Hormones, Strength & Recovery in Early Perimenopause After Postpartum — with DR. ABBY BALES

Send us Fan MailToday, I speak with Dr. Abby Bales, PT, DPT, CSCS. She is the founder of Reform Physical Therapy in New York City where she specializes women’s health and orthopedics. She is an expert in pregnancy and postpartum pelvic health and sports rehabilitation, as well as strength and conditioning and run programming. Dr. Bales has served as a medical advisor for health and tech start-ups, notably The Mirror and Odela Health, and as scientific advisor for the Olympya app (NIKE Valiant Labs). She has spoken at multiple industry conferences, has guest lectured at both New York University and Columbia's physical therapy programs, and has been featured in multiple major publication and podcasts over her career. Dr. Bales loves staying active with her two children and husband in NYC.We talk about:-postpartum hormonal shift symptoms and training-perimenopausal hormonal shift and training/rehab-symptoms of perimenopause-myths around cancer & HRT-advocating for yourself-symptoms of perimenopause-topical estrogen-educating early and properly-encouraging strength trainingTime Stamps1:00 Introduction3:23 entering perimenopause10:45 gaslighting women about symptoms13:45 cancer and hormone replacement22:50 different low estrogen states29:57 finding a provider who will listen34:05 benefits of vaginal estrogen45:00 double standard for testosterone50:45 conversations with mothers and daughters65:00 the value of getting strong74:01 rapid fire questionsCONNECT WITH CARRIEIG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/IG: https://www.instagram.com/native_women_running/Website: https://carriepagliano.comCONNECT WITH ABBYInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/reformptnyc/Website: reformptnyc.comThe Active Mom Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond for active moms & the professionals who help them in their journey.  This show has been a long time in the making!   You can expect conversation with moms and professionals from all aspects of the industry.   If you're like me, you don't have a lot of free time (heck, you're probably listening at 1.5x speed), so theses interviews will be quick hits to get your the pertinent information FAST!  If you love what you hear, share the podcast with a friend and leave us a 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review. It helps us become more visible in the search algorithm! (Helps us get seen by more moms that need to hear these stories!!!!)