Season 2 opens with a personal story: I went to Morocco because my stepmother needed a roommate. What I found changed how I think about friendship, connection, and who I am. Eleven days, a group of mostly strangers, and a country whose history I did not expect to fall in love with.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why making friends in midlife requires a different approach than it did when we were younger
• What happened when I traveled internationally alone for the first time at 64
• The instant belonging that comes from shared identity and shared experience
• A spontaneous friendship strategy called speed dating that I have been using at home ever since
• What Adeline (80) and Iris (86) taught me about what is possible at this stage of life
• The heartbreaking and inspiring story of Jewish heritage in Morocco and the Muslim organization working to preserve it

Resources Mentioned:

Mimouna Association

Travel with the J! -- Jewish heritage tours through the Boca Raton JCC

Rockin' Journeys -- Meet Pablo Duek!

Dvora Citron is a Registered Nurse, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, and the founder of Slant2Plants®. She hosts Sexy in Your 60s to bring women the real ingredients of vibrant aging through science, story, support, and soul. Her work helps women 50 and older create the health, confidence, and longevity they want in ways that feel realistic and sustainable.

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In Part 2 of this two-part conversation, Jacinda Shapiro steps back from the science and gets into what it actually looks like to live a metabolically healthy life. From the myth of moderation to what your CGM is really telling you, to how she moved through menopause in six months, this is where the conversation gets actionable.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why "moderation" does not work when the foods in question are drivers of chronic disease
• The truth about CGMs: why your oatmeal is not the problem when blood sugar spikes after eating it
• How to navigate health change when your household is not on board
• What Lifestyle Medicine actually looks like in practice and why community matters
• How Jacinda moved through menopause in six months using a plant-based diet and daily soy
• Why high fat intake, including from nuts and seeds, can drive menopausal symptoms
• Her simple framework: fiber up, fat down

Missed Part 1? Start with Episode 26, where we cover insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, the gut microbiome, statins, and why more medications have not flattened the curve on metabolic disease.

About Jacinda Shapiro
Jacinda Shapiro, RN, CDCES, DipACLM is the owner of EmpowerMe Diabetes Health in St. Petersburg, Florida. With over 27 years of nursing experience, she uses plant-predominant nutrition, gut health restoration, and lifestyle medicine to help people with diabetes, autoimmune conditions, and complex metabolic disease get to the root cause, not just manage symptoms. She also works with Mastering Diabetes and contributes to the Moving Medicine Forward initiative.

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Instagram @empower_me_diabetes_health

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Insulin resistance is not a sugar problem. It is a fat problem. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Dvora sits down with Nurse Jacinda Shapiro to get into the science behind what is driving metabolic disease in midlife women, and why most conventional medicine is still missing the mark.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why insulin resistance is caused by dietary fat accumulating in the liver, muscle, and pancreas, not by sugar
• Why pre-diabetes is far more serious than most people are told, including loss of up to 50% of beta cell function
• Why 80% of people living with pre-diabetes have no idea they have it
• How your gut microbiome regulates blood sugar, blood pressure, and neurotransmitters through the fiber you eat
• Why more medications have not flattened the curve on diabetes or heart disease
• How pharmaceutical companies use relative vs. absolute risk reduction to make drugs appear more effective than they are

Part 2 drops May 19: Lifestyle Medicine, navigating an unsupportive household, what your CGM is really telling you, and how Jacinda moved through menopause in six months.

About Jacinda Shapiro:
Jacinda Shapiro, RN, CDCES, DipACLM is the owner of EmpowerMe Diabetes Health in St. Petersburg, Florida. With over 27 years of nursing experience, she uses plant-predominant nutrition, gut health restoration, and lifestyle medicine to help people with diabetes, autoimmune conditions, and complex metabolic disease get to the root cause, not just manage symptoms.

Connect with Jacinda Shapiro:
EmpowerMe Diabetes Health
Instagram @empower_me_diabetes_health

Listen on:
Podcast Page
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
Amazon Music
YouTube

Connect with Dvora / Slant2Plants:
slant2plants.com
Blog
Instagram @slant2plants
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