You're not doing it wrong. Your hormones are.

You are doing everything right.

The workouts. The protein. The water.

The supplements lined up on the counter every morning like little soldiers.

And the scale went up anyway.

So you sat on the edge of the bed.

Maybe you cried.

Not because of a number.

Because you feel like a stranger in your own body and you do not know why.

This is not a discipline problem.

This is not a willpower problem.

This is a hormone problem.

And once you understand that. Really understand it.

Everything changes.

That is what this week’s episode is about.

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What’s in the News

New research is putting numbers to what you already feel.

A meta-analysis presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of The Menopause Society reviewed 17 randomized controlled trials covering more than 29,000 participants.

It found that hormone therapy significantly reduced insulin resistance in healthy postmenopausal women.

Both oral and transdermal forms worked.

Here is why that matters.

As estrogen drops, your body becomes less responsive to insulin.

That means more fat storage. More inflammation. More of the weight gain that no amount of clean eating seems to touch.

This is not inevitable.

It is addressable.

Read the full release from The Menopause Society:

menopause.org

New Meta-Analysis Shows That Hormone Therapy Can Significantly Reduce Insulin Resistance | The Menopause Society

After years of mixed results, a review of 17 randomized, controlled trials demonstrates benefit of estrogen alone and estrogen plus progestogen in reducing risk of prediabetes

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NEW EPISODE: The Real Reason You’re Gaining Weight in Perimenopause

This episode is for you if:

You eat clean and still gain weight.

You work out and the scale does not move.

You feel like your body is operating by a completely different set of rules than it used to.

In this episode I walk you through the five hormonal reasons this happens.

And none of them have anything to do with willpower.

We talk about estrogen and fat redistribution.

Cortisol and why chronic stress is pouring gasoline on the fire.

Why bad sleep is literally rewiring your hunger hormones.

Why carbs hit differently now than they did at 35.

And the one most doctors never bring up. Muscle loss. And how it is quietly slowing your metabolism at the root.

Download it. Listen on your morning walk.

Then reply and tell me which of the five reasons hit closest to home.

I genuinely want to know.

And if you know someone who is doing everything right and still struggling.

Send her this episode. It was made for her.