About this episode

Dr. Mindy Pelz discusses the neuroscience of menopause and how it can lead to personal reinvention and leadership in midlife.

In this powerful MenoPositive conversation, Lisa is joined by Dr. Mindy Pelz — New York Times bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl , The Menopause Reset , Eat Like a Girl and her newest book Age Like a Girl — to reframe how we think about perimenopause, menopause and ageing as women. What if the menopause transition isn’t a hormonal crisis, but a neurochemical upgrade? Dr. Mindy explains the three major brain rewiring events women experience (puberty, pregnancy and menopause) — and why midlife is your brain’s invitation into greater independence, clarity and leadership. You’ll learn: • The Grandmother Hypothesis and why post-reproductive women are evolutionary heroines • The truth about estrogen and its “girl gang” of neurochemicals (dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, GABA & more) • How we can fuel our menopause brain and take advantage of its new wiring • How to naturally boost dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin in midlife • Why intermittent fasting can fuel the menopausal brain through ketones • How menopause can become a launch pad for reinvention, sovereignty and authentic voice This episode moves beyond symptom management and into possibility. If you and a friend are…

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