About this episode

The episode discusses why weight loss becomes more challenging after 35 and offers natural solutions to address this issue.

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com You're eating clean. You're working out. So why is the scale still going up? In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome functional nutritionist Deanna DeWitt, a women's hormone specialist who spent her late 20s and early 30s battling gut issues, anxiety, and hormone chaos before the conventional medical system left her with little more than an IBS label and a handful of prescriptions. After healing herself, she traded her fast-paced LA career for functional nutrition school and has now spent nearly a decade helping women lose weight without starving themselves, over-exercising, or counting a single calorie. Together, they take apart the "eat less, exercise more" advice that fails most women after 35, why chronic stress signals your body to store fat for safety, and how cortisol quietly spikes blood sugar even when you're eating the cleanest diet imaginable. Deanna explains metabolic flexibility, the sugar-burner vs. fat-burner switch, and why your thyroid actually needs carbs. The conversation gets honest…

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey Dunn, Christine Muldoon

Guest: Deanna DeWitt

Topics covered

• weight loss
• hormones
• nutrition
• stress
• metabolic flexibility
• women's health

Keywords

• weight loss
• hormones
• nutrition
• stress
• metabolic flexibility
• thyroid
• calorie restriction
• keto
• carnivore diet

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Earthley

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