About this episode
What do you wish you’d known about menopause before you got here? Will you pass on information to your daughter differently? Here’s one chance. This episode is a fun jaunt both into the deep wants and wishes we all feel and some of us express. We do a fun rapid fire game where I list symptoms of menopause and Dr. Stills fires back what it makes her consider first. This episode is sponsored by the Flipping 50 Menopause Fitness Specialist course. I share more about it in the She Means Fitness Business podcast for fitness professionals. Click for more, or listen on your favorite podcast platform to She Means Fitness Business, or share with your favorite fitness pro. My guest today shares as much as we can pack into this episode about what you and your daughter both want to know about menopause, before, during, or after. My Guest: Dr. Sharon Stills is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor who helps perimenopausal and menopausal women to pause and evaluate life so they can live the second act of their story stronger, healthier, and sexier while aging backwards. Using her 20+ years of experience and extensive training and background in European Biological Medicine, anti-aging therapies, and Bio-identical Hormone Replacement, she has successfully helped thousands of women transition gently through the different stages of their lives with all natural methods. Dr. Stills is passionate about spreading the word about her signature RED Hot Sexy Meno(pause) Program – the philosophy she developed for you to Reinvent your Health, Explore your Spirit and Discover YOUR Sexy so that you, too, can create and live the life you desire and deserve! She founded and ran one of the largest and most successful naturopathic clinics in the country for a decade and is the host of The Science Of Self Healing podcast. She is an expert physician for Women’s Health Network and she educates other physicians as the Co-Lead North American lecturer for the Paracelsus Academy in Switzerland. Patients work with Dr. Stills in a variety of ways: through telemedicine consults and her life-changing retreats for individuals or small groups in healing and rejuvenating locations around the world. Some patients will even fly out to see her or fly her in just to get the chance to work with her one on one. 00:00 Questions we answer in this episode: 09:50 If you could wave a magic wand and have women know things about menopause what top 3 things would you like to have them know before they arrive? What’s the ideal time to start prepping for menopause? 16:26 If I said sex, skin, and fat … the greatest of these is ______________ … and I meant this is the greatest concern of women when they hit that transition how would you answer that? Anti-aging therapies vs Pro-aging therapies? Which label feels to you like a better fit? And why? Here are some of our rapid-fire questions. I say a menopause “sign/symptom/nuisance” you say… a remedy, habit to start or something to stop that would give the quickest support .. wanna play? 26:43 Painful intercourse 26:52 No desire for sex 27:06 Hot flashes 27:14 Belly fat 27:58 Insomnia 28:08 Feelings of depression/anxiety 28:29 Forgetfulness Gut issues making “eating healthy” complicated You’ve got a summit coming up, and I’m in ! And you and I chat at dinner about life and menopause and travel and all the things … while you’ve got a busy practice, a crazy travel schedule, and when at home you’re like grandma on steroids. What’s the importance of hosting a summit to you? And why now? 31:03 Can you share a little about the summit and tease some of your guests? I’m honored to be speaking, and yet feel like my listeners are getting me .. the draw of those great experts I’m among may be for them greater! There’s so much more to share about menstruation and menopause. If one goes well, the other tends to go better. The time to think about Join the Summit: Mastering the Menopause Transition https://flippingfifty.com/mastermenopause Follow Dr. Stills on Social: facebook.com/drsharonstills instagram.com/drsharonstills