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Health News
Explore Dr. Mindy Pelz’s Health News Blog for reliable, research-based insights on the latest in women’s health. From the science of fasting to new discoveries around menopause and hormonal health, this blog is designed to keep you informed, empowered, and equipped with tools to support your well-being.
Visit Dr. Mindy's You Tube Channel and the Live Like a Girl Podcast (formally known as The Resetter Podcast) for the latest Health News.
The 10-Minute Morning Routine for Cortisol & Belly Fat
Dr. Mindy Pelz explains the connection between cortisol, chronic stress, and belly fat and shares a 10-minute morning routine with light, breathwork, movement, and nervous system support.
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Why Changing Your Body Won’t Fix How You Feel About Yourself with Dr. Marisa Franco
Dr. Mindy Pelz and psychologist Dr. Marisa Franco explore self-worth, body image, insecurity, menopause, childhood experiences, relationships, and how to stop tying your value to your appearance.
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Creatine for Women: How to Take It, How Much You Need & What It Actually Does
Dr. Mindy Pelz explains creatine for women, including creatine benefits, dosage, weight gain, bloating, creatine monohydrate, strength training, protein, and creatine after 40.
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How Many Carbs Should You Actually Eat? with Dr. Ben Bikman
Dr. Mindy Pelz and Dr. Ben Bikman discuss carbs, insulin resistance, menopause, blood sugar, GLP-1, fiber, food pairing, metabolic health, and how many carbs to eat.
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Why You Can't Stop Using Food for Comfort with Kelly McDaniel
Kelly McDaniel joins Dr. Mindy Pelz to explore Mother Hunger, emotional eating, food noise, attachment, body image, nervous system regulation, fasting, and our relationship with food.
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Why So Many Women Feel Disconnected From Their Bodies with Emma-Louise Boynton
Laila Ali joins Dr. Mindy Pelz to discuss fasting, perimenopause, long fasts, exercise, food noise, body image, refeeding, weight and weight loss and why she stopped trying to outwork her hormones.
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10 Foods That Naturally Boost GLP-1 & Quiet Food Noise
Dr. Mindy breaks down five common weight-loss myths and explains how resistance training, protein, sleep, glucose tracking, and muscle building can help women lose fat and improve metabolic health.
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How to Make Healthy Food Actually Taste Good with Chef Nyesha Arrington
Chef Nyesha Arrington joins Dr. Mindy Pelz to talk food, fasting, cooking oils, spices, strength training, healthy eating, kitchen essentials, and making nutritious food taste incredible.
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Why Everything Feels Harder After 40: Nervous System, Burnout & Letting Go
Dr. Mindy Pelz shares how to navigate menopause through nervous system regulation, lifestyle, identity, boundaries, and self-trust, with a featured conversation with LeAnn Rimes.
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Dr. David Perlmutter on Menopause, Metabolism & Protecting Your Brain
Laila Ali joins Dr. Mindy Pelz to discuss fasting, perimenopause, long fasts, exercise, food noise, body image, refeeding, weight and weight loss and why she stopped trying to outwork her hormones.
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Laila Ali: Why I Stopped Trying to Outwork My Hormones
Laila Ali joins Dr. Mindy Pelz to discuss fasting, perimenopause, long fasts, exercise, food noise, body image, refeeding, weight and weight loss and why she stopped trying to outwork her hormones.
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How My Opinion of Fasting Changed After Talking to Dr. Jason Fung
Dr. Mindy Pelz and Dr. Jason Fung discuss how fasting science has evolved, including longer fasts, modified fasting, food noise, the three types of hunger, GLP-1 medications, menopause, visceral fat, and muscle loss.
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The 5 Weight-Loss Lies Keeping Women Stuck
Dr. Mindy breaks down five common weight-loss myths and explains how resistance training, protein, sleep, glucose tracking, and muscle building can help women lose fat and improve metabolic health.
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Why Creativity Belongs in Your Health Routine with Dr. Daisy Fancourt
Dr. Daisy Fancourt joins Dr. Mindy to explain how music, reading, art, dance, and creative hobbies may support stress, mood, sleep, brain health, connection, and well-being.
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LeAnn Rimes on Perimenopause, Rage, Grief, and Starting Over
LeAnn Rimes joins Dr. Mindy for an honest conversation about perimenopause, anxiety, rage, grief, hormone therapy, aging, trauma, rest, and reinventing yourself in midlife.
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Hit a Weight Loss Plateau? 5 Nervous System Regulation Tricks to Restart Fat Burning
Dr. Mindy explains how your nervous system influences weight loss and shares simple strategies to reduce stress, improve metabolic flexibility, and help your body feel safe enough to burn fat.
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Why PCOS Was Just Renamed (And What It Means for Women’s Health Globally)
Dr. Mindy joins Dr. Thais Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney of She MD to discuss PMOS, formerly PCOS, insulin resistance, fertility, women's metabolic health, and why millions of women remain undiagnosed.
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The Truth About Keeping Weight Off (No One Talks About This)
Dr. Mindy explains why keeping weight off requires a different strategy than losing it, and shares eight science-backed reasons people regain weight plus five practical habits for long-term success.
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Perfectionism is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss (Why You Can't Keep It Off)
Dr. Mindy sits down with psychologist Dr. Nicole LePera to explore how childhood experiences shape self-trust, emotional eating, food noise, perfectionism, and lasting health habits.
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Fasting Isn't Always the Answer. Here's How to Know When It Is.
Learn the five signs fasting is helping or hurting your body. Dr. Mindy explains how stress, hormones, sleep, and recovery determine whether fasting supports your health.
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