The Health Courage Collective
by Christina Hackett
The Health Courage Collective Podcast is for women who are too busy to slog through hours of generalized, inapplicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can prevent years of suffering in the future. Hosted by Christina Hackett - a pharmacist who doesn’t want you to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic and integrative medicine. Take a few minutes a week to increase your physical and mental resilience so you can fearlessly look forward to your next 40 plus years, age like a pro, and have fun doing it! Episodes are brief and publish every Wednesday.
Episodes
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278: Make Being Your Best Self Easier
Some people seem naturally less reactive and more at peace, and that “adaptive capacity” or distress tolerance is influenced not just by mindset, but by biology that can change day to day. Using Sojourner Truth as an example of calm, dignified resilience under extreme hostility, the script argues...
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277: Use AI to Change How You Age (part 2)
AI is changing how we work, shop, think, and make decisions. But do you want it to change the way you age? If you learn how to use it wisely, AI can become a kind of VIP health concierge, helping you think through women’s health and menopause questions, organize information, analyze health data,...
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276: Use AI to Change How You Age (part 1)
AI is changing how we work, shop, think, and make decisions. But do you want it to change the way you age? If you learn how to use it wisely, AI can become a kind of VIP health concierge, helping you think through women’s health and menopause questions, organize information, analyze health data,...
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275: Ways to Test Your Hormones in Perimenopause
Should you test your sex hormones during perimenopause? What can a hormone test actually tell you, and which type of test is most useful?In this episode, we look at the different ways you can test your hormones, including blood, saliva, DUTCH urine testing, and at-home urine hormone tracking, and...
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274: Fixing Your Health isn't the Same as Fixing Your Symptoms
In this episode, we’re talking about one of the biggest mistakes we can make with our health: treating the leaves instead of looking at the roots. Symptoms, abnormal lab results, and health problems are often treated as problems to be fixed, but what if they’re actually clues pointing to…
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273: Know What to do at the Gym
You deserve to know whether what you’re doing in the gym is a waste of your precious time and energy, or something that will actually gift you more time and energy in the future. And how to best make it something you actually enjoy and that realistically fits within the constraints of your…
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272: Why are Doctors so Divided About Hormone Testing?
How to work with your perimenopausal hormones in a way that prevents or drastically delays the chronic diseases of aging shouldn’t be a hidden secret or controversial or confusing or seen as a matter of opinion or only available to people with the finances to self pay for services not covered by...
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271: The Muscle Building Rules Change After 40
One of the biggest drivers of the long, slow rot model of aging is the loss of muscle mass that accompanies aging. There are forces at play that drive that age-related muscle loss. But once you know about them, you can take countermeasures to overcome them and persist into old age with more...
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270: Women Live Longer But Spend More Time in Poor Health
While you may know that on average women tend to live longer than men, do you know how many of those years are lived in good health compared to men? There are plenty of challenges unique to being female, but did you know that there’s a magic time period where we can jump in and dramatically…
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269: Waking Up at 3:00 AM during perimenopause
Sleepio web based app with virtual therapist Somryst CBTI app CBTi coach free app Insomnia coach free app Provider directory CBT-I: https://cbti.directory/ Book: Quiet Your Mind and Get To Sleep:...
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268: Kindness Affects How You Age
What things affect how well you age? There are lots and lots of factors, but one of the funnest ways to boost your oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, substance P, and overall healthspan is with kindness to yourself and others. It improves your mood, reduces pain and cardiovascular risk and helps you...
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267: Protect the Organ that's Protecting Your Future
If you want a healthy future into old age, you need a healthy liver. Fortunately, it’s extremely robust and pretty low maintenance, considering how much crazy complicated stuff it does. But at least 1 in 4 Americans has liver dysfunction, which will slowly steal some of their agency of what…
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266: Why You Can't Sleep
Provider directory CBT-I: https://cbti.directory/ Book: Quiet Your Mind and Get To Sleep: https://www.abct.org/books/quiet-your-mind-and-get-to-sleep-solutions-to-insomnia-for-those-with-depression-anxiety-or-chronic-pain/ Sleepio web based app with virtual therapist Somryst CBTI app CBTi coach...
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265: Don't Miss These 5 Midlife Screening Tests
5 Midlife Screening Tests That Give You a well deserved Unfair Advantage Where to get a DEXA scan Where to get a Continuous Glucose Monitor I’ve used Ageless Rx and had a good experience Where to get a VO2 max test Feeling overwhelmed by “all the guidelines”? In this episode, I narrow it down to...
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264: How Shakespeare Helps You Age Better
How Shakespeare Helps You Age Better: The Missing Half of IntelligenceIn this Health Courage Collective Podcast episode 264, host Christina Hackett argues that aging “abnormally well” requires more than logic, data, and risk stratification: it requires story-based “primal intelligence,” a set of...
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263: Don't Waste the Gift of a Bad Day
Do you ever have bad days? Do you think that if you were somehow different or better…you wouldn’t? Nope. Everyone has bad days sometimes, and there are 6 things you can do to extract all the value out of the gift of a bad day. Instead of spiraling down, you can spiral up. Your bad days won’t take...
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262: Are Colonoscopies Helping Us?
Cologuard at home test link: https://www.cologuard.com/insurance To learn more about preparing your brain for anesthesia, read the Amen Clinics Blog on Anesthesia and POCD or the Amen Clinics Blog on Surgery Risks. Are Colonoscopies Helping Us? How to Make Colon Cancer a Problem You Don’t Have to...
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261: How You Breathe Affects How You Age part 2
What if your body were doing something automatically without any conscious control from you that contributed to fatigue, weight gain, sleeping problems, respiratory problems, mental health struggles, heart disease and poor athletic endurance? Tons of people’s bodies are doing this and they have…
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260: How You Breathe Affects How You Age part 1
Since our body breathes without us having to think about it, it seems like it would do this automatic job correctly and optimally. Unfortunately, since the industrial revolution, we have drifted away from our proper way of eating, moving, sleeping, AND breathing. What? There are simple, easy, and...
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259: Protocol For Days When You Have No Motivation
Do driven, high achieving people ever have days when they just don’t have any motivation? I think yes. I think they’d tell us they experience the same feelings and motivational deserts as the rest of us. The only difference is in how they reflexively act when they have no motivation. It’s easier…
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258: Are Mammograms Helping Us?
How do you feel about mammograms? Have you had one? More than one? Or, are you feeling guilty or reckless for not getting one yet? Conventional medical dogma is definitely to get regular mammograms. Mammograms are our first line of defense against breast cancer. You probably personally know…
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257: An Investment With Guaranteed Returns
What if you had the opportunity to invest in something with guaranteed returns? You'd be crazy not to. If you're in your 40s or 50s, now is the critical time to make the investments that will payoff huge in your 70s and 80s! Come to my website: www.heatlhcouragecollective.com Are you ready to…
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256: You Want Me to Still Have Periods in my 60s and 70s?
If you’re thinking about replacing your hormones as they decline with age, it’s important to really think through why you want to take hormones and how you want to take hormones. So that you’re a thinking woman making intelligent decisions about her future rather than an object being acted upon....
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255: Are You Quietly Capping Your Potential?
Aging at an elite level requires acting strategically right now, while you’re in your 40s and 50s to give your future self an advantage. Not just biologically, but also mentally. The way you choose the things you want to work toward affects whether you’re going to be able to push the envelope in...
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254: Melatonin During Perimenopause
How confident are you in choosing the right dose and right form of melatonin to optimize your health in your 40s and 50s? Our natural production of melatonin decreases with age and with declining sex hormone levels. And it affects more than just your sleep. So is it something you should be…
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253: It's Time to Use Better Lube
Good overall health for women requires good vaginal health. Good vaginal health requires your lube to be made of high quality ingredients. This is applicable for all women using lube vaginally, but especially around the time of perimenopause when vaginal dryness becomes more common, vaginal pH...
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252: Let Your Brain be Brilliant
You’re not functioning at your highest level if you have more inputs coming into your brain than it can successfully digest, assimilate, and utilize toward constructing the life you want to live in your 50s, 60s and beyond. If you don’t feel capable of being fully present with your loved ones and...
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251: The Body Part that Can Make You Who You Wish You Were
In order to get to your 80s and beyond with more energy, strength and independence than most people, you need to do different things than most people do right now. Things that require some grit, determination and perseverance. This is no surprise, right? But did you know that there’s a physical...
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250: Can I Take Estrogen if I've had a Blood Clot?
Is bioidentical hormone replacement therapy for perimenopause/menopause an option for you if you've had a blood clot before or have a family history of blood clots? If you don’t want your options for treating perimenopausal symptoms and decreasing your risk for the chronic diseases of aging to be...
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249: Choose Not to Have Injuries and Chronic Pain
Did you know that you can decide not to develop injuries and pain as you age? There are some simple things you can do now to avoid a lot of musculoskeletal pain in the future. Why are more people not telling us this? Ballistic book by Henry Abbott Pete Egoscue’s book Structural Elements:...
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248: Cheat Days are Keeping You Stuck
There’s a mindset inherent in “cheat days” that’s keeping you locked out of your next level of health and success. Your reality is what you make it, and you're making yours less impactful than it could be by thinking that cheat days boost your motivation to “be good” the rest of the time. my...
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247: Why You Should Take Creatine
There are a few supplements I think pretty much everyone should take if they want to be able to live well into their 80s and 90s. Today we’re going to talk about one of them. If you’re not taking creatine every day yet, you're missing out on an opportunity to live a higher performance life. List…
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246: Don't Settle For An Average Brain As You Age
Did you know you have the ability to change the physical structure of your brain and become someone with a set of almost superhuman skills that are as sought after now as being a genius used to be? That you can prevent or drastically delay the brain changes that happen to everyone else as they…
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245: Does Perimenopause Affect Your Thyroid?
I think having a deeper understanding of issues that typically get glazed over as either “normal parts of aging” or “unrelated” to one another helps you get the kind of care you deserve now and build an abnormal future for yourself. One where you don’t have to stop living before you die if you...
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244: Why Your Good Plans Aren't Working
If you’ve created or downloaded some awesome plans that you really believed were the answer to how you were finally going to achieve the thing you’ve always wanted to do, just to be disappointed again, you’re probably missing a key piece of the successful planning puzzle. If you don’t want to…
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243: An Overlooked Aging Decline You Can Intercept
While many things tend to decline with age, there’s one common decline that you’re probably not thinking about. Because almost nobody talks about it. But it’s tremendously important if you want to be more independent and physically capable than most people your age when you’re older. It’s a…
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242: Belief Hygiene Affects How You Age
Come to my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com Work with me: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/services-9377 Most of what we create in our life (including the experiences we have at particular ages of life) is determined by our subconscious beliefs. We all do subconscious things that...
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241: How Your Exercise Routine Needs to Change at Perimenopause/Menopause
A lot changes during perimenopause and menopause, so how does your exercise program need to change to be optimized for this phase of your life? Once you know the answer to that question, you can move forward with confidence doing the highest leverage behavior to put more years lived in good…
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240: Are Healthy People Better People?
Will you be an inherently better person with a magical life when your blood pressure is in the optimal range, your body fat % is at your goal, your bone density is higher, or your fasting insulin is lower? Then what’s the point of doing all of the healthy behaviors we’re told we should deeply…
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239: Does Living in a Wireless World Affect How You Age? part 2
www.healthcouragecollective.com Get your Free EMF resource guide with tons of clickable links to get you started on your electropollution curiosity journey: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/emf Are electromagnetic fields really affecting your body? Does being near electronic devices affect...
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238: Does Living in a Wireless World Affect How You Age? part 1
www.healthcouragecollective.com Get your Free EMF resource guide with tons of clickable links to get you started on your electropollution curiosity journey: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/emf Are electromagnetic fields really affecting your body? Does being near electronic devices affect...
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237: Increase Happiness in Any Area of Life
Visit my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com If you’re not very happy in one area of your life, there is a basic principle that you can use to increase your happiness in that area. We have a lot of different areas of our life that affect our enjoyment now and our odds of being able to keep...
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236: How to Take Your Estrogen (oral vs. topical)
Click HERE to learn how a world class hormone replacement therapy regimen is put together You understand that whether or not to take estrogen matters to your experience of perimenopause and menopause. But a question you might not be asked is how you want to take your estrogen. And the answer...
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235: Let This Secret Group Help You Live at an Elite Level (orig pub 5/15/24)
Download your FREE canva template for your board of directors here: www.healthcouragecollective.com/board Would you be more likely to sail through menopause and beyond well prepared and well resourced to feel great and live and give more if you had a set of elite level consultants giving you…
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234: How to Get What You Want With Your Hormone Health
Join the Hormone Confidence Beta Program Waitlist Here!! A world-class hormone regimen can be pretty life changing at the time of perimenopause and beyond to help you live and give more as you get older, rather than less. It’s not just about not suffering from debilitating symptoms of...
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233: Do I Need DHEA?
Join my hormone mastery Beta Program Waitlist here!! When exploring hormonal or midlife health, have you heard it recommended that you take DHEA? If you’re curious about how helpful DHEA can be or whether it can help you as a woman in your 40s or 50s, you’re in the right place. I want you to age...
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232: How to Think When You Don't Feel Like Yourself
Perimenopausal changes in hormones can make it feel like your personality is getting hijacked and you’re suddenly not yourself anymore. There are different helpful routes you can take to start feeling like you again. Today we’re going to talk about how to think in the meantime. Link to free mp3...
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231: What I Didn't Know Before About Building Bones that Don't Break Part 2
An unfortunately all too common way to lose your autonomy and stop living before you die, and to die sooner and more painfully, is to suffer an osteoporotic fracture in your old age. The time to prevent that from happening to you in your 80s is right now. And it’s not about calcium, vitamin D, or...
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230: What I didn't Know Before About Building Bones That Don't Break part 1
An unfortunately all too common way to lose your autonomy and stop living before you die, and to die sooner and more painfully, is to suffer an osteoporotic fracture in your old age. The time to prevent that from happening to you in your 80s is right now. And it’s not about calcium, vitamin D, or...
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229: The Missing Piece of Your Health Improvement Plan
Of the many ways to evolve and become more of who you want to be and feel how you want to feel in your body as you move toward menopause and beyond, there’s one systematic way of thinking that is often overlooked. So most people miss out on the opportunity to grow in this different way (that also...
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The Health Courage Collective Podcast is for women who are too busy to slog through hours of generalized, inapplicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can prevent years of suffering in the future. Hosted by Christina Hackett - a pharmacist who doesn’t want you to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic and integrative medicine. Take a few minutes a week to increase your physical and mental resilience so you can fearlessly look forward to your next 40 plus years, age like a pro, and have fun doing it! Episodes are brief and publish every Wednesday.
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