

The Hormone Solution with Karen Martel
Karen Martel: Certified Hormone Specialist
The Hormone Solutions Podcast with Karen Martel is your ultimate guide to understanding the complexities of hormone health, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and optimizing your health in midlife. Hosted by Karen Martel, known as the "Hormone Whisperer," this podcast taps into her deep understanding of hormones—something that sets her apart from most practitioners. As a Certified Hormone Specialist, Transformational Nutrition Coach, speaker, podcaster, and passionate advocate for women's health, Karen brings a unique perspective that combines scientific expertise with a compassionate, holistic approach to hormone balance.
In each episode, Karen dives into the science behind hormonal imbalances, the truth about hormone replacement therapy, and how hormones impact everything from metabolism to mood. The Hormone Solutions Podcast provides science-backed solutions, actionable insights, and empowering strategies for women navigating peri-menopause, menopause, and beyond. Whether you're considering HRT or looking for natural ways to optimize your health, Karen offers the knowledge you need to make informed decisions and thrive through every stage of life.
Tune in to hear from a trusted expert in the field and get the tools you need to reclaim your health and live your best life!
New episodes released every Saturday and Tuesday, and don't forget to start your journey today with Karen's free hormone quiz at https://karenmartel.com. Together, we'll explore the tools and options to help you feel your best at every stage of life.
In each episode, Karen dives into the science behind hormonal imbalances, the truth about hormone replacement therapy, and how hormones impact everything from metabolism to mood. The Hormone Solutions Podcast provides science-backed solutions, actionable insights, and empowering strategies for women navigating peri-menopause, menopause, and beyond. Whether you're considering HRT or looking for natural ways to optimize your health, Karen offers the knowledge you need to make informed decisions and thrive through every stage of life.
Tune in to hear from a trusted expert in the field and get the tools you need to reclaim your health and live your best life!
New episodes released every Saturday and Tuesday, and don't forget to start your journey today with Karen's free hormone quiz at https://karenmartel.com. Together, we'll explore the tools and options to help you feel your best at every stage of life.
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Oct 16, 2021 • 47min
Part Two of The Shocking TRUTH Behind The Safety Of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement
Part 2 In the early 1900's estrogen hormone replacement was the most prescribed medication in America! It remained in first or second place for the rest of the century. Until 2002 when the media got a hold of the results of the Women's Health Initiative study. Doctors around the world were warned not prescribe it and women were told that it was dangerous and shouldn't be on it. But since that time there has been a reanalysis of the study with a much different outcome then was first perceived. Yet we as women and our doctors have heard very little if anything about the benefits and safety of hormone replacement. In this episode; what the WHI study found in their trials the reanalysis of the study and what it really showed HRT versus BHRT a deep dive into the multiply studies done on HRT and BHRT (bioidentical hormone replacement therapy) can BHRT help with weight loss? does hormone replacement cause breast cancer? and much more! This is an episode NO woman should miss hearing! Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. Join the 3 month Mastering Peri & Post Menopause Coaching Program. 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

Oct 9, 2021 • 50min
The Shocking TRUTH Behind The Safety Of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement
In the early 1900's estrogen hormone replacement was the most prescribed medication in America! It remained in first or second place for the rest of the century. Until 2002 when the media got a hold of the results of the Women's Health Initiative study. Doctors around the world were warned not prescribe it and women were told that it was dangerous and shouldn't be on it. But since that time there has been a reanalysis of the study with a much different outcome then was first perceived. Yet we as women and our doctors have heard very little if anything about the benefits and safety of hormone replacement. In this episode; what the WHI study found in their trials the reanalysis of the study and what it really showed HRT versus BHRT a deep dive into the multiply studies done on HRT and BHRT (bioidentical hormone replacement therapy) can bhrt help with weight loss? does hormone replacement cause breast cancer? and much more! This is an episode NO woman should miss hearing! Join the 3 month Mastering Peri & Post Menopause Coaching Program. Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. Todays podcast is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet. Purchase your Prolon Kit today and get 10% off with coupon code KARENM10! 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

Oct 2, 2021 • 1h 5min
The Fasting Mimicking Diet with Dr. Joseph Antoun
Dr. Joseph Antoun is CEO & Chairman of the Board of L-Nutra and Member of the Forbes Business Development Council. He's the former CEO of Health Systems Reform. He completed his studies in Public Policy at Harvard University, in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and his Doctorate in Medicine and Masters' in Medical and Biological Sciences at Saint Joseph University. In this episode why the company was established and what they discovered in their studies. why should we fast and is it a fad? how your brain reacts to fasting how long you should be intermittent fasting for depending on your health? what is autophagy and do we actually know when it hits during fasting? fasting versus caloric restriction what damage is being done to our organs in water fasting what is the fasting mimicking diet how does it work? why animal protein is NOT in the mimicking diet? why you shouldn't eat too much protein but just enough what are the ideal macro amounts for health and longevity and more! Todays podcast is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet. Purchase your Prolon Kit today and get 10% off with coupon code KARENM10! Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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

Sep 25, 2021 • 1h 4min
Coaching with Karen...What is your biggest weight loss struggle?
I asked my Instagram followers "If You could wave a magic wand and eliminate your biggest struggle around your attempts to lose weight, what would that be? " What is it for you : struggle to control cravings? over eating? dieting confusion? lack of exercise? drinking alcohol? all of the above? In todays episode I coach you on the most popular answers to that question including: Dieting confusion Not losing weight despite a perfect diet After supper eating Lack of quality sleep Finding time for exercise Having the energy after work to work out Emotional eating. I either eat my feelings or don't eat when I'm upset Episodes discussed How to Beat Hormonal Insomnia Tips, Tools and Tests to Find Your Weight Loss Code Todays podcast is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet. Purchase your Prolon Kit today and get 10% off with coupon code KARENM10! Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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

Sep 18, 2021 • 59min
Big Fat Keto Lies with Marty Kendall
Keto was the most searched diet in 2020, with over 26 million google searches, while Intermittent Fasting was second, with over 11. million searches. But as we head into the last ¼ of 2021 I can safely say that we are now seeing a number of serious faults with ketogenic fasting world. More and more people are running into hormonal issues, weight gain and a ton of weight loss resistance from the keto/fasting diet. So what is happening ….why are we seeing so many problems arise with this supposed magical weight loss diet. In this episode, my guest is going to give us the answers to these questions and is going to share with us the Big fat keto lies. My guest today is Marty Kendall, who is the author of the book Big Fat Keto Lies. Marty is an engineer who seeks to optimize nutrition using a data-driven approach. His interest in nutrition began eighteen years ago in an effort to help his wife Monica gain better control of her Type 1 Diabetes. But since then, he has worked to develop a systematized approach to nutrition tailored for a wide range of goals. Marty has been sharing his learnings at OptimisingNutrition.com and has developed Nutrient Optimizer and Data-Driven Fasting to guide people on their journey of nutritional optimization. In this episdoe; What happened when he jumped on the ketogenic diet? What is energy toxicity? Why chasing ketones doesn't work What the research shows on low carb versus low fat for weight loss Why eating more fat for satiety doesn't work The role that insulin actually play in weight loss Why gluconeogenesis from protein consumption isn't the problem people think it is. Why protein is the key to weight loss and satiety Data driven fasting what it is and how it works and more! Marty Kendall Join the next 30 Day Data Driven Fasting Challenge here. Todays podcast is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet. Purchase your Prolon Kit today and get 10% off with coupon code KARENM10! Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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

Sep 11, 2021 • 1h 8min
What the Heck is Happening to My Hormones? Perimenopause to menopause, what you need to know.
Are you in perimenopause? My guess is you don't know. Most women are not informed about what is happening to their hormones in their 30's, 40's and beyond. Trust me when I say YOU NEED TO KNOW! This is your body and during this time you can be affected in every way mentally, physically, & spiritually. When you know and understand what is happening to your hormones you can get the help you need to sail through this time with confidence and ease. In this episode you will walk away understanding the different phases of this transition. Todays podcast is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet. Purchase your Prolon Kit today and get 10% off with coupon code KARENM10! Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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

Sep 4, 2021 • 1h 24min
The Revolutionary New Vitamin & Gut Treatment for Insomnia with Dr. Stasha Gominak
In today's episode, Dr. Stasha Gominak discusses the gut microbiome, the benefits of vitamin D in terms of the microbiome, the importance of B vitamins, and how the microbiome affects sleep and chronic insomnia. Find out what you can do to beat your insomnia with Dr. Stasha's ground breaking new protocol! Watch the video interview on YouTube "We repair in deep sleep. Inadequate time spent in deep sleep leads to disease. We are "treating" these diseases with medications. Medication is not wrong it's just not the best we can do. If we sleep normally we repair every night and we age more slowly. I believe that we can fix the neuro-chemical causes of all of the sleep disorders by replacing the chemicals that have been lacking." Dr. Gominak attended college in California and medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, receiving her MD degree in 1983. She completed a Neurology residency in 1989 at the Harvard affiliated, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 2004 Dr. Gominak moved with her husband to Tyler, Texas and began to concentrate on treating neurological illness by improving sleep. She published a pivotal article in 2012 proposing that the global struggle with worsening sleep was linked to reduced sun exposure. In 2016 she followed with a second article linking the change in the intestinal microbiome to the epidemic of poor sleep, and described a simple process for normalizing sleep and the intestinal bacterial population, called RightSleep®. drgominak.com Todays podcast is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet. Purchase your Prolon Kit today and get 10% off with coupon code KARENM10! Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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

Aug 28, 2021 • 1h 2min
Fit and Fabulous in Your 40's, 50's, 60's and Beyond with Pam Sherman
Pam has been a coach for 24+ years, starting as a group exercise instructor and personal trainer. After struggling with her own weight Pam started strength training in 2014 and has never looked back. In this episode; Pam's history with her own struggles with weight loss Her horrific accident that gave her a light bulb moment about fitness Why she saw her accident as meant to be Why Pam decided to quit alcohol and what it did for her and her self esteem The truth about alcohol and women's health and weight loss What the ideal length of workouts should be for women How to replace snacking with something that works The power of protein How to find your body clock when it comes to eating Why you know what to eat but you don't eat it and more! Pam's website Pam's Instagram Pam's YouTube Channel Todays podcast is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet. Purchase your Prolon Kit today and get 10% off with coupon code KARENM10! Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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

Aug 21, 2021 • 53min
My Interview on How to Not Get Sick and Die Podcast
In todays episode I share an interview with ME on the podcast How to Not Get Sick and Die with Matty Lansdown. In this episode Do you find weight loss is a thing that just DOES NOT work for you? You're not alone and there are a ton of reason why that might be the case, one of the foundational reasons that you may have never considered on a deep level is that of your Hormones and how they're not in balance after living a super busy life full of stress, a lack of sleep and all of the other challenges that life comes with. If you have hormone imbalances then today's episode is going to crack the case for why weight loss is not working for you and how to turn the ship around. In Today's Episode We Cover: Why Hormones are the foundation of a healthy body weight Why 'calories in, calories out' and 'move more, eat less' is not helpful The ideal diet for estrogen dominance, insulin resistance, low progesterone and more Today's episode is sponsored by Prolon The Fasting Mimicking Diet Program. Get 10% off your kit by using this link and coupon code KARENM10 Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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

Aug 14, 2021 • 1h 2min
The Ground Breaking Evidence on What REALLY Causes heart Disease with Stephen Hussey
Dr. Stephen Hussey MS, DC is a Chiropractor and Functional Medicine practitioner. He attained both his Doctorate of Chiropractic and Masters in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine from the University of Western States in Portland, OR. He is a health coach, speaker, and the author of two books on health; The Health Evolution: Why Understanding Evolution is the Key to Vibrant Health and Understanding the Heart: Uncommon Insights into Our Most Commonly Diseased Organ. In addition to chiropractic, Dr. Hussey focuses on metabolic health and guides patients and clients from around the world back to health by using the latest research and health attaining strategies. In this episode Why Stephen's diagnosis of type 1 diabetes drove him to understand heart disease Overview of what main stream media thinks causes heart disease The three imbalances that cause heart disease Why humans reaction to stress is unique in the animal kingdom and how it is linked to heart disease. History of our diet and how it relates to the increase in heart disease Why meat cannot logically be the cause of heart disease. Science behind saturated fats and heart disease Truth behind cholesterol numbers and cholesterol lowering drugs The role of ketosis in the history of diet and how it affects cholesterol What we want to aim for when it comes to diet Plant diets versus meat diets in the science when it comes to preventing heart disease and more! Health & Wellness | Resource Your Health Purchase your at home Hormone Test Kits here. 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


