The Hotflash inc podcast

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Anissa Nova spent years in corporate tech before retraining as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, herbalism and energy work. Now she runs Pure Alchemy in Sydney, Australia, where she blends strength training, breathwork and rest with acupuncture and energy alignment to help women reconnect with their bodies.

Highlights

02:04 – The Yellow Emperor's Classic and the 7-year cycle
03:52 – Yin, blood, and turning inward
06:59 – The liberation of no longer being "fertile"
09:05 – Hormone therapy isn't the only solution
10:30 – "We weren't built incorrectly"
12:06 – Helping women transition off HRT when it's not working
17:23 – The energetic nature of herbs
21:43 – What medical qigong actually is
26:12 – Mind, emotion, and energy shaping reality
28:31 – Applying a modern model to ancient medicine
29:47 – Why clinical trials don't reflect real-world treatment
31:06 – Where science's gold standard falls short
31:48 – Appreciating the placebo effect
36:11 – Emotions are energy — clean up now or later
37:30 – Acupressure vs. acupuncture
38:41 – Those electric zaps during acupuncture, explained

Connect with Anissa Nova
Website: Pure Alchemy
LinkedIn: Anissa Nova
Instagram: @Purealchemytcm
Pure Alchemy — Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia

Connect with Hotflash inc
TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause
Instagram: @hotflashinc
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YOUTUBE @hotflashinc
Facebook: @hotflashinc
LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen

Disclaimer
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

🔥 Need help right now? Hotflash inc has got you: The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy is a clear + comprehensive guide to understanding the entire landscape of prescribing approaches – at least 12 – to empower you to make the right decision, for you. The free Fix It Fast Perimenopause List offers quick, practical non-hormonal relief options. Or cover all your bases and get both!

Adele Wimsett spent 20 years working in the criminal justice system before a health crisis of her own – her period stopped due to "healthy" habits like fasted training and keto – sent her down the rabbit hole of gender bias in medical research. She retrained as a women's health practitioner, and after her own ADHD diagnosis at 41, turned her science-nerd brain toward a question almost nobody was asking: what do hormones actually do to the ADHD brain?

Highlights
10:06 – The "perfect storm": ADHD plus declining progesterone
12:26 – The problem with medicine's obsession with estrogen
18:35 – Organized at work – trauma connection
19:37 – The hidden cost of decades of masking
23:26 – Estrogen and testosterone through a neurodivergent lens
31:08 – Is an ADHD diagnosis essential?
35:57 – 3 practical daily tools

Connect with Adele Wimsett:
Instagram: @adele_wimsett
Free SKOOL Community ADHD & Hormones

Connect with Hotflash inc
TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause
Instagram: @hotflashinc
X: @hotflashinc
YOUTUBE @hotflashinc
Facebook: @hotflashinc
LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen

Disclaimer
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

🌿 Get The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy — my complete guide to the confusing world of HRT. 5 videos, 5 PDFs, get through it in under 3 hours. It's currently $47 — price goes up July 15. Use code STACY10 to get $10 off.
Today I'm sharing an interview done with me — about The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy — from an Instagram Live I did this week over on Stacy London's channel.

Stacy is the stylist and TV personality who, with Clinton Kelly, spent an iconic decade making TLC's What Not to Wear. These days the two of them have reunited for "Why'd They Wear That?" — their creator-owned web series and podcast where they rewatch iconic movies and TV. It followed their Amazon series Wear Whatever the F You Want.

Stacy has also been in the menopause fight for years, and she's one of the few people in this space who genuinely wants women to have more information, not a party line — which is exactly why this conversation happened.

We got into the whole reason I built the guide: Everyone's making it sound like you're going to crumble into dust without hormones, and the truth is a lot messier and a lot more hopeful than that.

Highlights

• Why Stacy still wants to talk about menopause
• The wheel: at least 12 different approaches to prescribing
• The testing gap, explained
• Why the "hormones or no hormones" framing is harming women
• Observational studies, healthy-user bias, and how"it prevents dementia" is running ahead of the evidence
• Progesterone vs. progestin
• Peptides and GLP-1s stacked on top of hormone therapy before we've even figured out the basics
• Why nobody who's 100% sure should get your full trust
• The belief systems underneath it all

Connect with Hotflash inc
TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause
Instagram: @hotflashinc
X: @hotflashinc
YOUTUBE @hotflashinc
Facebook: @hotflashinc
LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen

Disclaimer This content is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.

🔥 The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy is here — my guide mapping 12 different approaches to hormone therapy, built from 250+ practitioner interviews and six years of research. $47 until July 15th, then $97. 👉 The Hot Truth

Eve Simonsen is a certified psilocybin facilitator and microdosing guide based in the US. We get into why it works, microdosing vs. macrodosing, real side effects and contraindications, what a retreat looks like, and why you should never get your information about this from mainstream media.

Disclaimer
This podcast is for informational purposes is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making decisions. Psilocybin remains illegal under federal law in many countries, including the US and in most jurisdictions outside of regulated state programs.

Highlights
07:29 – Why perimenopausal women are drawn to this work
10:33 – Full journey vs. microdosing, explained
19:02 – Real side effects and contraindications
25:39 – Who actually shows up for this work
29:40 – The real fears that hold people back
38:58 – Where to actually go for good information

Go deeper
Eve's own research available via her Linktree.
Psychedelic Passage is a referral network that connects people to vetted facilitators.
MAPS is a nonprofit that's been funding psychedelic clinical research for 30+ years.
Hystelica is a UK-based nonprofit specifically studying psychedelics and female biology.
Deva Collective is a women's-health-and-psychedelics research nonprofit.
Double Blind and Lucid News for responsible journalism.

Connect with Eve
Website: cycle-alchemy.com

Connect with Hotflash inc
TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause 
Instagram:  @hotflashinc
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YOUTUBE  @hotflashinc
Facebook:  @hotflashinc
Linked in:  Ann Marie McQueen

Dr. Adrienne Bitar has a PhD working on food studies scholarship and is the co-founder — along with pharmacist Dr. Jenny Han — of Seen Nutrition, a food-first bone health company born out of two very personal experiences with osteoporosis. Dr Bitar brings a deep understanding of how diet culture, food history, and the stories we tell about women’s bodies have shaped everything from how we supplement to when we get screened.

Highlights
03:42 – Deconstructing the narrative of inevitable bone decline
05:40 – How personal osteoporosis stories built Seen
08:22 – The calcium confusion: what’s actually going on
12:30 – Types of calcium — what to look for, what to skip
13:40 – The “food matrix effect” explained
15:13 – Are there calcium supplements you shouldn’t take?
18:00 – The cardiovascular risk debate, debunked
27:50 – Balance and fall prevention — the other half of fracture risk
28:42 – Strength training and bone health
30:27 – How menopause accelerates bone loss
35:17 – Why waiting until 65 for a DEXA is too late
39:45 – Why third-party testing should be non-negotiable
44:45 – Why so much of the supplement market is gross and hard to trust
49:32 – DCE: three things to do for your bones this week

For citations check the comments or this podcast episode on Substack.

Connect with Dr. Adrienne Bitar & Seen Nutrition
Website: www.seennutrition.com
Instagram/TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/thecalciumqueens / https://www.tiktok.com/@thecalciumqueens
Facebook Group: Osteoporosis Nutrition and Supplementation
Phone: 607-216-8722

🔥 My long-awaited digital guide to hormone therapy is live — The Hot Truth About Hormone Therapy. Five short videos, five PDFs. Unbiased, BS-free, and you can get through it in under three hours. Practitioners, doctors, and women who want real information are already buying it.

Connect with Hotflash inc
TikTok: @hotflashinc.menopause
Instagram: @hotflashinc
X: @hotflashinc
YouTube: @hotflashinc
Facebook: @hotflashinc
LinkedIn: Ann Marie McQueen

Disclaimer
This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your treatment, supplements, or lifestyle.