Bria Gadd - Integrative Nutrition Coach, Hormone Specialist, Personal Trainer, Perimenopause Coach,
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In the 35-55 age box and starting to wonder if you will ever feel like you again? Weight gain, night wakings, brain fog, hot flashes, headaches, cravings, bloating, joint pain, mood swings, anxiety are all on the rise and no matter what you try, nothing moves the needle. Your host, Bria Gadd is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, Certified Holistic Health Coach, and Personal Trainer who specializes in female hormones. After helping thousands of women lose weight in their 20’s and 30’s, Bria recognized a difficult shift in women’s ability to get results in their body during their perimenopause years...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A midlife women's health show connecting perimenopause symptoms with sleep, pelvic floor health, burnout, HRT questions, libido, weight change, and daily capacity.
THE PERIOD WHISPERER PODCAST is a women's health show with a tight midlife focus: perimenopause and menopause as they show up in sleep, pelvic floor symptoms, HRT questions, burnout, libido, weight change, and the uneasy sense that ambition can shift underfoot.
That tiny change in your cycle gets more airtime here than 'it's just aging' ever gave it.
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A practical perimenopause detox guide that turns overwhelm into a few workable habits.
The episode focuses on perimenopause, toxic overload, and the way exhaustion can leave women feeling overwhelmed and unfairly blamed for what their bodies are doing. Its strength is how practical it stays.
A grounded look at fertility that challenges self-blame without overstating what lifestyle can explain.
The piece treats fertility as something wider than willpower or blame, and it is at its best when it pushes back on the idea that lifestyle alone can account for egg health.
A personal look at peptide therapy that treats midlife symptoms as signals and recovery as a process.
This episode treats peptide therapy as one part of trying to move from an 8 to a 10, not some magic fix. The host's own six-month experience gives it a lived-in feel: sleep trouble, stress that sits in the body, low energy, and a lingering elbow issue all get tied back to habits…
A practical, education-first look at hormone decisions in perimenopause.
This episode offers a practical look at hormone questions in perimenopause and argues against the notion that testing is useless simply because hormones move around.
A brisk estrogen primer that ties midlife symptoms to a body wide frame.
Estrogen sits at the center of the discussion here, treated as a body wide signal rather than a narrow hormone. The episode links it to the brain, memory, mood, the heart and blood vessels, metabolism, bones, the gut, and vaginal and urinary tissue.
A blunt, symptom-first look at HRT, midlife dismissal, and the body systems that get overlooked.
The episode keeps its focus on midlife hormone care and the wider gap between what women are told and what they actually live with. It pushes back on the reflex to file ongoing symptoms under aging, then moves through HRT, cycle changes, hysterectomy, endometriosis, hypothyroid…
A direct midlife wellness episode that argues water habits and environmental factors may shape how women feel.
The episode treats perimenopause and menopause through a blunt environmental lens. It argues that water quality, hydration habits, EMFs, phone use, and brainwaves may all shape how women feel in midlife.
A practical reset on women’s health that leans on self-knowledge and partnership instead of passivity.
This episode frames women’s health as something to take back instead of something to hand off. The host and Meghan Rabbitt move from basic anatomy into a broader reset: ask better questions, stay curious, and treat your own care with more attention than many women were taught to…
Birth choices, argued in plain language.
Warm health talk for messy real life.
Bria puts the liver at the center.
Bria Gadd says the GI MAP test can explain why a midlife woman has insomnia, low libido, weight gain, anxiety, or bloating even when gut symptoms are subtle.
A host opens with a hard account of getting to the point where she was seriously thinking about taking her own life.
Bria brings Dr.
She spends this episode on her own six-month peptide journey, framing peptide therapy as a way to move someone from an eight to a ten.
Bria opens with her usual midlife health frame and brings a guest into a conversation about water, brain health, and why so many women feel worn down in perimenopause and menopause.
Sleep in perimenopause is the issue on the table.
The Period Whisperer brings in Megan Rabbit to talk about why so many women are still confused about their own health.
The host and Elizabeth Gaines trace the overlap between burnout and the stress the body feels long before the mind wants to name it.
Christina starts from the symptom, not the label.
This episode looks at what women should know about HRT.
The show opens by making the case that estrogen is not just a sex hormone, but a master regulator affecting the brain, heart, muscles, bones, gut, and vaginal and urinary tissue.
Bria, host of The Period Whisperer Podcast, centers Eps 381 on progesterone and calls it “the queen of calm” for midlife women.
The Period Whisperer podcast episode "How Sleep Loss Impacts Your Body, Brain and Mood In Perimenopause" centers Bria's argument that sleep deprivation affects metabolism, mood, focus, and relationships, not just nighttime rest.
Bria opens Ep 375 of The Period Whisperer Podcast by telling women in perimenopause that their health is a "10,000-piece puzzle" and that they have to act as the CEO of their own body.
Bria sits down to unpack why ambition can feel so different in perimenopause and menopause.
Bria Gad uses Episode 373 of The Period Whisperer Podcast to explain why the HTMA, or hair tissue mineral analysis, can show patterns tied to fatigue, sleep problems, anxiety, weight resistance, and libido issues when blood work looks normal.
Bria opens The Period Whisperer Podcast episode "Practical Health Advice for Women Over 40" by saying the body is "beautifully, magically, miraculously designed to freaking survive" and urging listeners to ask why it is in survival mode.
Bria says women have more testosterone than estrogen and that the hormone affects muscle building, fat burning, motivation, mood stabilization, energy, bone strength, and cognitive sharpness.
Bria, host of The Period Whisperer podcast, answers the question “Do I have to be on peptide therapy forever?” by framing peptides as temporary signals rather than replacements.
Bria says episode 376 gives a 2026 roadmap for perimenopause by breaking optimization into five steps, with steps one and two doable this week and steps four and five for later.
Bria says on The Period Whisperer podcast that sleep is usually the first system to go offline when stress, hormone shifts, or blood sugar instability start to build.
Bria says women are often told their labs are normal while they are exhausted, inflamed, gaining weight, or losing sleep, and this episode focuses on the exact blood markers to ask for in perimenopause.
Bria of The Period Whisperer Podcast says peptides often fail in midlife women because the foundation is off, not because the product is broken.
Bria opens the door on a question many listeners already have.
This episode addresses why women in midlife who exercise regularly may not see results, focusing on hormonal and stress factors.
Bria Gadd discusses why progress in perimenopause and menopause is often non-linear, addressing common frustrations like stalled weight loss and hormonal imbalances.
Bria Gadd explores how midlife symptoms like fatigue and anxiety may not indicate hormonal dysfunction but rather the body's intelligent response to years of self-abandonment and overachievement.
Bria says women who already use blackout curtains, magnesium, blue light blockers, and perfect bedtime routines can still wake at 1 to 4 a.m.
This episode explores why women in perimenopause often feel exhausted despite adequate sleep, distinguishing between sleep and recovery.
This episode is about toxic overload and what that can look like in perimenopause.
The episode opens with the idea that fertility is not a guarantee, using an orchestra metaphor to show it is more complicated than a simple switch.
Bria opens "Eps 377: The Easy Guide to Nutrition this New Year" on The Period Whisperer Podcast by tying nutrition to perimenopause, January 1st, and the idea that food is the most controllable foundation of health.
Bria Gadd explains the Dutch test and how it can help women navigate perimenopause and menopause with personalized plans.
An interview with a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner about the long-term effects of hormonal birth control on perimenopause.
The host encourages listeners to take actionable steps for health success in perimenopause, focusing on foundational habits to improve sleep, energy, and weight management.
An interview with fitness and hormone coach Molly McNamee about why the 'eat less, move more' strategy backfires for high-stress women in perimenopause.
The host discusses how hormones affect self-perception and offers actionable steps to cultivate self-kindness for symptom relief.
An interview with Dr.
An expert interview discussing cervical cancer prevention and new self-collection screening tests for perimenopausal and menopausal women.
Host Bria Gadd interviews intuitive drinking coach Colleen Freeland Cashman about managing alcohol consumption during perimenopause.
An interview with Dr.