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Live Forward with Selene Yeagar
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - November 16, 2021 23:50 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"Hit Play Not Pause," is the name of Selene Yeagar's podcast, and we think it's perfect. While middle age and menopause mean changes in our bodies, aging doesn't mean physical activity — even at a competitive level — is behind us. In this episode, Gennev CEO Jill Angelo talks with Selene abo...
How to Keep Moving in Menopause
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - August 19, 2021 01:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRemember getting out of bed when you were 30? Nothing hurt, everything moved in the right direction, nothing was stuck or rusty or sore. You can be that way again, says Dr. Vonda Wright, double-boarded orthopedic sports surgeon, internationally recognized authority on active aging and mobility...
Gennev: I am the Change
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - May 07, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGennev's #IAmThe Change campaign is a call to arms for women to speak up about how they’re transforming during their time of menopause. No more shushing women into isolation, I am the Change is meant to help us all feel a little more normal, a little more in control of this miraculous and someti...
Gennev's Menopause Now Report
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - April 21, 2021 18:51 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings2020 was a tough year for women and wellness. In fact, 70% of us put our health “on hold,” pushing off preventative appointments and screenings. How is that impacting our health? In this podcast, Gennev CEO Jill Angelo, CMO Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su, and Director of Coaching Stasi Kasianchuk dis...
Women educating women about menopause
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - February 24, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHistorically (and, let's face it, currently) society hasn't done a great job of valuing and centering women and women's issues. This lack of care and attention is compounded when the woman in question is older, Black or of color, LGBTQ+, disabled, trans, or at the intersection of two or more ...
Heart health, menopause, and the gut
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - February 16, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFebruary is Heart Health month, and here are a few things you need to know but might not: Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in the United States, far outpacing breast cancer. Estrogen is protective of the heart - it relaxes arteries and promotes the "good" kind of cholesterol. Ten yea...
Resistance training in menopause with Erica Roselius
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - February 02, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsI don't want to get too big. I can't lift. I'm too tired by the end of the day. I did it once but didn't see results, so I quit. Resistance training may not be your thing, but if you're a woman over 40, you might take another look at it. It's great for so many things: building and maintaini...
Why take the Gennev Menopause Assessment?
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - February 01, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou've been having hot flashes for a while. You still have periods, but sometimes you might go a month or two with nothing. You haven't felt much joy lately, sleep doesn't come as easily as it used to, and you're tired all the way to your bones. How long is all of this going to last? There's...
Embrace your "and" with Dr Erika La Vella
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - January 21, 2021 22:26 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSugar is bad for my health, therefore I can't have any and am a weak person if I eat a donut. Well, no. Human beings are really good at holding seemingly mutually exclusive positions (sugar is bad/I love sugar) at the same time. We're also really good at then feeling guilty and flawed for hold...
The New Hot with Meg Mathews
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - January 20, 2021 20:39 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTalk to Meg Mathews for 30 seconds, and you'll know you're in the presence of a force. Known for her work in marketing, music, fashion, and design, she is a highly accomplished woman with a big life and a big energy to sustain it. Now she's putting that drive and savvy behind educating the wor...
Ada Calhoun on Women's Midlife Crisis
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - January 14, 2021 23:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAda Calhoun's Book Why Can't We Sleep? was an instant New York Times bestseller. Gen X women are finding it hauntingly and painfully and upliftingly familiar. Gen X women are ... unhappy. Not all of them, not all of the time, but certainly there is more of a cloud over this generation than...
Finding Your Next Tribe with Jeannie Ralston
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - December 27, 2020 22:50 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJeannie Ralston has, literally, done pretty much everything and been pretty much everywhere. From hiking the Great Wall to introducing her kids to the Arab Spring to hanging out in Morocco with famous people (and not really enjoying it much), she's been there, written about that. At 60, not ...
Emotions, gut health, & menopause with Erika La Vella
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - December 23, 2020 00:15 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat's the link between your gut health and your emotions? It's a tighter combination than most of us realize, meaning perhaps more of our mental and emotional health is in our control than we previously thought. We know that our emotions can have a direct physical result: stress, depression...
Equality in women's health with Denise Pines
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - December 17, 2020 23:18 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere's long been a gap in the quality of care men and women receive. Women's bodies are less understood, their health issues less researched, their solutions have frequently been "treat women as small men," their pain poorly treated or ignored, and on and on and on. That discrepancy in care i...
"Skincaring" as a Mission
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - December 16, 2020 18:31 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe largest organ in the human body isn’t actually in the human body – it’s on the outside. To be even more accurate, it is the outside. It’s our skin. And it does more than keep the rain out and our insides in. Our skin is a pretty good barrier against much of the outside world, but it isn’...
Fighting fatigue with Gennev
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - December 10, 2020 17:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"Fatigue" does not equal "tired." Fatigue is something else, and it can be exponentially worse. It isn't solved with "just get more sleep," and day after day of it can really wear you down. Fatigue — real fatigue — is a common symptom of menopause. It makes work hard, exercise impossible, even...
The not-knowing place with Aliza Sherman
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - December 03, 2020 22:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen Team Gennev went looking for the right face to put on our website, we had a good idea what we were looking for: a face that showed the strength, resilience, beauty, and energy of a woman in midlife and menopause. It can be hard to find images of mature women doing anything besides fanning...
CBD, stress, and menopause with Aimée Shunney, ND
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - November 19, 2020 01:08 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsI think we can safely say that 2020 has been an above-average year for just about everyone — in terms of stress, anyway. For women dealing with perimenopause and menopause symptoms on top of everything else, the stress can seem unmanageable. And because 2020 has been harder on women, it's no s...
Gut health for the holidays with Dr. Erika La Vella
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - November 11, 2020 00:13 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith Halloween just behind us and Thanksgiving straight ahead, it's official: we've entered the Season of Sugar. And it's not just sugar, of course: it's salt and saturated fat and stress and alcohol and stress and parties and not enough sleep and stress. If you think your head aches after ...
Game on for the 50-plus with David Stewart
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - November 04, 2020 18:14 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCulturally, we have this idea that life slows at 50. Children are grown and gone, we're looking into retirement, our days of doing new things and surprising ourselves are over. Life past 50, if you look at the marketing for this age group, is mostly about fear: fear over health, fear over financ...
Thriving through Menopocalypse with Amanda Thebe
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - November 03, 2020 00:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWith so many symptoms, and some of them pretty unpleasant, menopause can seem like the end of your world. Or at least your world as you knew it. Amanda Thebe was a lifelong athlete and fitness enthusiast, but when she hit perimenopause at 43, things went ... awry. Fatigue set in, and she found...
HRT, breast cancer, estrogen, and menopause
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - October 26, 2020 23:26 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIs there a connection between estrogen and breast cancer? Maybe, but it may not be what you think. Gennev CEO Jill Angelo talks with Dr. Avrum Bluming, Dr. Joanne Weidhaas, and Dr. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su on hormones, cancer risk, and the WHI study that changed everything. Listen to the podcast, t...
Menopause and the Microbiome with Dr. Erika La Vella
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - October 20, 2020 17:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience is starting to uncover the many ways our gut flora affect our health. While many of us still believe the beneficial bacteria is good for digestion (and it is), it does a whole lot more. In this podcast, metabolic surgeon and gut expert Dr. Erika La Vella talks with Gennev's Director o...
Menopause and your hair
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - October 07, 2020 19:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen you look your best, it's easier to feel confident. Unfortunately, midlife seems to conspire against us, at least by today's cultural standards of "best," with thicker waistlines, more wrinkled skin, and flyaway hair. One of the first things we notice when we see someone for the first time...
Menopause in the media with Hot Flashes & Cool Topics
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - September 29, 2020 17:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow do you discuss a “taboo” topic like menopause on a public forum like a podcast? With humor, insight, wisdom, and patience! Meet Colleen Ricci Rosenblum and Bridgett Biagi Garratt, the forces behind the hit podcast for midlife women: Hot Flashes & Cool Topics. A year and 60-or-so episodes...
Diet culture, body positivity, and menopause
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - August 24, 2020 23:27 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDo you feel comfortable in your own skin? Many women don't, and that's more to do with the expectations we've been taught than any real problem with our health or wellness. Emphasis on women's outsides has far surpassed focus on a woman's insides, resulting in a system that has many more sol...
Sexuality, sexual health, and menopause with Dr. Barb DePree
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - August 19, 2020 20:50 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe physical and emotional changes that come with menopause can complicate intimacy. Sexual intercourse can become painful due to the thinning and drying of intimate tissue; libido may wane as hormones decrease and menopause symptoms increase. But because sexuality, and in particular women'...
Menopause and the microbiome: What you eat matters
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - August 17, 2020 23:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsContinuing our conversation with Dr. Erika La Vella, in this month's Microbiome Series, we're asking the doc about how food affects our microbiome for good or ill, how we can eat to protect beneficial gut flora, and substances that may impact our gut. The gut microbiome is sometimes referred t...
Environmental Detox in Menopause
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - August 10, 2020 23:38 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOur environment can be pretty heavy with things that are bad for our health, including endocrine-disrupting substances. Cleansers, detergents, scrubs, things we use to clean our environments and ourselves may be doing more damage to our health than than they prevent. What about products that g...
Grief and loss in the menopause transition
Gennev: Let's talk about menopause - August 03, 2020 18:39 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMany experience menopause as a time of grief and loss: loss of youth, of reproduction, of a body that looked different, behaved in predictable ways, and seemed easier to control. To feel some sense of grief at change is totally normal and understandable. But at Gennev, we feel the menopause t...
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