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The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
The Hormone Solution is a top-ranked women's health podcast focused on perimenopause, menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), weight gain, metabolism, thyroid health, and midlife transformation. Hosted by Certified Hormone Specialist Karen Martel, this show helps women in their 40s and 50s understand what's really happening with their hormones — and what to do about it. If you're struggling with perimenopause symptoms, menopause weight gain, estrogen dominance, low progesterone…
Episodes
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Biohacking Your Way to Optimal Aging with Zora Benhamou
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthPeptides for Women Over 40: What Works, What's Risky & What You Need to Know with Stephanie Gambetta
Peptides are everywhere right now. Weight loss. Muscle. Recovery. Energy. Skin. Longevity. Suddenly everyone seems to have a "stack" they swear by. But how do…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: How This Magic Mat is Revolutionizing Stress Relief, Sleep, and Healing - The PEMF Breakthrough
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthMy Midlife Aging Dilemma: Botox, PRP, Facelifts & What I'm Doing Now and Planning Next
Download my FREE Skin Care 101 Guide I turned 50 this year, and I swear my face got the memo. Suddenly I started noticing things I had not really paid…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthDoing Everything Right But Still Feel Awful? This May Be Why with Dr. Meg Mill
Have you ever noticed that when stress goes up, everything else seems to fall apart with it? Your digestion gets worse. Your anxiety ramps up. You suddenly…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Why Belly Fat Shows Up in Midlife and Why Dieting Harder Can Backfire for You
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Estrogen Patch Shortage: What Women Need to Know Before Switching
DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE **The Estrogen Shortage Survival Guide for Women** Can't get your usual estrogen patch? Don't panic. You have options! In this free guide…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Protein Mistake That Could Be Costing You Muscle in Midlife with Angelo Keely
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthMenopause and Heart Disease: What Women Are Still Not Being Told with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum
Most women enter perimenopause thinking about hot flashes, weight gain, sleep, brain fog, and hormones. Very few are told that this may also be one of the most…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Empower Your Physique: Breaking Misconceptions for Women Over 40 with Philip Pape
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthWhy Do My Joints Suddenly Hurt in Perimenopause?
DOWNLOAD OUR FREE GUIDE "IS YOUR HRT OPTIMIZED!" https://karenmartel.com/blogs/health/is-your-hrt-actually-optimized Yesterday morning, I sat up in bed and…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Estrogen Has Been Vindicated! Estrogen HRT & Its Crucial Role in Breast Cancer Prevention with Dr. Lindsey Berkson
This is Quick Hits, where I pull the best takeaways from past podcast episodes and bring them to you in a shorter format. If today's clip resonates with you…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Midlife Peptide Guide: Energy, Muscle, Recovery, Skin, Sleep & Libido with Dr. Jeff Gross
Peptides are everywhere right now. They are being talked about for fat loss, muscle, recovery, brain health, skin, longevity, inflammation, mitochondrial…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Sun Deficiency Epidemic: Could Sunlight Be the Missing Link in Modern Health W/ Gerardo Gutierrez
Welcome to Quick Hits, where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most popular…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthWhat Happened When I Stopped Drinking: Hormones, Weight, Stress, and Breaking the Cycle
This may be one of those episodes you are tempted to skip because nobody really wants to hear that their nightly glass of wine could be working against them…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Breathwork for Women: Igniting Inner Empowerment with Kyla Erlandson
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthTired, Wired, Puffy, and Foggy? Minerals May Be the Missing Piece with Caroline Alan
You are taking the supplements. Drinking the water. Maybe you are even on HRT. And yet you still feel tired, puffy, anxious, inflamed, constipated, foggy…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Reversing Hashimoto's Disease: Insights from Dr. Anshul Gupta
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthHRT & GLP-1 Q&A: Progesterone Problems, Hair Loss, Weight Gain, and More
What do you do when you finally start HRT and instead of feeling amazing, you feel exhausted, puffy, bloated, or like something is just not right? Or you start…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The No BS Guide: Ditching Excuses and Taking Charge of Your Health
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthGLP-1s and Menopause: What Every Woman Over 40 Needs to Know
You cannot open your phone anymore without hearing about Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, retatrutide, and before-and-after transformations. One person…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthEstrogen Dominance Explained: What Every Woman on HRT Needs to Know
If you are taking HRT, it is not enough to only ask how much estrogen you are using. You also have to ask a second question: how well is your body actually…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthYour Body Isn't Broken: Why Doing More Can Make Midlife Worse with Debbie Potts
Have you ever felt like you are doing everything right and your body is just not cooperating? You are eating well, exercising, tracking your protein, fasting…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: From Depression to Peak Health: The Secret Struggles of High-Performing Women with Biohacker Angela Foster
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthAre You Actually Optimized on HRT? The Levels, Doses, and Symptoms That Matter
Grab Your FREE guide "Is Your HRT Actually Optimized?" How do you know if your HRT is actually optimized? Not just enough to stop a hot flash, but enough to…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Secrets to Anti Aging Skin Care with Amitay Eshel
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthGLP-1s, Skinny Culture, and the Question Every Woman Should Ask Herself with Natalie Jill
Something happened after my conversation with Natalie Jill on her podcast, Midlife Conversations. Women flooded my inbox and my community, not with questions…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Dark Side of GLP-1s No One Is Talking About
Karen Martel grew up with a front row seat to diet culture most of us only felt secondhand. Her mom didn't just live it, she ran a weight loss center. Butter…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Sex, Lies & Liberation: What You Were Never Taught About Female Pleasure with Susan Bratton
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthBeyond the Pepcid Claritin Trend: Real Solutions for PMDD and Progesterone Sensitivity with Dr. Liz Bartmen
In part one, Dr. Liz Bartman and I broke down why PMDD happens: the histamine surges, the GABA receptor glitch, the progesterone metabolite that either calms…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Molecule Your Doctor Never Mentioned That Controls Your Libido, Energy, and Heart Health with Cathy Eason
You've been told menopause is a hormonal transition. It's also a vascular one, and almost nobody is talking about it. In this episode, Karen sits back down…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Histamine Hack, PMDD, and Progesterone Sensitivity: What's Really Going On
If you've been on social media lately, you've probably seen it: women swearing that a combo of Pepcid and Claritin, ordinary histamine blockers, gave them…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Decoding Fibroids: Unmasking Causes & Effective Solutions
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthPellets, Periods, and Not Giving a Damn: A Midlife Hormone Roundtable with Dr. Amie Hornaman & Elle Russ
This is not just a conversation about hormones. It is a conversation about what it means to age as a woman in a culture that is obsessed with youth, terrified…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Testosterone Replacement for Women Conundrum: Libido Highs and Hair Loss Lows with James O'Hara
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Truth About Female Desire, Orgasms, and Sex That We Were Never Taught with Dr. Sally Greenwald
If you've ever wondered why you don't want your husband to walk through the door and rip your clothes off anymore, this episode is for you. If you've ever…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Hidden Influence of Sunlight and Circadian Rhythm on Blood Sugar & Metabolism
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthPart 3 The Midlife Stress Crash: What Your Midlife Breakdown Is Actually Trying to Tell You
You've made it to part three, and this is the one that ties everything together. If parts one and two left you with a clearer picture of your stress system and…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthWhy You Struggle to Build Muscle in Midlife (Even If You're Doing Everything Right) with Liz Plosser
You're eating "pretty well." You're moving your body. So why does it feel like your muscle is disappearing and your effort isn't paying off the way it used to?…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthPart 2 The Midlife Stress Crash: Why Midlife Women Wake Up at 3 AM and Can't Fall Back Asleep
If you are exhausted all day, wired at night, and waking up between 2:00 and 4:00 AM with your heart pounding and your brain suddenly wide awake, this episode…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthPart 1 The Midlife Stress Crash: Why You Feel Wired, Tired, Anxious & Done
If you are waking up between 2:00 and 4:00 AM, lying there wide awake with your heart beating a little too fast and your mind solving every problem in your…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Great Menopause Myth: The Truth on Mastering Midlife Hormonal Mayhem
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthJJ Virgin: The Untold Story of Aging, Weight Gain, HRT, Peptides, Facelifts, and Muscle
This conversation is not just about menopause symptoms. It is about what it actually feels like to live inside a changing female body in midlife. The grief…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: GLP-1s (Ozempic & Mounjaro) Masterclass: Busting Myths, Mastering Micro Dosing, Retaining Muscle and Unlocking Benefits Beyond Weight Loss with Dr. Gus Vickery
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Brain Fog Fix No One Is Talking About: Nicotine, Methylene Blue and the Midlife Brain with Dr. Scott Scherr
We talk a lot about hormones in midlife, hot flashes, weight gain, sleep issues, low libido. But one of the biggest complaints I hear from women is actually…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Histamine Connection to Estrogen Dominance, Acid Reflux, Insomnia, & MORE with Joanne Kennedy
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Problem With 'I Did Menopause Naturally, So Should You'
Menopause is finally having a moment, but with more conversation has come a whole lot more confusion. In this solo episode, Karen breaks down the three camps…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Great Estrogen Debate with Dr. Felice Gersh, Dr. Daved Rosensweet, Dr. Lindsey Berkson, Dr. Julie Taguchi & Karen Martel
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Thyroid Myths That Keep Women Tired, Fat, and Dismissed with Dr. Amie Hornaman
If you have ever been told your thyroid is "normal" while you are exhausted, gaining weight, losing hair, constipated, freezing cold, and barely making it…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Are Toxins Hijacking Your Hormones? What Every Woman Needs to Know with Dr. Paul Anderson
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthMeno Besties Unfiltered: Bones, Hormones & Hot Hockey Players
What happens when three menopause podcasters sit down together with zero intention of staying surface level? You get a smart, honest, hilarious, and deeply…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Breaking the Silence: Andrea Donsky on 103 Menopause Symptoms and Taking Control
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Menopause Gut: What Hormone Loss Is Really Doing to Digestion, Inflammation, and Weight with Cynthia Thurlow
In this episode, I sit down with Cynthia Thurlow, nurse practitioner, TEDx speaker, and author of The Menopause Gut, to unpack what is really happening inside…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Metals & Menopause: The Impact of Heavy Metals on Your Sex Hormones, Thyroid, and Energy with Dr. Chris Shade
Join our FREE upcoming masterclass: Why Midlife Weight Gain Won't Budge A smarter way to use GLP-1s in midlife without wrecking muscle or metabolism When…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthWe've Used GLP-1s for 3 Years: What Worked, What Backfired, and What Women Need to Know
Three years ago, GLP-1 peptides were barely being talked about in the midlife women's health space. Since then, Jessica and I have personally used them…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthThe Real Reason Your Menopause Belly Shows Up Even When You're Doing Everything Right with Siobhan Mitchell
Join our FREE upcoming masterclass: Why Midlife Weight Gain Won't Budge A smarter way to use GLP-1s in midlife without wrecking muscle or metabolism When…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthPart 2: What Midlife Women Need to Know About Testosterone & Steroids with Victoria Felkar
In this second of two parts, I sit down with Victoria Felkar again to unpack the complicated, often glamorized world of androgens, testosterone therapy, and…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: Cracking the Genetic Code: Unlocking the Link Between Genetics, Hormones, Detox, Diets, Mood, and More
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthPart 1: Women Have Been Lied To About Testosterone with Victoria Felkar
In this episode, I'm joined by the brilliant Victoria Felkar, and we go where most conversations in women's health simply don't: anabolic steroids. Why has…
The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife HealthQuick Hits: The Hidden Role of Melatonin in Hormones, Aging, and Sleep with Deanna Minich
Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today's clip comes from one of our most replayed…