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Age Like a Girl

How Menopause Rewires Your Brain for Mental Clarity, Increased Confidence, and Renewed Energy

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Age Like a Girl

By: Dr. Mindy Pelz
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 Dr. Mindy Pelz, noted women's health advocate and the bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl and Eat Like a Girl, redefines menopause as a powerful biological upgrade—offering science-backed strategies to help women thrive, reclaim their health, and step into their most vibrant, authentic selves.

Age Like a Girl challenges the outdated narrative of menopause and redefines it as a time of transformation, power, and renewal. Dr. Mindy explores the biological purpose of menopause, revealing how shifting hormones can unlock newfound wisdom, strength, and clarity. Through the lens of the Grandmother Hypothesis, she connects neuroscience, nutrition, fasting, exercise, and emotional well-being to help women optimize their health and embrace this stage of life.

Audiobook exclusives include spontaneous “Dr. Mindy Moments” and deeply personal reflections woven throughout the listening experience.

Part One: The Purpose of Menopause
  • Explores why menopause exists, drawing from evolutionary science, neuroscience, and the Grandmother Hypothesis.
  • Reveals how brain and hormonal shifts during menopause can be an advantage—enhancing wisdom, intuition, and resilience.
  • Highlights lessons from traditional cultures, such as the Okinawan and hunter-gatherer societies, that have embraced menopause as a time of strength and leadership.

Part Two: The Age Like a Girl Toolbox
  • Provides science-backed health strategies to optimize energy, metabolism, and mental clarity during menopause. Covers key topics like:
  • Why postmenopausal women thrive on ketones over glucose and how fasting can be a powerful tool.
  • The best nutrients to support hormonal balance and how to incorporate them into daily life.
  • How exercise should evolve to align with changing hormones.
  • The importance of connection, mood, and memory, including strategies to support mental well-being.
  • Explains how shifts in estrogen and neurochemicals impact the body—and how to work with these changes, rather than against them.

Part Three: Returning Home to Yourself
  • A personal and transformative section where Dr. Mindy shares her own experiences, offering insights into self-discovery and personal growth post-menopause.
  • How menopause frees women from cultural conditioning and encourages them to stop people-pleasing.
  • A powerful call for women to embrace transformation, akin to emerging from a chrysalis into their next phase of life.
  • Encouragement for women to embrace this stage of life as a time to come home to themselves.

This audio product contains a PDF with supporting material, and the PDF is available to download. Aging & Longevity Menopause Human Brain Health

Critic Reviews

Dr. Mindy Pelz has written the book I wish I had at 40. Age Like a Girl blends science, story, and truth to show that menopause is not a decline but an incredible transformation. These pages will change the way you see yourself, your health, and your future. It’s the book that will help you go forward with confidence during this next season. - Tamsen Fadal, journalist, New York Times bestselling author of How to Menopause, and host of The Tamsen Show podcast

My dear friend has written a one-of-a-kind guide into the monumental, life altering journey of menopause. This book—and Dr. Mindy—open our hearts and minds to the wisdom the second half of life holds for every woman, helping us feel a little less crazy and way more empowered! - LeAnn Rimes, award-winning, multi-platinum selling singer, songwriter, and actress

This book is a call to action—and a love letter to every woman who has ever felt lost in her own body. Dr. Mindy brings the clarity and compassion we need. - Sara Szal MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Autoimmune Cure
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Amazing book and so brilliant to have Dr Mindy as the passionate narrator being so real and honest. I’m going to listen to it again and again

Reinforces everything you are feeling

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Too long , not enough information to create change, boring and repetitive. Shame as I like her podcasts

Nothing new

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I love all her books, this one combines much information on diet, mental health and community- well done !

Guidance through the fog of menopause information

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I listened to Age Like a Girl all the way through, and while there are parts of Mindy Pelz’s work that I genuinely appreciate, the overall tone didn’t quite land for me. Pelz has an enthusiasm that is unmistakably American — high‑energy, emotive, and motivational — and I found that style more irritating than inspiring. A calmer, clearer delivery would have made the content feel more convincing, and less jarring to my Australian ears.

That said, there are ideas in the book that I found genuinely valuable. The “grandmother hypothesis” is a standout — a dignifying, empowering framework that I can see myself using in conversations with doctors, especially when midlife symptoms are dismissed as something we’re “not meant” to live long enough to experience. I also appreciated her practical points about nutrition: eating low‑carb without going extreme, and including tubers and whole foods in a balanced way. Those ideas have already found their way into my cooking in small, sustainable ways.

I’m still on board with fasting, and Pelz isn’t the only one advocating for it — there are real medical researchers who support its metabolic benefits. What she adds is a focus on women’s experiences, which I do value. But I’m not interested in her broader philosophy about what a menopausal or post‑menopausal woman is supposed to be. I don’t identify with that framing at all. I’m simply a woman living my life, doing my best, and wanting this next phase to be as joyful as possible.

In the end, the book contains helpful ideas, but you need to sift through the hype and take what genuinely serves you. For me, the science‑inspired parts were worthwhile; the emotional theatrics were not.

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Thank you Dr Mindy, this is the best, most easily understood resource for menopausal women. It's helped me understand my journey through peri menopause when my life was a train crash and I had NO idea what was going on.

A couple of things to note: I'd love more information on what loving in a 'who cares' world looks like and what's the impact longer term on a woman's libido? Right now, I'm in a 'who cares' phase, and my partner is going without. I mostly feel like it wouldn't bother me if I never had sex again, and that concerns me, for myself and my partner. I'm 63

Brilliant, much needed!

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