This week I had a wide ranging, super informative, conversation with Dr. Gillian Goddard, endocrinologist and assistant professor at NYU Langone Hospital. With 15 years of clinical experience, Dr. Goddard specializes in thyroid health, PCOS, menopause, nutrition, weight management, and diabetes. This episode dives deep into the complex world of hormones during perimenopause and menopause, going far beyond just estrogen to explore the full endocrine picture.

Let’s start with this quote from Dr. Goddard: “The endocrine system is endlessly complex.” And so no conversation on hormones at perimenopause and menopause is going to be complete in 35 minutes. But I did my best to ask Dr. Goddard the questions I think cover what we experience and have questions about.

The Hidden Hormone Story

• Why estrogen is just one piece of the menopause puzzle
• The role of FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) in symptoms
• How thyroid, cortisol, aldosterone, and parathyroid hormones are affected
• The metabolic hormone connection: insulin, glucagon, and blood sugar regulation

Finding the Right Healthcare Provider

• How to assess your GP's comfort level with menopause
• Questions to ask your doctor to gauge their expertise
• When to seek out a specialist vs. staying with your current provider
• Using The Menopause Society to find certified practitioners

Telehealth and Online Menopause Care

• What to look for in online menopause platforms
• Pros and cons of virtual care vs. traditional practice

GLP-1 Agonists (Ozempic, etc.) in Menopause

• Why these weight loss drugs are actually hormone analogs
• How they might interact with other menopause treatments
• Potential effects on oral hormone absorption
• The complexity of introducing new hormones during perimenopause

Natural Alternatives and Supplements

• Berberine and inositol for insulin sensitivity
• The truth about allulose as a "natural Ozempic"
• Why current natural options pale in comparison to prescription medications

Birth Control Pills During Perimenopause

• How low-dose pills can regulate heavy, irregular periods
• The contraception factor: pregnancy is still possible
• How birth control acts like hormone therapy
• Safety updates from early high-dose formulations

Non-Hormonal Treatment Options

• SSRIs vs. SNRIs for mood and physical symptoms
• Viosa: the current non-hormonal option for hot flashes
• Upcoming Bayer medication targeting mood and sleep
• The expanding pharmaceutical interest in menopause

Individual Variability in Menopause

• Why some women "sail through" while others struggle significantly
• The mystery of symptom variation between women
• Potential connections between childbirth experiences and menopause

• The Menopause Society: For finding certified menopause practitioners
• MIDI: Telehealth platform example (fee-for-service, accepts insurance)

Ready to rebel against the idea that environmental toxins are just something you have to live with? This episode will completely shift how you think about the air you breathe and its impact on your health and aging.

Meet Eric Klos, CEO and founder of Daily Breath, the revolutionary app that's challenging how we approach environmental health. While conventional wisdom treats air quality as background noise, Eric's platform puts you in control of understanding and preventing environmental health impacts before they become chronic conditions.

✓ The sad story that inspired Eric to create Daily Breath - and how it could prevent premature deaths

✓ Why waiting for symptoms is the old paradigm - and how to get ahead of environmental triggers

✓ The hidden pollutants in your home that are impacting your health right now

✓ How weather conditions multiply the impact of allergens and pollutants on your body

✓ Revolutionary wearable technology that's making personal air quality monitoring possible

✓ Why women may experience environmental health impacts differently than men

✓ The connection between air quality and cardiovascular disease - the #1 killer

"Why are we pinpointing the triggers after the fact? Why aren't we trying to pinpoint the triggers and associate them with your risk personally?"

"We're not at the mercy of the weather and the environment. We can do things that will prevent negative health outcomes from occurring and take action."

"Without a data platform that tracks environmental exposures and your health, how can we possibly make these correlations?"

"The medical community has been neglecting environmental determinants of health for years. We have a system that's driven by what I call sick care codes."

Here's what the healthcare system doesn't emphasize: Your environment is continuously impacting your health, and you can take proactive action instead of just reacting to symptoms.

While conventional medicine waits for you to develop asthma, allergies, or cardiovascular issues, Eric's approach arms you with:

• Personalized environmental forecasts that predict when conditions will trigger your symptoms
• Community mapping that shows where symptoms are clustering in real-time
• Actionable recommendations for everything from air purifiers to timing your outdoor activities
• Long-term tracking to understand your personal environmental health patterns

✓ People with allergies, asthma, or environmental sensitivities

✓ Parents wanting to protect their children from developing chronic conditions

✓ Anyone interested in preventive health and biohacking

✓ Health-conscious rebels who want to take control of their environment

✓ People living in areas with air quality challenges

✓ Anyone ready to stop accepting "that's just how it is" when it comes to environmental health

Download the Daily Breath app (available free, premium version just $0.99/year) and start tracking how your environment impacts your daily wellness.

Connect with Eric and

Welcome back, rebels!

Are you exhausted by the "no pain, no gain" mentality that's creating an adversarial relationship with your body? Ready to rebel against the toxic messages about aging, body size, and what it means to move with joy instead of judgment?

Then this transformative conversation with Jennifer Joy Jimenez will liberate you from every limiting belief you've ever had about your body and show you how conscious dance can literally heal trauma while reversing the aging process.

🎬 Special Note: This episode features a visual presentation with scientific slides AND we actually dance together! For the full multimedia experience, watch the video version on my YouTube channel: Rebellious Wellness Lifestyle

• Jennifer's incredible transformation journey - From body-hating professional dancer graded on her body size to movement medicine pioneer helping thousands worldwide

• The pregnancy paradigm shift - How learning to love the baby in her body taught Jennifer to finally listen to her body's wisdom instead of suppressing its signals

• The birth trauma revelation - Why her 50-hour labor became the greatest gift, exposing the adversarial relationship she still had with her body

• The conscious dance breakthrough - How her first conscious dance class made her feel like "a caged bird finally set free"

• The science that will blow your mind - Research proving dance outperforms antidepressants, reduces Alzheimer's risk by 76%, and creates new neural pathways

• Practical tools you can use today - Simple ways to create your own dance breaks and "body part dance" practices

• BONUS: Live dance demonstration - Experience the transformation yourself with Jennifer's guided movement practice

Jennifer Jimenez: "Your body is your first born... Who puts you to bed at night? Who feeds you? Who bathes you? Who dresses you? You do. You are your own caretaker."

Jennifer Jimenez: "When you let your body dance, you strip away the lies and the dogma until all you're left with is the spirit of life itself. Movement is medicine, and if you put the psyche in motion, it will heal itself."

Gregory Anne: "There's nothing like your favorite song to get you out of your head... You just can't think negative thoughts when you're letting the music lead."

Jennifer Jimenez: "Most people don't realize this, but the heart has an electromagnetic energy field that is 5,000 times greater than the brain's. How do we activate our heart energy? Dance is one of our greatest tools for that."

While the fitness industry promotes punishment-based approaches, Jennifer's work reveals that joy-filled, intuitive movement is actually more powerful for both physical and mental health:

• 21-year New England Journal of Medicine study: Dance reduced Alzheimer's and Parkinson's risk by 76% • UCLA research: Conscious dance produced mental health benefits in 98% of participants • Comparative studies: Dance alone outperformed antidepressants, weightlifting, and walking for mental wellness • UK study: Dance outperformed weight resistance training for people over 70 • Neuroplasticity research: Creative movement creates new brain pathways that keep you mentally young • Happy hormone...

Welcome back, rebels!

Are you stuck in the same exhausting relationship patterns, wondering why you keep attracting the same type of partner? Ready to rebel against the unconscious cycles that keep you trapped in toxic dynamics?

Then this conversation with Dr. Nima Rahmany will transform how you understand relationships, triggers, and the deep connection between emotional wounds and physical health.

• The shocking link between relationship trauma and chronic illness - How relational ruptures create physical health problems that doctors can't solve with pills

• Dr. Nima's transformation story - From successful chiropractor to relationship expert after his own toxic relationship turned abusive

• The narcissist-codependent dance explained - Why these two attachment styles are "like moth to a flame" for each other

• The unconscious deal that creates trauma bonds - How childhood wounds drive us to recreate familiar but harmful dynamics

• Why traditional couples therapy fails - The difference between first-order and second-order change in healing

• The "Infinite Loop of Doom" - How anxious-avoidant cycles destroy your nervous system and health

• Becoming trigger-proof vs. trigger-less - Learning to use triggers for deeper connection instead of destruction

Dr. Nima: "The thing is, we don't know what's there until we're in a relationship. And there's something about intimate relationships where there's the vulnerability... where now the attachment hooks are in and you're no longer governed by your kind of adult brain anymore. It's the child brain that takes over."

Dr. Nima: "My sense of safety depends on your validation and approval of me. Your disconnect, your dysregulation becomes my dysregulation. There's no boundary energetically between what's happening inside of you and me. It's like a skinless peach."

Gregory Anne: "Anybody who's listening who feels like they're looking for that next person and can't seem to find somebody different, I think there's some work to be done."

Dr. Nima: "Becoming trigger proof doesn't mean trigger less. It means responsive. What do I do to self-soothe? Then how do I communicate from my adult self rather than from the child self?"

While conventional wisdom focuses on communication skills and compromise, the real work lies in understanding how childhood attachment wounds unconsciously drive us to recreate familiar dynamics. Dr. Nima's approach reveals that toxic relationships aren't random - they're unconscious attempts to heal unfinished business from our earliest relationships.

✓ Rebels tired of attracting the same type of toxic partner

✓ Anyone stuck in anxious-avoidant relationship cycles

✓ People dealing with chronic health issues tied to relationship stress

✓ Those ready to break generational patterns of dysfunction

✓ Anyone curious about the deep connection between emotional and physical health

✓ People who've tried traditional therapy without lasting results

Sometimes the most rebellious thing we can do is refuse to stay unconscious in our relationship patterns. Dr. Nima's work proves that we don't have to keep repeating the same toxic cycles - but breaking free requires going deeper than surface-level changes.

Your triggers...

Welcome back, rebels!

Are you exhausted by conflicting wellness advice from influencers who seem more interested in selling than healing? Ready to rebel against an industry where "expertise" can literally be purchased for the right price?

Then this conversation with Sandy Kruse will validate everything you've suspected about the wellness world - and empower you to trust yourself instead of the latest guru.

• The shocking reality of bought expertise - How some wellness "experts" pay $30,000+ to be featured in high profile media as authorities
• Sandy's incredible personal journey - From three family health crises in three years to becoming a holistic nutritionist at 46
• Why following expert advice backfired - How Sandy became insulin resistant while doing intermittent fasting recommended by authorities
• The authenticity crisis in wellness - Podcasters charging guests money, bought followers, and hidden financial motivations
• How to spot fake vs. authentic wellness voices - Practical questions to separate genuine guidance from paid promotion
• The power of inner wisdom - Why trusting yourself trumps any external expert every time
• Practical health navigation - Building your own team of practitioners and using discernment in research

Sandy Kruse: "Once again, it's like you need to have these, whether it is even some practitioners that are online that you know and trust are good. Having a physician that's your best health advocate that wants the best for you... it's like you have your team, right? That know you."

Sandy Kruse: "I became insulin resistant while I was doing 16:8 listening to one of the experts... So I'm like, no, I'm living proof because my HbA1c went up to 6.1 while I was doing that. And so what I was doing was I was listening to an expert, not listening to my body."

Gregory Anne: "And I think we downplay our own inner wisdom. We as a collective group of women at any age, and if we had never been good at trusting ourselves before, by the time we're 50, 60, now, we're really like... you just gotta clear out all that noise and really give it a chance, right? Give your own inner wisdom a chance to come out."

Sandy Kruse: "The biggest blocker of that inner wisdom is... fear. So I've been there before where you're scared shitless because you just got a diagnosis... and fear can really blur that inner wisdom and what feels right... but then also never being quiet."

While the industry promotes expensive protocols and one-size-fits-all solutions, the real path to health lies in developing discernment, curating a team of trusted professionals, and trusting your own body's wisdom. Sandy's journey from health crisis to holistic nutrition expertise proves that authentic healing happens when you combine knowledge with intuition, not blind obedience to authorities.

✓ Rebels overwhelmed by conflicting wellness advice

✓ Women who've tried every expert protocol without lasting success

✓ Anyone suspicious about the wellness industry's true motives

✓ People ready to trust their inner wisdom over external "experts"

✓ Those dealing with thyroid issues or health practitioner challenges

✓ Anyone wanting to separate authentic guidance from clever marketing

Sometimes the most rebellious thing we can do is refuse to outsource our health decisions to influencers who may...

Are you tired of accepting that vision problems, learning struggles, or cognitive decline are just "part of life"?Ready to rebel against the idea that your brain can't learn new tricks at any age? Then this episode is going to blow your mind!

Today's guest, Dr. Dana Dean, is here to challenge everything you think you know about vision - and rebels, this goes WAY beyond needing glasses. We're talking about a complete paradigm shift in how your brain processes information, learns new skills, and reaches its full potential.

🔥 The rebellious truth about vision: It's learned - which means it can be retrained and optimized throughout your entire life

🧠 Why 75% of all sensory input is vision - and how nobody teaches us to handle this massive information stream properly

💥 How 2 in 4 children have undiagnosed vision-related learning issues that often get mislabeled as ADHD or other conditions

⚡ The real story behind stroke recovery: How patients can rewire neural pathways through vision training when traditional therapy plateaus

🎯 Visual memory vs. rote memorization - the game-changing difference that transforms how you learn and remember

🚀 Why primitive reflexes matter for adults - and how something as simple as crawling can unlock better cognitive function

✨ The connection between C-sections and learning difficulties - plus how to address these challenges at any age

Here's what the medical establishment doesn't always tell you: Vision is learned. While conventional wisdom says you're stuck with the vision you're born with (plus whatever glasses can fix), the research shows something completely different.

Dr. Dean reveals how vision training can help:

• Stroke patients regain cognitive function faster than traditional therapies
• Children with learning struggles overcome challenges without medication
• Adults experiencing vision changes retrain their depth perception and visual processing
• Anyone feeling cognitively overwhelmed learn to efficiently process the 75% of sensory input that comes through vision

This isn't just another wellness trend - it's a paradigm shift in understanding human potential.

From struggling student to vision revolutionary, Dr. Dean's personal story proves that limitations don't have to be permanent. After being a straight-A student in South Africa, she hit a wall in later years of school, barely made it through college, and then failed her optometry boards three times.

The turning point? Discovering vision training. After just six months of working on her own vision intelligence, she retook the boards and scored nearly perfect. That experience transformed not just her career, but her entire mission to help others break free from unnecessary limitations.

Are you tired of knee pain dictating what you can and can't do? Ready to rebel against the idea that chronic pain is just something you have to live with? Then this episode is for you.

I'm sitting down with two absolute game-changers in the world of knee pain relief: Tom Andriacchi (Emeritus Professor at Stanford and 50-year veteran of knee pain research) and Jenny Hledik (former marathoner turned biomedical engineer). Together, they've created something revolutionary called KNEEMO - and the testimonials are incredible.

And Tom and Jenny have generously offered a 20% discount with code WELLNESS20 applied in the cart.

🧠 The Science That Changes Everything

• How the "gate control theory" allows vibration to literally block pain signals from reaching your brain
• Why staying active is actually BETTER for your joints than "protecting" them
• The surprising connection between knee pain, obesity, and the sedentary lifestyle trap

⚡ KNEEMO: Smart Technology That Actually Works

• Motion-sensing bands that know exactly when to apply vibration during your movement
• Real-time adaptation whether you're walking, jogging, playing pickleball, or climbing stairs
• How this isn't just pain relief - it's functional improvement

💪 The Results That Matter

• Immediate improvements in quadriceps muscle function
• Enhanced proprioception (your body's sense of where it is in space)
• Better stair navigation and balance - no more fear of falling!
• Post-surgery success stories that will give you hope

"We wanted to apply our expertise to working on things that help people, especially people that were suffering with pain."- Tom Andriacchi

"You should stay moving to support your joint health. That helps to reduce stiffness and improve flexibility." - Jenny Hledik

"We saw drastic improvements... for the naked eye, you see them struggling and then when they were wearing KNEEMO... they were better able to get their motion under control." - Jenny Hledik

✅ Anyone dealing with knee osteoarthritis

✅ Post-knee replacement patients still experiencing pain

✅ Athletes with ACL or meniscus tears

✅ Active adults who want to stay that way

✅ People afraid of losing their balance or mobility

✅ Anyone looking for non-invasive pain solutions

✅ Physical therapy patients struggling with pain compliance

Here's what the medical establishment doesn't always tell you: movement is medicine. While conventional wisdom says "rest and protect," the research shows that strategic, supported activity is what your joints actually crave.

Tom and Jenny aren't just selling a device - they're challenging the entire paradigm of how we think about pain management. Instead of masking symptoms, they're addressing the root functional issues that keep us trapped in cycles of pain and inactivity.

Tom revealed they're working on applications for back pain, shoulders, elbows, and ankles using the same revolutionary technology. The future of pain management isn't in a pill bottle - it's in smart, responsive technology that works WITH your body's natural healing mechanisms.

Ready to rebel against knee pain?

Learn more about KNEEMO:

This episode is full of the kind of advice I want to bring you more of. You, if you are, like me, swimming in an ocean of anti-aging, pre-aging, longevity suggestions. Supplements, protocols, diets, the hot new exercises--wondering how to make sense of it all. And, what's worth our investment?

I discovered Dr. Elizabeth Yurth, orthopedic specialist turned longevity expert, while researching spermidine. If not for her thoughtful guidance on how to take this "it" anti-aging supplement, I'd be pill popping to my detriment.

With 30 years of experience in sports and spine medicine, Dr. Yurth shares how she transitioned from simply "patching people together" to pioneering cellular medicine approaches that help people truly heal.

And she did this all while raising 5 children!

• The truth about joint degeneration: it's not inevitable wear and tear but an inflammatory disease process that can be addressed
• How our most critical cellular components (like NAD and spermadine) decline with age and the smart way to approach supplementation
• Why plugging the "leaky bucket" matters more than just pouring in more supplements
• The science behind regenerative therapies including exosomes, stem cells, and peptides
• The surprising top three predictors of longevity (hint: they have nothing to do with supplements!)

• Dr. Yurth explains why blindly taking NAD supplements can actually create problems without addressing the root cause
• The revolutionary approach to joint health that challenges the "joints just wear out" mentality
• Why your own stem cells might not be the best option as you age
• The three most powerful predictors of longevity that most people ignore

Dr. Yurth's Human Optimization Academy empowers people to become their own health advocates by teaching them to understand their lab results and the science behind longevity interventions.

Connect with Dr. Yurth:

• Website: boulerlongevity.com
• Academy: bli.academy

Stay rebellious, and I'll be back next week with another fascinating guest who's challenging the status quo in aging well!

And if you like this kind of information, check out my past episodes at RebelliousWellnessOver50.com/podcast