Hot flashes and Gut Health
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<p><strong>Your body isn't broken. Your protocols are incomplete.</strong></p><p>If you're a woman over 40 dealing with stubborn belly fat, 2 AM wake-ups, brain fog that makes you question yourself, or hot flashes that derail your day—and you're tired of being told to "just eat less and move more"—this podcast is for you.</p><p>I'm Miriam, a functional nutritionist and gut-hormone specialist who refuses to gaslight intelligent women about their bodies. This isn't another perimenopause podcast telling you to manage symptoms. <strong>This is about understanding what's actually happening in your body so you can work WITH it instead of against it.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Each week, we talk about:</strong></p><p>The gut-brain-hormone axis and why your digestive issues are connected to your sleep problems </p><p>• Why cortisol dysregulation keeps you wired at night and storing belly fat during the day </p><p>• How insulin resistance shows up differently in perimenopause (and what to actually do about it) </p><p>• The metabolic phenotypes driving your symptoms: Cortisol-Wired, Estrogen-Stuck, Insulin-Inflamed, Thyroid Throttle-Down, and Slow Digestion </p><p>• Why evening effort sabotages your blood sugar, sleep quality, and hormone production overnight </p><p>• Nervous system stabilization (because no protocol works if your body is stuck in survival mode) </p><p>• Hormone-friendly nutrition that doesn't require restriction or willpower</p><p></p><p><strong>This podcast is for women who:</strong></p><ul><li>Suspect their hormones and gut health are connected but don't know where to start</li><li>Are doing "everything right" but not getting results</li><li>Want the actual physiological explanation, not another surface-level symptom checklist</li><li>Are ready to stop managing perimenopause and start mastering it</li></ul><p></p><p>Stop second-guessing your body. The Perimenopause Reset gives you the metabolic literacy to navigate midlife with clarity, confidence, and clinical precision.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ready to go deeper?</strong> Take the free 2-minute Gut-Hormone Quiz at [<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://link.feacreate.com/widget/quiz/tzfThIadPvjneTLZxG3q"><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></a>] to discover your metabolic phenotype and get personalized next steps. </p><p>Join the Nourish & Flow Circle on Skool for monthly cooking demos, hormone protocols, and a community of women who refuse to settle for "it's just perimenopause." [<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about?ref=ee3af8a42b86483f9068fc9e00bafb83"><strong>JOIN US HERE</strong></a>]</p><p></p><p>Subscribe now. Your body has been trying to tell you something—let's figure out what it is.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
The Diet That Should Have Worked — Why Clean Eating Hits a Wall in Perimenopause
<p>You did everything right. Cut the sugar, dropped the wine, tracked your meals, added the walks. And the midsection weight still didn't move.</p><p>In this episode, functional nutritionist and gut-hormone specialist Miriam Faggett, MS, CNS breaks down the real reason clean eating stops working in perimenopause — and why the answer has nothing to do with trying harder or cutting more.</p><p>You'll learn:</p><ul><li>Why the most disciplined women are often the most stuck</li><li>What's happening in your body overnight that no food choice can fix</li><li>The difference between a nutrition problem and a stress-hormone-glucose problem — and why it matters</li><li>What shifts when the correct driver is addressed before the diet is</li></ul><p>If you've ever looked at your food journal and wondered why it isn't adding up — this episode is for you.</p><p><strong>Topics covered:</strong> perimenopause weight gain · midsection weight · clean eating plateau · cortisol and metabolism · insulin resistance in perimenopause · stress hormone and weight · gut-hormone connection · functional nutrition · perimenopause belly fat · hormone protocol · Tri-Shift Method</p><p><strong>Resources mentioned:</strong></p><p>→ Gut-Hormone Pattern Quiz (4 minutes): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://nourish-n-flow.com/gutquiz2026-556098">nourish-n-flow.com/gutquiz2026-556098</a></p><p>→ Join the Nourish & Flow Circle (free): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about">https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about</a></p><p>→ The Tri-Shift Protocol: $97 — <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about">https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about</a></p><p>The Perimenopause Reset is hosted by Miriam Faggett, MS, CNS, Doctoral Candidate — Functional Nutritionist and Gut-Hormone Specialist serving women 40+ in perimenopause and menopause.</p>
June 5, 2026
Why Your Gut Symptoms Keep Coming Back in Perimenopause (It's a Cortisol Story)
<p>If you're in perimenopause and your gut symptoms keep returning — the bloating, the constipation, the digestive issues that don't respond to dietary changes — this episode explains the mechanism behind that wall.</p><p>Most gut protocols in perimenopause fail to hold because they are applied before the upstream mechanism driving the disruption is addressed. The HPA axis — the stress-hormone system — governs gut motility, mucosal barrier integrity, gut immune function, and the estrobolome simultaneously. When cortisol is dysregulated, it disrupts all four continuously. Gut interventions land in an environment cortisol is actively undermining.</p><p>This episode maps the full HPA-gut cascade, how it produces a different clinical picture across five gut-hormone patterns, and why the sequence of intervention determines whether perimenopause gut symptoms resolve or keep returning.</p><p>For women over 40 experiencing perimenopause bloating, digestive issues, leaky gut symptoms, or the gut-hormone connection that standard protocols keep missing — this is the clinical picture behind what you are experiencing.</p><p>Free gut-hormone archetype quiz in the show notes. Four minutes. Know your pattern before you listen.</p><p></p><p><strong>Free resources mentioned in this video:</strong></p><p>Gut-Hormone Archetype Quiz — identify your specific pattern in 4 minutes: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://nourish-n-flow.com/gutquiz2026-556098">nourish-n-flow.com/gutquiz2026-556098</a></p><p>Tri-Shift Protocol — the full clinical sequence for your archetype: </p><p>Done With You Protocol Build — Cohort 2 opens June 29. 10 spots: forms.gle/89fP47m7irRK1jrGA</p><p>Nourish & Flow Circle — free community: skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about</p><p><strong>Connect with Miriam:</strong> 📱 Instagram: @gut.hormonehealth.nutritionist ▶️ YouTube: @Guttynutritionist 📧 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:miriam@nourish-n-flow.com">miriam@nourish-n-flow.com</a></p><p><strong>About The Perimenopause Reset</strong> The Perimenopause Reset is a clinical podcast for women in perimenopause and menopause navigating gut symptoms, hormone disruption, and metabolic changes that standard protocols keep missing. Each episode gives you the mechanism behind what you're experiencing — and why the correct sequence of intervention changes what your results are capable of producing.</p><p>New episodes every week.</p><p>This content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The gut-hormone archetypes referenced in this video are educational frameworks for nutritional awareness, not medical diagnoses. Please consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your health protocol.</p><p>#perimenopause #perimenopausesymptoms #guthealth #perimenopausebloating #hormonehealth #cortisol #leakygut #perimenopausenutrition #guthormonenutrition #womenover40 #hormonalhealth #functionalnutrition #perimenopauseweightloss #estrogendominance #cortisoldrift #guthealing #microbiome #perimenopausewellness #hormoneimbalance #menopausehealth</p>
May 23, 2026
Perimenopause & Cortisol: Why Nothing Holds Anymore
<p>If you’re in perimenopause and your stress management has stopped working — the breathwork, the magnesium, the sleep routines — this episode explains why.</p><p>In perimenopause, declining estrogen and progesterone thin the hormonal buffer that once protected your cortisol response. The result is called the Cortisol Drift: a rise in your baseline cortisol that makes stress harder to buffer, slower to recover from, and more damaging to your gut-hormone balance. Standard stress management stalls because it was built for a different physiology.</p><p>This episode gives you the clinical piece that’s missing.</p><p>You’ll understand the biological mechanism behind the Drift, how it’s hitting your specific gut-hormone archetype differently across five distinct patterns, and the Tri-Shift — the three-axis clinical sequence that rebuilds cortisol resilience in the correct order, and why that order is non-negotiable.</p><p>This episode is for women in perimenopause who have been doing everything right and hitting a ceiling they can’t explain.</p><p>Know your gut-hormone archetype before you listen — your result is delivered to your inbox in four minutes. Free quiz in the show notes.</p><p></p><p><strong>What This Episode Is About</strong></p><p>In perimenopause, the hormonal buffer that once protected your cortisol response thins — and everything you’ve been doing for stress management stops holding the way it used to. This isn’t a failure of effort. It’s a shift in the underlying physiology.</p><p>This episode walks you through the biological mechanism behind that shift, how it plays out differently across five gut-hormone archetypes, and the clinical sequence — the Tri-Shift — that rebuilds cortisol resilience in the correct order.</p><p><strong>What You’ll Learn</strong></p><ul><li>The Cortisol Drift: why declining estrogen and progesterone thin the hormonal buffer — and what that changes about how your body responds to stress</li><li>The three consequences of buffer thinning: larger cortisol amplitude, longer recovery time, and a rising baseline</li><li>Why stress management stalls: the physiological reason the approaches that used to work have stopped holding</li><li>The five gut-hormone archetypes under stress: how the Cortisol Drift hits each pattern differently — Cortisol-Wired, Insulin-Inflamed, T3-Downregulated, Estrogen-Stuck, Estrobolome-Disrupted</li><li>The Tri-Shift: the three-axis clinical rebuild — Nervous System, Rhythm, Nourishment — and why each axis must come before the next</li><li>The Sequence Principle: why the right interventions applied in the wrong order produce the same partial results as the wrong interventions</li></ul><p><strong>Resources Mentioned</strong></p><ul><li>Gut-hormone archetype quiz (result to inbox): <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://nourish-n-flow.com/gutquiz2026-556098">https://nourish-n-flow.com/gutquiz2026-556098</a></li><li>Nourish & Flow Circle community:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about"> https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about</a></li><li>YouTube: Gutty Nutritionist— Wind-Down Wednesday: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@Guttynutritionist">https://www.youtube.com/@Guttynutritionist</a></li><li>Cohort 2 — DWY Protocol Build — opens June 22: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://forms.gle/7JD2Jb8wa9j1yyJWA">https://forms.gle/7JD2Jb8wa9j1yyJWA</a></li></ul>
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<p><strong>Your body isn't broken. Your protocols are incomplete.</strong></p><p>If you're a woman over 40 dealing with stubborn belly fat, 2 AM wake-ups, brain fog that makes you question yourself, or hot flashes that derail your day—and you're tired of being told to "just eat less and move more"—this podcast is for you.</p><p>I'm Miriam, a functional nutritionist and gut-hormone specialist who refuses to gaslight intelligent women about their bodies. This isn't another perimenopause podcast telling you to manage symptoms. <strong>This is about understanding what's actually happening in your body so you can work WITH it instead of against it.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Each week, we talk about:</strong></p><p>The gut-brain-hormone axis and why your digestive issues are connected to your sleep problems </p><p>• Why cortisol dysregulation keeps you wired at night and storing belly fat during the day </p><p>• How insulin resistance shows up differently in perimenopause (and what to actually do about it) </p><p>• The metabolic phenotypes driving your symptoms: Cortisol-Wired, Estrogen-Stuck, Insulin-Inflamed, Thyroid Throttle-Down, and Slow Digestion </p><p>• Why evening effort sabotages your blood sugar, sleep quality, and hormone production overnight </p><p>• Nervous system stabilization (because no protocol works if your body is stuck in survival mode) </p><p>• Hormone-friendly nutrition that doesn't require restriction or willpower</p><p></p><p><strong>This podcast is for women who:</strong></p><ul><li>Suspect their hormones and gut health are connected but don't know where to start</li><li>Are doing "everything right" but not getting results</li><li>Want the actual physiological explanation, not another surface-level symptom checklist</li><li>Are ready to stop managing perimenopause and start mastering it</li></ul><p></p><p>Stop second-guessing your body. The Perimenopause Reset gives you the metabolic literacy to navigate midlife with clarity, confidence, and clinical precision.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ready to go deeper?</strong> Take the free 2-minute Gut-Hormone Quiz at [<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://link.feacreate.com/widget/quiz/tzfThIadPvjneTLZxG3q"><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></a>] to discover your metabolic phenotype and get personalized next steps. </p><p>Join the Nourish & Flow Circle on Skool for monthly cooking demos, hormone protocols, and a community of women who refuse to settle for "it's just perimenopause." [<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.skool.com/nourish-flow-circle-7756/about?ref=ee3af8a42b86483f9068fc9e00bafb83"><strong>JOIN US HERE</strong></a>]</p><p></p><p>Subscribe now. Your body has been trying to tell you something—let's figure out what it is.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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