Cynthia Thurlow

Nurse Practitioner | Author: The Menopause Gut | Everyday Wellness podcast | Women's Health-Gut Microbiome-Menopause
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02/19/2026

Pre-orders for The Menopause Gut are now available.

When you pre-order 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, you can claim a $338 bonus bundle at no additional cost.

Included:

- 3-Part Video Masterclass ($294 value)
- Why the Gut Matters in Midlife Guide ($27 value)
- Gut Health Checklist ($17 value)

➡️𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬:

𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞.

These exclusive bonuses expire when the book launches in April 2026.

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02/18/2026

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Bone loss does not begin at 70. For many women, acceleration starts during perimenopause and menopause.

Part 2 of our Women’s Bone Health Masterclass features Dr Vonda Wright , Carolyn Dean MD ND , Barrie Tan , and Bone Coach - Osteoporosis & Osteopenia

This conversation moves beyond calcium and into what actually drives bone remodeling, strength, and fracture resistance.

What we cover:

✅ Why bone loss accelerates during menopause
✅ How tocotrienols doubled the bone growth-to-loss ratio in a clinical trial
✅ Why relative calorie deficiency and menstrual disruption increase early osteoporosis risk
✅ How estrogen decline accelerates bone breakdown
✅ Why women’s bone health has been misunderstood for decades
✅ The critical role of magnesium in bone flexibility and structure
✅ How melatonin supports osteoblast activity and bone remodeling
✅ How chronic stress and elevated cortisol impair bone
✅ Why gut health is foundational to bone health

🎓 CEUs are available for this episode via SapienCE.
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02/18/2026

Can women delay menopause?

The jury is still out. Research is evolving.

What we do know is that certain factors may accelerate ovarian aging:

-Smoking
-Excess alcohol
-Chronic stress
-Unresolved trauma

The ovaries are one of the primary biological clocks in the female body. Ongoing stress activation and elevated cortisol can influence how quickly they age.

If you want to support long-term ovarian health:

➡️ Don’t smoke
➡️ Limit or avoid alcohol
➡️ Regulate stress consistently
➡️ Process past trauma with appropriate support

This is about lowering cumulative stress load over time.

In my upcoming book, The Menopause Gut (publishing April 28, 2026), I discuss the physiologic changes happening in midlife and how to support your body through them.

Preorder before launch to receive exclusive bonus resources.

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02/16/2026

Last week, I shared on Substack one of the most vulnerable pieces I’ve written.

For years, I believed I could out-discipline my way through anything.

But between autoimmune diagnoses, a hospitalization in 2019, and the hormonal shifts of perimenopause, my body stopped cooperating. The coping mechanisms that had carried me for decades stopped working.

Midlife forced me to confront parts of my past I had spent decades avoiding and to recognize how deeply the nervous system, the gut, and the immune system carry what we suppress.

If you’ve ever wondered whether unresolved stress or trauma could be showing up in your body, this is for you.

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02/14/2026

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Cardiovascular risk shifts during perimenopause and menopause, yet many women were never taught what to look for or what questions to ask.

In this episode with Dr. Jayne Morgan, we cover:

✅ One-size-fits-all treatment of women during medical training in the ’90s and early 2000s
✅ Speaking up in the exam room when something doesn’t feel right
✅ When hormone therapy was labeled dangerous, and the fallout that followed
✅ Medicine’s uncomfortable truth: clinicians must keep learning or fall behind
✅ Gender-neutral cardiology and the women it left behind
✅ The midlife risk-factor pileup no one prepared women for
✅ Why not taking blood pressure or cholesterol medications is risky rather than healthy
✅ Heart attacks often mistaken for anxiety, especially in women
✅ Slow change, real progress in women’s cardiology care

🎓 CEUs available via SapienCE.
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02/13/2026

You spend so much time taking care of everyone else.

This weekend, take care of you! 🩷

All Midlife Pause formulas are 20% OFF through February 16.

If you've been curious about trying something new, this is a good time to do it.

Shop through the link in bio or visit www.themidlifepause.com.

02/12/2026

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After more than a decade of practicing intermittent fasting, I can tell you this: the strategy has to evolve as you do.

Digestive rest and intermittent fasting are not interchangeable. One prioritizes healing and easing digestion. The other is a metabolic tool. Your goals, your hormones, and your current stage of life determine which one makes sense.

This conversation also reflects themes I expand on in my upcoming book, The Menopause Gut, especially around immune shifts and metabolic resilience in midlife.

Publication date: 4/28/26.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:
✅ How everything changed after 10 years of intermittent fasting
✅ How digestive rest differs from intermittent fasting
✅ Why intermittent fasting works better as a metabolic strategy
✅ How digestive rest supports healing
✅ The metabolic value of intermittent fasting
✅ How perimenopause and menopause impact the gut microbiome
✅ How to determine whether digestive rest or intermittent fasting is more appropriate in different life stages

🎓 CEUs are available for this episode via SapienCE.
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02/11/2026

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Bone health is shaped long before menopause, and waiting until 65 to pay attention is often too late.

Part 1 of our Bone Health Masterclass brings together a multidisciplinary panel to look at how bone health is built, preserved, or compromised across a woman’s life.

This conversation features:
• Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein, orthopedic surgeon
• Dr. Jessica Shepherd, OB-GYN and menopause expert
• Debra Atkinson, personal trainer specializing in midlife fitness
• Dr. Darren Candow, PhD researcher in exercise and supplementation

Together, they unpack how hormones, nutrition, and movement intersect with bone strength in ways many women are never taught.

What we cover:
✅ How underfueling, overtraining, and oral contraceptives can limit bone development
✅ Why strength and impact-based exercises are essential for bone density
✅ How even short bouts of impact exercise stimulate bone strength
✅ Where vibration plates fit into a bone-supportive routine
✅ Why estrogen decline increases osteoporosis and fracture risk
✅ How resistance training, Pilates, and water aerobics support bone and muscle
✅ Why creatine supports bone health only when paired with exercise

🎓 This episode is eligible for CEUs via SapienCE: https://sapience-affiliate.peachs.co/a/cynthia-thurlow

02/09/2026

Bloating in midlife is rarely about a single food.

During perimenopause and menopause, hormonal shifts, stress signaling, sleep disruption, and changes in gut motility all influence how your abdomen feels, sometimes overnight.

This is why removing gluten, dairy, or “eating cleaner” often doesn’t solve the problem.

When you understand why bloating happens, you stop chasing restriction and start using strategies that actually work with your biology.

Save this if you’ve been blaming food when your body is asking for context.

02/07/2026

Training in midlife requires a different lens.

As estrogen begins to decline, muscle and bone respond differently and recovery takes longer, while sleep starts to play a much bigger role in how the body performs. Despite this, many women are still being given rigid training rules that feel overwhelming or difficult to sustain long-term.

This conversation with drandygalpin brings the focus back to physiology instead of trends, grounding training, recovery, and longevity in how the body actually works through perimenopause and menopause.

What we cover:
✅ How estrogen decline influences muscle and bone loss
✅ Why sleep is foundational for recovery and body composition
✅ Resistance training as a long-term lifestyle strategy
✅ How under-fueling undermines performance and recovery
✅ Why early movement skills matter later in life
✅ Practical strength training guidance for midlife women
✅ A realistic approach to VO₂ max training
✅ Why unnecessary fitness rules make training less sustainable
✅ How hormone therapy and GLP-1 medications can support training and metabolic health

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02/05/2026

Collagen is often talked about in terms of skin, but in perimenopause and menopause, its role goes far beyond that.

Hormonal shifts change how your body produces and uses collagen across multiple systems at once: skin, bones, joints, muscles, and connective tissue.

At this point in midlife, collagen support isn’t about one single outcome.
It’s about choosing a formulation that reflects what your body actually needs now and using it consistently.

If you’d like to learn more about CollagenPro Midlife and why it’s formulated specifically for women in perimenopause and menopause, comment COLLAGEN and I’ll send you the link.

02/04/2026

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Breast health conversations are often oversimplified, especially when it comes to dense breast tissue, screening, and risk.

In this episode, I sit down with , a nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in breast health, menopause care, and breast cancer survivorship. We walk through what women actually need to understand to make informed decisions, without fear or confusion.

What we cover:
✅ What breast density really means and how it affects cancer detection
✅ How family history, prior biopsies, and alcohol influence risk
✅ When supplemental imaging may be appropriate
✅ How lifestyle factors like exercise, diet, and weight management matter
✅ How menopause symptoms and treatment options fit into breast health conversations
✅ What changes in the vaginal and urinary tissues are reversible and which are not
✅ Why trauma-informed, anticipatory care matters for screening and treatment

This is one of those episodes you’ll likely want to revisit, especially if you’ve ever felt uncertain about your screening options or how menopause intersects with breast health.

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