Midlife Mayhem

🎙️ Energy: Why You’re Tired, What Actually Makes Energy — and What Really Works

I am just fine-tuning all the pages of my new website but it is live www.joannelee.com on there you will find the online coaching schedule for 2026, the one on one 90 Day Coaching Program and the 10 month Mentorship Program - A Perfect Ten

The products mentioned in this podcast can also be found at www.joanneleestore.com and the video version of this p...

Welcome to 2026 — and yes, I tried to turn this podcast into video… and of course it wasn’t simple. 🙃 The video version is still happening (YouTube: Joanne Lee Cornish) — but for now, it’s you, me, and my English accent.

The Peak Week 5 Day Shred starts on Monday, yes THIS Monday - offered only once a year!

Today’s Topics 1) The quiet truth about change

You don’t hate your life… but you’re not really happy either. Thinking about c...

🎙️ Episode Notes: The Habit Formation Curve — Why It Gets Hard Before It Gets Easy

In this episode, we break down why habits feel hardest right before they actually stick — and why so many people quit at exactly the wrong moment.

Most of the anxiety around goals, body composition, or behavior change doesn’t come from lack of effort. It comes from not understanding how habit formation actually works.

I introduce a concept known as ...

Exercise as a Tool: Cardio, Bias, and What Actually Works

Exercise is a tool — and we’ve used it very differently over the decades.

Think about it: In the 1950s, “exercise” wasn’t really a thing the way it is now. People moved, they danced (my parents and grandparents were ballroom dancers), but it wasn’t packaged as “workouts.”

Then we got the eras:

• 70s/80s/90s: jogging + long, steady-state cardio

• 2000s: long-duration card...

🎙️ Can You Train With Osteoporosis? Running, Bone Strength & Why Calcium Alone Doesn’t Work

Recorded on Christmas Eve 🎄

Before we dive in, I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Wherever you’re listening from, take a moment to look around and be grateful for what’s right in front of you. I’m incredibly grateful for all of you who listen to this podcast — it started as an extension of Victory Vault and is now heading into ...

☕ Adenosine, Coffee & Why Tiredness Is Supposed to Happen

Midlife Mayhem Podcast

It’s Christmas week 🎄 and just a few weeks until my programs begin for the new year. If you’d like to see my full 2026 schedule, you’ll find it at:

👉 www.JoanneLee2026.com

🚀 Programs Starting Soon 5-Day Peak Shred

📅 January 12–18

A powerful 5-day reset with:

• Coaching calls

• Structure

• Momentum

• Yes, weight loss — but so much more than...

In this episode, Joanne connects several conversations that are often discussed separately — facial fat loss, muscle loss, grip strength, hormones, and rapid weight loss — and explains why they’re all part of the same biological picture in midlife.

Rather than treating these changes as isolated or cosmetic issues, this episode explores what’s really happening underneath: estrogen decline, rising myostatin, changes in muscle quality...

What Compounding Pharmacies Actually Do — Why December 31st Matters — and the GLP-1 Confusion Explained

Before we talk about December 31st, the FDA, or compounded weight-loss medications, this episode starts with something most people misunderstand:

What compounding pharmacies are actually for.

Joanne begins by explaining the original and ongoing role of compounding pharmacies — using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a clear, l...

Today’s episode was sparked by a Medscape article that immediately grabbed my attention. The headline essentially said that set point weight does not seem to decrease with the use of GLP-1 medications.

If you’re taking Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, or any of the current weight-loss medications, that line alone is enough to make your heart skip a beat. For many people, these medications have felt like the first time in their lives that ...

Testosterone therapy is exploding in popularity, especially among midlife women — but how you take testosterone dramatically affects how it works in your body.

In this episode, Joanne breaks down the three major delivery systems — transdermal creams, oral lozenges, and injections — and explains why some women are now being told they’re “poor absorbers” and switched to oral or injectable forms.

You’ll learn:

• Why women may not ...

In this episode of Midlife Mayhem, Joanne breaks down one of the most misunderstood concepts in the supplement and peptide world: half-life — the amount of time it takes for half of a substance to leave your system.

Half-life is the key that determines:

• how often you should take something

• whether a pill works better than an injection

• why weekly injections make sense for some compounds

• and why weekly injections are compl...

🔍 Episode Overview

Joanne Lee Cornish explores two massive wellness categories — green powders and fiber supplements — breaking down real science, real efficacy, and real value. She helps you make informed decisions, avoid marketing fluff, and invest in what actually works.

🧬 What You’ll Learn

• The manufacturing differences between whole-plant powders, juice powders, and cheap heat-dried powders

• Why processing method deter...

🎙 SHOW NOTES — “PCOS Doesn’t End at 30: The Midlife Metabolic Storm No One Warned Us About”

Most women only hear about PCOS in their teens or twenties — when cycles are irregular, acne is flaring, weight is piling onto the midsection, and fertility becomes a concern. But here’s the truth:

👉 PCOS does NOT disappear. 👉 Symptoms simply shift. 👉 And midlife can amplify everything that was simmering beneath the surface for decades.

...

The Cult of the Needle: Why Everyone’s Injecting Everything — and Why You Don’t Need To

In this episode of Midlife Mayhem, Joanne dives into one of the wildest cultural shifts in modern health and fitness: how we went from terrified of needles to injecting everything in sight — from weight loss medications to peptides, and now, even experimental compounds.

A few years ago, the idea of self-injecting anything was unthinkable. Today?...

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“Sore but Not Growing: Why Pain Isn’t Proof of Progress”

💡 Full Episode Summary (for Readers)

We’ve been taught to wear soreness like a badge of honor. If you can’t sit down after leg day, that’s proof you “did it right,” right? Wrong.

Soreness is inflammation — not progress. It’s a sign your muscles are repairing micro-tears, not necessarily adapting or growing stronger. In fact, constant soreness can be a red...

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“Hormones Off the Hook: What the FDA’s New Decision Means for Women, HRT, and the Future of Menopause Care”

💡 Episode Summary:

For decades, women have been warned that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is risky business — linked to heart disease, cancer, and every imaginable midlife horror story.

But that narrative just flipped.

In a landmark move, the FDA has lifted the black box warnings from many HRT product...

Rewriting My Midlife Brand, Metabolism & Fasting: Why I’m Becoming JoanneLee.com

Episode Description In this episode, I pull back the curtain on a big shift: after 30 years as The Shrink Shop, I’m moving everything under JoanneLee.com and fully owning the work I actually do — high-level body composition and midlife coaching that goes way beyond “just weight loss.”

We’ll dive into why I’m rebranding, how my coaching has evolved...

Most women are never told what to expect as they approach menopause. There’s no handbook, no clear roadmap — just years of confusion, self-blame, and frustration as symptoms slowly appear. It’s heartbreaking that we enter one of the biggest biological transitions of our lives unprepared — often told to “just get on with it.”

In this episode, Joanne breaks down the menopause journey — a stage-by-stage guide explaining what’s happeni...

 

Aging is not a number

We’ve all heard the phrase “The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” — probably in high school biology, on a meme, or even on a T-shirt. But what most people don’t realize is that this isn’t just trivia. This is the foundation of how you age, how you feel, and how your body performs every single day.

In this episode, Joanne breaks down what cellular health really means — in plain English — and why the...