The Dr Vonda Show

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Medicine trained us to wait until you're sick. Most doctors tell you to get healthy. But almost nobody tells you where to start. Dr. Darshan Shah, board-certified surgeon and founder of Next Health. We talked about how he reverse-engineered his own recovery, what peptides actually are, how red light and hyperbaric oxygen really work, and the whole-body MRI that found something in his own body days before a routine biopsy. Stop waiting for permission from a study that will never be funded. Ask the only two questions that have ever mattered: could this help me, and could it hurt me. What we explore: - How peptides work, and what BPC-157 actually does…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book No fall, no heavy lift. But suddenly you woke up and couldn't reach behind your back. 3 out of 4 people who get frozen shoulders are women in perimenopause, and that is not a coincidence. In this episode I show you what's happening inside your shoulder, why estrogen loss is driving it, and how I treat it in my clinic. Every joint is wrapped in a capsule. A healthy one moves like a loose windbreaker; a frozen one shrinks to a wetsuit two sizes too small. You're not falling apart. Your shoulder pain has a name and it has a fix, but waiting it out can cost you two years. What we cover: - Why frozen shoulder in perimenopause hits women three times out of four. - What estrogen loss does to the shoulder joint capsule, and how fibrosis freezes it. - How the four stages of adhesive…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Lift heavy. Eat protein. Jump. You have heard me say it, and every day you write back to tell me your knees hurt, your back hurts, your whole body aches. So I stopped and asked a different question, and the answer changed everything I believe about how we age. In this masterclass I bring together five people I trust to answer what to actually do about it. Physical therapist Dr. Dan Ginader on rebuilding confidence in a body that hurts. Coach Eugene Teo on replacing fear with curiosity. Dr. Stacy Sims on designing a real training week for a 42 year old and a 62 year old. Dr. Iñigo San Millán on Zone 2, sprint intervals, and the lactate that feeds…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book 30% of women who fracture their femoral neck will not survive the year. Half of those who do never walk the same way again. The break is almost never where the story starts. It starts twenty years earlier. In this episode I walk you through the 7 ways I do to keep my patients off my fracture list: why your first DEXA scan belongs at 45, how to read a T-score, what it takes to signal bone to rebuild, and why balance is a skill you can train at any age. You are not falling apart and you are not clumsy. Bone loss is silent until it isn't, which is exactly why we get in front of it. What we cover: - Why a hip fracture is rarely an accident, and how bone loss builds for decades. - Why a DEXA scan at 65 is too late, and how to read your T-score. - How 60 seconds of balance training a…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Most of us think skin aging is about wrinkles. But your skin is an organ of longevity, and the cells breaking down inside it are shaping your whole-body health. Dr. Carolina Reis Oliveira, stem cell scientist and CEO of OneSkin, to reframe skin as an organ of longevity. We talked about how "zombie" senescent cells quietly accumulate starting in our 20s, how estrogen loss accelerates collagen breakdown, and the decade of research behind OS-01, the peptide her team identified to lower the skin's biological age. This is about prevention, not vanity. It's about understanding what your skin is telling you and partnering with your biology early, so you…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book Your foot hurts the second it hits the floor. Your shoulder wakes you at 2 a.m. Your elbow is on fire and you don't even play tennis. You didn't earn any of this, so why is it happening all at once? In this solo episode, I break down why your tendons suddenly fail in midlife, how the loss of estrogen turns a strong "wet rope" into a fraying dry one, and what actually rebuilds them. The fix isn't rest, it's the exact five-part approach I use with my patients every day. Because you're not falling apart, you're missing the one explanation no one gave you. What we cover: - Why tendons suddenly fail in midlife: estrogen loss and the "itises" - How tendons, bones, and muscle share one stem cell and hurt together - Why resting a painful tendon is wrong: progressive loading rebuilds it -…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& I sat down with Dr. Mary Claire Haver, board-certified OBGYN, certified menopause specialist, and author of The New Menopause and The New Perimenopause. Together we pull back what is actually happening inside a woman's body during the perimenopause transition, and what we can do about it. What we explore: - Why perimenopause starts in the brain, triggering fog, mood shifts, and sleep disruption years before your last period. - The staggering research gap that has left perimenopause understudied and millions of women dismissed. - How 20% of women absorb transdermal estrogen poorly without knowing it, and why testing matters. - What metabolic…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book We've been taught to think of our bodies like appliances that break down the moment the warranty runs out. But your biological warranty doesn't have an expiration date. It has a maintenance requirement. In this final Time Bomb episode, I tackle the sixth major driver of aging: stem cell exhaustion, and why frailty is a choice, not a sentence. Stem cells are your internal repair crew, the only cells capable of becoming muscle, blood, brain, and bone. Their production slows as we age, but that exhaustion is not permanent. I take you inside my early lab research with "little old lady mice," whose dying muscle stem cells came roaring back to life after just two weeks of running. I'll show you why muscle contraction is the most powerful signal you can send to your regenerative system,…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& You've been told to eat less and do more cardio your whole life, but the real strength isn't measured in pounds lost, it's built in the muscle. JJ Virgin, triple-board certified nutrition expert and Fitness Hall of Famer, to talk about why we were raised on cardio, calorie-cutting, and a fear of the weight rack failing us after 50 and which metrics actually tell you the truth about your progress. We were taught to fear the muscle but that is the very thing that will keep you strong, mobile, and independent for decades to come. What we explore: - Why the fitness playbook women over 50 sets them up to fail. - How resistance training protects your…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book Have you ever driven a car with a broken fuel gauge, never quite sure if you're running full or running on fumes? Your body works the same way. Today I break down the fifth major time bomb of aging: deregulated nutrient sensing, or what I call "fuel gauge malfunction." Our organs need the right amount of fuel, not too much, not too little. Built-in nutrient sensors act like biological traffic lights to keep us in range. But through menopause, or menolescence as I like to call it, those lights get damaged. Estrogen drops, insulin sensitivity falls, and visceral fat creeps in. This isn't inevitable but by feeding your gut, building your muscle, optimizing your hormones, you can repair those traffic lights. Longevity isn't passive. It's built by design. What we cover: - How your…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& What if we stopped treating birth like a finish line and started treating it like the middle of an athlete's comeback? Dr. Lara Morgan Lee, board-certified sports medicine physician and former team doctor for the Cleveland Cavaliers, LA Kings, and USC Trojans, to talk about the enormous gap in postpartum care whereas she lived this gap through her own C-section recovery, and now she treats moms the way we treat elite athletes with a rehab-to-rebuild-to-return plan, not a timeline. Because what happens in those first months echoes all the way into perimenopause and beyond. What we explore: - The six-week postpartum clearance: why it misses…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book Zombie movies are fun but Zombie cells are not. They are inside your body that have reached the end of their natural lifespan and simply refuse to die. Today I break down the fourth major time bomb of aging: cellular senescence, and how these "zombie cells" quietly accelerate the way you age. These damaged cells actively poison the healthy cells around them, releasing signals that drive chronic inflammation and pull neighboring cells into the same broken state. This accumulation is directly linked to neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, and for women, it speeds up dramatically as estrogen declines through the menopausal transition. The good news is that you have more control than you think. I walk you through exactly how to activate your body's cellular…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Eugene Teo, founder of the Ganbaru Method, talks about why the smartest way to get a midlife woman lifting has nothing to do with lecturing about osteoporosis. We talk about coaching from curiosity, moving beyond strength and hypertrophy into power and speed, adapting every lift to individual anatomy, and structuring cardio for longevity. This is a conversation about doing hard things gently and discovering what your body is still capable of. What we explore: - How curiosity-first coaching dissolves the fear of getting "bulky." - Why osteoporosis and menopause arguments fail, and what builds buy-in. - What separates power training from strength…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book We feel the fatigue, yet we push through anyway, telling ourselves the exhaustion is just part of getting older. But that midlife tiredness is often something deeper. Today we talk about the third time bomb of aging, mitochondrial dysfunction, and why your cellular power plants hold the key to your energy, your metabolism, and your longevity. Here's what most women never hear: when you stop demanding energy from your body, it stops building the engines that create it. Weak, dysfunctional mitochondria pollute your cells and quietly fuel inflammation and insulin resistance. The good news is that you can reverse the trend. I'll show you how to trigger biogenesis and mitophagy through movement, precision nutrition, and hormonal optimization, so you can rebuild your cellular power and…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Brynn MacLennan, co-founder and CEO of Slate Flosser, to explore the surprising link between oral health and whole-body wellbeing. The bacteria in your gums don't stay in your gums. They travel to your brain, heart, and gut, shaping your risk for everything from dementia to heart disease. We talk about why bleeding gums are a signal to lean in, not back off, and why the way we've flossed for a hundred years may finally be ready for reinvention. What we explore: - Why oral health is inseparable from whole-body health in midlife. - How perimenopause estrogen changes cause gum dryness, inflammation, and bleeding. - What bleeding gums signal, and why…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book There's a heat you can't feel until it's already aging you. Let's talk about something quietly ticking away inside all of us. In this solo episode I'm getting into inflammaging, the second great time bomb of aging, and what happens when your body's emergency crew never clocks out. Think alarm bells ringing around the clock, sirens that never quiet down. And here's where it gets personal: perimenopause. That's the wake-up call, the moment declining estrogen strips away one of your most powerful anti-inflammatory shields, and suddenly the fire's raging and no one tells you why. So I'm not leaving you there. I'll walk you through the real blueprint to put those flames out: how you move, how you eat, your hormones, and how you meet your stress. Because hear me on this one. Longevity…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& I sat down with Dr. Lucy McBride, Harvard and Johns Hopkins-trained internist and author of Beyond the Prescription, to talk about what modern medicine keeps getting wrong and what you can do about it. What we explore: - Why does the medical system treat patients as a bag of organs, not a whole person. - How the wellness industry mirrors the same prescriptive failures it claims to fix. - The three A's: awareness, acceptance, and agency, and why acceptance is the hardest. - How your "biography behind the biology" gives context no lab test can capture. - Why women are conditioned to tolerate suffering and how it blocks access to menopause care. - The…

Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power A clear, science-backed roadmap to building strength, supporting your body, and taking control of how you age. Get your copy: https://www.theunbreakablelifestyle.com/unbreakable-book Your DNA is not your destiny. It's the blueprint, but you are the master builder. In this episode, I unpack the first major time bomb of aging, DNA changes and damage, and the small daily decisions that build an unbreakable lifestyle. We'll talk about telomeres, the protective end caps on your chromosomes, why they shrink faster for women during the menopause transition, and how movement can quite literally make your cells younger. What we cover: - DNA vs destiny: why 70% of aging is lifestyle, not genes - Gene expression: how one workout shifts over 9,000 genes - Telomeres explained: the protective end caps of your chromosomes - Menopause and telomeres: why estrogen decline speeds cellular aging - Strength training: 90 minutes weekly linked to younger cells - Aerobic exercise:…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Kim Vopni, "The Vagina Coach" and creator of the Buff Muff Method, breaks down why the pelvic floor isn't just a Kegel muscle, it's a full system of skeletal muscle, connective tissue, and nerve supply that needs training, not just squeezing. What we explore: - Pelvic floor anatomy: layered skeletal muscle and load-bearing function - Core breath technique: syncing breath with squats and resistance training - Tight vs. weak pelvic floor: why tension isn't strength - Bladder irritants and hydration: caffeine, alcohol, and urgency triggers - Pelvic floor physical therapy: why annual checkups matter, symptoms or not - Incontinence, prolapse, and pelvic…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Dr. Ami Bhatt, a Yale-trained cardiologist and Chief Innovation Officer at the American College of Cardiology, joins me to unpack heart disease in women, from baseline labs at 18 to pregnancy as a stress test to what estrogen loss does to the heart in perimenopause. We also cover missed symptoms, statins, and how to prepare for a cardiology visit. What we explore: - Heart disease in women: why it's the #1 killer and largely preventable - Cholesterol screening: why baseline testing should start at 18 - Lipoprotein(a): the hidden risk factor, and who's most affected - Pregnancy and heart health: preeclampsia as a predictor of future risk - Women's…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Movement isn't a supplement to your health plan. It is the plan. In this masterclass, I break down why sedentary living is one of the most dangerous choices a woman can make in midlife, the masters athlete studies that reframe what aging actually looks like, and the MRI images that show the difference between lean muscle and fatty tissue at any age, why estrogen falls fast, what that does to your joints and muscle, and why 35 to 45 is the critical decade and why FACE framework, is my practical blueprint for flexibility, aerobic work, carrying load, and equilibrium. What we cover: - Sedentary death syndrome and the 33 chronic diseases linked to…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Your cartilage has no nerve endings, so you won't feel it disappearing until the damage is already done. In this episode, I walk you through exactly how I treat arthritis in my own clinic: not with a steroid shot and a goodbye, but with a whole-person framework built over 27 years of orthopedic practice. Too many women are told to "act their age" and stop moving when their joints hurt. That advice is a cop-out, and it's wrong. Arthritis, especially the kind that shows up fast in midlife women, has root causes we can actually address. I'm breaking down my exact seven-step approach, from hormone optimization to biologics to knowing when a joint…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Longevity isn't a number on a calendar. It's built in bone. In this final episode of the Unbreakable Bone Mini Series, I'm closing out everything we've covered on bone biology, the eight shields, and the osteoporosis lifecycle with the idea that ties it all together: skeletal longevity is the foundation everything else depends on. We talk endlessly about peptides, vitamins, and the right kind of exercise, but none of that matters if your bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments can't carry you through the life you want to live. In this episode, I explain why I think of longevity not as a timeline to coast through, but as a design problem, one you can…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Bone density peaks at 30. By the time most women get their first DEXA scan, they've already lost the window to act early. In this solo episode, I walk you through exactly how I explain a DEXA scan to my own patients, using my own results as the example. We cover the bell curve behind your T-score, why perimenopause can cost you up to 20% of your bone density, and what osteopenia and osteoporosis actually mean for your fracture risk. This is the education I wish every woman had before she hit her 40s, so she could build bone instead of just reacting to loss. What we cover: - T-scores explained: how your bone density compares to a healthy…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Most women think bone loss is a menopause problem. Dr. Vonda Wright shows it starts in your 30s and accelerates 3-7% per year during perimenopause, meaning you can lose 20% of your bone before your last period even arrives. Pregnancy and breastfeeding create two more hidden windows of bone loss most women never see coming. This episode maps the full bone loss timeline so you can get in front of it while you still can. 🎤 Women's Health Conversations 2026 Three days of world-class speakers, wellness activations, and 1,000+ women choosing themselves. Join us this November. 👉 Grab your spot: https://theunbreakablelifestyle.com/whc-2026 ... 🧠 Start your…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Today I sat down with Cindy Eckert, founder and CEO of Sprout Pharmaceuticals and the woman behind Addyi, the first and only FDA-approved medication for low sexual desire in women, often called the "female Viagra." This conversation is about so much more than a pill: it's about biology, agency, and why a switch going out in your brain deserves a medical answer, not a euphemism. What we explore: - Why desire begins in the brain, not the body. - How Addyi works on dopamine and serotonin to restore interest. - What women say when they describe losing their libido. - Why HSDD can affect women from their teens through their eighties. - How the double…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Most people know they should exercise. The data is irrefutable. But knowing and doing are two very different things. In this video I'm introducing a concept called Sedentary Death Syndrome 33 chronic diseases that will take hold if we don't intervene with daily movement. And the shocking truth is there is only one "drug" that treats all 33 of them. It's not in a pharmacy. I'm also giving you the exact exercise prescription I use for women in midlife and beyond. I call it the FACE Framework — and it covers everything your body actually needs to stay strong, mobile, and powerful as you age. Not just cardio. Not just weights. All of it, in the right…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& I sat down with Dr. Iñigo San Millán, one of the world's leading researchers in cellular metabolism and mitochondrial function and the scientist whose methods I use every day in my practice, to decode the real science of Zone 2, lactate, and why your mitochondria are the engine of your entire health span. What we explore: - Lactate threshold testing measures mitochondrial function, metabolic health and flexibility - Zone 2 and sprint intervals optimize VO2 max, glycolytic capacity, and healthy aging. - Elevated resting lactate signals mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance - The astrocyte-neuron lactate shuttle links brain metabolism,…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Your shoulder hurts and you did nothing to injure it. Your knees ache. Your back is acting up. Everything feels inflamed and nobody is giving you a straight answer. You are not falling apart. You are not going crazy. There is a name for what is happening to you. It is called the Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause — and it is one of the most under-discussed, under-diagnosed conditions affecting women in midlife today. When estrogen walks out the door, it doesn't just affect your reproductive system. Every single part of your skeletal system — your muscles, your bones, your joints, your tendons, your cartilage, your spinal discs — has estrogen…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& I sit down with Dr. Doris Day, board-certified dermatologist and clinical associate professor at NYU, to explore what perimenopause and menopause are really doing to your skin and what you can do about it from the inside out. What We Explore: - Why skin is the first organ to feel estrogen loss, sometimes years before other symptoms appear. - How collagen collapse accelerates around menopause, with up to 30% lost in the first five years. - Why facial bone resorption changes your orbital structure and jawline as you age. - How simple facial posture exercises can preserve muscle tone without surgery. - Why sugar and alcohol accelerate skin aging and how…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Most women don't think about their bones until something breaks. But by the time your doctor orders a bone density scan, you may have already lost 20% of your bone density - silently, without a single symptom. The window to change your bone health trajectory isn't 65. It's now. In this video, I'm walking you through the 8 Pillars of Building Better Bone - the exact research-based framework I use with my patients to get in front of bone loss before it becomes a crisis. Whether you're 40, 45, or staring down 50, there is still time to move the needle. But that window is closing faster than you think. Your bones are not a static structure. They are a…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Iris Nafshi, a researcher, triathlete, and leadership expert who spent years studying what she calls the "IronMoms," to unpack the interplay between athletic grit and maternal guilt. We dig into what her PhD research actually found, why women disappear from themselves for decades only to rediscover who they are in midlife, and how the way we define our identity versus our role shapes everything from our fitness journey to how we age. What we explore: - How Dr. Nafshi's 30 years of putting herself last became the catalyst for her research on maternal guilt. - What the "third shift" is and why athletic moms carry a…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& If you're lifting 5 to 30 pound weights for high reps, you may be training for the wrong goal entirely. Dr. Vonda Wright breaks down the exact strength and power prescription for women in midlife and beyond — the specific 4 to 8 rep range that builds functional strength, why power training (speed of movement) is what keeps you from falling, and how MRI research on master's athletes proves you can maintain muscle mass across your entire lifespan with the right daily investment. ... 🧠 Start your Unbreakable journey Most women are never given a clear plan for how to stay strong as they age. The Unbreakable Lifestyle is where that changes. This is the…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& I've spent years telling women to lift heavy, but this conversation reminded me why that message matters more than ever. In this episode, Dr Stacy Sims, a world-leading exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist, and I go deep on what it really means to be muscle-centric. Not for vanity, but for your brain, your bones, your metabolic health, and your future. We talk about the broken baselines in women's sports science, why wearable data is lying to you, and what a real week of training should look like at 42 versus 62. We also get into the protein debate, creatine, intermittent fasting, and why guilt has no place in your fitness practice. This is…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Your feet take 5,000 steps every single day, and most of us don't think about them until something goes wrong. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Timothy Miller, DPM, FACFAS, to talk about the one body part that literally holds everything else up. We cover everything from plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendonitis to bunions, big toe arthritis, and fallen arches, and what you can do right now to stay strong, mobile, and pain-free for decades to come. This is the conversation I wish every one of my patients had before they ended up in my office. What we explore: - How foot dysfunction travels up the kinetic chain and causes hip, shoulder, and neck…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Most of us know our bones matter. But very few of us understand what it actually takes to protect them and how much power we truly have to change their future. In this third episode of the Unbreakable Bone Mini Series, I'm walking you through the eight evidence-based "shields" that will help you build stronger, more resilient bone at any age. This isn't a program. It's not a quick fix. It's the framework for a lifestyle that compounds over time, one that starts with how you think about aging and ends with the daily decisions that either protect or deplete the scaffolding your body depends on. What we cover: - How shifting your mindset away from…

📩 Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. 👉 Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3&utm_source=Youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=longevity-26-may-26 You've been told to build muscle and eat protein — but that's only part of the picture. Dr. Vonda Wright introduces Skeletal Longevity, a new framework that addresses the full skeletal system: bone, tendon, ligament, cartilage, collagen, and muscle stem cells working together. When estrogen leaves, it doesn't just affect your muscles — it degrades tendons, accelerates cartilage breakdown, and compromises the entire system that keeps you mobile and strong. If you're training hard but still feeling like you're losing ground, this is why. ... 🧠 Start your Unbreakable journey Most…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& You've heard you should be taking creatine. But do you actually know what it's doing inside your body, or whether the supplement in your cabinet contains what the label claims? I sat down with Dr. Jim Stoppani, one of the most credentialed exercise scientists in the country, to cut through decades of misinformation and hand you a clear, science-backed framework for getting the most out of the supplements and training strategies that genuinely move the needle. What We Explore - Why creatine is an energy molecule, not a muscle drug, and why it matters for both brain and body. - What the safety research actually shows about creatine at standard and higher…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& She found the lump herself at 28. Was misdiagnosed. Found out seven months later it was cancer. And she started chemo dancing. Justine Morris is one of the most joyful people I know, and her joy is not accidental. It is a decision she makes every single day. In this conversation we talk about what it really means to live through breast cancer at 29, survive surgical menopause overnight, and then figure out how to actually live in your body after treatment ends. What We Explore: - Why the misdiagnosis happened and what every woman needs to know about advocating for her own breast health. - What overnight surgical menopause feels like at 29 when no one…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Your blood sugar is telling you everything. You just haven't been listening. In this episode, I sit down with registered dietitian and certified personal trainer Kayla Girgen, one of the first clinicians to bring continuous glucose monitoring to everyday women who do not have diabetes. If you have ever eaten well, exercised hard, and still felt like your body was working against you, this conversation will change the way you see your metabolism forever. What We Explore: - How a CGM reveals what food, stress, sleep, and exercise are doing to your blood sugar in real time. - Why pre-diabetes is one of the most under-treated diagnoses in women's health. -…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& What does it look like to refuse to age into frailty? Gabby Reece is 56, trains six days a week, and hasn't relied on willpower once. Here's how she actually does it. In this conversation, Gabby and I talk through the real mechanics of a well-designed life. We cover discipline versus willpower, how two strong people build a thriving relationship, and the simple daily practices that keep Gabby strong, grounded, and fully present. What We Explore: - How discipline and willpower are completely different, and why confusing the two keeps most people stuck. - Why Gabby builds personal scaffolding around her real life instead of chasing someone else's…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3 At 89 years old, Dr. Arnold Gilberg still feels 40. That is not a metaphor, it is a philosophy. I sat down with this Beverly Hills psychiatrist, ordained rabbi, and author of The Myth of Aging, trained by one of Sigmund Freud's own colleagues, to talk about the one enemy more dangerous than getting older: disengagement. What we explore: - How disengagement, not aging itself, is the true driver of physical and mental decline. - Why curiosity is the master key to staying mentally alive as you grow older. - How self-forgiveness unlocks behavioral change that willpower alone never can. - Why psychiatry's drift toward medication alone is leaving patients…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& Resting your pain away is not a strategy. It is how women lose strength, mobility, and years of active life. I sat down with Dr. Dan Ginader, DPT and Clinic Director of Mims Method Physical Therapy in Manhattan, to unpack the real root causes behind common aches and why movement, not rest, is almost always the answer. What we explore: - How resting after injury creates the very weakness that leads to the next one - Why pain is more often a signal of weakness than structural damage - How the Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause affects every tissue as estrogen declines - Why frozen shoulder demands a stage-based approach; forcing it only backfires -…

Get Dr. Vonda's insights Want to understand what's happening in your body — and what to do next? Each week, Dr. Vonda shares science-backed guidance on strength, bone health, muscle, and longevity — the same way she speaks to her patients. Clear. Practical. No noise. Join the newsletter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3& I sat down with Dr. Florence Comite, the original gangster of precision medicine, who has been treating every patient as an "N of 1" for over 30 years. She pioneered Women's Health at Yale in 1992 and has spent her career proving that your genes are not your destiny. We go deep into what it actually takes to reverse biological aging, not slow it, reverse it. What we cover: - The five biomarkers that are suboptimal in nearly every patient, and why your doctor is probably not testing all of them. - Why "normal" lab values are not the same as optimal, and how that gap is silently costing you your health. - Why testosterone is the most underprescribed…

Get Dr. Vonda's latest insights on strength, bone health, longevity, and aging with power delivered straight to your inbox. Join her free health & longevity newsletter here: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=YqJKtR&g=Ww3gx3&utm_source=Youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=4-steps-feb-26 In the first five years after menopause, women lose up to 30% of their skin's collagen. Not gradually over decades, in five years. I sat down with Dr. Anthony Youn, America's Holistic Plastic Surgeon® and bestselling author of Younger for Life, to explore the powerful connection between your skin and your overall wellbeing. This conversation will completely change the way you think about aging, beauty, and the remarkable ability your body has to renew itself from the inside out. What we cover: - How Dr. Youn's philosophy of Autojuvenation® works to harness your body's natural regenerative abilities before turning to any clinical intervention. - Why the skin is the body's largest organ and functions as a…

Get Dr. Vonda's latest insights on strength, bone health, longevity, and aging with power delivered straight to your inbox. Join her free health & longevity newsletter here: https://www.drvondawright.com/resources/aging-longevity Today I want to talk with you about how women age, and why so many of us feel surprised by what happens to our bodies in midlife. This is not an episode about chasing youth or fearing wrinkles. It is about understanding why women are not taught how longevity really works in our bodies, and why the years leading up to menopause matter far more than we were ever told. I have learned, through decades of caring for women as an orthopedic sports surgeon, that we are not simply smaller versions of men. Our biology has often been overlooked in longevity research, even though estrogen quietly influences nearly every system that determines how strong, mobile, and independent we remain as we age. I want you to know this. Aging is not something that happens to you. It is something you can…

Get Dr. Vonda's latest insights on strength, bone health, longevity, and aging with power delivered straight to your inbox. Join her free health & longevity newsletter here: https://www.drvondawright.com/resources/aging-longevity Your brain is not losing its mind by accident. It has been compounding every decision you've made for the last thirty years. Louisa Nicola is one of my closest friends, and one of the most brilliant neurophysiologists working today, an elite triathlete and PhD researcher who has dedicated her life to understanding how the brain ages and, more importantly, how to stop it from declining. In this episode, Louisa and I pull back the curtain on everything you thought you knew about Alzheimer's disease, starting with the truth about amyloid, the protein we've been blaming for decades that is actually your brain's own defense system, and we build you a real, science-backed brain insurance policy: the specific exercise protocols, sleep requirements, hormonal factors, and daily habits that…

Get Dr. Vonda's latest insights on strength, bone health, longevity, and aging with power delivered straight to your inbox. Join her free health & longevity newsletter here: https://www.drvondawright.com/resources/aging-longevity What if the single most powerful window to shape your child's lifelong health isn't in the pediatrician's office, it's in the nine months before they're even born? In this episode, I sit down with Jessie Inchauspé, the French biochemist and NYT bestselling author known worldwide as the Glucose Goddess, to explore her groundbreaking new book Nine Months That Count Forever and why pregnancy nutrition is the most underestimated conversation in medicine today. What we cover: - How four pillars of pregnancy nutrition: choline, protein, omega-3s, and glucose control actively shape your baby's brain and metabolic health. - Why 90% of pregnant mothers lack enough choline, and how this egg yolk nutrient shapes your baby's brain cells and cognitive performance. - How glucose spikes pass to…

Get Dr. Vonda's latest insights on strength, bone health, longevity, and aging with power delivered straight to your inbox. Join her free health & longevity newsletter here: https://www.drvondawright.com/resources/aging-longevity You only build bone during deep sleep, and only if you get enough of a growth hormone spike to make it happen. As someone who has spent her career fighting osteoporosis, I had never connected those dots that clearly before. Morning light, deep sleep, and bone density are part of the same biological chain. That alone is worth the listen. This week, I am joined by Dr. John La Puma, the originator of culinary medicine. After reviewing over 2,200 studies for his new book, Indoor Epidemic, his conclusion is both sobering and actionable: we are spending 93% of our lives indoors, and our biology is paying for it in ways most of us cannot even perceive. Fatigue. Brain fog. Disrupted sleep. Accelerated aging. And we keep reaching for supplements and prescriptions when the answer is often…

Get Dr. Vonda's latest insights on strength, bone health, longevity, and aging with power delivered straight to your inbox. Join her free health & longevity newsletter here: https://www.drvondawright.com/resources/aging-longevity Have you ever woken up feeling like a stranger in your own skin, wondering why the body that used to be so predictable now feels like a puzzle you can't quite solve? In this episode, I sit down with PhD nutrition scientist Dr. Emily Prpa to pull back the curtain on the "female gut" and explore why, for far too long, we've been given health advice designed for men while our own unique biology was left in the dark. What we cover: - The Gender Data Gap: Why nutritional advice is often derived from men and how it affects you. - Hormonal Control: How estrogen and progesterone dictate your digestion and heart health. - The Microbiome Shift: What happens to your gut during the transition to menopause. - The Power of Perspective: Viewing menopause as a "renewal" rather than an "abyss." -…