Women are told two conflicting messages in midlife age naturally, but don’t look too old. Love yourself, but fix everything. Be authentic. What does that even mean? But somehow flawless. So where does real confidence come from? How can changing your outside really heal what’s happening inside? Can it?

These are the deep questions I’m going to be asking my guest today. It’s the Beverly Hills plastic surgeon I was so fortunate to have fly in to Tampa to record not one but two sessions with me. I’ve got Dr. Rady Rahban and he is now a buddy of mine. You’re going to love him as much as I do. He’s seen firsthand what transformations can actually create confidence. And watch ones might leave you just chasing more.

A couple years ago, I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Suzanne Gilberg Lenz when she came out with her Hormone Boot Camp book. And I was super excited to run into her at a 4M’s spring longevity fest and find out that she’s got a new book in the works. And she’s going to give us a sneak peek on that book, which is all about herbal medicine. We’re going to be digging into which different types of herbal supplements you should be using, could be using, or should stay away from what can be super helpful, what to look for.

Back when I saw clients in the 80s, before we had bioimpedance scales, I literally used to take skinfold calipers and a tape measure because I knew what happened when we focused on weight loss. We devastate your metabolism. The biggest challenge with that scale is it’s rewarding. The wrong success metric. Right? The worst thing you could possibly do is lose a lot of weight if you’re not focusing on what that weight’s made up of. Thank God we have way easier things now to do. Called biompedance scales.

So the challenge is when you’re losing weight, rather than improving what that weight’s made up of, it costs. It’s going to cost your metabolic health, it’s going to cost your metabolism, it’s going to cost your mental health. In fact, when you look at all of the things that happen as women start to go into perimenopause and menopause, muscle can help counteract so much of that.

What if everything you’ve been told about aging is wrong? What if stiff joints, bad balance, back pain, weak knees, and losing independence after 50 are not normal aging, but the predictable result of doing the wrong things, or worse yet, doing nothing at all?

Today’s guest says most people are not aging out of movement, they’re being deconditioned out of it. And if that’s true, then strength can come back, balance can improve, pain can decrease, and confidence can return. Now, if you’ve ever wondered whether it’s too late to rebuild your body, this conversation may completely change what you believe is possible.

When we learn to ditch this scale and start to focus on what our weight’s made up of, take a muscle first approach, which I was doing in my teens, I just got all messed up with this idea that, you know, I had to be this skinny mini model that if you do that, you will never have to worry about any of this stuff again. We’ve just been focusing on the wrong success metric.

Osteoporosis is a silent disease. Often the first Sign of having it is a fracture. In fact, one in every two women over 50 will suffer an osteoporotic fracture. But here’s the great news. Osteoporosis can actually be reversible. No one believed it before. But I’ve got Dr. Doug Lucas with me today and he’s going to show you how this is in fact the case. And he has been doing this in his practice.