539: The Heart Disease Symptoms Doctors Keep Calling "Atypical" with Dr. Jayne Morgan

What if the bloating, cravings, and weight you can't lose have nothing to do with willpower, and everything to do with what's living inside you? Kim Rogers spent years inside Western medicine running healthcare colleges and writing medical textbooks. Then she went through 13 surgeries for stage four endometriosis. Her doctors told her this was how she'd live forever. She stopped having bowel movements for a month, and she and her husband sold everything to prepare for her death. Instead, she started asking a different question: what's the root? Today, Kim is known as the Worm Queen and is the creator of the ParaFy Parasite Cleanse Kit. She has gone from bedridden to healthier than she was in her 20s. Whether you're curious or completely skeptical, this conversation might hand you the puzzle piece you didn't know was missing. We Go Deep On: Why "one thing-itis" keeps midlife women stuck

For 30 years, women have walked into doctors offices in midlife and walked out with a birth control pill, a glass of wine, and an antidepressant. That is not menopause care. That is what my guest today calls The Prescription Pad of Misogyny. And she just took that message to the TEDx stage. Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS is an integrative dietitian, five time bestselling author, host of The Midlife Realignment podcast, and Gwyneth Paltrow's menopause mentor. In 2026 she was appointed a Women's Health Ambassador by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and now sits on the White House Menopause Task Force. In this episode we go deep on what is REALLY happening in menopause care right now. The estrogen shortage. The FDA black box warning. The Xanax and Kabbalah story that ended up in her TED Talk. The full lab panel your doctor should be running and probably isn't. Menowashing versus real menocare. Her own current HRT stack. And why midlife is not the decade to shrink, it is the decade we lead. If we have been dismissed, gaslit, or told it is normal at our age, this episode is going to change what we ask for next time we sit in a doctor's office. WHAT WE COVER • The Prescription Pad of Misogyny (her TEDx talk) • The Xanax and the Kabbalah story • The estrogen shortage and the FDA fight • The full lab panel your doctor is not running • The Dutch test and what it actually shows • Menowashing versus real menocare

Menopause hits our metabolism, our bones, our brain. What we do not talk about is that it hits the actual biology of our skin too. In the first 5 years of menopause we can lose 30 percent of our collagen. We lose hyaluronic acid. We lose elastin. Our skin does not just get drier. The scaffolding that HOLDS moisture in, falls apart. My guest today calls this the density shift, and this is the education episode midlife women have been waiting for. Dr. Alessandra Zonari is a skin longevity scientist trained in tissue engineering and stem cell biology. She was on the show before to break down senescent cells, the zombie cells that drive skin aging. Today we go deeper. Menopause skin. Why our rich cream stopped working. Why we cannot moisturize our way out of this. And what actually addresses skin at the biology level. If our skin has started feeling unfamiliar, this episode is going to explain WHY and what to do about it. WHAT WE COVER • Why women in their 40s and 50s feel their skin suddenly feels unfamiliar • What is actually happening to skin when estrogen drops • The density shift and the numbers behind it • Why rich creams stopped working after menopause • The bricks and mortar of skin hydration • Skin's natural moisturizing factor and why it declines • Zombie cells and how they collide with menopause • Skin's biological age vs chronological age • What to look for in a peptide that actually works • Where skin longevity fits into HRT, strength training, and sleep

Join us for a LIVE interactive fat loss workshop to continue this conversation: https://nataliejillclass.com/ This past week was one of the most challenging weeks of my life. And I found myself doing exactly what I coach women not to do: replaying the same painful event on a loop, unable to eat, work, or think about anything else. In this raw solo episode, I get honest about the imposter syndrome that hit when my own teachings felt out of reach, and I walk you step by step through the simple daily practice I've been using to pull myself forward. You'll learn why repeating a story can actually change how you remember it, the one question that interrupts rumination instantly, and how to feel your emotions fully without letting them run your day. We Go Deep On: Why the mental loop can hurt more than the event itself

We were told our whole life to shrink. Eat less. Do more cardio. Stay small. It worked in our 30s. It stopped working in our 40s. And in our 50s it is wrecking us. In this episode I sit down with my friend JJ Virgin, celebrity nutrition and fitness expert and author of the new book The Metabolism Fix. JJ is flipping the whole conversation for women in midlife. Our metabolism did not just slow down. We lost muscle. And once we understand that, everything about how we eat, move, and age changes. We cover why muscle is the metabolic control center, exactly how much protein we need and when, what GLP-1s are doing to our muscle, why the scale has done more harm than good, what to measure instead, and what watching her mom and dad age taught her about the next 30 years of our life. If you have been trying to shrink and it has stopped working, this one is going to change how you think about your body for good. Pre-order The Metabolism Fix and get JJ's body composition analyzer and bonuses: https://www.metabolismfixbook.com