordings on topics directly related to success with exercise over 40.

#10 Episode of the Top Podcasts of 2023 Which Hormones Matter Most in Meno(pause)

In this episode I breakdown the hormones that impact your exercise needs, need-not-tos, and discuss some surprising ways to improve exercise benefits that target changes you want in menopause.

https://www.flippingfifty.com/which-hormones/

8/27/23

#9 Build Bone After Osteoporosis

Released during October, this episode quickly jumped to a record downloads. We care about bones. We’re confused about exercise and how to get it. This by the way is another reason to grab the What, When & Why to Exercise bundle for discussions with bone health experts like Belinda Beck and Kevin Ellis, as well as gut health expert Vincent Pedre.

https://www.flippingfifty.com/build-bone-after-osteoporosis/

10/17

#8 Midlife Changes with Intermittent Fasting Expert Gin Stephens

We’re enamored or confused by the application of intermittent fasting in our everyday lives together with exercise. This episode shares Gin’s personal journey of weight loss via intermittent fasting to bestselling author and host of multiple podcasts on the topic of intermittent fasting.

https://flippingfifty.com/midlife-changes/

10/24

#7 A Hormone Therapy Roadmap: What, When & Why

In all the interviews I’ve done with guests on both shows combined, this is hands down my favorite. The value bombs Dr Rosensweet dropped were unlike any with another hormone expert (and there have been many). For an understanding of hormones, of the what, when and why and dissection of it for YOU and your needs, this episode is a keeper.

If I could override your votes this would be my top personal favorite.

https://www.flippingfifty.com/hormone-therapy-roadmap/

11/03

#6 21 Walking Tips | Menopause Q and A Video

This I must say is also a favorite of mine! And I was thrilled to have this, and the one preceding it be so popular. We walk. We want to know how it matters or reinforce the walking we do. This one fielded 21 questions from our community about walking.

https://www.flippingfifty.com/walking-tips-2/

8/18/23

#5 Top Podcast Episode of 2023 BodyBuilding for Women Over 50 (and 60, or 70) or Life Building

We love to be inspired. This episode is evidence from both sides that women support women more in midlife than ever. The guests in this group wanted to share everything about their own journey. The response from our community and from the video (found on my YouTube channel) thanking the women and 100% positive says a lot about how we want to believe if they can, I can too. (and pssst… you can)

https://www.flippingfifty.com/body-building-over-50/

3/7/23

#4 Top Podcast Episode of 2023 Your Best 2023 | A Free Workshop for Women

I released this episode that is far more like a workshop Jan 1, 2023. It’s still applicable. It’s multiple hundred dollar value workshop I’ve given live to corporations, women’s groups, and coaching client audiences for 22 years. I gave it to you free. And you loved it.

https://www.flippingfifty.com/best-2023/

1/1/23

#3 Top Podcast Episode of 2023 Weight Management After 50 and Beyond

Weight gain in menopause is often a challenge to figure out. Even doctors are not immune though may have tools to figure it out faster. This episode discusses the mechanisms, the default steps we take and how they may backfire so what to do instead.

https://www.flippingfifty.com/weight-management-after-50/

3/10/23

#2 Top Podcast Episode of 2023 Easy Fat Loss for Women Over 50

You’re seeing a theme here already. Fat loss and weight are top of mind for women in midlife. The uncontrollable weight coming on with no notice or reason is a source of frustration for many women in midlife. Even if it’s not weight, body composition or belly fat shift.

https://www.flippingfifty.com/easy-fat-loss/

2/14/23

#1 Top Podcast Episode of 2023 Midlife Weight Loss: Burn Body Fat, Balance Your Hormones

This top podcast episode of 2023 says a lot about what our number one concern is. My friend, my hope is for 2024 we put this one to bed along with the sometimes ignored facts that drive weight loss resistance. Exercising in the way we’ve always exercised and eating in the way we’ve always eaten will result in less muscle, more fat, and potentially greater imbalance of hormones causing it all.

Spend time with me live. Take $200 off your 2024 retreat attendance by being a listener here or receive a $100 credit to the website for referring any friend to this podcast who joins the retreat using the coupon code: PODCAST This will expire 5 days after this podcast release. Don’t miss the opportunity to spend time with me… both in an immediate consult to discuss your training, the training plan leading to it, the retreat itself and the follow up group check in.

Phoenix, Colorado, and Grand Canyon Retreats are all happening and we’d love to have you join!

https://www.flippingfifty.com/midlife-weight-loss/

1/10/23

Resources:

Retreats: https://www.flippingfifty.com/product-category/coaching-programs/

5 Day Flip: https://www.flippingfifty.com/5dayflip

Sleep Yourself Productive | Better Sleep Well Rested Days Dec 26, 2023

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You’re a pillow talk away from better sleep well rested days.

If you’re listening you care about better sleep well rested days. Whether you’re struggling with it, or grateful you don’t sleep is king and queen of recovery and all things functioning well. But this episode goes far beyond our usual layer of sleep. If this is a topic you know and don’t love… this is for you.

Be sure you visit show notes today where you can get a link to a 10% off the specific pillow designed to support your neck in ways we address today.

As a student of health, fitness, sleep and hormonal health this episode was an eye-opener. Got lower back issues, balance issues, IBS… and there’s more.. It could be the tech neck you’ve got going on. Sinus problems? Maybe it’s time to tune in.

My Guest:

Dr. Peter Martone is an educator and patient care practitioner who has been focused on improving patient’s biomechanics for over 23 years during his private practice as a chiropractor. Dr. Martone always believed that the structure of your spine affects the function of the central nervous system, and this principle is the cornerstone of his practice. Dr. Martone’s core belief is that the central nervous system controls every function in the human body and in order to be able to express true health you have to keep your nervous system healthy. When your spine falls out of alignment due to poor spinal mechanics, it interferes with the proper function of the nervous system thus throwing the body out of balance. Peter’s mission is to help as many people as possible achieve optimal health function and performance so they can reach their full potential in life.

During his 23 years of practice, Dr. Martone found it harder and harder to keep his patients aligned due to the stress of the modern-day lifestyle on their posture. His patients were coming in with the same problems which inspired him to come up with an innovative solution to help correct patients’ spines while they sleep. He worked with designers and engineers to create the Neck Nest, his newest product that helps correct patients’ spines while they sleep.

Dr. Martone’s revolutionary concepts are designed to help restore proper biomechanics of the spine by adopting a neutral sleeping position, helping you sleep better, live longer and be healthier. His techniques have been featured on CBS, NBC, Fox News, Dave Asprey’s Upgraded Conference, and over 50 podcasts as he travels the world teaching people how to regain their health by mastering the art of sleeping.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

Is there a best sleeping position?
How does sleeping position affect your spinal structure?
What 3 laws of adaptation are at play while you sleep?
How does the body adapt to support vs distraction while you sleep and how does it affect your structure?
How are midlife women potentially impacted by sleep?
How can someone evaluate if their hormonal system is affected by their sleep position?
What 3 systems are specifically affected by forward head syndrome?

Connect with Dr. Peter:

On Social:

Website: https://www.Drsleepright.com

On Social:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorSleepRight

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsleepright/

Resources:

10% off a neck nest (“no code” necessary):

https://www.flippingfifty.com/necknest

Other Episodes You Might Like:

Better Mattress, Better Sleep in Menopause?

https://www.flippingfifty.com/better-sleep-in-menopause/

How to Sleep Through Menopause Without Medication

https://www.flippingfifty.com/sleep-through-menopause/

Functional Feet for Your Second Half with a Strong Foundation

https://www.flippingfifty.com/functional-feet/

How to Pair Intermittent Fasting and Exercise After 40 Dec 22, 2023

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If you are trying to use intermittent fasting and exercise after 40, it’s tricky. You’re choosing to apply two hormetic stressors to a body already under hormetic stress going through physiological changes. We really can separate this into three areas – which might help you understand the dilemma.

The benefits of intermittent fasting for women in midlife are potentially many:

Improved gut health
Autophagy
Busting a weight loss plateau/imposing a hormetic stressor
Reduced inflammation

Yet the midlife hormonal changes mean:

Muscle loss(anabolic resistance)
Bone loss
Adrenal stress

Enter optimal exercise prescription unique to midlife and beyond:

Support muscle preservation and actually, gain muscle
Reverse or prevent bone losses
Minimize adrenal stress

Community Member Question: Intermittent Fasting and Exercise

Molly asked, “Debra I have been wanting to incorporate fasting into my health regime. However with your current recommendations of working out in a fed state I have found it is very difficult to get enough protein and to maintain the fasted state. I read the book Feast Fast Repeat and it goes against a lot of the information you recommend. It’s difficult for me to fast for 18 to 20 hours and feel good. Just wondering what your thoughts are on fasting?”

Start earlier. That makes it simple! You don’t have “dinner” at dinner time.. You have a last high protein meal at 3 or 4pm.

Fasting has a purpose. Getting off a plateau. You can kickstart with an 18 or 20 hour fast but there is NO reason if you’re an active person to do this regularly. Rotate.., 12, 14, 15, 18 ….

Rotating the amount of carbs you have also becomes important. Overall, lower than you’ve probably had before in your life (remember when you’d have two bagels at a sitting?) But you might toggle between 50 and 100 grams a day. If you always go long fasting, if you also restrict calories when you are in an eating window, and if you never vary carbs and always go low, you will have no metabolic flexibility. For the majority of humans that just won’t work. Your body is getting stressed by each of those things and never rewarded and replenished. Just where is that energy to do work and fun stuff going to come from?

If this was your first book? Keep reading. It’s good but there are dozens of ways to fast. They include just going lower calorie for 5 days (with higher fat and lower protein), and using bone broth or doing smoothies twice daily. There are so many ways to start. But for intermittent fasting to be the goal then starting to extend your overnight fast is the beginning. Hit 12 hours. Try 13 and 14. See how you do. But don’t always do it.

Your week should NOT ever look the same every day or you lose metabolic flexibility. If your goal is to stay active and gain muscle and bone density … tell me in a 20 hour fast how you manage to get micronutrients in.

What we all have to do is prioritize. It’s not intermittent fasting and exercise. It’s intermittent fasting OR exercise. Which do you need most right now and why?

Also relevant: do you have any emotional eating tendencies or a history of eating disorder or diet and binge? If yes, this is a slippery slope for you. (see resources)

To Decide Whether Your Priority is Intermittent Fasting or Exercise

Are you inflamed? Need to reduce that and kick up the autophagy? Fasting for a short time may be your priority.

But high intensity exercise and fasting long are NOT going to coincide together well. That leaves you energy deficient. That puts you in stress. That causes a loss of muscle.

Keep in mind lots of low intensity activity also becomes high intensity as it relates to causing cortisol. Say you’re fasting and going for a significant walk a couple times a day. Not what you want to do. Be kind to yourself.

Resources:

Stronger: Tone & Define: https://www.flippingfifty.com/get-stronger-2023/

The Flipping 50 Cafe: https://www.flippingfifty.com/cafe/

Other Episodes You Might Like:

Fasting for Women Over 50 | What Is and Isn’t Fasting Q and A

https://www.flippingfifty.com/fasting-for-women/

Intermittent Fasting for Women | Health & Wellness | When Yes When No

https://www.flippingfifty.com/intermittent-fasting-for-women/

Midlife Changes with Intermittent Fasting Expert Gin Stephens https://www.flippingfifty.com/midlife-changes/

Younger for Life with America’s Holistic Plastic Surgeon® Dec 19, 2023

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Younger for life, how does that sound? In defense of pro-aging not anti-aging and of loving the wisdom and comfort that comes with knowing who you are and aren’t and not having time for silly petty thoughts of worry about what someone might think… this may sound a little contradictory.

But I know I like a compliment about my skin or someone saying, I can’t believe it. It’s when you suddenly don’t get that anymore that makes me say, I’ve got to get more sleep!

We’re talking about the title of a new book by my friend, Dr. Anthony Youn. To be clear, we’re talking about what’s inside and the basis of everything he does. First, he helps women avoid the knife and surgery. Second, he tries to simplify steps.

Let’s face it (see what I did there), there is a dramatic difference in the way people age. From muscle, activity, mindset…and skin. So we know it’s possible to have more youthful looking skin as we age if that’s a choice. Is it alcohol, coffee, sugar, sleep? What are the differences in our behavior – or our skin care routines- that might make me or you look younger than the rest of the class at the next school reunion?

My Guest:

Known as America’s Holistic Plastic Surgeon®, Anthony Youn, M.D. F.A.C.S is a nationally-recognized, board-certified plastic surgeon. Recognized as a leader in his field, he is the author of the best-selling books “The Age Fix,” “In Stitches,” and “Playing God.” His public television special, The Age Fix with Dr. Anthony Youn, has been viewed by millions. Dr. Youn also hosts the popular podcast The Holistic Plastic Surgery Show. He is the most followed plastic surgeon on social media, with over 4.5 million subscribers on his YouTube Channel and 8 million followers on TikTok. His new book, “Younger for Life” is a complete holistic guide to turning back the clock using the process of Autojuvenation®.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

What do you mean by the term Autojuvenation?
Can you tell me about the 5 reasons our skin ages?
What supplements do you recommend for healthy skin?
What is a simple, healthy skin care routine?
What are some new treatments people can do at home to make their skin look and feel younger?
Tell me about your 21 Day Autojuvenation Jump Start

Join the Autojuvenation Jump Start!

Connect with Dr. Anthony:

On Social:

Website: http://autojuvenation.com

On Social:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dryoun Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyyounmd TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doctoryoun

Resources:

New Book:Younger for Life: Feel Great and Look Your Best with the New Science of Autojuvenation – January 2, 2024

Dr Youn’s first appearance on Flipping 50TV with skin tips: https://www.flippingfifty.com/younger-looking-skin/

5 Day Flip: https://www.flippingfifty.com/5dayflip

Other Episodes You Might Like:

Behind the Scenes with America’s Holistic Beauty Doc Now! https://www.flippingfifty.com/beauty-doc/

Your Hormones and Skin in Midlife | Interview with TheSpaDr

https://www.flippingfifty.com/hormones-and-skin/

Acne in Menopause? How to Deal with It | Interview with a Skin Expert https://www.flippingfifty.com/acne-in-aging-and-menopause/

21 Ways to Optimize Your WORKOUT After 40, 50, 60 or 70 Dec 15, 2023

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Get ready to optimize your workout after 40. This list of tips comes from a simple round up of tips shared often on social media and that surprise me that we don’t all know this. Yet.. why should you? You haven’t eaten and slept this for 40 years! You haven’t spent every week keeping up with new science, researching the latest peer-reviewed journals and monitoring large groups of women putting to the test of N what science has already proven.

No more than I have monitored how much water a ficus tree needs and how to hire a trustworthy landscape company (which by the way, I’ve failed miserably this past year). No more than I have the slightest idea what to do when my garage light is flashing).

So… Here's a little roundup from me to you.

Optimize Your Workout After 40, 50, 60 or 70

Start prioritizing strength training.
Stop doing “cardio.”
Stop thinking you have to workout every day.
Pay more attention to your energy level, your appetite, your sleep than you do to a number on a scale at first, and maybe later.
Throw out any dumb scale you’re still using to weigh and invest in a Smart Scale.
Weigh yourself no more than once a week same time and same status and make sure you’re measuring and doing some means of physical fitness testing
Warm up smarter.
Cool down smarter.
Recover smarter: let your body deal with inflammation from your workout for several hours before you interfere with it by introducing cold plunge, infrared sauna, omega 3 fats or a lot of antioxidants (unless you’re “in training”)
Train don’t “exercise” especially for you if you’re already tired, limited on time & energy and need to make sure you’re getting quality training AND quality rest
Plan Intense Early, Light Late.
Fuel before training.
Fuel after training.
Eat a regular dose of protein at at least 3 meals a day hitting 30 gram minimum (this isn’t a maximum: it’s a start)
When tired, appetite is a mess, you’re overly sore or achy, dig into why… not enough recovery, poorly fueled, inflammatory diet? Don’t automatically blame exercise. But do cut back until you figure it out.
Make use of biohacking: infrared sauna, cold plunge, electrolytes, intermittent fasting - which can all speed recovery and improve inflammation meaning your exercise can be harder without feeling harder.
Stop doing random exercise.
Never continue to go hard all the time. Every week should have easy and hard days. Every month should have easy and hard weeks. Some entire quarters may be light (when say, you’re “in season”)
Stop thinking you’re burning calories and going to lose weight because of it. You’re trying to optimize hormone balance or you’ll never lose fat weight and keep it off.
Find joy in 90% of the exercise you do or how you do it. (Yes you may need to do some part you don’t love in order to keep actively doing the rest).
Don’t compare yourself right now to anyone… including younger you. You could be BETTER.

Need to Optimize Your Workout After 40?

Two options specifically designed to combine the needs of your midlife hormones, your skeletal system, muscular system, history of activity, experience level and give you results you love now and those you’ll thank yourself for later:

STRONGER Tone & Define: a perfect start, restart or reset (I’m an 8x Ironman athlete, a 42 year old strength trainer who gains muscle easily and I use this regularly during any given year)

The Flipping 50 membership: the perfect way to say yes not just to everything included in that one 12 week program, but get the next 3 12-week programs for the year plus exclusive masterclasses that others pay for, monthly challenges when you want to tune up the core or need to tend to your pelvic floor, and mini courses that give you exactly the information you need to focus on the goals you have right now. Join before rates increase in January to lock in these subscription rates.

P.S. If you’re listening and have found value in the podcast please share it with 2 or 3 friends or sisters! I would be so grateful. We need to get on the right track and put an end to the idea that midlife and older women should exercise the same as men, or mice or younger women.

While at the same time we put an end to the idea women should gain weight with age and will naturally or should have a healthy percent body fat that is higher. Really? At a time when disease is more prevalent ? That’s crazy but intelligent women often think it’s true.

Other Episodes You Might Like:

20 Reasons Strength Training Should Be Mandatory for Everyone Over 29

https://www.flippingfifty.com/strength-training/

How Long Should Strength Training Sessions for Menopause Be? | ASK the EXPERT Q and A

https://www.flippingfifty.com/strength-training-sessions-for-menopause/

TOTAL Body or SPLIT ROUTINE Strength Training in Menopause | #453

https://www.flippingfifty.com/total-body-or-split-routine-453/

Resources:

STRONGER Tone & Define: https://www.flippingfifty.com/getstronger

Flipping 50 Membership: https://www.flippingfifty.com/cafe

How to Use Stress as a Tool for Hormone Balance Dec 12, 2023

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How can stress be a tool for hormone balance? My guest and I dish on the topic of stress in this episode and how you can harness stress as a tool for your hormone balance.

Knowing exercise is stress and that may be what led you here, we all have to deal with stress not only of the emotional, relationship, financial type but of the physical kind that comes from sleep deprivation or exercise or skipped, skimpy or less than ideal in some other way meals.

My Guest:

Dr. Amy Day is a women’s health and hormone expert who has been at the forefront of the natural women’s health movement since 2004 when she received the 4th Naturopathic Doctor license in the state of California.

She is a sought-after speaker, the founder and clinic director of The Women’s Vitality Center in Oakland, CA, and creator of The Vitality Club an online perimenopause support community. Using a unique approach called The VITAL Method her team offers care that combines lifestyle counseling, functional lab testing, nutritional supplements and bioidentical hormones to help women 40+ feel great in and about their bodies, and stay vital throughout all stages of life.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

Tell us about you and what got you into women’s health
Why does stress matter so much when it comes to hormone balance?
Since stress is such a big factor in so many people's lives, what can we do about that?
What distinguishes eustress (positive stress) from distress or negative stress?
When is stress actually a good thing?
What do you think are the biggest myths about bioidentical hormones for women?

Connect with Dr. Amy:

Website: www.WomensVitalityCenter.com

On Social:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womensvitalitycenter/

Other Episodes You Might Like:

Turn Midlife Stress into Strength | Victim to Victorious Author

https://www.flippingfifty.com/midlife-stress/

Cortisol Hormone: Don’t let it derail your fat loss efforts

https://www.flippingfifty.com/cortisol-hormone/

Your Hormones and Skin in Midlife | Interview with TheSpaDr

https://www.flippingfifty.com/hormones-and-skin/

Resources:

https://womensvitalitycenter.com/checklist the Hormone Balancing Checklist and join the free online community the Vitality Club.

The Upside of Stress - Dr Kelly McGonical

The Hidden Reason for Belly Bloat Dec 10, 2023

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If you’re struggling with weight loss resistance, a chronic pain or injury or gut issues, there may be a hidden reason for belly bloat and so much more.

The answer isn’t more exercise and less food. The answer is something you may not have addressed yet in your life.

Warning: this episode talks more about energy (yours) and vibrational energetics and you may or may not be ready for it. I recently have shared several products from whole body vibration, to a skin care system supporting skin quality and collagen, to scalar energy products and found not all of our community is comfortable with them.

The first time we hear something new we often reject it. We ridicule it. It’s hocus pocus. Throughout history this has been true. Inventors, creators, innovators of things we now use daily and take for granted were looked at as insane, and ridiculed. Until, they weren’t.

It’s then human nature to finally adopt it as our own.

If this is the first time you’re hearing about vibrational energy or these concepts, your reaction may be that of skepticism or ridicule.

This is a reality for many who’ve had childhood trauma. ACEs is a term given to Adverse Childhood Experiences. The storage of emotions in tissue of the body is not new and is science. Adults with ACEs have life expectancies 20 years shorter due to diseases.

My Guest:

Jodi Geline is a Health Expert known for helping people age healthier, banish bloat, IBS and other chronic health conditions for good and reclaim their health permanently. Jodi suffered for years with chronic health issues that no doctor could ever fix and with a belly so bloated she always looked 9 months pregnant. Through discovering her own methodology, she went from looking very pregnant to a flat stomach and tapped into the secrets of getting healthier as you age. Jodi figured out how to master her own health and she now teaches others to do the same.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

Tell us why you help people with their health and your health journey
Why don’t the diet restrictions work
Explain how the body holds onto emotions
Why doesn’t just food or conventional means work for long term health

Connect with Jodi:

Website:

Heal From Within Series: http://healfromwithinseries.com/dea

On Social:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatHealthMastery

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jodigeline

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JodiBarnhart

Resources:

Discover The Real Root Cause of Your Belly Bloat

http://peaceofmyheart.net/quiz/

Other Episodes You Might Like:

Healing Trauma to Lose Weight: What if it’s Not Stress? https://www.flippingfifty.com/healing/

How Emotional Eating Can Be the Hidden Reason for Weight Gain https://www.flippingfifty.com/reason-for-weight-gain/

Get Unstuck: Mindset Mastery for the Life of Your Dreams | #479 https://www.flippingfifty.com/believe-kerry/

Workout Changes I’ve Made at 59 | Women Over 40 Dec 08, 2023

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I’m right there with you. Continuing to do the same thing and expect different results would be crazy. Continuing to do the same thing with a body that isn’t the same as a decade or two ago is insane!

So here’s what I’m doing, to help you identify where you may want to shift too!

The Basic Workout Changes I’ve Made at 59

Prioritizing strength time vs cardio

The difference between the WAY I prioritize strength. I’ve known since I began training for marathons even and more so since I began doing triathlon at 40, that strength was key to success in the event and successfully avoiding injury.

What’s different now is that it is the first place I put my energy. It’s not an extra for complimenting the activity or for supplementing it. My activity is built around optimizing:

The readiness for the workouts
The recovery for the workouts

Readiness:

I’m not going to go for a 3 or more hour hike the day before a key weight workout.

I definitely didn’t do a strength workout for 3 days following the Grand Canyon Rim-to-River-to-Rim hike.

There is always fuel (protein) in my system and sometimes there’s also a little caffeine right before a workout to optimize fat during the workout.

Recovery:

I am consciously taking more rest between hard workouts. Hard being there are multiple sets of low rep ranges and the purpose is true muscle fatigue. It causes more microtearing, more stress to joints. So there’s no guilt over waiting at least 72 hours, and if I miss a workout then, if I’m otherwise active, I accept that this delay is warranted and positive, not negative.

More Age-Related Post Menopause Workout Changes I’ve Made at 59

Workout I and II are not exactly the same

Weight load
Sequence of exercise
Type of workout in tune with recovery status

Taking Creatine Monohydrate Near My Workout

I will take it either before or after a workout, depending on the day. My workload might dictate a workout has to happen a little later, meaning I’ve got to have had a good solid meal before so it will happen in a robust smoothie bowl 2 hours before. If I’m able to pull away from some tasks and workout with just a bit of fuel prior to exercise.

Then I will have a post workout smoothie bowl after a workout about an hour. That bowl is loaded with a little fruit, healthy fat, high in protein (40+ grams) and the creatine goes in that.

Creatine questions?

Avoid Halting the Body’s Inflammatory Response

I don’t overdo inflammatory foods or activity directly after workouts.

During the pandemic so much of the discussion of health experts was about the immune-boosting effects of .. well, everything. Interestingly, it seems that a huge consumption of antioxidant-rich berries or omega 3 fats too soon post exercise blunts your body’s own immune system from response to the inflammation caused by exercise.

You don’t want to prevent some of these good changes from occurring. They will increase your resilience and immunity and ability to self-regulate. So if you’re doing sauna or ice baths, or ingesting omega 3 supplements, you might wait on some of those until later in the day.

Ability-Related Workout Changes I’ve Made at 59

Eliminated the high rep low weight workouts

There are fewer workouts with 15-20 or 25 repetitions. While they show up (say in this YouTube video for plateaus with arm definition progress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMowolNJb1w)

And for work that might support sport performance or gait improvement, those high reps are often reserved for a single set (drop set or monster set) or for recovery week to reduce stress over all yet provide neural patterning.

I often do 5-8 repetitions during the first 3 weeks of a cycle and recovery happens on week 4. Most Strength & Conditioning Coaches observe periodization carefully for programming. It’s how they, and the athletes or clients they serve stay injury-free while at peak performance. The majority of us don’t have a sport in season/off season. Then again you do: more golf or walking in summer months, more indoor training in winter. Possibly more skiing or snowshoeing or for you maybe just a greater focus on strength training, new skills or activities.

Changing It Up

Having to do a workout with someone else and follow their program, their sequence, their thinking can be a real challenge for someone used to being in control. It is often we who need it most!

Have you seen those guys who seem to have been members at your gym forever, they’re always there, yet their bodies never change, and they don’t actually look all that good?

I don’t want to be one of those! So whether it’s writing myself a new program or swapping ideas with another fitness pro, (like recently with Helen Fritsch or Natalie Jill who both live nearby) to get out of the routine, is a good idea.

Workout Changes I’ve Made at 59 Recap:

Make it #1 in my schedule
Certainty I’m recovered or I change the workout
Enhancing recovery
Ditched high reps for no purpose

Other Episodes You Might Like:

What to know about CREATINE Supplementation Over 50

https://www.flippingfifty.com/creatine-supplementation/

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Resources:

Stronger: Tone & Define: https://www.flippingfifty.com/get-stronger-2023/

The Flipping 50 Cafe: https://www.flippingfifty.com/cafe/

FREE EXERCISE PLANNING over 40:

https://www.flippingfifty.com/exercise-planning

What REALLY Causes Cancer? | Reduce Risk & Recurrence Dec 05, 2023

Show notes

If you know what really causes cancer you can make better daily choices to prevent it or prevent recurrence.

My guest today overcame her own cancer 100% naturally. She’s not the only one. Knowing we each have cancerous cells in our bodies that do or don’t express based on our epigenetics or lifestyle choices, can empower us to learn and then choose more wisely.

In the first few minutes of this episode you will learn something that will blow your mind. Think of it as what you wish you’d always known about lab testing. Especially if you’re someone who has always been “normal” but gotten sick or didn’t feel well when that’s been true.

If you’re still curious about what “functional labs” means and how it makes a difference, we answer that too.

This is one to not miss and one to share. We all know someone with cancer.

One of my favorite tools to help naturally detox - heavy metals, mold, and toxins in our everyday environment is my Sunlighten Sauna. I bought it as a tool to boost recovery and for pampering and optimal aging. The next year it was a godsend when I was exposed to mold for nearly 6 months. I have a Solo Sauna that’s easy to put anywhere, it’s moved with me twice. Sunlighten also has built-in models my family members use and love. Learn more at flippingfifty.com/sauna

My Guest:

Katrina Foe overcame her own cancer 100% naturally, and driven by her core belief that the body can heal itself, Katrina went on to become board certified in holistic nutrition trained to read functional labs. As a faculty member at Restorative Wellness Solutions, Katrina teaches other practitioners to interpret functional labs and design individualized protocols.

Katrina is also a certified Metabolic Approach to Cancer practitioner, trained and

mentored by Dr. Nasha Winters. Katrina addresses the root cause of cancer empowering clients to keep it in remission without fear of recurrence.

In her international bestseller, Nutritional Pilates, Katrina offers a framework for whole body health that highlights potential obstacles to wellbeing and provides proven strategies to sidestep chronic disease.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

• What are “functional labs?”