

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health
Karen Martel: Certified Hormone Specialist
The Hormone Solution is a top-ranked women's health podcast focused on perimenopause, menopause, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), weight gain, metabolism, thyroid health, and midlife transformation.
Hosted by Certified Hormone Specialist Karen Martel, this show helps women in their 40s and 50s understand what's really happening with their hormones — and what to do about it.
If you're struggling with perimenopause symptoms, menopause weight gain, estrogen dominance, low progesterone, testosterone decline, brain fog, poor sleep, thyroid dysfunction, or metabolic slowdown, this podcast breaks it down in a clear, practical, no-nonsense way.
Each episode features:
• Evidence-based hormone education
• Expert interviews
• Real-world HRT guidance
• Midlife weight loss strategies
• Thyroid and metabolic health insights
With over 2.5 million downloads and ranked in the Top 30 on iTunes, The Hormone Solution is trusted by women worldwide who want real answers about bioidentical hormones, menopause treatment options, and midlife health.
New episodes every Tuesday and Saturday.
Take the free hormone quiz at karenmartel.com
Shop Midlife Products and Solutions at midlifesolutions.org
Hosted by Certified Hormone Specialist Karen Martel, this show helps women in their 40s and 50s understand what's really happening with their hormones — and what to do about it.
If you're struggling with perimenopause symptoms, menopause weight gain, estrogen dominance, low progesterone, testosterone decline, brain fog, poor sleep, thyroid dysfunction, or metabolic slowdown, this podcast breaks it down in a clear, practical, no-nonsense way.
Each episode features:
• Evidence-based hormone education
• Expert interviews
• Real-world HRT guidance
• Midlife weight loss strategies
• Thyroid and metabolic health insights
With over 2.5 million downloads and ranked in the Top 30 on iTunes, The Hormone Solution is trusted by women worldwide who want real answers about bioidentical hormones, menopause treatment options, and midlife health.
New episodes every Tuesday and Saturday.
Take the free hormone quiz at karenmartel.com
Shop Midlife Products and Solutions at midlifesolutions.org
Episodes
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Apr 23, 2021 • 53min
How To Repair Metabolic Damage From Dieting & Become A Fat Burning Machine
Todays show is sponsored by LetsGetChecked. Get 20% off your first kit (full thyroid panel and many more options) with LetsGetChecked.com with coupon code KAREN. Discover Your Weight Loss Code Through Your DNA with Dr. Lois Nahirney Todays podcast is also sponsored by DNA Power! Get $50 off your Total DNA kit when you use this link here and coupon code karenmartel! Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Apr 15, 2021 • 1h 3min
Why You Need Iodine for Hormones, Thyroid and More with Dr. David Brownstein
David Brownstein, who is a board-certified family physician. Dr. Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and others about his success in using natural hormones and nutritional therapies in his practice. Dr. Brownstein has authored 16 books, including one about iodine and its importance to our well-being. How Dr. Brownstein realized that iodine deficiency was an epidemic in North America. The role of iodine in thyroid function How does iodine help with the utilization of hormones? Iodine and heavy metals Iodine's connection to cystic breasts How to take iodine and what to take it with What should we know about iodine as it relates to the thyroid and why is it essential? Does it help to lower reverse t3? What happens when there's an iodine deficiency? How halides bromine, chlorine and fluoride that can be released when iodine is taken How do you test iodine? What his protocol is if someone was low on iodine Check your iodine levels from home with the Hakala Iodine Challenge test. Todays show is sponsored by LetsGetChecked. Get 20% off your first kit (full thyroid panel and many more options) with LetsGetChecked.com with coupon code KAREN. Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Apr 8, 2021 • 1h 25min
How to Optimize Hormones & Weight Loss as You Age
In this episode my good friend Helen Marshall from the Primal Alternative Podcast interviews ME! In this episode we dive into: The truth behind estrogen dominance Why weight loss gets harder as we age What happens hormonally to us in our 30's, 40's and 50's? Why calories in calories out doesn't work and what we can do instead How our bodies have a sexual cycle and how to tune into that The importance of replacing hormones to avoid side effects of perimenopause Aging form a biological standpoint The best diets for weight loss during perimenopause Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Apr 1, 2021 • 60min
Dissecting Weight Loss The Ketogenic Diet with T.C. Hale
In this interview T.C. Hale and I take a deep dive into how to successfully lose weight. In this episode Tony's experience with putting hundreds of clients on the ketogenic diet. Why keto diets can rule and why they can ultimately fail. How Co2 can affect your success on a keto diet. The secrets to thriving and losing weight on any diet. T.C.'s secret body hacks and tests that can help you discover your weight loss code. and more! Like most natural health experts, T.C. Hale (aka Tony Hale) began his career in stand-up comedy. Touring professionally as a comic for nearly a decade, he never envisioned that he would one day teach the world how to sleep, poop, and even lose weight. On Valentine's Day, 2004, Tony lost his voice and it never came back. After twenty-three doctors couldn't figure out the problem, Tony decided it was time to dig for his own answers. Eight years later, not only did Tony figure out his own issues, he also happened upon hidden information about how to improve countless other health problems. https://kickitnaturally.com/ Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Mar 25, 2021 • 1h 4min
The Naked Truth Behind Drinking Alcohol with Annie Grace
At 26, Annie Grace was the youngest Vice President in a multinational company's history, and her drinking career began in earnest; by 35, she was in a global C-level marketing role, responsible for 28 countries. Drinking close to two bottles of wine a night became a ritual. Annie Grace's professional success came at a personal price she no longer wanted to pay. She knew alcohol was no longer serving her. Yet, she didn't want to suffer through life in a daily battle for sobriety, feeling deprived and constantly trying to avoid temptation. Annie Grace revamped her own relationship with alcohol — she stripped it of its power and changed her beliefs about booze being a reward — and today she helps others across the globe do the same. Her approach helps people where rehabs have not. She's created a brand new way to look at the role of alcohol in our lives, establishing a safe space for those who question their drinking but haven't self-diagnosed as alcoholics stuck in denial of an incurable disease. Annie Grace preaches compassion, knowing its power over shame and blame is the best way to achieve lasting change. And, she offers a proven alternative to the largely ineffective recipe for so-called "success"—the one that says anything less than 100% abstinence is failure. Annie Grace doesn't teach people how to be sober; she helps them quash their desire to drink in the first place. Annie Grace

Mar 17, 2021 • 48min
Part 2 Hormone Imbalances That Cause Sugar Addiction
Part 2 Learn about the different hormone imbalances that could be driving your sugar addiction. How to identify and test for them. How each of these hormones can interact with each other. Plus my favorite tips and tricks on how to balance these pesky hormones and drive down sugar cravings. Order your hormone kit today and get $20 off with coupon code sugar. Download your free recipes Cinnamon Flax Muffin and Cozy Tofu Shakshuka What To Eat To Balance Your Hormones (This is GOLD) (podbean.com) Berberine Insulin Support Kit The Truth About The Effects of The Ketogenic Diet on Your Thyroid Hormones Todays show is sponsored by LetsGetChecked. Get 20% off your first kit (full thyroid panel and many more options) with LetsGetChecked.com with coupon code KAREN. Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Mar 11, 2021 • 51min
Hormone Imbalances That Cause Sugar Addiction
Learn about the different hormone imbalances that could be driving your sugar addiction. How to identify and test for them. How each of these hormones can interact with each other. Plus my favorite tips and tricks on how to balance these pesky hormones and drive down sugar cravings. Order your hormone kit today and get $20 off with coupon code sugar. What To Eat To Balance Your Hormones (This is GOLD) (podbean.com) Berberine Insulin Support Kit The Truth About The Effects of The Ketogenic Diet on Your Thyroid Hormones Todays show is sponsored by LetsGetChecked. Get 20% off your first kit (full thyroid panel and many more options) with LetsGetChecked.com with coupon code KAREN. Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Mar 4, 2021 • 45min
Optimizing Your Thyroid with Dr. Amie Hornaman
My guest is Dr. Amie Hornaman a leading thyroid expert! Amie Hornaman is a certified functional-medicine expert on a mission to optimize thyroid patients around the world and give them their lives back using scientific elements of nutrition and functional medicine. Amy I jump into all things thyroid from how to get properly tested, best diet, how to interpret your labs, reverse t3, dosing of thyroid meds, what meds are best for thyroid function and so much more! Amie's journey is one of pain to purpose. After her own experience of insufferable symptoms while preparing for a national figure competition, she set out to find answers as to why her body was rebelling against her. Coming from a past of fitness modeling, figure competitions and powerlifting meets, Amie knew how her body should be responding and it didn't involve a 20 pound weight gain and debilitating fatigue. Through a series of misdiagnoses followed by improper treatment, Amie changed her trajectory from the fitness world to the functional medicine world as she set out to help others who were on the same medical roller coaster. She KNEW others were suffering from the same set of frustrations as she experienced. Amie now consults with people around the world. She examines all factors that tie into thyroid dysfunction and thyroid symptoms and treats the person from top to bottom to give them their lives back. Dr. Amie Hornaman Todays show is sponsored by LetsGetChecked. Get 20% off your first kit (full thyroid panel and many more options) with LetsGetChecked.com with coupon code KAREN. Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Feb 25, 2021 • 1h 24min
How to Detect Possible Health Issues Through Basic Blood Work with Dr. Kylie Burton
Dr. Kylie Burton is a functional medicine specialist who has helped thousands of individuals with seemingly impossible health struggles to find answers, healing, and hope, even if they've been told their labs are normal. In this episode Dr. Kylie Burton teaches you how to interpret our own basic blood work called a CBC panel. Complete Blood Count (CBC) gives important information about the numbers and kinds of cells in the blood, especially red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. A CBC helps your health professional check any symptoms, such as fatigue, weakness, or bruising, that you may have. A CBC also helps your health professional diagnose conditions, such as infection, anemia, and several other disorders. Often times labs can come back looking normal but DR. Kylie will teach you how to spot health problems even though everything is in range. How to detect if there are parasitic infections, viruses, bacteria, food sensitivities, EBV and autoimmune flares. You will want to grab your latest blood work to follow along! Watch the video interview with Dr. Kylie Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode! Get 10% off your first month with BetterHelp.com/otherside Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram

Feb 18, 2021 • 1h 3min
Positive Psychology: Harnessing the Power of Happiness with Rob Mack
Robert is an ivy-league-educated Positive Psychology Expert, Celebrity Happiness Coach, Executive Coach, and Author. Robert studied under the direction of Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). UPenn is the only institution in the world to offer a master's degree in Applied Positive Psychology. Robert is one of the world's leading experts on the relationship between happiness and success. He helps individuals and organizations achieve an energizing balance of authentic personal happiness and effortless professional success, based on time-tested, face-valid, empirical data and timeless, transcendental wisdom. Robert's work has been endorsed by Oprah, Vanessa Williams, and many others, and he has been seen on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Access Hollywood, E!, OWN, GQ, Self, Health, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour. Robert's first book, Happiness from the Inside Out: The Art and Science of Fulfillment, is celebrity-endorsed and critically acclaimed. It has been translated into various languages, including Chinese. http://www.coachrobmack.com/ Watch the video interview with Rob! Start your membership to the OnTrack group coaching program to help you balance your hormones and lose weight. Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Hormone Specialist & Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram


