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Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

We were taught that doing anything "like a girl" was a weakness. Dr. Mindy Pelz is here to prove it"s your greatest strength. A renowned advocate for women"s health, Dr. Mindy is passionately committed to helping women embrace and trust their body"s natural healing processes. Drawing on an extensive background in women"s health, she"s developed groundbreaking, science-backed approaches that help women work with their hormones, not against them, through every stage of life, from cycling to

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77:26

LeAnn Rimes on Perimenopause, Rage, Grief, and...

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz ·

2026/07/27

LeAnn Rimes joins Dr. Mindy for a deeply honest conversation about what perimenopause has brought to the surface in her life.She opens up about the unpredictability of her hormones, the exhaustion of trying to maintain the same pace she has carried for decades, and the difference between anxious thoughts and anxiety that lives in the body. Together, LeAnn and Dr. Mindy explore why perimenopause can make old wounds feel louder, why hormone therapy can help without solving everything, and

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26:06

Why Your Nervous System Is Blocking Weight Loss

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2026/07/22

Why are so many women doing everything "right" and still struggling to lose weight?In this solo episode, Dr. Mindy explains why the missing piece may not be your diet or workout routine, it may be your nervous system. When your body is stuck in chronic fight-or-flight, it prioritizes survival over fat burning, making weight loss feel impossible despite your best efforts.You'll learn how chronic stress impacts cortisol, cravings, digestion, sleep, and metabolism, the five signs your nervous

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65:37

Why PCOS Was Just Renamed (And What It Means for...

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2026/07/20

Millions of women have been told they have PCOS. Millions more have been told nothing is wrong at all.Now, one of the most common hormonal conditions affecting women has a new name: PMOS, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. The change reflects what experts have long understood, this condition is about far more than the ovaries. It's deeply connected to metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and hormone balance.In this episode, Dr. Mindy is joined by Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, renowned

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20:47

The Truth About Keeping Weight Off (No One Talks...

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2026/07/15

Losing weight is one challenge. Keeping it off is another.Research shows that most people regain the weight they've lost within a few years, not because they lack willpower, but because they were never taught what comes after weight loss.In this episode, Dr. Mindy breaks down the science behind weight regain and shares the eight most common reasons people struggle to maintain their results. From metabolic flexibility and hormone balance to muscle, stress, and sleep, she explains why lasting

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83:38

Perfectionism is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss (Why You...

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2026/07/13

What if the biggest thing standing between you and better health isn't your diet, your workout routine, or your hormones?What if it's the relationship you've built with yourself?In this conversation, I sit down with psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Nicole LePera to explore how our earliest experiences shape the way we move through adulthood. From emotional eating and food noise to perfectionism, people pleasing, burnout, and the struggle to trust ourselves, so many of the habits we

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31:15

Fasting Isn't Always the Answer. Here's How to Know...

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2026/07/08

For years we've been told that if fasting is good, then fasting longer must be better.That simply isn't true.Fasting is one of the most powerful healing tools we have, but it's also a stressor. Like exercise, the benefits don't come from the stress itself. They come from how well your body recovers afterward.In this solo episode, Dr. Mindy explains how to tell whether fasting is supporting your metabolism or pushing your nervous system beyond its limits. You'll learn the five green lights

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78:41

The Scale is LYING to You (& Destroying Your...

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2026/07/06

What if the biggest obstacle to better health isn't your diet and instead it's the relationship you've built with your body?In this conversation, I sit down with psychologist Dr. Rachel Goldman to unpack why so many women struggle with body image, emotional eating, food noise, and self-worth, especially during midlife.We explore why lasting health isn't built through shame or punishment. It's built through curiosity, compassion, and learning to work with your body instead of constantly

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17:43

If I Had to Start My Health Journey Over, I'd Take...

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2026/07/01

Americans spent more than $69 billion on supplements last year, yet nutrient deficiencies are still widespread.Somewhere along the way, wellness became a cabinet full of pills, powders, and promises. But what if better health isn't about taking more?In this episode, I share the five supplements I would prioritize if I had to start over today. These aren't trendy products or quick fixes. They're foundational nutrients that support metabolism, hormones, muscle, brain health, and healthy

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77:37

Why Trauma Lives in Your Body, Even After Years of...

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2026/06/29

For years we've been told that healing trauma means talking about it. But what if talking isn't enough?In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Harvard-trained psychiatrist and world-renowned trauma expert Dr. Frank Anderson to explore why trauma isn't simply stored in your memories. It's stored in your body.We discuss why so many women find old wounds resurfacing during perimenopause and menopause, why food often becomes a coping mechanism for unresolved trauma, and why traditional

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24:52

The Metabolism Reset: How to Go From Sugar Burner to...

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2026/06/24

Right now, millions of women are stuck in a cycle of constant hunger, food noise, energy crashes, stubborn weight gain, and frustration. Most have been told they need more willpower, but the truth is often much simpler.Your metabolism may be stuck in sugar-burning mode.In this episode, I break down one of the most important concepts I’ve taught over the last decade: the metabolic switch. You'll learn the difference between your body's sugar-burning and fat-burning systems, why blood sugar

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98:28

A Midlife Money Masterclass with Suze Orman:...

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2026/06/22

For our very first guest on the The Live Like a Girl podcast, I sat down with the woman who taught generations of us how to take back our financial power: Suze Orman.Here’s why I had to start here. I spend my life helping women with hormones, weight loss, menopause, and underneath almost all of it sits one thing – cortisol. And when you scratch beneath the “cortisol surface,” so often what you find is money stress. So I brought in the icon herself to talk about what’s really keeping women

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62:21

Live Like a Girl - The Truth About Women's Health We...

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2026/06/17

After five years as The Resetter Podcast, everything changes. Welcome to Live Like a Girl.In this first episode, Dr. Mindy Pelz explains why she retired a name she loved and what she's building in its place. The truth driving it all: women aren't thriving, and most of the health advice out there was never written for us to begin with.She opens with the numbers on Alzheimer's, depression, anxiety, cancer, and heart disease, then digs into why the science behind "evidence-based" wellness has

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56:26

I Stopped Fasting for a Year - Here's What It Taught...

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2026/06/10

After 30 years in health, Dr. Mindy is calling time on the rules.This solo episode is one of the most personal things she's shared on this podcast. It covers two big ideas: the science and story behind why she stopped fasting for most of the past year and the five health habits she's deliberately walking away from in 2026.First, flex fasting. When cortisol is high from grief, trauma, illness, perimenopause, or chronic stress rigidly pushing through long fasting windows doesn't support the

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77:20

The Food & Stress Crisis Keeping You Chronically...

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2026/06/03

Lately, it feels like women are carrying more than ever, mentally, emotionally, hormonally, and neurologically.In this week’s conversation, Dr. Mindy sits down with internal medicine physician and brain health expert, Dr. Austin Perlmutter, to talk about what modern life is doing to our brains and why so many people feel overstimulated, foggy, anxious, disconnected, and exhausted.Together, they discuss:Why chronic stress changes on the brainThe impact of ultra-processed foods on mood and

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67:40

GLP-1s, Fasting, and the Future of Women’s Metabolic...

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2026/05/27

GLP-1 medications are changing the conversation around weight loss, metabolism, and women’s health. But are we asking the right questions about long-term health?In this solo episode, Dr. Mindy Pelz breaks down the science behind GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, including what they do well, where concerns are emerging, and how fasting mimics many of the same metabolic benefits naturally.Dr. Mindy explores: • The connection between GLP-1 drugs and muscle loss • Why women over

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64:24

Why Supplements Aren’t Working (The Secret Deficiency...

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2026/05/20

Join us at 1440, June 11-13th, 2026: Click to learn moreCaroline Alan, co-founder of BEAM Minerals and author of the new book The Mineral Reset, joins Dr. Mindy to unpack why minerals are the missing foundation of every health plan, and why you can eat organic, take supplements, and still be profoundly deficient. They go deep on glyphosate, the "Trojan Horse method," and why fulvic and humic acids are the only molecules on Earth that can go inside your cells and carry glyphosate back out.If

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67:08

The 'F' in FDA Is Silent" — The State of Food Policy...

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2026/05/13

If you've been trying to figure out what's actually happening with our food system right now — what's rhetoric, what's real, and what you need to know, this is the episode you've been waiting for.Award winning food journalist, Helena Bottemiller Evich has covered food policy in Washington for over 15 years. She's the founder of the Food Fix newsletter and the host of the new podcast American Dish, and she has a rare gift: she can separate the noise from the action in a news cycle that makes

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72:47

The Hidden History of Motherhood Nobody Taught You...

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2026/05/06

Join us at 1440, June 11-13th, 2026: Click to learn moreIf you’ve ever felt like you were failing at something you were supposed to be naturally good at – this conversation will set you free.Elinor Cleghorn is a feminist historian and the author of A Woman’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering, and in this deeply personal, wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Mindy, she unpacks one of the most important questions of our time: why has motherhood been so diminished, misunderstood,

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01:13:46

Tapping for Perimenopause: How to Stop Anxious...

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2026/04/28

The anxiety hits at 3am. The spiraling thoughts won't stop. You know logically that everything is fine, but your body won't believe it. And the more you try to think your way out of it, the worse it gets. Jessica Ortner is a bestselling author, co-creator of The Tapping Solution app, and one of the world's leading experts on EFT tapping — a technique that combines ancient acupressure with modern psychology to send a direct safety signal to your nervous system. And in this conversation with Dr

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01:15:02

The Menopause Gut: How Your Microbiome Controls Your...

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2026/04/22

We've had a lot of important menopause conversations, but nobody's given us the manual for the gut until now. Cynthia Thurlow is a nurse practitioner, host of the Everyday Wellness podcast, and author of the brand new book, The Menopause Gut. And in this conversation, she and Dr. Mindy pull back the curtain on one of the most overlooked and misunderstood pieces of the entire menopause puzzle: the estrobolome. This conversation is a must-listen for any woman in perimenopause or beyond who feels like

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