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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.


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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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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Sugar Burner or Fat Burner? How to Tell and How to Switch
Here's the truth almost no one tells you: your body has two fuel tanks. One runs on sugar, the other runs on fat and most of us have been living out of the wrong one for years. If you're hungry every couple of hours, crashing in the afternoon, craving something sweet by 3pm, and holding onto weight around your middle no matter how "good" you eat, you're likely running as a sugar burner. And a sugar burner can do everything right and still feel stuck. Being a sugar burner isn'
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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.
2 min read


The Scale is LYING to You (& Destroying Your Self-Worth)
Dr. Mindy sits down with psychologist Dr. Rachel Goldman to discuss body image, emotional eating, food noise, menopause, GLP-1 medications, and how to build a healthier relationship with your body.
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If I Had to Start My Health Journey Over, I'd Take These 5 Supplements
Dr. Mindy shares the only five supplements she would prioritize for women over 40 and explains why lifestyle and nutrition matter more than an overflowing supplement cabinet.
2 min read


Why Trauma Lives in Your Body, Even After Years of Therapy
Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Frank Anderson joins Dr. Mindy to explain why trauma lives in the body, why menopause often brings it to the surface, and what true healing looks like.
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How to Reset Your Metabolism in 14 Days
Learn the 5 simple steps Dr. Mindy Pelz uses to help women shift from sugar burning to fat burning, reduce cravings, stabilize blood sugar, and improve metabolic health in as little as 14 days.
2 min read


A Midlife Money Masterclass with Suze Orman: Cortisol, Self-Worth, and Taking Back Your Financial Power
Suze Orman joins Dr. Mindy for a midlife money masterclass on cortisol, self-worth, and how women can finally take back their financial power.
3 min read


I Stopped Fasting for a Year - Here's What It Taught Me (& Other Habits I'm Giving Up)
Dr. Mindy shares why she stopped fasting for almost a year, introduces flex fasting for high-stress and menopausal women, and reveals the five health rules she's deliberately giving up in 2026, from counting macros to the gym to other people's urgency.
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GLP-1 Weight Loss Truth - Side Effects, Fasting vs GLP-1s & Natural Fat Loss Plan
Dr. Mindy breaks down the new research linking GLP-1 weight loss drugs to a 30% increased risk of osteoporosis, compares GLP-1 medications head-to-head with intermittent fasting, and gives women five concrete steps to protect bone density, preserve muscle, and naturally stimulate their own GLP-1 production.
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