Brigid Titgemeier, a functional-medicine dietitian, explains why women over 35 often gain belly fat and feel exhausted despite no diet changes. As estrogen drops in perimenopause, insulin sensitivity plummets, triggering inflammation and sugar cravings. A blood-sugar reset can restore insulin function and ease these symptoms.
If you are exhausted and craving sugar and moody and not able to sleep at night and any more belly fat, even though your diet has not changed, I want to explain how insulin may be sabotaging you. Hi, I'm Brigid, I'm a functional medicine registered dietitian. I've helped more than 25,000 women improve these exact symptoms using my science backed nutrition frameworks. Blood sugar balance is at the heart of hormones and as our hormones shift, as women are above the age of 35, as they start to experience perimenopause, this actual decline in estrogen decreases our insulin sensitivity which can increase our insulin resistance. As we become more insulin resistant, our cells actually can't recognize the insulin which leads it to produce more. Because insulin is a pro inflammatory fat storing hormone, it can actually lead to higher levels of inflammation, more of these energy crashes, more of this visceral or abdominal weight gain, even without changing your diet or physical activity. This is why it feels so incredibly hard. All of this can be improved with nutrition with a blood sugar balanced approach. And I want to show you how to do it with my science backed six a seven day blood sugar reset nutrition plan that will add the science to help you stabilize your blood sugar so that you're able to improve your insulin sensitivity so that you can mitigate some of these symptoms and not feel like you're working against your body on an ongoing basis.
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