Muscle Changes Everything

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of building and preserving muscle mass for women navigating perimenopause and menopause.

Your metabolism didn’t change overnight, but it might have quietly lost something powerful - muscle. If fat loss after 40 feels harder than it used to, I’m sharing the missing piece I see in so many women navigating perimenopause and menopause and it’s not more hustle, more cardio, or harsher restriction. It’s building and preserving muscle mass. We talk through why muscle starts declining from around age 30 and why the rate can speed up in your 40s and 50s as oestrogen drops. I unpack what ...

People in this episode

Host: Susie Garden

Topics covered

• muscle mass
• metabolism
• perimenopause
• menopause
• fat loss
• health

Keywords

• muscle
• metabolism
• fat loss
• perimenopause
• menopause
• oestrogen
• health

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