Age Like a Girl: How Menopause Rewires Your Brain for Mental Clarity, Increased Confidence, and Renewed Energy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
Dec 2025 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Dr. Mindy Pelz
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Dr. Mindy Pelz, noted women's health advocate and the bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl and Eat Like a Girl, redefines menopause as a powerful biological upgrade—offering science-backed strategies to help women thrive, reclaim their health, and step into their most vibrant, authentic selves.
Age Like a Girl challenges the outdated narrative of menopause and redefines it as a time of transformation, power, and renewal. Dr. Mindy explores the biological purpose of menopause, revealing how shifting hormones can unlock newfound wisdom, strength, and clarity. Through the lens of the Grandmother Hypothesis, she connects neuroscience, nutrition, fasting, exercise, and emotional well-being to help women optimize their health and embrace this stage of life.
Audiobook exclusives include spontaneous “Dr. Mindy Moments” and deeply personal reflections woven throughout the listening experience.
Part One: The Purpose of Menopause
Part Two: The Age Like a Girl Toolbox
Part Three: Returning Home to Yourself
This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download.
Age Like a Girl challenges the outdated narrative of menopause and redefines it as a time of transformation, power, and renewal. Dr. Mindy explores the biological purpose of menopause, revealing how shifting hormones can unlock newfound wisdom, strength, and clarity. Through the lens of the Grandmother Hypothesis, she connects neuroscience, nutrition, fasting, exercise, and emotional well-being to help women optimize their health and embrace this stage of life.
Audiobook exclusives include spontaneous “Dr. Mindy Moments” and deeply personal reflections woven throughout the listening experience.
Part One: The Purpose of Menopause
- Explores why menopause exists, drawing from evolutionary science, neuroscience, and the Grandmother Hypothesis.
- Reveals how brain and hormonal shifts during menopause can be an advantage—enhancing wisdom, intuition, and resilience.
- Highlights lessons from traditional cultures, such as the Okinawan and hunter-gatherer societies, that have embraced menopause as a time of strength and leadership.
Part Two: The Age Like a Girl Toolbox
- Provides science-backed health strategies to optimize energy, metabolism, and mental clarity during menopause. Covers key topics like:
- Why postmenopausal women thrive on ketones over glucose and how fasting can be a powerful tool.
- The best nutrients to support hormonal balance and how to incorporate them into daily life.
- How exercise should evolve to align with changing hormones.
- The importance of connection, mood, and memory, including strategies to support mental well-being.
- Explains how shifts in estrogen and neurochemicals impact the body—and how to work with these changes, rather than against them.
Part Three: Returning Home to Yourself
- A personal and transformative section where Dr. Mindy shares her own experiences, offering insights into self-discovery and personal growth post-menopause.
- How menopause frees women from cultural conditioning and encourages them to stop people-pleasing.
- A powerful call for women to embrace transformation, akin to emerging from a chrysalis into their next phase of life.
- Encouragement for women to embrace this stage of life as a time to come home to themselves.
This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download.
Dr. Mindy Pelz, noted women's health advocate and the bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl and Eat Like a Girl, redefines menopause as a powerful biological upgrade—offering science-backed strategies to help women thrive, reclaim their health, and step into their most vibrant, authentic selves....
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About the author
Dr. Mindy H. Pelz, D.C., is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, nutrition and functional health expert who has spent more than two decades helping thousands of people successfully reclaim their health. She is a recognized leader in the alternative health field and a pioneer in the fasting movement. Her popular YouTube channel regularly updates followers on the latest science-backed tools and techniques to help them reset their health.
She is the host of The Resetter Podcast, and the author of the bestselling books: Eat Like a Girl, Fast Like a Girl, and The Menopause Reset.
Learn more about Dr. Mindy at drmindypelz.com.
She is the host of The Resetter Podcast, and the author of the bestselling books: Eat Like a Girl, Fast Like a Girl, and The Menopause Reset.
Learn more about Dr. Mindy at drmindypelz.com.
Dr. Mindy H. Pelz, D.C., is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, nutrition and functional health expert who has spent more than two decades helping thousands of people successfully reclaim their health. She is a recognized leader in the alternative health field and a pioneer in the fasting move...
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