Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause
Welcome to "Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause," the podcast that redefines your relationship with fitness, nutrition and hormonal changes.
Hosted by American College of Sports Medicine Practitioner of the Year 2023, women's integrative health and performance expert Louise Valentine, this show empowers you to mitigate impacts of hormone changes without overcomplicating it! Get ready to break through misinformation, ditch ineffective trends, outdated methods and apply what you learn to feel your best, look fit or run strong and injury-free.
Join Louise, her coaches and clients as they share multi award-winning science-backed nutrition, fitness, running and fat loss methods designed for active females age 35 and beyond. Get inspired each week as they share how they've turned their own health and fitness breakdowns into breakthroughs and how they now lead the way in helping women just like you do the same!
Whether you're looking to ditch hormone havoc, break through a setback or want to understand how to lift, train and fuel harmoniously with your changing female physiology, you'll find this podcast insightful and inspiring. No more fighting against your body – we're here to help you harness its natural power to achieve a vibrantly energized, well, fit and active life!
If you're an active female who wants it all, Welcome to "Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause" – Your go-to resource to break through to next-level health, hormones and fitness!
Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause
#91 - 5 Perimenopause Warning Signs From Your Female Body
Is your body whispering... or screaming for help? In this empowering episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading health, fitness and performance experts for everyday recreational runners, opens up about the unexpected signs your body is entering the heart of perimenopause, often long before the typical hot flashes or changes in your cycle show up!
She sheds light on subtle, easily overlooked symptoms like stress fractures, energy crashes, stubborn weight gain, and even PMS-like symptoms that start to appear mid-cycle. Through a mix of personal stories, science-backed insights, and hard-learned lessons from her own journey, Louise helps you recognize these red flags for what they really are: your body’s cry for female-specific nutrition, fitness and running methods that support your body's ability to thrive, mitigating frustrating symptoms, health, hormone and fitness decline.
This episode goes beyond just surviving perimenopause. It’s about reclaiming your vitality and learning to thrive through hormonal shifts. Whether you’re a dedicated endurance athlete pushing your limits, a busy runnermom juggling a full work-home life plate, or an avid fitness lover who’s tired of feeling “off,” Louise offers clarity, compassion, and powerful tools to help you feel strong, energized, and in tune with your changing female body.
You’ll discover why stress fractures and bone issues in your 30s and 40s are a sign worth paying attention to, what’s really behind that dreaded 3PM energy crash and what to eat instead, and why your lab results might not be telling the full story about your hormones. Most importantly, Louise reframes symptoms not as weaknesses, but as signals, and even superpowers, that can guide you toward better health, fitness and performance. Ready to understand your unique changing female body? Tune in and take action!
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Episode Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(4:07) What perimenopause really means
(6:26) You can thrive with the right tools
(8:22) Stress fractures as a wake-up call
(17:39) Epic energy crashes aren’t normal
(21:02) Weight won’t budge? Here’s why
(23:15) Warmth without hot flashes
(31:49) Lab work flags you shouldn’t ignore
(38:46) PMS symptoms shifting to ovulation
(44:17) Your symptoms are your superpower
(46:15) What Louise did wrong—so you don’t
(54:56) Even practitioners screw up too
(1:01:02) Game-changing blood sugar hack
(1:03:17) Outro
Tune in weekly to "Maximizing Fitness, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause" for a simple female-specific science-based revolution. Let's unlock our best with less stress!
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