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Live Like a Girl - The Truth About Women's Health We Need To Talk About

  • Writer: Dr. Mindy Pelz
    Dr. Mindy Pelz
  • 7 hours ago
  • 3 min read

EP344 with Dr. Mindy Pelz



For over five years this was The Resetter Podcast. Today it becomes something else.


In this first episode of Live Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy Pelz explains why she walked away from a name she loved and built in its place. The short version: women aren't thriving, and most of the health advice out there was never really written for us in the first place.


She doesn't ease into it. She opens with the numbers, and they're hard to look away from. Two-thirds of Alzheimer's cases in America are women, and a woman's lifetime risk sits around one in five, double a man's. In any given year women are nearly twice as likely to be depressed, two to three times more likely to struggle with anxiety, and five times more likely to live with PTSD. Cancer, long thought of as something that hit men harder, now shows up more often in women under 50, and lung cancer in people under 65 has tipped female. Heart disease is still the number one killer of women, behind roughly one in five deaths, and it so often goes unnoticed until something serious forces the issue.


So why hasn't the science caught up? Mindy gets into that too. A lot of the research we call "evidence-based" leans heavily male, with men outnumbering women in study populations by about five to one. In neuroscience, even when studies include both sexes, only about 15% bother to actually analyze sex as a variable. And the system around us isn't built for nuance either. The average doctor gets about fifteen minutes with you, which is barely enough to scratch the surface of a life, let alone design a plan around it. Most med students get around 1.2 hours of nutrition education a year, and well over half get none at all.

That's the gap this show exists to close.


What you'll learn in this episode

  • Why women are at an "evolutionary mismatch" with the modern world, and what that actually means for your health

  • The statistics on Alzheimer's, depression, anxiety, PTSD, cancer, and heart disease that explain why women aren't thriving

  • How "evidence-based" research has quietly left women out, and why most health advice you see online wasn't built for you

  • Why a fifteen-minute doctor visit and almost no nutrition training can't deliver real, lifestyle-based care

  • The five principles Mindy will build this whole season around: mindset, nervous system regulation, honoring your rhythms, whole-life health, and collaboration over competition

  • How culture conditions women to take up less space, and the research behind why so many of us mute ourselves


What Live Like a Girl is really about

This rebrand isn't about health alone. Mindy wants to widen the conversation to include the people who shape how women actually live: not just clinicians, but icons, disruptors, educators, and scientists. She gives a taste of what's ahead, including Suze Orman on the connection between money and wellbeing, and Frank Anderson on how trauma shows up in your metabolism.


The thread running through all of it is the idea that women are living in an evolutionary mismatch with the modern world. The one-size-fits-all wellness advice you scroll past every day simply doesn't fit a body that's rhythmic and cyclical by design.




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