Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Dr Carrie Jones | Rooted in Wellness #shorts #youtubeshorts #wellness #healthtips #health #women

9 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this short interview, Dr. Carrie Jones outlines the primary health threats that limit women’s longevity and health span, including cancer, cardiometabolic diseases (heart disease, diabetes), frailty‑related injuries (falls, hip fractures, osteopenia/osteoporosis), and neurodegenerative conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. Mona Sharma responds by emphasizing that understanding these risks should transform women’s decision‑making away from chronic dieting toward a focus on prevention, optimization, and restoring vitality. She argues that the long‑standing diet‑centric paradigm—spanning multiple decades—must be discarded in favor of a holistic approach that supports the body’s natural flow and resilience.

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For horsewomen of longevity, of thriving, of health span. And so it's cancer being one, cardiometabolic disease. So heart and blood sugar, diabetes. It's diseases of frailty. So falling, breaking a hip. Don't want to do that. Osteopenia, osteoporosis. And then we have neurodegenerative disease, so dementia, Alzheimer's. As you said earlier, women are planners.
And like, for women, understanding that alone will completely change the trajectory of our decision making. And I think, from my experience, it no longer becomes about dieting anymore. It's about preventing invention. It's about optimization. It's about getting that juiciness and flow back into our bodies. Instead of that decade, 2, decade, 3 decade long cycle of being convinced that we need to diet in order to be a certain way. Right. It completely just throws that lens out the window.