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Menopausal Weight Gain Isn’t Inevitable — How to Stay Strong, Healthy, and in Control
If you’ve found yourself frustrated by a body that suddenly feels unfamiliar — clothes fitting differently, energy dipping, or the scale creeping up — you’re not alone. So many women in midlife start to believe that weight gain and body changes during menopause...
You’re Not Broken. You’re in Menopause – Why Generic Advice Isn’t Good Enough
If you’re in perimenopause or menopause, you may be feeling like your body is suddenly a stranger to you. You’re eating “right,” you’re training the way you always have, you’re taking the supplements you’ve been told to take — and yet you’re more tired than...
Menopause Causes Joint Pain, It’s Not in Your Head—Here’s What You Can Do
Joint Pain in Menopause: You’re Not Imagining It Is your body starting to ache without reason? Have you noticed that your workouts aren’t feeling the same? Maybe your knees ache after a run, or getting out of that sweaty sports bra went from hard to impossible? Are...
Low Carb Diets Are Problematic in Menopause
Low carbohydrate diets can be very problematic and yet, it continues to be pushed hard in perimenopausal and menopausal women. How and what to eat will potentially be an ongoing debate, it’s important to take the time and figure out what your body needs and try to...
Menopause HRT and Estrogen Safety -Why is it so Confusing
There’s been an enormous amount of confusion and flip-flopping around hormone replacement therapy (HRT) practices and recommendations, it’s no surprise everybody feels confused. Medical practitioners included. A lot of this confusion came from one, not quite...
Building Muscle in Menopause is Essential!
Among the many changes in menopause, how your body uses glucose (sugar and carbohydrates) also changes, and for the worse. Your body becomes less efficient at utilizing glucose and that increases your risk of diabetes and weight gain, specifically more adipose...
Stress is Higher in Menopause
Hormones are powerful chemicals in your body that influence just about everything. Your nervous system is no exception. Research has shown higher sympathetic nervous system activation in menopause. Put in simpler terms, there’s a higher amount of stress in menopause....
Recovery Changes Throughout Your Cycle
Have you noticed changes in your HRV (heart rate variability) throughout your cycle? Hormones influence just about everything; your nervous system is no exception. HRV measures the time difference between heart beats. Your heart rate varies from beat to beat. A heart...
Recovery is Where the Magic Happens
Recovery is the most essential part of training, its where all the magic happens. The recovery period is when your body absorbs the work and rebuilds to become stronger, fitter and more powerful. Recovery is not just for professional athletes, it’s for every...
Estrogen Changes Affect Your Mood
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter and brain hormone – chemical messengers that carry messages or signals to other neurons, cells, or organs in your body. Despite being considered a brain hormone, serotonin is primarily made in the gut (like 90% of it). Serotonin...
There’s More to Hydration Than Drinking Water
Not everyone takes the time to stop and think about the how’s and why’s of hydration, understanding how important it is and how to best optimize hydration is a worth the effort. Proper hydration, especially in athletics is another element you can turn into a...
Your Gut Health Changes in Menopause
Gut health changes in perimenopause and menopause. Not only does your gut microbiome have its own collection of bacteria that influence estrogen, called you “estrobolome”, it all changes when your hormones change. Bloating, bowel changes, reflux, and more inflammation...