The Hormone Solution with Karen Martel
Karen Martel 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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Jul 25, 2019 • 1h 3min
Female Phase Training for Weight Loss with Dr. Jade Teta
Dr. Jade Teta is an integrative physician and personal trainer with over 25 years of experience. Dr. Teta has a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and a Doctorate in naturopathic medicine, a distinct specialty of medicine focusing on lifestyle approaches to health, fitness and weight loss. In this episode; What is female phase training? How do we as women workout to optimize our hormones and therefore optimize our weight loss? The trap that too many women fall into that stopping them from losing weight. Why conventional diets and exercise don't work. How do we work out as a cycling woman compared to a perimenopausal or menopausal woman? The shift that women and men go through and the importance of tuning into that. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel! https://www.jadeteta.com Check out My Primal Plan meal planning membership! Your choice of Paleo, Ketogenic and Autoimmune-Paleo meal plans get started for as low as $8 a month use coupon code "podcast" and get 30% off the life of your membership! Comes with a FREE Introductory course and meal plan to the carnivore diet! Your first meal plan is FREE! 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 Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Jul 18, 2019 • 49min
The Dark Side of the Keto Diet for Women
I have seen the keto diet literally transform women's health. Including improvements in weight, gut, skin and mental health! But I have also seen women lose their hair, gain weight and become extremely tired. In today's episode, I am going to share with you the dark side of the keto diet and how you can avoid the negative side effects. In this episode: The biggest mistakes women make on the keto diet Why women's weight loss will stall a few months into the diet What are the top five hormone imbalances that can help you determine which type of keto you should be eating. The four keto diet types I recommend How to find your keto Join the Intro to Keto for Women's Hormone Health registration is open! Use coupon code "listen" and get $30 off! Check out My Primal Plan meal planning membership! Your choice of Paleo, Ketogenic and Autoimmune-Paleo meal plans get started for as low as $12 a month! Your first meal plan is FREE! Take the Hormone Quiz and find out what is stopping you from losing weight. Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Jul 11, 2019 • 1h 2min
The Power of Meat with Dr. Shawn Baker
Shawn is a lifelong multisport elite-level athlete and a medical doctor who served as a combat trauma surgeon and chief of orthopedics while deployed to Afghanistan with the United States Air Force. His focus in recent years has been on using the carnivore diet as a tool for health, performance and overall well-being. You can find Shawn at www.shawn-baker.com Order Shawn's book. In this episode: Why Shawn decided to eat a carnivore based diet. The evolutionary standpoint of meat eating Common health issues that can be helped by the carnivore diet. What is essentially "bad" in vegetables that people could be reacting to. Health markers like cholesterol and the impact a meat only diet could have in it. How a meat only diet can impact our hormones and weight. It's impact on inflammation. Get the Intro to the Carnivore Diet Program ON SALE for only $10 comes with a 3-week meal plan. Check out My Primal Plan meal planning membership! Your choice of Paleo, Ketogenic and Autoimmune-Paleo meal plans get started for as low as $12 a month! Comes wth a FREE Introductory course and meal plan to the carnivore diet! Your first meal plan is FREE! 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 Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Jul 4, 2019 • 48min
The Good Within the Bad with Sarah Boyd
Sarah Boyd is an authority on resilience, courage, and creativity. She holds a Masters in Educational Psychology & a Diploma of Neuroscience of Leadership. Sarah has a deeply personal experience in navigating stressful life events, such as cancer and chronic health conditions while building and running successful businesses in America and Australia. She is passionate about lifting the limits off an individuals potential so they can pursue their dreams & live a meaningful life. In this episode: - Sarah's personal journey through thyroid cancer. - The power of hardship - What you can learn from illness - Listening to life's wake up calls - How to carry on after trauma, grief or illness - Your identity and how to shift it for a better life - Questions to ask yourself during hardship in order to move through it and learn from it. Check out My Primal Plan meal planning membership! Your choice of Paleo, Ketogenic and Autoimmune-Paleo meal plans get started for as low as $12 a month! Your first meal plan is FREE! 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 Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Jun 27, 2019 • 26min
The Do's and Don'ts of Fasting for Women
In this epsiode; What is fasting How does fasting help with weight loss What implications it has on your hormones Why you need to do it How to do it right How not to do it Check out My Primal Plan meal planning membership! Your choice of Paleo or Ketogenic meal plans get started for as low as $9 a month! 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 Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Jun 20, 2019 • 46min
Slaying Your Dragons with Jennifer Ludington
Jennifer Ludington is a recovering exercise and physique addict who is now a Fitness and healthy lifestyle coach. After battling years of over-exercising, eating disorders and obsessions, she understands first hand how you can break free and transform your fitness and health to become more than just your BODY. Jennifers goal is to help empower and guide women through transparent, honest, and real-life fitness. In this episode; The importance of NOT falling into the trap of trying to look a way that isn't normal for your body. Self-sabotage and the real reason we get sidetracked. Slaying your dragons or uncovering the past emotional traumas that keep us from losing weight. Finding your why to help you radically change. How to begin a tough transformation. and much more! Join the Weight Loss for The Driven Woman Summit! 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 Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Jun 13, 2019 • 50min
Heal the Gut...Heal the Body with Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride
Dr. Campbell-McBride graduated with Honours as a Medical Doctor from Bashkir Medical University in Russia. She gained a Postgraduate Degree in Neurology and completed a second Postgraduate Degree in Human Nutrition at Sheffield University, UK. She is the author of Gut And Psychology Syndrome. Natural Treatment Of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Depression And Schizophrenia. In this episode: What lead Dr. Natasha McBride to create the GAPS protocol How the brain and gut are deeply connected The detrimental effects of the standard American diet on our gut. How it impacts our brain, hormones, weight and every other aspect of our health. The future of our health and our children's health Vaccines, pesticides and even organic food can be wreaking havoc on our gut microbiome How we should be eating Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride 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 Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
Jun 6, 2019 • 43min
Insulin Resistance and Weight Loss
If you are insulin resistance weight loss will be challenging! In this episode you will learn; - What is insulin and how does the body become insulin resistance - Why everyone needs to test for it if they are trying to lose weight - How it can stop you from losing weight and cause weight loss resistance - The best diet and exercise to reverse it and quickly - My top supplement recommendations - How to use fasting to reverse it Get the Intro to Carnivore 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 Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram
May 30, 2019 • 41min
Self Love...Your Ticket to Transformation with Paul Fishman
Paul Fishman is a self-love coach who is on a mission to empower and inspire humanity to love unconditionally, and to him, self-love is the best medicine. In this episode - How Paul discovered the missing piece in his life self-love and went from being 75 pounds overweight, in debt and in an abusive relationship to happy, fit and in love with himself! - What is self-love - Why self-love is the missing piece to overcoming health, career and relationship issues. -How becoming authentically you is the key to your happiness - What social media's impact has on our ability to love ourselves - The importance of tuning into your body to discover the perfect for YOU! - Paul's favorite self-love practice that can help you transform your body. Join the Intro to Keto for Women's Hormone Health! My Keto start-up eBook with everything you need to know to get started on the right foot. The Ultimate Hormone Questionnaire to help you discover which hormones are out of balance. The Ultimate Guide to Balancing Your Hormones eBook Three information-packed videos on the basics of the Ketogenic diet. Three information-packed videos on how to balance your hormones for optimal weight loss results. Supplement recommendations for hormone health. What labs are best to determine the state of your hormones. How to properly test your thyroid and how to test your thyroid from home with no lab work! How to modify the ketogenic diet when you have an existing thyroid issue, including Hashimoto’s. and much more! Join today!
May 23, 2019 • 1h 8min
Take Charge of Your Health to Lose Weight and Feel Your Best!
A special episode from the Women's Empowerment Project Elle Russ and Karen Martel dive deep into their own personal stories of rising up and overcoming weight and health issues. The importance of having your thyroid checked, ancestral nutrition and how it changed their lives. Why there is so much more to health and weight loss then what we are being told as women and more! Women's Empowerment Project Free online summit; interviews with empowering life coaches, health experts, and authors. Hosted by Karen Martel & Elle Russ Elle Russ is a writer, actor, and best-selling author of The Paleo Thyroid Solution. She is the host of the popular Primal Blueprint Podcast and a certified Primal Health Coach. Elle is the leading voice of thyroid health in the fast-growing Paleo, Primal, Ancestral Health Movements. Elle is also the writer of award-winning documentary Headhunt Revisited. She is dedicated to educating and empowering others to live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives. Karen Martel is a Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. After struggling with her own health issues, Karen was determined to bring her knowledge to others with a bold new approach to women’s health and weight management. Karen's passion lies in helping women breakthrough weight loss resistance and find their personal weight loss code through nutrition, digestive health, hormone optimization, and managing stress.
