TEXT US: Have a Story? Feedback for the Show? You're waking up at 4 AM, your body craves donuts, your anger is deep, and the midlife health industry insists you buy supplements, protocols, and magic smoothies. Fortunately, Nancy Fisher, a women’s health educator, yoga teacher, and the founder of Zevah, takes us on a deep dive into thriving during perimenopause and beyond. We have a few more disordered eating topics to go over, including low hunger signals and anorexia; orthorexia, disguised as “clean eating;” and why "intuitive eating" is more nuanced than just “listen to your body.” Nancy shares why vilifying carbs and sugar backfires, and how recent nutrition trends can turn life into an exhausting set of restrictions. With the bottom line being that there are few nutrition studies to date that have strong data correlating specific foods to good health. From there, Nancy builds her practical framework around five pillars: sleep, mindful movement, healthy eating, getting outside/nature, and connection. We dig into sleep hygiene that supports the nervous system, how poor sleep changes appetite hormones and what sustainable movement looks like for longevity and health span. We also talk sunlight and vitamin D, and the risks of an under-regulated supplement industry. As part of connection, Nancy speaks about being in community and one's connection to self. And when women begin to feel "invisible," are they grieving a sudden change, or the possibility that they have never been known? Finally, we get real about midlife symptoms, HRT and hormone therapy myths, and the belief that women have suffered enough--so let's get through this as peacefully as possible. Nancy Fisher's Substack: HERE Books mentioned in the episode: Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison: Challenges diet culture and explores intuitive eating and food freedom. View on Bookshop.org Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch: A practical approach to making peace with food and rebuilding trust in your body's signals. View on Bookshop.org Estrogen Matters by Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris: Reexamines the research and controversies surrounding menopausal hormone therapy. View on Bookshop.org Our conversations are meant to inform and inspire, not to replace medical advice. Guests share their own knowledge, experiences and perspectives, which, at times, may differ from those of the host. Support the show Frankly, coping with a mental health condition can be exhausting. Here's a place where women can land and find an episode that resonates with them. The majority of conversations give women with lived life experience a voice. Episodes include: being a bipolar mom or having a bipolar mom. Anxiety, agoraphobia, chronic depression, ECT, borderline personality disorder, trauma and the brain, ADHD--even a psychiatrist that breaks your trust. Along the way, I interview experts in the field that address additional mental health concerns. I do shine a light on women's midlife health, as there is so little knowledge out there to understand our bodies and minds from age forty and up. Please share Bipolar She with someone who really needs to hear it. And let us know what you'd like to see on the show! Bipolar She couldn't have thrived without guitarist, JD Cullum's original music. Editor Brandon Moran makes everyone's voice sound both crisper and smarter. Sponsored by Amy Vincze's Emotional Freedom Technique App: Soar With Tapping.
