What to Know About Prediabetes and Menopause with Val Schonberg, RDN, CSSD (Episode 202)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and many peri- and postmenopausal women have questions. Like why is my fasting blood glucose and/or AIC going up? What role do hormones, diet, exercise, and lifestyle play? What does it mean (and not mean) for my current and future health? So, this week we sat down with midlife health and nutrition specialist Val Schonberg to explore “prediabetes” (which, spoiler alert, is not recognized as a diagnostic category by the World Health Organization) and how we should think about it as active midlife women.

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.

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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	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.5	So, November is National Diabetes Awareness Month.
0:40.1	So it seemed like a good time to bring up a topic that I know is on many of your minds. Pre-diabetes. I hear from many of you who are concerned
0:46.7	that your fasting blood glucose and maybe A1C numbers have gone up and maybe into pre-diabetes
0:53.0	ranges. And you're concerned, and I get it.
0:56.2	As I have spoken about many times on this show, this is something that I have wrestled with
1:00.7	myself.
1:01.7	And I've done a lot of reading and interviewing various experts over the years.
1:06.1	And honestly, this issue is anything but straightforward.
1:09.4	So I'm going to do a couple shows on blood glucose,
1:12.4	and the first is this week with past guest Val Schoenberg, who is a registered and licensed
1:17.7	dietitian with a master's degree in nutrition science, as well as a board certified
1:22.3	specialist in sports dietetics and a certified menopause practitioner. And we just get into it.
1:28.9	We talk about insulin and insulin resistance and prediabetes.
1:33.3	And spoiler alert, and this is something that I did not know, the World Health Organization
1:38.1	does not recognize the term prediabetes.
1:41.4	And we'll talk all about that.
1:43.4	And of course, then we talk about how diet,
1:45.5	exercise, lifestyle, and hormones play a role in all of this. And I want to be clear right
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