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Hit Play Not Pause

Hit Play Not Pause

Welcome to the Hit Play Not Pause Podcast, a Feisty Menopause podcast for active, performance-minded menopausal women who aren’t willing to put their best years behind them. It’s time to reimagine what you can accomplish as an active woman in your 40’s, 50’s and beyond. We talk about how to optimize your physiology, maintain your fitness, and harness your power in, through, and past the menopause transition. Come join the movement. Join host Selene Yeager for a no B-S podcast for women ready to live their feistiest lives.

186 - Menopause Metabolism Myths & More with ​​Val Schonberg, RDN, CSSD
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  • 186 - Menopause Metabolism Myths & More with ​​Val Schonberg, RDN, CSSD

    Your metabolism is broken. You need to stop eating carbs. All weight gain is bad! If you’re a woman in menopause, you’ve been on the receiving end of a steady stream of overwhelmingly negative messages about your midlife body. Many of them are simply not true. That’s why we wanted to have a more nuanced conversation about the body composition changes many of us experience during this time of life. And this week’s guest, midlife health and nutrition specialist Val Schonberg was just the woman to have it with. This week, Val walks us through a lot of the myths, misunderstandings, and maybe even outright misinformation swirling around menopause metabolism, and much, much more.

    Val Schonberg RDN, CSSD, is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition science from the University of Minnesota. She is Board Certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics, a Certified Menopause Practitioner with The Menopause Society, and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Val owns a private practice in Atlanta, Georgia where she specializes in midlife health and menopause, recreational and professional sports nutrition, all types of eating disorders and helping individuals break free from dieting and disordered eating. She is the consulting dietitian for Emory Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Atlanta Ballet, and the Atlanta Dream Women’s NBA team. Val is passionate about providing nutrition care to populations vulnerable to disordered eating and promoting positive nutrition messages that help people make informed decisions about their health and live a life where they are at peace in their relationship with food and their body. You can learn more about her at valschonberg.com.

    Resources:

    Sex Differences in the Association of Body Composition and Cardiovascular Mortality here

    The effect of menopause on the relation between weight gain and mortality among women here

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    Previnex: Get 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/

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    Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 1h 05min
  • 185 - Managing Arthritis in Active Peri & Menopausal Women with Ashley Austin, MD (Episode 170)

    Wear and tear on our active joints is inevitable, and the menopause transition can make them more vulnerable. But there are some simple, and often overlooked, ways to support our joint health that include proper nutrition, recovery, strength and mobility practices, footwear and more, which can help us stay active and pain free through and beyond menopause. This week we break it all down with sports medicine physician Dr. Ashley Austin.

    Ashley V. Austin, MD, is Assistant Attending Physician at the Hospital for Special Surgery. She graduated cum laude from the University of Evansville where she played Division I basketball and was an all-conference offensive and defensive player. Dr. Austin completed her family medicine residency at the University of Virginia and completed a fellowship in primary care sports medicine at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA). After fellowship, she remained on faculty at the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor. She also served as the Co-Director of Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Physiology for the School of Medicine and Faculty Liaison for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Austin has covered sports at all levels including high school, National Ski Patrol, the WNBA and MLB. Her hobbies include high-altitude mountaineering and hiking, playing tennis, basketball, and soccer, snowboarding, and learning to surf. You can learn more about her and her work at www.hss.edu.

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    Join Level Up - Our Community for Active Women Navigating the Menopause Transition:

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    Previnex: Get 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/

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    Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 1h 11min
  • 184 - Put the O Back in Mojo with Lauren Streicher, MD (Episode 169)

    Women’s sexuality, especially older women’s, is often overlooked or dismissed by the medical system. When men get procedures that may impact their erections, they’re informed. When women get treatments that may affect their ability to have an orgasm? Crickets. Too few women’s doctors talk about women’s sexual satisfaction, including how well their clitoris is responding or if they’re having orgasms. That’s got to change. It’s normal to want to be sexual and experience sexual pleasure throughout your life. We don’t question it for men. We shouldn’t for women either. This week we dig into all of that and more (including how it’s high time to change how menopause itself is defined) with sexual medicine and menopause expert Dr. Lauren Streicher. 

    Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, and the current Medical Advisor at Midi Health Care. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society (formerly NAMS), the host of Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: THE Menopause Podcast, and the author of four best-selling books on women’s health, as well as the upcoming title, Put the O Back in Mojo, available for pre-order now. You can learn more about her and her work at www.drstreicher.com

    Resources

    Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: THE Menopause Podcast here

    Hit Play Not Pause: Sex Solutions with Dr. Lauren Streicher here

    Menopause editorial: Is it time to rethink how menopause is defined? here

    The State of the Union on Sex after 60 Kinsey Institute Survey with Cosmopolitan here


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    Hit Play Not Pause Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/807943973376099

    Join Level Up - Our Community for Active Women Navigating the Menopause Transition:

    Join: https://www.feistymenopause.com/monthly-membership-1

    Leave your questions for Selene:

    https://www.speakpipe.com/hitplay

    Get the Free Feisty Women's Guide to Lifting Heavy Sh*t:

    https://www.feistymenopause.com/liftheavy

    Support our Partners:

    Previnex: Get 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/

    Lagoon Sleep: Go to LagoonSleep.com/hitplay and take the 2 minute sleep quiz to find your match, and then use the code HITPLAY for 15% off your first purchase

    Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 57min
  • 183 - All in Her Head with Elizabeth Comen, MD (Episode 168)

    From being burned as witches to being barred from attending medical school, from being dismissed as hysterical to well, just being dismissed, from being shamed to being sexualized, the medical system has a long, sordid history in how it treats women and women’s health. And those toxic roots still poison the waters we have to navigate to this day. If you’ve ever wondered why we’re so far off the back with regards to our understanding of women’s health and wellness and treatment, this week’s guest Dr. Elizabeth Comen, author of All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today has some answers. Prepare to have your head explode as we dig into it in this episode.

    Elizabeth Comen, MD, has dedicated her medical career to saving the lives of women. An award-winning, internationally sought-after clinician and physician-scientist, Dr. Comen works as a medical oncologist with a specialty in breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She earned her BA in the history of science from Harvard College and her MD from Harvard Medical School, then completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital and her fellowship in oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She lives in New York City with her family. You can learn more about her and her work and buy her book at www.drelizabethcomen.com

    Resources

    All in Her Head atAmazon

    Cover photo credit: Deborah Feingold Photography

    Register for the Feisty Summer STRONG Course: https://www.womensperformance.com/strong

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    Follow Us on Instagram:

    Feisty Menopause: @feistymenopause

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    Selene: @fitchick3

    Hit Play Not Pause Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/807943973376099

    Join Level Up - Our Community for Active Women Navigating the Menopause Transition:

    Join: https://www.feistymenopause.com/monthly-membership-1

    Leave your questions for Selene:

    https://www.speakpipe.com/hitplay

    Get the Free Feisty Women's Guide to Lifting Heavy Sh*t:

    https://www.feistymenopause.com/liftheavy

    Support our Partners:

    Previnex: Get 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/

    Lagoon Sleep: Go to LagoonSleep.com/hitplay and take the 2 minute sleep quiz to find your match, and then use the code HITPLAY for 15% off your first purchase

    Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 1h 02min
  • 182 - What the Heck is Up with Cholesterol During Menopause? with Samia Mora, MD, MHS (Episode 167)

    We wrap up heart health awareness month with one topic that comes up a whole lot in our community–cholesterol. We hear from scores of athletic, active women who have had perfectly fine lipid levels their whole lives only to see them shoot up, often dramatically, at menopause. If you’re one, you’re not alone. This week we take a deep dive into all things lipids, including what they are, what influences them, and what to do about them, with cardiologist and lipid and women’s health specialist Dr. Samia Mora. 

    Samia Mora, MD, MHS, is a cardiologist and molecular epidemiologist conducting translational research in the prevention of cardiometabolic disease, with a focus on lipid and inflammatory mechanisms of cardiovascular disease. She is the Director of the Center for Lipid Metabolomics and Director of the Biorepository, Divisions of Preventive and Cardiovascular Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Mora is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. You can learn more about her and her work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

    Resources

    Rethinking Menopausal Hormone Therapy: For Whom, What, When, and How Long? here

    NAMS 2022 Hormone Therapy Position Statement here

    7 Countries Study here

    Register for the Feisty Summer STRONG Course: https://www.womensperformance.com/strong

    Subscribe to the Feisty 40+ newsletter: https://feistymedia.ac-page.com/feisty-40-sign-up-page

    Follow Us on Instagram:

    Feisty Menopause: @feistymenopause

    Feisty Media: @feisty_media

    Selene: @fitchick3

    Hit Play Not Pause Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/807943973376099

    Join Level Up - Our Community for Active Women Navigating the Menopause Transition:

    Join: https://www.feistymenopause.com/monthly-membership-1

    Leave your questions for Selene:

    https://www.speakpipe.com/hitplay

    Get the Free Feisty Women's Guide to Lifting Heavy Sh*t:

    https://www.feistymenopause.com/liftheavy

    Support our Partners:

    Previnex: Get 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/

    Lagoon Sleep: Go to LagoonSleep.com/hitplay and take the 2 minute sleep quiz to find your match, and then use the code HITPLAY for 15% off your first purchase

    Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 1h 12min
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