If your HRT worked for a while and then stopped, you’re not alone.

For decades, women have been handed low-dose, short-term hormone therapies that were never designed for full restoration — only to manage symptoms just enough to keep them quiet for a while. And when women speak up that their HRT is no longer working, they are prescribed drugs and sold supplements to manage the side effects of hormone deficiencies they still experience.

In this week’s episode of the MeNoPause Moxie Podcast, I reveal what most women (and even many doctors) don’t realize: there are distinct generations of HRT systems, each built with different intentions and results. Understanding the differences can change how you age, how you feel, how you behave — and your susceptibility to mental illness.

You’ll Learn:

• Why so many women are unknowingly kept in a state of estrogen starvation—even while on HRT.

• How to tell when your current therapy has reached its limit.

• What separates symptom management from true hormone restoration.

• Why “low dose” isn’t the same as “safe”—and how it may actually accelerate hormonal decline.

• What true hormone restoration looks like — and why it feels completely different.

• How therapeutic adaptive dosing brings women into their Hormone Sweet Spot™.

Why This Matters for Women

Women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond are running companies, managing family, leading teams, and building legacies — often while battling brain fog, fatigue, and mood swings caused by chronic hormone deficiency.

You deserve more than temporary relief. You deserve a system that restores your full capacity to think, lead, create, and thrive.

The more you know how HRT works and what you need, the more control you will have over how your brain and body function and age.

Over the past few years, “menopause” has gone from a hushed topic to a cultural movement. Celebrities are talking openly about hot flashes on prime time television. Beauty and wellness brands have launched menopause product lines. Influencer physicians are building large audiences around midlife women’s health. And online “hormone clinics” promise convenient, subscription-based care.

At first glance, this visibility looks like progress. But behind the glossy campaigns lies a troubling reality: much of the menopause movement is being steered by commercial interests that profit from symptom management, not resolution. Women are being underdosed on hormones, kept in a chronic state of deficiency, and then sold an endless stream of products to manage symptoms that could be eliminated if their hormones were fully restored.

In this episode of the MeNoPause Moxie Podcast, Clinical Hormone Coach Marie Hoäg and co-host Maggie Kuhn take a critical look at the booming menopause industry. From low-dose hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to endless supplement sales, women are told they’re being “empowered” while still left in a state of hormone deficiency.

Marie explains why menopause is not an inevitable life stage but a side effect of declining estrogen and progesterone—and why low-dose treatments often keep women symptomatic. Discover how therapeutic-dose HRT can restore hormones to healthy, pre-perimenopause levels, protect your brain and body, and even prevent menopause altogether.

If you’re navigating perimenopause, menopause, or postmenopause, this episode will give you the clarity and direction you need.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The truth behind the menopause “empowerment” campaigns
• Why low-dose HRT keeps women symptomatic and miserable
• Who really profits from women’s ongoing hormone deficiency
• The hidden costs women pay with their health, careers, and relationships
• How therapeutic-dose hormone restoration changes the game
• Practical steps to recognize if you’re underdosed or misdosed

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Together, we can shift the conversation from menopause “symptoms management” to menopause prevention.

Can perimenopause be prevented?

In my latest episode of the MeNoPause Moxie Podcast, I challenge the industry narrative that perimenopause and menopause are inevitable.

Instead, I explain how they are the result of estrogen deficiency (hypoestrogenism)—a hormone deficiency that can be detected, prevented, and even reversed with the right approach. I discuss how we came to this discovery and why I plan on spending the rest of my life advocating for full hormone restoration for all women.

You’ll learn:

• The 3 stages of perimenopause and early warning signs
• Why your menstrual cycle is a vital sign of brain and body health
• How FSH reveals estrogen deficiency before symptoms escalate
• The role of therapeutic-dose rhythmic HRT in restoring balance
• Why preventing perimenopause means protecting your brain, body, and quality of life

This isn’t about staying forever young—it’s about giving women the choice to thrive at every age.

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In this episode, we dig deep into one of the most confusing—and most misunderstood—topics in women’s health: perimenopause.

September is Perimenopause Awareness Month, which makes this the perfect time to shift the paradigm and reframe what women have been told for decades.

Conventional medicine defines perimenopause as the 10 years leading up to menopause, a “transitional phase” marked by fluctuating hormones and inevitable suffering. But after decades in the field of female hormone medicine, I’ve come to see it differently: perimenopause is not inevitable, and the so-called “symptoms of perimenopause” are really symptoms of estrogen deficiency.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• The conventional vs. advanced definition of perimenopause—and why the old model fails women.
• Why perimenopause is not one single event but a three-stage process (early, middle, and late), each tied to declining estrogen and rising FSH levels.
• The real first signs of perimenopause: not irregular cycles, but mental health struggles like anxiety, depression, and brain fog.
• Why so many women in their 30s are already in perimenopause (or even earlier) without realizing it.
• How social media has shaped the narrative into a “sisterhood of misery”—and why we must change that mindset.
• The dangerous impact of the WHI study which scared both patients and doctors away from estrogen for two decades.
• Why conventional and functional medicine often fail women with low-dose HRT protocols, supplements, and band-aid approaches.
• The hopeful truth: full hormone restoration can prevent and reverse perimenopause.

Resources & Next Steps

• Ready to learn if advanced hormone therapy could be right for you? Book a complimentary discovery session at advancedhormonebalancing.com.
• Have a question or topic you’d like us to cover? Visit menopausemoxie.com/podcast to share your ideas—you may hear your question on a future episode!

In this episode of the MeNoPause Moxie Podcast, host Marie Hoäg and producer/co-host Maggie Kuhn dive into Marie’s transformation from hormone patient to clinical hormone coach—and her two-decade career shaping the future of female hormone medicine.

Marie shares how her early struggles with hormonal imbalance led her to a pioneering physician who introduced her to hormone replacement therapy (HRT). What started as her own patient journey soon evolved into hands-on clinical work—consulting, designing programs, tracking outcomes, and building a body of research on why HRT works, when it fails, and what women truly need for sustainable restoration.

Together, Marie and Maggie uncover:

• The evolution of HRT systems — from low-dose HRT symptom management to advanced HRT protocols designed for full restoration and true hormonal balance.
• Why clinical hormone coaching is essential — how women need guidance and clinical hand-holding through the transitional ups and downs of balancing hormones, especially with sophisticated restorative protocols.
• The origins of the Hormone Sweet Spot™ — how Marie discovered there is a true destination of optimal hormone balance where women feel their absolute best.
• The impact of early pioneers — from Suzanne Somers bringing hormones into mainstream conversation to the Wiley Protocol introducing rhythmic dosing.
• Why advanced hormone therapy is the future — and how Panacea Sciences is leading the way with protocols that restore both brain and body health.

Marie also reflects on her own life-changing results: moving from depression and anxiety into a state of genuine happiness for the first time in her life. Her personal transformation laid the foundation for her passion—clinically coaching women on advanced HRT protocols that allow them to choose whether they experience perimenopause or menopause.

If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to move beyond hormone deficiency symptoms management into full hormone restoration, this episode offers both the history and the hope of what’s possible.

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In this inaugural episode of the Menopause Moxie Podcast, host Marie Hoäg, Clinical Hormone Coach, is joined by her producer and co-host Maggie Kuhn to challenge the myths and misinformation surrounding perimenopause and menopause. Marie shares her deeply personal journey through hormonal imbalance, misdiagnosis, and decades of unnecessary psychotropic medications — and how discovering therapeutic-dose estrogen changed her life.

This candid conversation introduces listeners to Marie’s mission: to uncover the truth about estrogen, expose the failures of conventional “low-dose” hormone therapies, and open up dialogue about advanced HRT protocols that fully restore hormones rather than manage symptoms.

Listeners will walk away with a new perspective on perimenopause, menopause, and female hormone balancing — one that is hopeful, evidence-driven, and uncompromising.

• Why estrogen is the hormone of life, and no woman feels good without enough of it.

• How Marie’s personal experience with migraines, mood swings, PMS/PMDD, and endometriosis led to decades of misdiagnosis and harmful treatments.

• The shocking moment when a doctor recommended shock therapy as her “next step” — and why she refused.

• How one physician reframed her depression as estrogen deficiency, not a Prozac deficiency.

• The birth of Panacea Sciences: a telehealth clinic and physician/coach training platform dedicated to advanced therapeutic-dose hormone protocols.

• The dangers of low-dose, symptom-management HRT programs that dominate the marketplace.

• Why Marie believes menopause is not inevitable and what women can do to prevent or reverse it.

• The urgent need for more research on estrogen and advanced protocols — and why women deserve better than “we don’t know enough.”

Marie Hoäg, Clinical Hormone Coach, is a leading advocate for female hormone restoration. With over 20 years of clinical experience, she has helped thousands of women to achieve their Hormone Sweet Spot™. As founder of MeNoPause Moxie and Panacea Sciences, Marie is redefining female hormone medicine with therapeutic-dose rhythmic protocols that restore vitality, brain function, and quality of life.

Co-host Maggie Kuhn brings her own perimenopause journey and candid perspective, helping to amplify the message and connect with women everywhere.

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