Jun 24, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Dr. Robin Berzin, founder and CEO of Parsley Health, to discuss what it really takes to build a strong foundation for lifelong health. We dive into why bone density…
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[upbeat music] So where I wanna start is to ask you what are the most overlooked things that women in their 30s should be doing to, I guess, be proactive about their health?
I think in our 30s we are, for many women, whether whenever they're sort of in their fertility zone, whether that's 20s, 30s, 40s, later, the focus is often on fertility when it comes to women's health.
And yet that misses so much that we really need to do if we want to both have healthy fertility and we want to be healthier for ourselves.
So the things that I really want women to focus on in this era are, number one, body composition.
We have been counseled as women to assign our health and our worth to a number on a scale, which is a pretty worthless number, and even BMI, body mass index, is a pretty useless figure.
... bo- body mass index is really a number that is assessing, like, height versus weight, and none of those things really matter if your lean muscle mass, fat mass, and bone density are good.
And what a full body DEXA scan gives you is your lean muscle mass, your bone density, and your fat mass.
In particular, your visceral fat, which is the fat that's not under the skin on the outside of our bodies, but this fat that's inside our stomachs and inside our, wrapping around our organs-
And I don't know about you, but you know, for me, I kinda stopped playing sports after high school.

[upbeat music] So where I wanna start is to ask you what are the most overlooked things that women in their 30s should be doing to, I guess, be proactive about their health?
I think in our 30s we are, for many women, whether whenever they're sort of in their fertility zone, whether that's 20s, 30s, 40s, later, the focus is often on fertility when it comes to women's health.
And yet that misses so much that we really need to do if we want to both have healthy fertility and we want to be healthier for ourselves.
So the things that I really want women to focus on in this era are, number one, body composition.
We have been counseled as women to assign our health and our worth to a number on a scale, which is a pretty worthless number, and even BMI, body mass index, is a pretty useless figure.
... bo- body mass index is really a number that is assessing, like, height versus weight, and none of those things really matter if your lean muscle mass, fat mass, and bone density are good.
And what a full body DEXA scan gives you is your lean muscle mass, your bone density, and your fat mass.
In particular, your visceral fat, which is the fat that's not under the skin on the outside of our bodies, but this fat that's inside our stomachs and inside our, wrapping around our organs-
And I don't know about you, but you know, for me, I kinda stopped playing sports after high school.
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