The Flipping 50 Show

This episode is sponsored by Bluesky CBD and Timeline. Bluesky CBD: Get to sleep faster, experience more restorative sleep and save 30% with code FLIPPING50 at https://www.bluesky-cbd.com/discount/Flipping50. Timeline - Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $99, with the exact same science and formula. And my listeners can still get 20% off when you go to https://timeline.com/FLIPPING50SHOW Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - Muscle and Strength Loss Prevention After 50: A Checklist Next Episode - Intersection of Blue Zones and Modern Muscle Science for Longevity More Like This - Functional Feet for Your Second Half with a Strong Foundation Resources: Don’t know where to start? Book your Discovery Call with Debra. Leave this session with insight into exactly what to do right now to make small changes, smart decisions about your exercise time and energy. Use Flipping 50 Scorecard & Guide to measure what matters with an easy at-home self-assessment test you can do in minutes. Get strong and healthy feet with Peluva! Use code DEBRA10 to get 10% discount. Are shoes ruining your foot health without you even realizing it? If you’re dealing with foot pain, balance issues, knee discomfort, or aches that seem to appear out of nowhere, your footwear may be playing a bigger role than you think. Modern shoes can change the way your feet function and why strong, mobile feet are essential for staying active and independent as you age. You’ll discover practical strategies to improve foot strength, support better movement, and make smarter footwear choices without giving up comfort. By the end, you may never look at your favorite pair the same way again—and you’ll know exactly how to tell if they’re among the shoes ruining your foot health. My Guest: Mark Sisson has been shaking up the world of health and fitness for over twenty years. He ignited the ancestral health movement in 2006 with his wildly successful blog, Mark’s Daily Apple, and his best-selling book The Primal Blueprint. He helped popularize the ketogenic diet and the concept of intermittent fasting with his New York Times best-selling books, The Keto Reset Diet and Two Meals a Day. He gave millions of health-minded grocery shoppers access to healthier sauces and dressings with his Primal Kitchen Food company. He sold Primal Kitchen to Kraft Heinz for $200MM. And now he wants to change the way the world walks with his latest venture, a shoe company called Peluva and his latest book Born to Walk. Questions We Answer in This Episode: How did your journey from health entrepreneur to footwear innovator begin? Is it better to start walking in cushioned shoes or transition directly to minimalist footwear? What happens to your feet when you switch from traditional shoes to Peluva shoes? Why is the big toe considered one of the most important joints for movement, strength, and longevity? If you're overweight, out of shape, or new to exercise, what type of footwear should you start walking in? Are we seeing a shift toward healthier footwear choices for children and future generations? If you could go back to your athletic prime, how might stronger foot health have changed your future as an athlete? Do you miss distance running, and has your perspective on exercise changed with age? Is minimalist footwear right for everyone, and who benefits most from it? If this episode made you flip your workout routine — share it! 👉 Post to your stories, tag @Flipping50TV in Instagram and share the episode to your best friend. 👉 Meet other women, who are done with outdated fitness advice, at Flipping50 Facebook Group. 👉 Subscribe, share, and leave a review if you’re ready to flip the script on Flipping 50 The Stronger Way.

This episode is sponsored by Bluesky CBD and Alloy. Bluesky CBD: Get to sleep faster, experience more restorative sleep and save 30% with code FLIPPING50 at https://www.bluesky-cbd.com/discount/Flipping50. Alloy - Get your menopause treatment plan today. Visit https://myalloy.com and use code FLIPPING50 for $20 off your first order! #AgeGracefully Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - 25 Simple Rules for Optimal Health, Wellness & Fitness over 50 Next Episode - Muscle and Strength Loss Prevention After 50: A Checklist More Like This - What Is Sarcopenia and How to Avoid Sarcopenia In Menopause Resources: Get YOLKED with Fortetropin, a revolutionary supplement that helps fuel muscle growth and enhance recovery. Get powered by Mitopure®! The nutrient that can re‑energize cells with a breakthrough for healthy aging. Use code FLIPPING50 to claim your 20% discount. Collagen Boost is an unflavored source of bioactive collagen peptides designed to support skin and nails as well as healthy joints, bones, ligaments, and tendons. Use code PODCOLLAGEN10 to claim your 10% discount. Try the Lofta Home Sleep Test for sleep apnea in the comfort of your own home. Use Flipping 50 Scorecard & Guide to measure what matters with an easy at-home self-assessment test you can do in minutes. Muscle loss and sarcopenia have been synonymous with aging in previous generations. Muscle loss impacts osteoporosis, balance, stability, independence, and hormone balance. In this episode we’ll talk about the 3 M’s and how to bank muscle looking forward to a time off your fee as well as how to get it back if you have muscle loss and sarcopenia. My Guest: Dr. Chris Meletis is an internationally recognized educator, author, lecturer, and functional medicine practitioner with more than 33 years of clinical experience. He has authored 18 books and over 200 scientific articles, contributing extensively to the fields of naturopathic and integrative medicine. Formerly the Dean of Naturopathic Medicine and Chief Medical Officer at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, he was honored as Physician of the Year by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Passionate about accessible healthcare, he helped establish 16 free natural medicine clinics and continues to focus on the GI microbiome, mitochondrial health, nutritional biochemistry, and botanical medicine. Questions We Answer in This Episode: What trends have you seen in aging, and why does muscle become such a critical issue for women in midlife and beyond? Are physicians beginning to use muscle-related assessments as vital signs, and should strength be monitored more routinely as we age? What does grip strength actually measure, and why is it such a powerful indicator of overall strength and future health? What happens when you need a bunion surgery, joint replacement, or another procedure that temporarily limits activity? Will you lose muscle, and how can you prepare for it? If you're told to lose weight before a knee or hip replacement, how do you protect muscle mass while improving your health outcomes? Are we eating enough protein, and is our digestion allowing us to actually absorb and utilize it as we age? How can muscle-support strategies help during periods of bed rest, illness, pain, long COVID, or other situations that increase the risk of sarcopenia? What should active women do when they're already exercising but still struggle with maintaining muscle, energy, or lean body mass? If this episode made you flip your workout routine — share it! 👉 Post to your stories, tag @Flipping50TV in Instagram and share the episode to your best friend. 👉 Meet other women, who are done with outdated fitness advice, at Flipping50 Facebook Group. 👉 Subscribe, share, and leave a review if you’re ready to flip the script on Flipping 50 The Stronger Way.

This episode is sponsored by AquaTru. AquaTru - Go to https://AquaTru.com/ now for 20% off (your purifier) using promo code FLIPPING50. AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee. Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - Roadblocks Women Experience When They're Doing "All The Things" Next Episode - Rebounding vs Whole Body Vibration After 50 Which? When? Worth It? More Like This - GLP-1 Medications for Weight Loss: A 42-Year Fitness Professional’s Honest Take Resources: Don’t know where to start? Book your Discovery Call with Debra. Leave this session with insight into exactly what to do right now to make small changes, smart decisions about your exercise time and energy. Use Flipping 50 Scorecard & Guide to measure what matters with an easy at-home self-assessment test you can do in minutes. Optimal weight health in menopause isn’t about eating less or exercising more—it’s about finally understanding what your body has been trying to tell you. If you’ve been frustrated with stubborn weight gain, low energy, or conflicting advice, this conversation will feel like a reset. We’re breaking down the truth about GLP-1, gut health, hormones, and why your results may have stalled despite doing everything “right.” This episode shifts the focus from quick fixes to a personalized strategy that actually works with your body, not against it. Because optimal weight health in menopause starts when you stop guessing and start listening. My Guest: Ashley Koff, RD, is an acclaimed weight-health expert, “Hollywood’s Leading Dietitian” featured in InStyle and practitioner for more than 25 years. Koff is leading a transformative movement in personalized nutrition, turning “better, not perfect” choices into practical, sustainable strategies that deliver real outcomes. She is the founder of The Better Nutrition Program (BNP) and author of USA Today bestselling Your Best Shot, which introduces weight-health hormones (GLP-1, GIP, CCK, PYY) as the regulators of weight health, offering the first-ever assessment of their function and a personalized optimization system—shot or not. Questions We Answer in This Episode: [00:02:35] What does optimal weight management really mean in menopause? [00:07:39] Are you ahead of your time and getting pushback for your approach? [00:03:17] What are GLP-1 hormones and why do they matter? [00:25:11] Is the fear valid that GLP-1 stops your body from producing its own hormones? [00:29:49] Should we be talking about something more important than muscle loss first? [00:31:21] How does cortisol actually influence weight health in menopause? How can women address the connection between cortisol, GLP-1, and weight? If this episode made you flip your workout routine — share it! 👉 Post to your stories, tag @Flipping50TV in Instagram and share the episode to your best friend. 👉 Meet other women, who are done with outdated fitness advice, at Flipping50 Facebook Group. 👉 Subscribe, share, and leave a review if you’re ready to flip the script on Flipping 50 The Stronger Way.

This episode is sponsored by Siphox and Calocurb. Siphox Health - Get your convenient test kit from Siphox Health at https://siphoxhealth.com/flipping50 for 20% off at this link. Calocurb - Feel full faster with Calocurb! Clinically proven, natural hunger control – prescription free, affordable, and fast acting.Get 10% off when you use this link https://www.flippingfifty.com/calocurb Resources Don’t know where to start? Book your Discovery Call with Debra. Leave this session with insight into exactly what to do right now to make small changes, smart decisions about your exercise time and energy. Use Flipping 50 Scorecard & Guide to measure what matters with an easy at-home self-assessment test you can do in minutes. Why does menopause gut health become a central player in midlife? How does it impact everything from aging and hormones to brain, bone, and immune health? In this episode, our guest shares the science behind the gut microbiome during perimenopause and menopause, why symptoms like bloating and food sensitivities increase, and what women can do to take back control of their menopause gut health. My Guest: Cynthia Thurlow is a globally recognized expert in nutrition & intermittent fasting, highly sought after speaker, and the CEO and founder of Everyday Wellness Project. She’s been a nurse practitioner for 20+ years, is a 2x TEDx speaker: her 2nd talk on intermittent fasting has been viewed over 7 million times. She has been featured on ABC, FOX5, KTLA, CW and in Medium and Entrepreneur. Cynthia was recently listed in Yahoo Finance as one of the “21 founders changing the way we do business.” She’s also the host of Everyday Wellness Podcast, which was listed as “20 podcasts that will help you grow in 2020” by Entrepreneur magazine, and in Business Insider “21 podcasts to expand your mind in 2021.” Questions We Answer in This Episode: [00:04:50] What prompted you to write this book about gut health in menopause? [00:08:50] Why was writing this book so much harder than your first? [00:13:10] How does gut health actually impact the way we age? [00:16:50] What’s happening in the gut during menopause that causes symptoms? [00:22:10] How important is stool testing versus just guessing with diet and supplements? [00:25:50] Is constipation normal in midlife, and what’s really causing it? [00:28:20] How does intermittent fasting impact gut health and should women still do it? If this episode made you flip your workout routine — share it! 👉 Post to your stories, tag @Flipping50TV in Instagram and share the episode to your best friend. 👉 Meet other women, who are done with outdated fitness advice, at Flipping50 Facebook Group. 👉 Subscribe, share, and leave a review if you’re ready to flip the script on Flipping 50 The Stronger Way.

This episode is sponsored by Calocurb and Flipping 50 Menopause Fitness Specialist. Calocurb - Feel full faster with Calocurb! Clinically proven, natural hunger control – prescription free, affordable, and fast acting.Get 10% off when you use this link https://www.flippingfifty.com/calocurb Flipping 50 Menopause Fitness Specialist.- Become a health & fitness coach who finally speaks midlife women’s language. Learn how to design workouts that balance hormones that actually get results for women in menopause. Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - What Male Partners Don’t Know About Menopause (and need to) Next Episode - Muscle Loss on the Shot: Worth the Risk? More Like This - Finding Exercise Motivation After Menopause Resources: Don’t know where to start? Book your Discovery Call with Debra. Leave this session with insight into exactly what to do right now to make small changes, smart decisions about your exercise time and energy. Join Flipping 50 Menopause Fitness Specialist® to become a coach! Flipping 50 Women's Retreats are each designed to challenge and stretch you. We challenge your fitness, your thoughts about aging, and menopause. We educate about hormones through exercise, nutrition and sleep choices. We always try to find motivation to move. Truth is if we don’t fix this issue, we’re not going to fix sarcopenia, obesity, and osteoporosis or Alzheimer's. This conversation dives into the science of motivation, the difference between exercise vs. daily movement, and why healthy longevity (healthspan) matters more than simply living longer. You’ll also hear how to build sustainable habits, avoid burnout, and find movement you actually enjoy—because consistency is the real goal. Movement—not just exercise—is the most powerful “medicine” for longevity. Despite decades of evidence, most people still struggle to stay active—not because they lack knowledge, but because they lack motivation to move. My Guest: Jordan D. Metzl, MD is an internationally recognized sports medicine physician, researcher, bestselling author, and fitness instructor who practices at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, the world’s premier orthopedic hospital. Dr. Metzl is a 40-time marathoner and 15-time Ironman finisher. He created the Ironstrength Workout, a functional fitness program for improved performance and injury prevention that has been performed by more than 1 million people. An elite athlete himself, he practices what he preaches. Questions We Answer in This Episode: [00:05:42] You’ve recently written a new book. You’re published in AARP, so let’s start with your interest in getting the world to move. Acknowledging that you really nailed the problem we face—the motivation to start and keep going. [00:14:16] Why did you write PUSH and how does it reflect the different parts of your career? [00:19:36] Are you pulling somebody along or are you pushing them? Why did you choose the title PUSH and how is this concept connected to helping people create healthy longevity? [00:25:44] Is there a point where endurance exercise might actually accelerate aging versus support health and longevity? [00:28:45] What is the impact of physical exercise on longevity? What is the return on investment of the time and energy we put into it? If this episode made you flip your workout routine — share it! 👉 Post to your stories, tag @Flipping50TV in Instagram and share the episode to your best friend. 👉 Meet other women, who are done with outdated fitness advice, at Flipping50 Facebook Group. 👉 Subscribe, share, and leave a review if you’re ready to flip the script on Flipping 50 The Stronger Way.

This episode is sponsored by Siphox and Calocurb. Siphox Health - Get your convenient test kit from Siphox Health at https://siphoxhealth.com/flipping50 for 20% off at this link. Calocurb - Feel full faster with Calocurb! Clinically proven, natural hunger control – prescription free, affordable, and fast acting.Get 10% off when you use this link https://www.flippingfifty.com/calocurb Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - The Bible for Exercise Guidelines Update: Here’s What It Means Next Episode - What Male Partners Don’t Know About Menopause (and need to) More Like This: What 40+ Studies Reveal About Rep-Range for Muscle, Strength, and Bone After 50 Why Muscle Growth Feels Harder in Menopause (and What Actually Works) Resources: Don’t know where to start? Book your Discovery Call with Debra. Leave this session with insight into exactly what to do right now to make small changes, smart decisions about your exercise time and energy. Feel full faster with Calocurb! Clinically proven, natural hunger control – prescription free, affordable, and fast acting.Get 10% off when you use this link https://www.flippingfifty.com/calocurb Let’s redefine what strength truly means—taking midlife muscle strength and turning it into personal power. From breaking outdated beliefs about lifting and “bulk,” to understanding how muscle becomes your lifelong independence insurance, this conversation reframes strength as both physical power and personal transformation. We answer questions like human behaviour, creating change, defining success on your own terms and so much more. If you’re suffering from decision-making fatigue, information filtering, or feeling a little isolated, frustrated or confused this is your episode. We’re turning midlife muscle strength into personal power! My Guest: Cori Lefkowith is the founder of Redefining Strength and the author of The STRONG System, a practical framework designed to help women build sustainable strength, nutrition, and lifestyle habits that support real life. With over a decade of coaching experience, Cori helps women, especially in midlife, break free from burnout, diet culture, and all-or-nothing health thinking by shifting the focus from intensity and willpower to consistency and systems. Her programs and educational content have been featured in outlets including Women’s Health, SELF, Nike, Prevention, MSN, Well+Good, MindBodyGreen, LIVESTRONG, and The Guardian. Questions We Answer in This Episode: Why are women still afraid of getting bulky from lifting weights? Can strength training be about more than just weight loss? Why are we stuck in a survival mindset instead of thriving? How do women handle pressure to be everything to everyone? How do you know what fitness advice is actually right for you? Why is asking ‘why’ so important in changing habits? Why is muscle so critical for independence and longevity in midlife? If this episode made you flip your workout routine — share it! 👉 Post to your stories, tag⁠ @Flipping50TV⁠ in Instagram and share the episode to your best friend. 👉 Meet other women, who are done with outdated fitness advice, at⁠ Flipping50 Facebook Group⁠. 👉 Subscribe, share, and leave a review if you’re ready to flip the script on⁠ Flipping 50 The Stronger Way⁠.

This episode is sponsored by Timeline and Calocurb. Timeline - Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $99, with the exact same science and formula. And my listeners can still get 20% off when you go to https://timeline.com/FLIPPING50SHOW Calocurb - Feel full faster with Calocurb! Clinically proven, natural hunger control – prescription free, affordable, and fast acting.Get 10% off when you use this link https://www.flippingfifty.com/calocurb Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - Navigating Unexpected Health Challenges in Midlife Next Episode - The Bible for Exercise Guidelines Update: Here’s What It Means More Like This - GLP-1 Medications for Weight Loss: A 42-Year Fitness Professional’s Honest Take Resources: Don’t know where to start? Book your Discovery Call with Debra. Leave this session with insight into exactly what to do right now to make small changes, smart decisions about your exercise time and energy. The food noise is real. If you’re looking for natural appetite control without the shot, tapering off the shot, or otherwise this episode is for you. If you simply want a better understanding of appetite, craving control, and calming urges to do things you know don’t serve you, stay with me. This episode dives into natural appetite control with clinical research, and real-world application—especially for women navigating midlife, menopause, and weight management. My Guest: Sarah Kennedy is the Founder and CEO of Calocurb Ltd. Calocurb, a revolutionary weight management product, was commercialized after 15 years and $30 million of New Zealand Government backed science. The company currently sells in five international markets and continues to grow rapidly through channels and geographies. Prior to joining Fonterra in 2011 she had more than 20 years’ experience in dietary and animal nutrition. Questions We Answer in This Episode: [00:05:47] How was Calocurb developed and where did the idea originate? [00:12:18] How should someone use Calocurb during stressful or high-trigger times like holidays? [00:14:22] What can women expect when coming off GLP-1 medications and can appetite hormones be restored? [00:18:41] Should women try a natural alternative like Calocurb before using GLP-1 medications? [00:20:47] What are the side effects of Calocurb compared to GLP-1 medications? [00:22:47] Do you need a prescription for Calocurb and what is it made of [00:26:16] What is the difference between hunger and cravings and why does it matter?