Episode 94: Do we really make our own choices when it comes to our health?

Empower Your Menopause · Aug 21, 2026 · 44m · transcript

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What if some of the health choices you think you’re making freely have actually been nudged along long before you make them?

In this episode, we explore how advertising, repetition, convenience, habits, stress, social norms and the environment around us can influence everything from food cravings to exercise — often without us consciously noticing. And it all starts with Juli’s unexpected holiday obsession with Haribo…

Rather than blaming every less-than-perfect choice on a lack of willpower, we look at what happens when we get curious about the chain of events that…