I've been wanting to share this episode with you for awhile, so I finally dusted off the archives and here it is. The sound quality is not as sharp as our more recent episodes - our production values have definitely improved - but I'm certain you'll find it timely and useful.

Despite increased attention on the dangers of burnout, recent surveys report that a majority of the population across many countries report feeling burned out. This epidemic of overwhelm has a profound impact, especially on women.

In this episode, we dive into the world of adaptogens, remarkable herbs that help prevent and reverse the effects of stress and burnout. Discover how they work and which ones are best suited if you’re feeling overwhelmed.

What you will learn:

• The physical and mental symptoms of burnout
• Historical background of adaptogens
• The role of adaptogens in regulating stress responses and supporting adrenal health
• How adaptogens can be used to enhance physical health and mental well-being.
• Choosing the right adaptogens
• Detailed profiles of calming and nourishing adaptogens
• Understanding dosages and potential interactions of adaptogens

Adaptogens offer a powerful way to manage stress and recover from burnout, but they should be part of an integrative approach to health that includes proper self-care, nutrition, and rest. Tune in to learn how to harness the healing power of adaptogens to refill your energy reserves and enhance your life.

For the accompanying article go to https://avivaromm.com/adaptogens-burnout/

If you'd like to receive a copy of my free ebook, Adaptogens: Herbs for 21st Century Stress, go here.

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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT): Should you use it for your perimenopause or menopause symptoms? Does it prevent dementia? Heart disease? Is it safe? Who should and who shou;dn’t take it? Join me for this powerful conversation with Dr. Sharon Malone, an OB-GYN with 30 years of clinical experience - and an advocate for menopause awareness, and I explore these questions.

In this episode we unpack:

• Rethinking aging and embracing the power of menopause - and why Dr. Malone has found this to be the most freeing and joyful phase of her life
• The controversies surrounding hormone replacement therapy, and the research that led to all of the confusion about its use.
• The "window of opportunity" for starting HRT, who gets the most benefits, and what symptoms and conditions it’s truly useful for.
• Navigating the potential risks of HRT, including the comparable risks of drinking two glasses of wine - so you can make the most informed decisions about your options
• The difference between being pro-hormone and anti-suffering for women in menopause
• Why it’s important to be wary when it comes to ‘celebrity endorsed’ information on menopausal therapies

Dr. Malone offers invaluable advice on navigating the symptoms of menopause with grace, while empowering you with the knowledge and confidence to make the best health decisions for during the menopause transition.

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In this must-listen episode I'm thrilled to welcome Dr. Lisa Mosconi, a leading neuroscientist and author of The Menopause Brain, and my friend, back to On Health to demystify the profound impact of menopause on the female brain. Dr. Mosconi offers invaluable insights into how menopause is more than a hormonal shift - it's a significant neuroendocrine change, and a potentially very important and powerful time in our lives.

We dive deep into:

• How perimenopause and menopause really impacts the female brain - including the role of estrogen during this time
• Common cognitive symptoms of perimenopause and menopause including brain fog, sleep problems, and memory lapses
• Why it might be that women in cultures that see menopause more positively have fewer symptoms
• The powerful role 'older women' can play as leaders, providers, and guides in families, communities, and society
• The pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), including it’s role in Alzheimer’s prevention
• The supportive role of nutrients, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids for women's brain health
• The importance of access to a wide variety of options so that we can pick what's best for us in feeling our best in menopause.

Knowledge is power. Understanding menopause's impact on the brain allows us to make informed choices, turning a phase often approached with dread into an opportunity for empowerment and well-being. Join us to transform how you think about menopause and prioritize your brain health through this pivotal time - whatever age you are - because it’s never too early to start protecting your beautiful brain!

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Looking for supplements for yourself and your family, including some of those I talk about in episodes? You can find those - and your 15% discount on every order here: avivaromm.com/supplements

The teen years are a trope and a meme in our culture. We’re inevitably warned the minute we have a baby and admire her cute little face at a family gathering, in a restaurant, waiting in the checkout at the grocery: Just wait until she’s - or he’s - a teen. And it’s no wonder - the teen years - which we all remember too - are fraught with big changes: big hormonal shifts, changes in our neurobiology, changes in how we see our place in the world, changes in how we see our parents. It’s complicated.

And it’s become more complicated - for both teens and their parents- in recent years. If you read the news, and certainly if you’re a parent, you can’t have missed the many headlines that have come out in recent years, from the impact of social media on our daughters, the impact of lockdown during COVID on our teen's mental health, and complicated issues around gender and identity.

My guest, Dr. Lisa Damour, is here to help us unpack the mystery of teenagers and to support parents of teens. This is a must listen even if you still just have a babe in arms, or if you’re a grandparent, auntie, or healthcare provider.

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The Mama Pathway is not your average childbirth education program. It's a powerful virtual membership community and online education experience where traditional midwifery wisdom and modern medicine meet to support you on your most empowered path through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. Go to https://avivaromm.com/mama-pathway to learn more

Welcome to On Health where today I talk about understanding stress during pregnancy, bust myths, and share real tips to take care of yourself before and when the stress hits the fan.

In this episode I explore:

• The impact of how we talk about stress in pregnancy and its effects on moms-to-be on
• Why it's important to understand stress during pregnancy
• The pressure to always feel happy when you're pregnant and the guilt unrealistic expectations cause pregnant women to feel
• What stress really is, including the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ kinds
• Why some stress is normal during pregnancy - and why you're not doing anything wrong
• What studies say about stress and how it can affect your pregnancy and your baby
• The most common causes of stress in pregnancy
• Spotting stress signs and trying out stress-busters like meditation or yoga
• The importance of sleep, staying active, eating well, and finding folks to talk to
• How talking to your midwife, doctor, or a mental health pro can be a big help- and what they need to know, too
• Why you’re taking care of you is taking care of your baby too

Thank you for listening to the On Health Podcast. And please remember to treat yourself with kindness and love through your pregnancy journey - and beyond, and share this with a mama who you think would appreciate hearing this today.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Mama Pathway is not your average childbirth education program. It's a powerful virtual membership community and online education experience where traditional midwifery wisdom and modern medicine meet to support you on your most empowered path through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. Go to https://avivaromm.com/mama-pathway to learn more

Looking for supplements for yourself and your family, including some of those I talk about in episodes? You can find those - and your 15% discount on every order here: avivaromm.com/supplements

Jillian Turecki, my guest for this On Health episode, is a beacon of light and a font of love and wisdom. A certified relationship coach, teacher, and writer with over 20 years of experience, she's fueled by an insatiable curiosity about what makes a relationship thrive, and she's helped thousands through her teaching and writing revolutionize their relationship with themselves so they can transform their relationships with others.

In this episode Jillian and I get real about what it takes to have a thriving relationship, how this starts with loving ourselves, and also how important is that we normalize being single.- because that's a path many women are on, at least at some point in their live and love journey.

We dive deep into so many areas of our love lives including:

• Trusting yourself and listen to your inner voice in relationships.
• Normalizing being single and focus on other areas of your life.
• Self-acceptance and self-worth as foundations of healthy relationships.
• How to be discerning and recognize relationship red flags.
• Mindfulness, tolerance, and appreciation in relationships.
• Avoiding overanalyzing our partners.
• How to get intentional in relationships - including having regular relationship meetings to improve the partnership.
• Creating breathing room to allow for individual growth
• How breakups and divorces can be transformative experiences that lead to personal growth and new opportunities.
• Following your own dreams and prioritizing your own growth as essential in relationships.

Wherever you are on your self-love and love relationship journey, I know you'll find gems of wisdom and practical information to connect more profoundly with yourself and your partner. And you'll find more tools for practicing self-worth.

Make sure to follow me on Instagram @dr.avivaromm to join the conversation. You can follow Jillian on Instagram and visit her at jillianturecki.com

Looking for supplements for yourself and your family, including some of those I talk about in episodes? You can find those - and your 15% discount on every order here: avivaromm.com/supplements

Fatigue, achy muscles, painful joints, brain fog, strange skin rashes… Could it be the flu? It’s possible. In fact, that’s what women are sometimes told! But these can be symptoms of an autoimmune condition.

Autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and Hashimoto’s, to name just a few, have a definite gender bias. Women account for an astonishing 80% of all those who suffer from an autoimmune disease. Yet these are some of the most commonly dismissed, overlooked, and misdiagnosed symptoms and conditions, leaving far too many women to struggle to find answers, for sometimes years.

So what is autoimmune disease and why do women experience them so much more often than men? That’s exactly what we’ll explore together in today’s episode.

Join me as I tell you all about:

• What autoimmune disease really is
• Why women’s symptoms of autoimmune disease are missed - and dismissed
• The root causes of autoimmune disease that disproportionately impact women
• The role of estrogen and other hormones in autoimmune diseases
• How our immune system is impacted by hormonal shifts premenstrually, in pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause
• The wildly interesting role that microchimerism plays in autoimmune disease

Listen and learn so you know how to protect your health from these conditions and so that you know how to get the tests, answers, and respect you need from your healthcare provider.

Please share the love by sending this to someone in your life who could benefit from the kinds of things we talk about in this space. Make sure to follow me on Instagram @dr.avivaromm to join the conversation.

Looking for supplements for yourself and your family, including some of those I talk about in episodes? You can find those - and your 15% discount on every order here: avivaromm.com/supplements

I’m not going to lie. I was much more prepared for puberty, pregnancy, motherhood, and even menopause than I was for aging. And you all know that’s a big deal to say because we’re largely unprepared for all the other phases of our lives, too. But the reality is, we’re aging from the day we’re born, and much of what we’ve internalized about aging - the fears, judgments, stereotypes - and even ‘symptoms’ if you will - have much more to do with the culture of ageism we’re steeped in from the time we’re little - whether that’s the ‘old hag witch’ in the woods who eats children in fairy tales and movies, to the anti-aging creams that women are already now using in their 20s (and younger) thanks to an industry that instills in us that aging is ugly.

My guest, Karen Walrond, is the author of Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy & Raise a Little Hell, an investigation in how we can resist ageism and live a light-filled life along the way. And - I don’t say this often or lightly - this book has blown my mind. It was exactly the dose of vitality and fire I needed right now - a mind-shift on my own journey - of aging proudly and powerfully while I also navigate all that means in our culture, and in work that puts me front and center on video, in media. I truly believe every women over 20 in our culture should read this book, gift it, share it, talk about it, and then read it again.

In this episode Karen and I discuss:

• The cultural beliefs, stereotypes, and fears that contribute to ageism
• How internalized ageism can affect women's self-perception and confidence as they age
• How to challenge ageist language and attitudes
• Embracing aging and reclaiming vitality can lead to a more joyful and fulfilling life.
• The role of the global anti-aging market in perpetuating ageism and sexism
• Variation in cultures on the perception of elderhood
• The importance of community and intergenerational relationships for well-being and a sense of purpose in the later years
• Listening to your body's cravings and embracing guilt-free eating
• The impact of alcohol on health and weight management
• How important it is to appreciate the wisdom and beauty of body changes

Let’s listen to the interview. And then, as my guest says, raise a little hell. Or as I’m saying, raise a lot of it! You’ll see what I mean.

Please share the love by sending this to someone in your life who could benefit from the kinds of things we talk about in this space. Make sure to follow me on Instagram @dr.avivaromm to join the conversation. You can follow Karen on Instagram and visit her at chookooloonks.com

Looking for supplements for yourself and your family, including some of those I talk about in episodes? You can find those - and your 15% discount on every order here: avivaromm.com/supplements

Mentioned in this episode:

Looking for supplements for yourself and your family, including some of those I talk about in episodes? You can find those - and your 15% discount on every order here: avivaromm.com/supplements