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, running and performance expert Louise Valentine, this show empowers you to mitigate impacts of hormone changes without overcomplicating it or needing endless supplements, diets or medications!
Get ready to break through misinformation, ditch outdated male-based methods and apply what you learn to feel your best, level up a fit toned physique and run strong, energized and injury-free at ANY age!
Louise and her clients share how they achieve previously thought "impossible" results, driven by Louise's multi award-winning science-backed nutrition, fitness, running and fat loss methods designed for ambitious everyday runners age 35 and beyond. Get inspired each week as they share how they've turned their own health, hormone and fitness breakdowns into breakthroughs and how they now lead the way in empowering women just like you do the same!
Whether you're looking to ditch hormone havoc, optimize natural hormone production, break through a setback, or you 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 – Louise is here to help you harness its fierce natural power to achieve a vibrantly energized, well, fit and active life!
If you're a wellness-minded active female who loves to run and 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!
Episodes
143 episodes
#144 - 5 Simple & Effective Strategies to Ditch Stubborn Fat, Feel, Look & Run Your Best
Most often, the habits slowing your progress as your hormones and female physiology change are not the big ones, but the small choices you repeat every week.In this episode, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading health, fitness an...
#143 - Part 2: Why Ovulation & Luteal Phase Symptoms Ramp Up & What To Do About It
Your body is not failing you. It may simply be asking for a different kind of support.In this episode, Louise Valentine, a leading expert for perimenopausal active women and runners, and Jen continue their conversation on hormonal shifts...
#142 - Part 1: Why Ovulation & Luteal Phase Symptoms Ramp Up & What To Do About It
What if your cravings, mood swings, bloating, and difficult workouts are not signs that you are losing control, but signals that your body needs different support?In this episode, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading health, fitn...
#141 - How to Regulate Stress, Cortisol & Your Nervous System Without Losing Your Badass, High-Performing Athletic Edge
Your body is not broken. However, some methods you've relied on in the past may be mismatched for this season of life. In this episode, Louise Valentine, a multi-award-winning women's integrative health practitioner and exercise physiologist, t...
#140 - Our New Exclusive Membership for Female Runners Ready to Maximize Vibrant Health, Fitness & Unlock Our Perimenopause Potential
Our biggest breakthroughs in maximizing our perimenopause health, fitness and body composition success do not come with doing more. Rather, it's when we can cut through misleading and unnecessarily complicated noise to simply understand how to ...
#139 - A Refreshingly Calm Clarification of Fasted Training Nuances Specific to Female Runners
What if the workout habit you thought was helping your body is actually making perimenopause harder? In this episode, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading exercise physiologists and women's integrative health practitioners, gives a clea...
#138 - How She Did It: Jen's Victory Crushing Cleveland Half Marathon
Sometimes your biggest race win is not the time on the clock. It is realizing your body is still capable of surprising you. In this episode, Louise Valentine, leading expert for perimenopausal active women and runners, welcomes Jen back to unpa...
#137 - How to Know When Exercise & Running is No Longer a Productive Way to Manage Stress
Your body often tells the truth before your mind is ready to admit it. In this episode of Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause, Louise Valentine, a leading expert for perimenopausal active women and runners, shares a...
#133: The Art of Knowing How & When to Pivot Your Fitness, Physique & Running Goals in Midlife
What happens when the goal you once wanted starts costing you the life, energy, long-term health or body composition results you actually want?In this relatable episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading exercise physiologists, health, ...
#132 - Is it Possible to Achieve Peak Fitness in Mid-Life? Yes! Here Are 4 Ways
Great News: Your strongest, most fit, capable, lean, and healthy body isn't behind you - It's just getting started!In this episode, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading women's integrative health, fitness and performance experts,...
#131 - Is HRT Being Overprescribed? Science-Backed Considerations You Need to Know!
Not every viral menopause tip deserves a place in your body. In this episode of Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading perimenopause experts, gets honest about hormone repl...
#130 - 4 Simple Steps to Unlock Your Most Vibrant Health, Energy & Fitness Potential
In mid-life, unlocking the next level of your health, fitness, or performance is not about doing more, but doing the right things that work with your changing female body - and with consistency.In this episode, Louise, a one of the world...
#129 - Part Two: Family Friendly Dinner Ideas That Keep Us Fit, Lean & Fabulous in Perimenopause
What if fueling your best health, hormones, physique, and fitness in perimenopause didn't have to be confusing, complicated, or suck? Answer: It doesn't have to!In this episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading women's integrative heal...
#128 - Part One: Family Friendly Dinner Ideas That Keep Us Fit, Lean & Fabulous in Perimenopause
Feeling confused about how and what to eat for dinner to best support your female body's ability to mitigate perimenopause symptoms and maximize your health, hormones, and fitness in mid-life?In this episode, Louise, one of the world's l...
#127 - 3 Exact Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Brain Fog for Good
Brain fog, fatigue, and frustrating symptoms of perimenopause are not signs that your body is failing, but instead are signals that it needs a different kind of support. Today, learn the what, why, and how to mitigate common symptoms!In ...
#126 - Examples How I Help Clients Go Off Most Supplements By Session One
What if the real answer is not more supplements, but a better understanding of what your female body actually needs?In this episode, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading women's integrative health, fitness, and performance expert...
#125 - Why Time Changes Hit Us So Hard in Perimenopause & Science-Backed Sleep Strategies That Help
If you're like the ladies of Breaking Through Wellness - wow, do we love our high-quality sleep so we can keep feeling, looking, and running our best! Most serious wellness and fitness-minded women already know the importance of hi...
#124B - Your 3-Minute Daily Pause Practice to Hack Cortisol, Balance Blood Sugar & Hormones With Greater Calm & Ease
What if the most powerful thing you could do for your health today is simply pause and slow down to notice how strong, capable, and resilient you are?In this short guided daily practice, listeners are invited to step out of the constant ...
#124A - How to Hack Your Cortisol & Blood Sugar Response, Balance Hormones & Create Inner Calm
This simple and effective upgrade to your health, hormones and performance only takes two minutes a day!In this episode, Louise Valentine, one of the world’s leading integrative health practitioners and exercise physiologists, explores a...
#123 - Part 2: Jen Reverses Biomarkers, Ditches Injuries, Belly Fat, Maximizes a Physique & Running Transformation at 47
What if perimenopause could actually become one of the strongest, healthiest seasons of your life? In this episode, Louise, one of the world's leading women's integrative health practitioners, performance scientists, and exercise physiologists,...
#122 - Part 1: Jen Reverses Biomarkers, Ditches Injuries, Belly Fat, Maximizes a Physique & Running Transformation at 47
Perimenopause does not have to be the beginning of decline, but can instead be the start of your strongest chapter! In this inspiring success story, Louise, a leading expert for perimenopausal active women and runners, sits down wit...
#121 - Optimizing Breast MRIs, Estrogen Patch Reactions & Canker Sore Cures: What You Need to Know!
Most symptoms we're dealing with as active women and runners aren’t random at all, but are instead clues our body is trying to give us.In this episode, Louise, a multi-award-winning women's integrative health practitioner, shares three p...
#120 - Dr. Megan Hellner on RED-S & Eating Disorders in Female Athletes
Often, the reason we feel tired, stuck, or frustrated in our training, fitness, and health as active women and runners has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with under-fueling relative to our female body's energy and support nee...
#119 - Candid Reflections on Rewriting Women's Running, Nutrition & Perimenopause Health Outcomes
Unfortunately, many of the ways we've been taught to train, eat, and “push through” as females who love to feel, look, and run our best are working against our best health, hormones, and longevity in vibrant active living.In this episode...
#118 - Innovation in Fibroid Freedom & Minimally Invasive Surgical Solutions With Dr. Ryan Armstrong
What if the symptoms you have been told are “just part of hormonal changes and perimenopause” are actually a misdiagnosed medical condition that's progressively getting worse without being properly addressed?In this episode of Maximizing...