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The Health Courage Collective

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.

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  • Yesterday · 22 min

    280: Your Vocabulary Affects How You Age

    The words you know, understand, and choose to use don't just describe your reality — they shape it. In this episode, we explore how upgrading your vocabulary can help you age better, feel more, and live more intentionally. **Key Topics:** - **Ellen...

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  • November 4 · 25 min

    279: 2 Influential Hormones You're Not Thinking About

    LH and FSH: The Overlooked Hormones That May Shape Your Health After Menopause Two often overlooked pituitary hormones, luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), may influence key aging risks beyond fertility. As estrogen and...

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  • October 28 · 21 min

    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...

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  • October 21 · 11 min

    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...

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  • October 14 · 27 min

    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...

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  • October 7 · 22 min

    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...

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  • September 30 · 12 min

    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...

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  • September 23 · 30 min

    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...

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  • September 16 · 23 min

    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...

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  • September 9 · 23 min

    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...

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  • September 2 · 18 min

    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...

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  • August 26 · 22 min

    269: Waking Up at 3:00 AM during perimenopause

    https://info.sleepio.com/expert-guides/insomnia with virtual therapist https://www.somryst.com/ CBTI app https://mobile.va.gov/app/cbt-i-coach free app https://mobile.va.gov/app/insomnia-coach free app Provider directory CBT-I:...

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  • August 19 · 19 min

    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,...

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  • August 12 · 19 min

    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...

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  • August 5 · 29 min

    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/...

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  • July 22 · 27 min

    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...

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  • July 15 · 21 min

    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...

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  • July 8 · 27 min

    262: Are Colonoscopies Helping Us?

    Cologuard at home test link: https://www.cologuard.com/insuranceTo learn more about preparing your brain for anesthesia, read thehttps://www.amenclinics.com/blog/anesthesia-and-the-risk-for-postoperative-cognitive-dysfunction/ or...

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  • July 1 · 21 min

    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...

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