Lifestyle is Important…and Sometimes It’s Not Enough During Menopause with Laurie Marbas, MD (Episode 207)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

A healthy lifestyle doesn’t mean you won’t suffer during peri or postmenopause. Many women are led to believe that if they exercise, eat healthy, and practice all the right lifestyle habits that menopause won’t really affect them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even if you’re doing “everything right” you can still be blindsided by hot flashes, sleepless nights, joint pain, mood swings and/or other symptoms, and if you are, pharmaceutical tools like hormone therapy are there for you. That’s the message that award-winning lifestyle medicine physician Dr. Laurie Marbas–who was in that very position herself–wants all women to know. This week, we talk about her journey and how women can use both lifestyle and conventional medicine to feel and perform their best through perimenopause and beyond.

Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA, is a menopause-certified practitioner and double board-certified family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician who has been utilizing food as medicine since 2012. She holds medical licenses in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and operates a concierge practice at drmarbas.com. You can join her free webinar, Master Menopause and Feel Fabulous, where she shares her exclusive 5-step blueprint to thrive during this transformative stage of life at drmarbas.lpages.co/menopause. She is also the co-founder of The Healing Kitchen with Brittany Jaroudi, blending culinary expertise with medical guidance to create a recipe for health. A veteran of the United States Air Force, Laurie served in the Middle East and South America. She is also a wife, mother of three grown children, author, speaker, and an avid hiker and runner, dedicated to inspiring health and vitality through lifestyle medicine.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.8	Hey there, strong feisty women. I hope you all are well.
0:35.4	So, as I think I've shared with you a few times, before menopause hit me,
0:40.0	I kind of arrogantly didn't really think menopause would affect me. I mean, I was a semi-professional
0:45.9	mountain bike racer, right? I was super fit. I was doing all the right things. I ate well.
0:51.5	And we're taught to believe that if we, quote, unquote, do everything
0:55.9	right, we will be protected from life's challenges and ills. And this is kind of especially
1:02.7	becoming true for menopause. I often see women in our group who are frustrated and feel like
1:08.6	failures because they're, quote, quote unquote doing all the right things
1:11.8	and they're still suffering. And I also see the occasional comment from someone who says they are not
1:18.1	suffering because they are eating plant-based or because they exercise and they're doing everything right.
1:24.4	And the matter of the fact is that all the good exercise, diet, and lifestyle habits
1:30.6	in the world will not necessarily protect you from hot flashes, joint pain, sleepless nights,
1:36.9	thawing lipid levels, mood swings, all of it, which is something that this week's guest,
1:42.4	Lifestyle Medicine, Telehealth physician, Dr.
1:45.4	Lori Marbus really, really, really wants women to know because she is one of those women.
1:53.3	And I loved this conversation with her.
1:57.0	It's all about how we have to stop feeling like we have failed because we have menopause
2:01.7	symptoms and that you don't need to think of it like you are resorting to hormone therapy
2:06.3	or throwing in the towel because you're using hormones.
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