Menopause Nutrition | Hormone Balancing Foods for Weight Loss & Wellbeing
About this episode
This episode discusses the impact of menopause on weight and wellbeing, focusing on gut health and hormone balancing foods.
If you've been gaining weight, losing sleep, and feeling like perimenopause is just something you have to white-knuckle through, this episode is going to change how you think about what's actually happening in your body. Women gain an average of five pounds in the first two years of perimenopause alone, and it's not about eating too much. It's about what's shifting in your gut and why your body can no longer absorb, detox, and function the way it used to. In this episode I'm sharing: Why perimenopause and menopause are not just a hormone levels problem, and what's happening in your gut and liver that's driving the weight gain, brain fog, mood swings, and heavy periods What lactoferrin is, why it drops dramatically the moment you enter perimenopause, and how that one protein controls iron regulation, immune response, and inflammation all at once How your gut manages estrogen through something called the estrobolome, what happens when that system breaks down, and why your heavy periods and mood swings might be a gut issue more than a hormone issue The enzyme beta-glucuronidase and what it means for your health when it's too high, including why estrogen gets repackaged and…
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