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! Get ready to break through misinformation, ditch outdated male-based methods, and apply what you learn to feel your best, look fit, and run strong, energized, and injury-free at ANY age!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, 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 – Louise is here to help you harness its fierce natural power to achieve a vibrantly energized, well, fit and active life!
If you're an 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
111 episodes
#110 - How to Regain Control, Clarity & Confidence as a Runner to Thrive in Perimenopause
Ever feel like your body is shifting faster than you can keep up with? This episode is a breath of clarity for every ambitious female runner navigating the wild pivots of perimenopause while still wanting to feel strong, confident, and in contr...
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#109 - How to Navigate Racing When You Have a History of Amenorrhea
What if chasing a race-day PR quietly pushed your body back into amenorrhea?In this episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading health, fitness and performance experts, shares a raw, real story of how one hard 5K and a busy stage of life...
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#108 - How She Did It: Molly Ditches Fatigue, Injuries & Perimenopause Symptoms to Unlock Strong Speedy Running
What really happens to running in perimenopause, when hormones change, recovery slows, and the old training playbook stops working? In this episode, Louise, a leading expert in helping active women who love to run thrive through perimenopause, ...
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#107 - What It REALLY Feels Like to Level Up in Perimenopause
Thriving through perimenopause does not have to be about losing our best health, hormones, fitness, and running, but instead, it can be about learning and leveling up to unlock our fierce female body's potential! In this episode, Lo...
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#106 - Real Life Examples How Healthy Foods Can Inflame The Crap Out of Us!
Ever wonder why your “clean” meals sometimes make you feel bloated, puffy, or downright awful? In this fierce, honest episode, Louise, as one of the world’s leading health, fitness, and performance experts, breaks down how even the healthiest h...
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#105 - The Art of Being Strong Yet Sexy & Fierce Yet Feminine
As hormones change age 35 and beyond, true strength isn’t just about lifting heavier, but finding balance between a variety of strength training strategies, power, dialed in female-specific nutrient timing and your most confident vibrantly well...
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32:47
#104 - Choosing to Retire at Age 40 to Lead With Love, Precision & Purpose
What if midlife wasn’t the end of your best runs, vibrant health, and unstoppable performance, but it was the start of something even stronger?In this inspiring episode, host Louise Valentine, one of the world's leading experts for perim...
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#103 - Female-Specific Taper Week Strategies to Crush Running Goals in Perimenopause
After years of running, we know that our strongest race day performance starts before we even lace up our shoes and hit the start-line. Now, it's time to discuss nuances as our hormones change age 35 and beyond and how to optimize race day outc...
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#102 - Examples How Our Health & Fitness Threshold is Changing
As hard as it is for us to hear, the “grind harder” and "bigger, faster, stronger" mindsets that once got us results are now holding us back. In this powerful episode, world-leading perimenopause women's health, fitness and performa...
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#101 - How to Lower LDL Cholesterol Without Meds in as Little as 3 Months
Lady runners and endurance athletes, don't let anyone ever tell you we can't lower our cholesterol, balance our hormones, and boost our running performance without extreme diets, endless supplements or prescriptions. Most of the time, there is ...
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#100 - How She Did It: Katie Defies Perimenopause Odds to Rewrite Women's Running, Health & Body Composition Outcomes
Fact: The narrative we’ve been told about perimenopause, that it means slowing down, feeling like crap, gaining fat, and losing our strong, fit, and athletic edge... is not our truth at Breaking Through Wellness!In this inspiring episode...
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#99 - Running, Stress, Gut Health & Gastric Cancers: Is there a link?
Often, the very thing we love, running and endurance training, is silently adding counterproductive stress to our body. While not a sole causative factor in adverse health outcomes, recent research findings have scientists, practitioners, recre...
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#98: 6 Odd Shifts in Our Health & Performance as Hormones Change
What if some the very things you swore you’d never do are the ones that bring you the most growth in your health and performance as your hormones change age 35 and beyond? In this episode, Louise Valentine, leading exercise physiologist and wom...
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#97 - Dopamine Seeking, Food Decisions & Protecting Mental Health as Hormones Change
What if some of the foods and workouts you’ve been relying on are actually making perimenopause harder? In this episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading health, fitness and performance experts for everyday female runners, gets real about the...
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#96 - How to Reset Your Vibe to Crush All of Your Competing Wellness, Physique & Run Goals
What if the biggest key to thriving through perimenopause wasn’t another supplement, stricter diet, or grueling workout, but something totally different than pushing your body to new extreme? In this empowering episode, Louise, one of the world...
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#95 - Liz Plosser: Former EIC, Women's Health Magazine on Aging Fit & Strong
What if the key to thriving age 35 and beyond as an active female isn’t a complicated routine, but something as simple as a deeper understanding of the nuances of protein? In this episode, host Louise, one of the world’s leading experts for per...
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#94 - Dairy, Red Meat & Alcohol: What Does The Science Say??
Ever been told to cut out dairy, red meat, or alcohol, only to wonder if that advice really makes sense for you? In this episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading integrative health practitioners, breaks down the science, the myths, and the p...
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#93 - Simple Steps to Pull Yourself Out of a Physical or Mental Rut
Feeling like your body isn’t responding the way it used to? You’re not alone. In this heartfelt and real-time solo episode, Louise, one of the world's leading exercise physiologists specializing in active women and recreational runners, opens u...
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32:05
#92 - Reclaiming Calm, Simplicity & Ease to Feel, Look & Run Your Best For Life
Feeling overwhelmed by all the wellness advice, fitness fads, and hormone hacks out there? Do you know that you're taking on too much but don't know how to hold yourself back from being a rockstar in all areas of life? You’re not alone. In this...
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#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 enterin...
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#90 - 2 Strategies to Fix Your Hormones & Ferritin Naturally
Feeling off, exhausted or like your body isn’t responding to your fitness, nutrition and wellness efforts the way it used to? You’re not alone, and it’s NOT normal or “just part of aging!” But it is likely your changing hormones talking t...
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46:03
#89 - Female-Specific Nutrition Quality, Timing & Holistic Stress Management to Thrive
Want better results with less overwhelm? Today we discuss the truth about how to fuel with your changing hormones and female physiology, with innovative nutrient timing and strategies that even the most well-meaning nutritionists, doctors and c...
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42:52
#88 - How to Let Go of Perfectionism to Glow Again
What if a refined, focused, and lower stress approach is the key to finally feeling, looking, and performing your best with lifelong sustainable success? In this heartfelt solo episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading health, fit...
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#87 - How to Snack to Mitigate Symptoms, Level Up Body Composition & Performance
What if the one thing you've been taught to avoid when supporting your best health, body composition, and fitness results was actually what your female body needed most?In this fierce and fire-filled episode, Louise busts the myth that s...
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#86 - Mental Obesity: What it is & How to Prevent it
Ever feel like you're trying to learn everything you can about best health, nutrition, and fitness methods to feel, look, and perform your best but you're still not seeing great results? In this refreshingly honest episode, Louise, one of the w...
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