EP 55: How Grief Changes Your Body, Brain & Identity | Peptides, Healing & Widowhood | Michele Barnowski

What if feeling better in midlife starts with understanding how your gut, hormones, stress, and overall health are connected? This week on The Loop Podcast, Stephanie Gambetta welcomes Kate Gordin, founder of Four Body Connection, a holistic wellness practice outside Chicago, to talk about gut health, bioenergetics, peptides, and taking a more personalized approach to wellness. Kate shares the health challenges that led her to completely change careers, including thyroid issues, long COVID, a...

Certified nutrition and macro coach Megan Kohrs joins Stephanie Gambetta to talk about building a healthier relationship with food, understanding macronutrients, and why eating less isn't always the answer when you're trying to lose fat or build muscle. Megan shares her personal experience with eating disorders, body dysmorphia, gut health issues, and food sensitivities, and how learning to properly fuel her body changed her approach to nutrition. She also shares how her journey eventually le...

Master life coach and spiritual psychologist Christine Hassler joins Stephanie Gambetta for a conversation about personal growth, emotional healing, and what it really means to trust yourself. With over 20 years of coaching experience, Christine shares why so many women struggle with people-pleasing, perfectionism, and the need for outside validation, and how reconnecting with your inner authority can change the way you approach relationships, career, motherhood, and everyday life. Stephanie ...

Stephanie Gambetta starts this episode with a solo update on what’s happening with Loop Health, her current peptide routine, the upcoming Loop Beauty line, and some of the changes she’s making in her own health at 51. She talks about building muscle in midlife, improving her sleep during menopause, prioritizing recovery, monitoring her blood work, and the mitochondrial stack she’s currently using. She also gets personal about the realities of building Loop Health, navigating life without Inst...

Psychologist Dr. Sarah Sarkis returns to The Loop Podcast to talk about the psychology of midlife and why the changes that happen in your 40s and 50s can feel so uncomfortable. Stephanie and Sarah break down the idea of a “midlife crisis” and look at what’s actually happening when your identity, relationships, career, family life, hormones, and priorities all begin shifting at the same time. Sarah explains why discomfort doesn’t necessarily mean something is wrong, how the things that worked ...