About this episode

Dr. Melissa Mondala discusses women's health issues in midlife and the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle.

Dr. Melissa Mondala joins Rip to talk about women’s health, autoimmune disease, anxiety, perimenopause, metabolic health, hormones, and the power of whole food, plant-based lifestyle medicine. A family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, Dr. Melissa shares her personal journey from struggling with GERD, IBS, fatigue, and serious health challenges to discovering the transformative power of plant-based nutrition during her training at Loma Linda. She also shares how meeting Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and Ann Esselstyn helped shape the way she practices medicine today. Rip and Dr. Mondala explore why so many women feel anxious, foggy, inflamed, exhausted, or “off” — and how food, blood sugar, hormones, stress, sleep, trauma, movement, and metabolic health all connect. They also discuss coronary calcium scans, advanced lipid testing, fatty liver disease, perimenopause symptoms, plant-based protein, resistance training, hormone replacement therapy, and why lifestyle medicine is often the most powerful tool in the medical toolbox. Dr. Mondala’s message is clear: you are not broken, you are not crazy, and there is so much you can do to reclaim your health. Watch the Episode on…

Topics covered

• women's health
• autoimmune disease
• perimenopause
• metabolic health
• plant-based nutrition
• lifestyle medicine

Keywords

• anxiety
• hormones
• fatigue
• blood sugar
• stress
• sleep
• metabolic health
• hormone replacement therapy

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