After 40, four things tank women's hormones: insulin dysregulation from poor blood sugar control, elevated cortisol from stress, thyroid dysfunction affecting 1 in 5 women, and sex hormone swings. They interact like a soup that shapes mood, energy, and metabolism.
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There's this kind of chaotic period of shift in hormones that happens in women in their late 30s, 40s, early 50s. It's like the Four Horsemen. It's like insulin, which is all about blood sugar regulation, and that leads to increasing belly fat, but it's not inevitable. And a lot of women think, oh, this just happens and they don't have to get that little belly. Two, the stress levels go up because they're kind of in this generation of high-stress work. Their parents are getting older, their kids are teenagers, and their marriages are stressed. It's like a pressure cooker. Cortisol cortisol is going crazy. And then they get thyroid, which tends to go kind of sideways a lot of the times. And that can be caused by stress, environmental toxins. And that's a big factor, affects 1 in 5 women. And then you got the sex hormones that are all over the place, and they're affected by everything, especially lifestyle. Have massive impacts on hormones and affect how women feel and what they can do, what they can't do, and also on their overall level of metabolic and, and physical health. So that's kind of the soup that they're in.