Not Your Mother's Menopause With Dr. Fiona Lovely

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   A very timely topic on the show today - women and tesosterone therapy at menopause.  Not just a hormone for the guys, testosterone is a crucial part of the HRT picture for women.  When we are cycling, we make a huge amount of testosterone, but we don't hear about that as much as we hear about estrogen and progesterone.   I am speaking with Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith - a gynecologist with a specialty practice in menopause care in Houston, Texas.    She is a certified menopause practitioner and the Founder of the Complete Midlife Wellness Center.  She is also a podcaster, author and triathlete.   Testosterone therapy is helpful for bone and muscle health, moods and mental health and sexual health for men and women!   There is some controversy with this topic as the FDA doesn't yet ha

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   Please join us for this lighthearted and fun conversation with The Comic Coach, Em Stroud.  Em is Leadership and Business Coach, a podcaster, an author, and a theatre and comedy show performer who is premiering her one woman show in London's West End in December of 2024 before a UK tour in 2025.  Em and I spoke about the importance of play and fun.  We forget how to play as adults, but Em shares a story of her son and his reminders to play daily were a wake up call for her.    This is one of my favourite conversations of the year!  I learned so much about myself and my methods of play through the eyes of Em (and her swell play permissions!)  Tune in to learn about that for yourself.  How DO you play?  Em shares the 12 ways we play as humans and how you can find freedom and recogni

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   In today's chat, I welcome back Karen Martel of the Hormone Solutions Podcast and we have a chat about the most contemporary topics around HRT.  When to start (or stop), what to take (estrogen, progesterone and testosterone for all?), and how best to deliver it (cream, patch, pill, ring, etc.)   There is something for every woman in this episode!   You can find out more about Karen Martel's awesome hormone creams here.  Use the code LOVELY for 10% off.   You can find out more about Karen Martel on her website and on Instagram @karenmartelhormones.   Thank you to our sponsors for this episode:

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   Today, Dr. Lovely welcomes Dr. Meg Mill back to the show to discuss a very contemporary health concern - mast cell activation and the role of histamine and histamine intolerance.  Whether you are a headache sufferer, have experience long haul symptoms from covid infection or shots, have questionable gut health or have mysterious symptoms that no one seems to help with, you will want to listen in.   If you are the person who feels like you have a reaction to EVERYTHING (including water), this episode is for you! Want Dr Meg's histamine guide - she references it in the show?  Please visit histamine guide here.  You can find out more about Dr Meg Mill at her website and on IG @drmegmill Thank you to our sponsors for this episode:

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   Cooking, wildfire smoke, pollution, fragrance and mold.  Things I didn't think would ever be discussed much on the NYMM podcast, but in doing the research for this interview with Mike Feldstein, I realized, I have been remiss by not discussing the effects of these things on our overall health.  Addressing these things in our home environment can make massive change when we don't feel great.   Mike Feldstein is an Air Quality expert and has decades of experience working in restoration and remediation.  He brings this expertise to the table along with some very interesting stories.  In a study that JASPR did recently, monitoring the group of 125 people with sleep trackers, he found that when the bedroom air was clean and filtered, the participants fell asleep quicker, had 18% deeper

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   The ebullient Dr Jennifer Simmons returns to speak with us today and she does not hold back!  An insider to the world of western medicine, Pharma and the industry of cancer management in the US then gone rogue after her own diagnosis, she highlights the deficiencies of Medicine.  And she gives us hope to manage our health, ourselves by sharing useful and helpful information for all of us.  We speak about breast health, good breast imaging, and what you can do if you find yourself with a breast cancer diagnosis - pause, breathe, consider your team, then act is completely appropriate for MOST new breast cancer diagnoses (Part 1, episode 139).  Dr Jenn's book - The Smart Woman's Guide To Breast Cancer is a must-read for every woman.  Walk your perimenopause, informed, so if you ever

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   Today, Dr. Lovely shares some recent clinic Frequently Asked Questions - when do you know it's time to start HRT and the common concern of "why don't I feel like myself anymore".  These questions have become so prevalent in office, they needed addressing on a larger scale.  Many women are wondering these very things! Dr. Lovely also shares 'Menopause by the numbers'  - massive numbers of us are experiencing the challenges of menopause and perimenopause.   How can we support each other better?  In this spirit, we launch The Gathering.  A private club space for fans of the NYMM podcast and women who want more.  Support, info, community as well as the video editions of the expert interviews, pop up LIVE episdoes and Q+A with the guest experts too!  All right here and only here in The

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   The ebullient Dr Jennifer Simmons returns to speak with us today and she does not hold back!  An insider to the world of western medicine, Pharma and the industry of cancer management in the US then gone rogue after her own diagnosis, she highlights the deficiencies of Medicine.  And she gives us hope to manage our health, ourselves by sharing useful and helpful information for all of us.  We speak about breast health, good breast imaging, and what you can do if you find yourself with a breast cancer diagnosis - pause, breathe, consider your team, then act is completely appropriate for MOST new breast cancer diagnoses.  Dr Jenn's book - The Smart Woman's Guide To Breast Cancer is a must-read for every woman.  Walk your perimenopause, informed, so if you ever need this information,

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around perimenopause and menopause.   Andrea Donsky is returning to the show today for a discussion on her upcoming event - The Power of Menopause being held virtually on October 25, 2024.  She is also with us to chat about her recent experience at The Menopause Society annual conference, presenting her research to the esteemed members in attendance.  Andrea and her company wearemorphus.com collect data via free surveys that anyone can take.  Through the data collected, we are starting to get a much more clear and different picture of what actually happens at perimenopause, with our sleep in peri, and how our doctors are treating us when we present for care.  The results will surprise you (but probably not shock you).  40% of women are dismissed by their doctor without help for meno symptoms.    And there is much more

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.   After breaking free from the world of Big Pharma where she saw first hand the over prescription of drugs and the glorification of disease management (instead of health), Tina Anderson and her husband Billy started a company.  A company where they vowed to make real change for health, to improve lives and helped people to manage stress.  That company is called Just Thrive.  And they are here to say, if you aren't paying attention to your gut health, you should be! So let's dive into gut health.... Tina and Dr. Lovely discuss probiotics, leaky gut, joint pain, resilience, stress management, mental health, inflammation and much more.  Tina tells us to reject what she calls the "Stress Badge of Honour" instead choosing to feel happy, peaceful.  Who knew that tending to our gut and ou

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine, functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.   Dr. Lovely has a chat today with Family Physician, Dr. Shana Johnston.  After working nearly 30 years in a volume based system of medicine, Shana burned out and left practice.  This also happened to correspond to her late peri-menopause.  She calls this time, the tunnel of menopause, a portal.  A graduation of sorts where we are called to come home to ourselves.  A gorgeous chat between dear friends, they discuss how spiritual practices become so much more important during the times of challenge, like perimenopause.   Dr. Shana has a fascinating story and a deep knowledge of humanity from working many aspects of medicine in her professional career.  Delivering babies and assisting with end of life care, she sees herself as the helper in "life's airport:  arrivals and departures."

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  She is speaking to the topics of women's health and wellness around peri-menopause and menopause.   Today, Dr. Lovely is speaking with Certified Financial Planner and wealth advisor, Francesca Rea.   Francesca teaches us money mindset, success planning, and how to find those spots where you might have learned some crummy thinking around the subject of money.  We talk about how being a great custodian of our money allows the freedom of choice and wellness.  Why wasn't this taught in school?  It should be mandatory for all kids to learn this AND it's never to late for us to learn.   One of the most powerful moments was when Francesca teaches that women can lose choice because of death, divorce or decision.  That 80% of us will find ourselves in this place in our lifetime.  How can we financially prepare for these times we never feel disempowered or cornered because of a lack o

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a longevity, health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.   Dr. Lovely has a chat today with Dr. Amie Hornaman, thyroid expert and functional medicine practitioner.  Dr. Amie has her own story to share of how she found herself needing to become an expert in thyroid disease.  Faced with an inadequate standard-of-care from medicine, functional medicine found her.  So many of us, the functional medicine practitioners, this is true!  We talk about what to do if you find yourself in the Synthroid box, or if you have thyroid symptoms for the first time in perimenopause.  We talk about autoimmunity - Hashimoto's thyroiditis and why it tends to show up in midlife.   We also discuss what to do if you find yourself with thyroid nodules. Weight gain is common at perimenopause and also for women with thyroid dysfunction.  Dr. Amie shares with us her best p

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.   Today, Dr. Lovely is speaking with integrative and functional medicine practitioner, Registered Dietician and Nutritionist Jennifer Scheinman.  Jen is here to teach us about the requirements for good cellular health and the impacts it has on our Healthspan and longevity.  We talk about the research behind what you can do to help yourself live a longer and better, healthy life!   We talk about mitochondria, muscle building and strength, fasting (is it still the right thing for everyone?  maybe not!),  Mitopure to help us feel strong, protein intake for women, urolithin A for mitophagy and more!  I very much enjoyed the info Jen shared on keeping skin health tip-top in menopause and beyond.  This is not your Grandma's wrinkle cream discussion, for sure!   You can find out more about Mitopure with U

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.   Join Dr. Lovely with Nurse Practitioner, Dr. Tammy O'Rourke for this spirited conversation about how we can get help for our hormonal woes at perimenopause and menopause.  Healthy aging, Tammy's own illness and burn out,  and the problems within the fee-for-service model of care are all on the table for this chat.  She prefers and practices personalized medicine and is an empowering force for women, especially those of us who feel disempowered and without confidence at midlife.  We discuss the causes of frailty and how to address it before it even is a problem. Tune in to hear these powerhouse ladies talk about the midlife glass ceiling and how we turn down great offers because we don't feel well.  Learn what you can do about it, NOW.  Please listen, learn and share.   You can find out more about

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in restorative endocrinology, functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.  It's time for a mental break from the info overload we can feel!  Here is a sweet grounding meditation for you a recorded by Dr. Lovely.  It's quick and please secure your physical self before starting the mediation.  You will be asked to stay still with your eyes closed, so no operating a vehicle or machinery while you are enjoying this meditation, please.   Do share this episode if you are called to.  We really appreciate it!

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.  Today, Dr. Lovely speaks with the Hello Alpha's Medical Affairs Officer, Dr. mary Jacobson.  Dr. J (as she likes to be called) is an OB/GYN who has been practicing medicine since before the WHI changed how we managed the hormonal needs of women at menopause.  She has plenty to say about the brilliance of and deficiences in the current system.  She speaks candidly about the gaps in care in the United States.  This conversation is eye-opening and Dr. J's honesty, refreshing.  Please listen, learn and share.   Find out more about Hello Alpha here: @helloalphamd and helloalpha.com.  Hello Alpha is a telemedicine healthcare platform in the US aimed at making great care accessable for people.  They have an eye to equality, especially for women.  ✨Want to know more about The Apollo wearable tech?  "Apoll

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.  Today, Dr. Lovely is speaking with Storyteller and Best Selling Author Jessica Waite.  Her debut memoir is a shocking and yet heart warming read about the time after the sudden and unexpected passing of her husband, Sean.  She carries on bravely with a 9 year old son to raise.  She learns her husband was living a double life of sorts and makes her way forward.  All while navigating the choppy waters of perimenopause.  It's darkly funny and a page turner that will leave you inspired in the end.  I loved reading the book and it's available now.  The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards and is available at your local library, community book store or your favourite online book shop.   You can find out more about Jessica Waite on IG @endless_stories_jess, on her website: https://www.jessicawaite.work

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.  Today, Dr. Lovely is speaking with Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, Researcher and Entrepreneur Dr. David Rabin.   Vivid dreams as a child led Dr. Rabin into a career studying chronic stress and resilience, and the application of psychedelics to chronic disease.  We speak about how trauma changes the brain and how things like MDMA and ketamine can help break the patterns that leave us mentally and physically unwell.  Dr Rabin talks about touch therapy for stress management and how signalling safety to the brain is one of the most important things you can learn!  Please listen, learn and share.   You can find out more about Dr David Rabin on IG @drdavidrabin, on his podcast here: Psychedelic News Hour. ✨Want to know more about The Apollo wearable tech?  "Apollo is a great tool to not only increase you

Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in menopause medicine,  functional neurology and functional medicine.  Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause.  Today, Dr. Lovely wraps up this 3 part series on mental health with the most contemporary research we have on how perimenopause and menopause changes brain function.  This can result in anxiety. depression, loss of confidence, low self worth, paranoia, brain fog, insomia, and others.  Learn why and what you can do about it.  Please listen, learn and share.   ✨Want to know more about The Apollo wearable tech?  "Apollo is a great tool to not only increase your HRV, but improve emotional regulation and achieve deeper sleep. I would recommend it to anyone looking for more balance in their nervous system, or for women specifically dealing with symptoms related to menopause." apolloneuro.com/lovely for 10% off your first order for our listeners! ✨