About this episode

Dr. Terri DeNeui discusses the hormonal changes women experience after 40 and how to address metabolic changes through strength training and hormone optimization.

You're eating the same. You're working out the same. Nothing in your lifestyle has changed — and yet your body is. Belly weight that wasn't there before. A metabolism that feels like it stalled overnight. Clothes that fit differently for no reason you can name. If that sounds familiar, Dr. Terri has a message: this isn't a willpower problem. It's a hormone problem. And it started earlier than you think. In this solo episode, Dr. Terri DeNeui breaks down exactly what's happening to women's bodies after 40 — and why the standard answers (eat less, move more, try a GLP-1) are missing the point. From testosterone loss that begins in your 30s to progesterone decline, thyroid dysfunction, gut dysbiosis, and the under-discussed cost of chronic stress, she maps the full picture of metabolic change — and what it actually takes to reverse it. She also shares her own story: how shifting from HIIT and cardio to strength training in her early 50s, combined with hormone optimization, brought her waist back to premenopausal size and changed her metabolism in ways she hadn't thought possible. GLP-1 medications get airtime too — not as villains, but with an honest accounting. Dr. Terri explains…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Terri DeNeui

Topics covered

• aging
• hormones
• metabolism
• women's health
• strength training

Keywords

• muscle
• aging
• hormone optimization
• metabolism
• women's health

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