You’re exhausted from trying harder—eating perfectly, forcing yourself to exercise, doing all the “right” things—but your menopausal body still won’t cooperate. What if I told you the problem isn’t that you’re not doing enough? It’s that you’re doing too much.
In this episode, Dr. Laurie Marbas, double board-certified in Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, who shows us why starting impossibly small is actually the secret to massive transformation. She shares how one woman reversed type 2 diabetes and lost 60 pounds by simply walking to the end of her driveway. How another went from 2 counter push-ups while waiting for coffee to doing 60—and built actual muscle in her 60s.
Dr. Marbas breaks down the physiology of why our bodies feel so different, then gives us practical, tiny steps that actually work. If you’ve ever felt like change is just too overwhelming, this episode will show you it doesn’t have to be. Enjoy the show!
Featured Guest: Dr. Laurie Marbas
Dr. Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is a double-board-certified family and lifestyle medicine
physician who has been using food as medicine since 2012. She currently holds medical licenses in all 50 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. and runs a concierge practice focused on nutrition and lifestyle interventions. Dr. Marbas co-founded the Culinary Healing community, a chef-and-doctor partnership where healthy recipes are the prescription. Before that she co-founded Mora Medical and Plant-Based TeleHealth, and she served as the first managing editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. She hosts the Habit Healer podcast and previously wrote the Visual Mnemonics series of books to help medical students learn. A graduate of Texas Tech University with dual MD and MBA degrees, she received the university’s Gold-Headed Cane Award for excellence in the art of medicine and is also a U.S. Air Force veteran, wife and mother of three.
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What You’ll Learn From This Episode