Short spoken segment from a YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber arguing that age itself does not inherently slow metabolism. The speaker explains that during menopause, ovarian estrogen production falls and fat cells become more metabolically active to produce estrogen, helping protect bones, cardiovascular health, and the brain; weight gain at menopause is framed as an adaptive, protective response.
Your metabolism slows down with age. I hear this from women all the time. They go to their doctor, they're like, oh, yeah, you. You're gaining weight. You're just getting old. There's nothing you can do about it. At the basis of it is, just because we're getting old doesn't mean that our metabolism is slowing down. The body has amazing innate intelligence. How many of you know that when you go into menopause and your ovaries stop producing estrogen that your fat cells actually get more metabolically active and make more estrogen for you to protect your bones, your cardiovascular system, and your brain? So that fat gain that you have at menopause is actually innate intelligence from your body trying to protect the rest of your body from this new menopausal state that you're now going into.
