

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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Mar 7, 2019 • 54min
Learning from Hardship and Finding Joy with Cornell Thomas
Cornell Thomas is a renowned speaker, author, and coach. He is known to be an up and coming thought leader that will inspire you to not only do more but be more! In this episode, you will learn about; - How Cornell turned tragedy into a life long passion to help others. - The purpose of hardship in life. - What it really takes to reach your goals - The importance of living your truth and being authentically you - How to manifest what you want in life and how the law of attraction actually works. - What the true path to joy is. http://cornell-thomas.com/ OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to balance their hormones and optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. In the OnTrack Program, You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 1 week membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program

Feb 28, 2019 • 48min
Body Positivity with Kristin West
In this episode, I talk with award-winning actress Kristin West about body positivity. Learn about the importance of positive body image and self-acceptance. How to overcome judgment from yourself and society. How self-acceptance and love for yourself has to come first in the journey of losing weight. Kristin West is an award-winning actress, producer, and screenwriter. Her performances have been garnering international attention, with screenings at many esteemed festivals all over the world, including Festival de Cannes. West has been on the jury of prestigious film festivals, moderated and spoken on many panels and has acted as a mentor to many up-and-coming actors, writers, and filmmakers. West has had several appearances on the small screen as well. In addition to her successful film and TV career, West can be heard, along with co-host Judy Goss, on What Women Want Talk Radio. Kristin West Blog OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Ketogenic Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 1 week membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program

Feb 22, 2019 • 58min
Master Your Keto Diet with Dan Perryman
Daniel Perryman is a martial artist, physique competitor, fitness and nutrition enthusiast and host of The Low Carb Leader podcast. In this episode: - How Dan transitioned from a SAD diet to keto during his physique competition days and what that did for his body. - The consequences of extreme dieting to your metabolism and mental stability. - The harmful effects of chronic fasting on the ketogenic diet - Why eating more calories and metabolically shocking your system can help you lose weight on keto - The dirty way of doing keto and the clean way of doing keto - The importance of taking your health journey one step at a time rather than biting off more then you can chew and failing. - How to find the motivation to start and stick with keto long term - The number one thing Dan believes you need to make sure that you are doing well to succeed at losing weight and optimizing health. - How to succeed in achieving your health goals More from Dan Perryman: www.lowcarbleader.com OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Ketogenic Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 1 week membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program

Feb 7, 2019 • 53min
Optimize your Lighting Environment for Hormone Health
Could your lighting environment be making you fat? According to the biomedical student and researcher Scott Patton the answer is ABSOLUTELY! For 6 million years we rose with the sun and went down with the sun. Now we are living under the harsh glare of artificial lighting and our bodies are feeling the effects of it! In this episode you will learn; - why your body needs full spectrum light. - what artificial lighting is doing to our circadian rhythm. - what the health consequences are from our modern environment. - how artificial lighting is triggering cortisol output and the implications of this on your hormonal system. - what simple tools you can start using TODAY to minimize the impact of artificial light on your health. Scott Patton is a BioMedical Science Student at the University of Waterloo and a Strength, Conditioning Coach at Next Level Performance Training and creator of the The Daily Optimization Program. Links discussed in the episode; 21-day Intro to Keto for Women's Hormone Health The Wim Hof Method Orange glasses Daytime Blue blocker glasses OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Primal Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 1 week membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program

Jan 31, 2019 • 50min
Discover your sexual being with Dr. Lauren Brim
Lauren Brim, Ph.D. is a doctor of human sexuality who is changing the conversation we have about sex. She is the author of four books and an online body of work that seeks to educate, challenge and uplift by sharing provocative, honest stories, and dispelling sexually suppressive myths. Her work focuses on breaking down barriers to health, relationships and pleasure by expanding our individual and cultural paradigm of sexuality. She is a gifted speaker and has a wealth of knowledge that enlightens, inspires and heals those who have the privilege of hearing her. Lauren Brim, Ph.D is a doctor of human sexuality, sex coach and author ofThe New Rules of Sex, The New American Family, The New Rules of Sex Workbook, and Your Boyfriend's Hooker. She provides sexual health and coaching resources for women wanting to create the life or love life that they desire at www.LaurenBrim.com OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Primal Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 1 week membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program

Jan 24, 2019 • 1h 1min
Your Brain and Weight Loss with Stephan Guyenet
In this episode you will learn; What’s really making us fat? The brain science behind hunger and satiation. The truth behind calorie-restricted diets. Does eating fruit make you fat? What is our fat mass setpoint and why it gets in the way of us losing weight? The 6 things you must address to lose weight successfully! Stephan is an obesity researcher, neurobiologist, and author. In addition to his research, he enjoys synthesizing and communicating science for a general audience over at his hugely successful blog. Stephan has a BS. in biochemistry (University of Virginia) and a PhD in neurobiology (University of Washington). He recently published the fantastic book ‘The Hungry Brain’, which dives into the causes of obesity from the perspective of overeating and related brain chemistry. Stephan Guyenet Watch the video on YouTube OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo, AIP and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. Karen Martel Nutrition OnTrack Advanced Keto/Paleo Program for Women Get started with a FREE 1-week membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. https://karenmartel.com/

Jan 17, 2019 • 20min
How to Crush Your 2019 Goals!
In this episode you will learn; How to discover exactly what you want in 2019! Why change is difficult and how to make it easy! Why the law of attraction and making a dream board is not enough to get what you want! Learn the exact formula on how to crush your goals! OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. Karen Martel Nutrition OnTrack Advanced Keto/Paleo Program for Women In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Primal Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 1-week membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Watch the video on YouTube https://karenmartel.com/

Jan 10, 2019 • 42min
Fasting for Weight Loss with Megan Ramos
Everything you need to know about how to use fasting for weight loss! Learn how Megan used a therapeutic fasting regime to reverse her type two diabetes and lose over 80 pounds! Megan works alongside Dr. Jason Fung leading expert on the medical benefits of fasting. In this episode you will learn: Who should be fasting? What fasting is good for. How it can reverse type two diabetes and insulin resistance. What diet should be eaten with a fasting protocol for best results? How to build up your fasting muscle. How to avoid the pitfalls of caloric restriction due to fasting. How to do it properly. The difference between intermittent fasting and fasting. Maintaining your weight loss with weekly IF or occasional 24-hour fasts. How to use fasting when you have eaten too much holiday foods or need a reset. How to avoid slowing down your metabolism with the fasting and feasting mentality! Megan Ramos is the IDM Program Director and Clinical Educator at Intensive Dietary Management. She attended the University of Toronto and developed a strong interest in preventative medicine. She has worked alongside Dr. Fung since 2003 and was the first IDM guinea pig. OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Primal Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 2 membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program

Jan 7, 2019 • 17min
Five Top Weight Loss Hacks! Hack #5
Get started on the right foot in 2019! At a time when we are being bombarded by quick-fix diet schemes that involve nothing but starvation and excessive exercise try these non-dieting weight loss hacks! If you have struggled with weight loss resistance or you have hit the dreaded weight loss plateau then you are going to want to check out this episode! Each day I will post a new hack! Download the pdf weight loss hack cheat sheet and the episodes at https://karenmartel.com/hacks OnTrack is a program for women who follow a keto or paleo based diet and want to optimize their weight loss results! Includes weekly paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists included. In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Primal Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 2 membership to OnTrack! Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program

Jan 5, 2019 • 13min
Five Top Weight Loss Hacks! Hack 4!
Get started on the right foot in 2019! At a time when we are being bombarded by quick-fix diet schemes that involve nothing but starvation and excessive exercise try these non-dieting weight loss hacks! If you have struggled with weight loss resistance or you have hit the dreaded weight loss plateau then you are going to want to check out this episode! Each day I will post a new hack! Download the pdf weight loss hack cheat sheet and the episodes at https://karenmartel.com/hacks The OnTrack program is for women who want to optimize their weight loss results on a keto or paleo based diet. Includes the #1 selling program the 21 Day Find Your Weight Loss Code and the only course on the market for weight loss resistance. As well weekly paleo, AIP paleo and keto meal plans, recipes and shopping lists. In the OnTrack Program You Find Out Exactly What is Keeping You From Losing Weight, Master Your Primal Diet, Balance Your Hormones and Feel Amazing! Get started with a FREE 2-week membership to OnTrack. Karen Martel, Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and weight loss expert. Watch the interview on our YouTube channel Visit https://karenmartel.com/ Karen's Facebook Karen's Instagram Join the OnTrack Women's Weight Loss program