{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Plant Powered Collective","title":"Brain Health for Women: Menopause, HRT, Caregiving and Healthy Aging","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2929,"description":"Brain Health for Women: Menopause, HRT, Caregiving and Healthy Aging\nBrain health is not separate from the life a woman is living. It is connected to nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, hormonal changes, mental and  emotional wellbeing, relationships, purpose, work, caregiving, and the environments we create around ourselves.\nIn this personal episode of the Plant Powered Collective Podcast, Lori begins with the foundations of brain health and explains why the familiar habits we discuss repeatedly still matter. Knowing that sleep, movement, plants, and connection support health is only the beginning. Repetition creates rhythm, rhythm makes nourishing choices easier to repeat, and repeated actions can become habits.\nLori then shares how brain health has become deeply personal through caring for her father, who is living with dementia and primary progressive aphasia. She speaks honestly about the love, grief, frustration, tenderness, humor, exhaustion, and complicated emotions that can exist together during caregiving.\nAt the same time, Lori is building a business, writing a brain nourishment book, creating meaningful community work, and learning how to protect her own capacity while caring for someone she loves. This experience has also encouraged Lori to become more intentional about her personal health. After lab work confirmed that she is postmenopausal, she worked with her healthcare provider to begin hormone replacement therapy cream as one component of her individualized health plan. The goal is not to pursue an impossible version of perfection. It is to become the best version of herself: present, connected, clear, purposeful, and able to live vibrantly according to her own definition. Through these experiences, Lori has recognized that Plant Powered Collective is building something much broader than a nutrition plan. It is helping women establish foundations for their whole lives.\nIn this episode, Lori introduces three foundational Plant Powered Collective...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/m2cQX15G4OBVwYhoNlq8JcB0Nvfy6CcbdhOu7TLDPbs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83N2Qx/MGJiOGRmNjYyZjQz/MGQzYjI3NWM2NTAy/Nzg1MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}