How Fasting Helps After 40 | Hormones, Insulin & Metabolism with Renee Fitton

Name: How Fasting Helps After 40 | Hormones, Insulin & Metabolism with Renee Fitton
Uploaded: 2025-06-30T17:00:36+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this segment of Renee Fitton's presentation, she explains how the natural decline in estrogen during perimenopause triggers a cascade of metabolic…

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In this segment of Renee Fitton's presentation, she explains how the natural decline in estrogen during perimenopause triggers a cascade of metabolic changes that lead to muscle loss, weight gain, and increased insulin resistance, contributing to higher rates of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in people over 40‑50. She emphasizes that estrogen is crucial not only for reproductive health but also for maintaining metabolic health. Fitton then introduces fasting‑mimicking as an intervention that can improve insulin sensitivity, reduce insulin resistance, and even enable some individuals with type 2 diabetes to discontinue medication and achieve remission, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic strategy for mid‑life metabolic health.

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especially for perimenopause, where our estrogen levels are declining. This is where we want to be especially cautious of muscle loss and where we will generally see, unfortunately, also weight gain. And this is happening because of muscle loss and also because of changes to our metabolism that occur when estrogen declines. Estrogen is way more important than just fertility and reproductive health. It's important for our metabolic health, insulin resistance. It's also why we see increased levels of prediabetes and diabetes after the ages of 40, 50, this all increases. And it's in part due to this decline in estrogen. Fasting mimicking supports this in a number of ways. One, we improve insulin sensitivity and reduce insulin resistance with fasting mimicking. This has been consistently shown in individuals with type 2 diabetes, where we're even seeing people come off of medication and go fully into remission. It's amazing.