The podcast for women in menopause and beyond who want to change the way they age. Fitness, wellness, and health research put into practical tips you can use today. You still got it, girl!
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Welcome! Adventure Nutrition Girl is hosted by Casey Poe, a Colorado native and nutritional therapy practitioner who loves all things adventure. In this podcast, Casey along with industry experts will share their best tips and tricks to keep you healthy on your adventures.
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Join your hosts Tricia Rivas and Wendi Fredregill for Your Sasstastic Life, a podcast where we dive headfirst into the tough stuff. Your Sasstastic Life is all about sharing the gritty stories of adversity and struggle, so you can feel empowered, inspired, and know you're not alone. Think of this as your safe space to turn life's crap into rocket fuel for your future. We don't take ourselves too seriously and lean into humor to lighten the load. Buckle up, it's gonna be a sarcastic, sassy ri ...
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Welcome to the Kickass Midlife Method, the podcast dedicated to inspiring women 45 plus to rediscover their energy, fitness, and sense of adventure while developing a powerful mindset for a thriving later life. Hosted by Rachael Woolston, a fitness, running and health expert with over 15 years of experience this podcast is your guide to leading a kickass life no matter your age. Every week, we visit a different topic or feature interviews with fellow experts or motivational stories from kick ...
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What is Glutathione and How Can it Support Menopause?
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What is Glutathione and How Can it Support Menopause? What is glutathione? Not to be confused with glutamine, it may be something you are less aware of and it certainly doesn’t make it into conversations where creatine and amino acids are. So is glutathione one of the cool kids you need to hang out with? In 2019, glutathione became a regular in my …
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Training for Adventure Retreats Heat, Altitude, Oh My
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Training for adventure retreats, aka, bucket list experiences is so much more motivating and fun than routing strength training for bone density or lose belly fat. Some might focus on fitness goals, while others are drawn to living life to the fullest through challenging adventures. So who are you? You don’t have to pick a side to decide if this ep…
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Episode 34 - Holistic Pelvic Floor Care, Trauma and Healing
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Send us a text What if you could break the cycle of generational misinformation about pelvic health? Join us for a powerful conversation with Dr. Courtney Buhrow, an advocate for holistic pelvic care and founder of Revive Physical Therapy and Wellness. Dr. Courtney will share her professional journey and illuminate the importance of pelvic floor he…
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The Real Reason for Migraines and Constipation in Menopause
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The Real Reason for Migraines and Constipation in Menopause Do you experience migraines and constipation in menopause? Did they begin with more frequency during perimenopause? Why does this happen? Are these common or is it just me? Migraine and constipation can be symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. These may get in the way of our daily lives…
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Things I Wish More Women Over 40 Knew About Exercise
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Things I Wish More Women Over 40 Knew About Exercise This is what I wish more women over 40 knew about exercise and that it starts when women are teenagers. So, I’ll start there. I’ve worked with women for 40 years in private sessions, partner sessions, group sessions, with both husbands and wives, and with 17-year-old volleyball players and 14-yea…
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The Book Busting Menopause Myths That Women (and Their Doctors) Believe
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Busting Menopause Myths Estrogen causes breast cancer, gaining weight and belly fat which are inevitable… Today we are busting menopause myths just like this. In this episode, I interview a pair of authors offering refreshing insight to midlife and beyond women who are often sheltered from all the health options available to them and misinformed, o…
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Fit or Fat? Training and Measuring Fitness in Menopause
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Measuring fitness in menopause is complicated. I’m going to take a stab at this and let you know that if you’re not measuring beyond your weight, body composition, inches, and muscle mass at regularly scheduled intervals, you’re doing a disservice. We get all up in the business of burning calories (wrong goal), having it “feel hard” (sometimes the …
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Episode 33 - Empty Nesting and Embracing Menopause
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Send us a text Feeling a little lost now that the kids have flown the nest? Or maybe you’re in the thick of those hormonal rollercoasters known as perimenopause and menopause? We’ve got you covered in our latest podcast episode; trust us, it’s one you don’t want to miss. We’re sitting down with the ever-inspiring Kristin VanGundy, a powerhouse in c…
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Running Long in Midlife and Beyond One 50-mile Run for a 50th Birthday
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50 miles for 50th bday? Running long in midlife isn’t the first thing (or second) I recommend to women. But what happens when your peak estrogen levels were at least a decade ago? What if you’ve got a crazy goal, want to go for it, and you know how to interpret reactions and respond accordingly? Come on this unique trail as I interview a friend and…
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This simple list of non-exercise ways to boost fat burn has turned my YouTube channel subscribers upside down! Meaning they’ve flipped over them! It’s crazy! Secretly my hope is that YOU are using these as extra insurance, and not your only line of defense. Increase Water Intake to Boost Hydration Increase Protein Intake Thermogenic effect of food …
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Natural Solutions to Restorative Sleep in Menopause
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Natural Solutions to Restorative Sleep in Menopause Restorative sleep in menopause can be elusive, I think we can all agree on that! Whether perimenopause or post, fluctuating hormones combined with chaos that midlife can be, can kiss sweet dreams goodbye. But it’s the exact opposite of what you need to most easily make weight loss or muscle gain a…
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Research About Menopause: What's Real and What’s Marketing?
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Research about menopause right now is finally beginning to really get its moment. Or is it? What’s something you can trust? And what’s stated as “science-based” or “science-backed”? What can you trust and what should you question? Think of this as a crash course in Research 101. In fact, I think that was a required course my first semester in grad …
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Episode 32- Working With Your Hormones To Empower Your Nutrition And Fitness
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Send us a text Join us as we sit down with Nikki Russell, a certified group fitness instructor and nutrition coach who turned her passion for fitness into a thriving business, Aptitude Fitness. Nikki shares her heartfelt journey from using running as a coping mechanism after a tough breakup to conquering marathons, including the iconic Boston Marat…
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How To Defy Aging Naturally without Needles or Knives
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Do you want to defy aging naturally and not with botox or fillers? This is a no-judgment zone. I am guessing that if you have opted for Botox or filler, you think twice about it. Wondering about somewhere more fun to spend that $500 with no toxic effect or superficial fake and dead-giveaway that a frozen face is? This is your episode if you love he…
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Can You Wear a Weighted Vest with Osteoporosis?
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The short answer is yes. The long answer here in this episode is how. Using a weighted vest with osteoporosis comes up frequently as a question. Whether or not you have osteoporosis, stay with me, as I will talk about the overall benefits and science that’s been out since at least 2000, perhaps as long as I’ve been using my weighted vest. Questions…
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TRAVELING ALONE AFTER 50 OR WITH FRIENDS? Safe vs Not Safe
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Dreaming of traveling but your friends aren’t? How can we step up our game and really get the adventure and bucketlist life we want? I challenge you… and me to take the trip we want. Traveling alone is not just a destination trip, it’s very possibly a destination to yourself. How liberating would that be. My Guest: Peter Mangan is a visionary leade…
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Truths and Myths: Lifting Heavy in Menopause for Bones & Body Comp
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Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to begin lifting heavy weights during midlife, perimenopause, or menopause? Let’s talk about how lifting can be very beneficial to your bones, connective tissues, and everyday life. For beginners, you have to start slowly and surely, lifting until we feel that sweet spot. And for those lifting for some time n…
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Episode 31 - Empathy, Humor, and the Art of Being Present
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Send us a text Join us for our 31st episode of Your Sasstastic Life, where we dish out the dirt on self-doubt and the never-ending quest for instant gratification. Wendi spills the tea on her health journey, cold plunges included (yes, she's that brave), and we dive into how our perception of time does a funhouse mirror trick depending on what we’r…
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Detoxifying Your Body from the Damage of Diets in Menopause
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The damage of diets, and often in midlife, a lifetime of it can be the limiting factor in your weight loss, your fitness, and your longevity. Girls start dieting as early as 13, sometimes even younger, leading to lifelong struggles with self-image. We talk with a male trainer specializing in helping women in their 50s get in shape. Curious about hi…
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23 Lab Tests in Menopause and What They Tell You
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In this episode I’m sharing my recent lab test, 23 lab tests in menopause, to be exact. I’ll share why so many, how often, what I’ll learn from them. If you’re at a loss for what to order or really, what you need and want a doctor to run this will help. Connecting the dots is not always easy! Though I ran almost all of these as a part of writing Yo…
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Why Insulin Resistance in Menopause is So Important
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How do you know you’re experiencing insulin resistance in menopause? How would you know that weight gain or belly fat may be a result of your insulin resistance? My guest today has type 1 diabetes and shares today the nuances of how to deal with midlife hormonal changes at the same time as dealing with blood sugar and insulin levels. Insulin resist…
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Improve Your Mitochondria To improve your mitochondria requires you focus a little more than on just “exercise” or “anything is better than nothing.” First, though, let's talk about why you want to. Now, if you want a deeper conversation, I’ve got a couple resources for you. There are prior Flipping 50 episodes I’ll link to and if you love to geek …
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78 Year Old Endurance Athlete Training for Triathlons
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Rarely do we look at training for endurance or being an endurance athlete here. Today is different. This isn’t a suggestion nor a recommendation. But it is a glass ceiling lift. Whatever you think is possible, is possible. There are few 78-year-olds training for 4-5 hours on a bike or spending hours a week in the pool and on their zero gravity trea…
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One Thing I Would Change After 40 Years Working with Women in Menopause
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One Thing I Would Change After 40 Years Working with Women in Menopause Working with women in menopause for 40 years, even before it dawned on me that’s what I was doing, I know now what I wish I’d have done differently. I’ve never said this out loud quite like this, though I’ve hinted at it. The name Flipping 50 was taken very literally by 50% of …
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Lose Weight in Menopause Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible
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If you have repressed metabolic syndrome your quest to lose weight in menopause faster and easier is sunk. But stay tuned to this episode. In this Flipping 50 episode with podcast guest favorite, Stu Schaffer we talk about the #1 goal most of you tell me is yours… weight loss. More specifically weight loss in menopause. It’s stubborn, you’re tired,…
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When it comes to protein consumption in menopause, there are several things to consider. Even though there's no science or medical evidence to show higher (than you grew up with or are used to) protein intakes cause kidney (renal) issues, many people still believe it’s true. What is true is or anyone who has an existing renal issue, diabetes for in…
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Registered dietitian Bonni London joins me today to talk about how to eat out without blowing it and how to decide if fasting is something you want and need and if so how. Let’s talk about your definition of healthy. Is it for weight loss, weight maintenance, or is it to reverse an illness? Stay tuned to know which kind of healthy food can help ach…
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