Dr. Tabatha Barber explains that fat gain during menopause is your body protecting itself. Fat produces estrone, a form of estrogen your body needs, and slows disease. Weight gain isn't failure. Hormone replacement therapy can reduce it if you want.
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. So we are mad at our body. We're like, we hate you. You're betraying us. Why are you doing this to us? But it's not. It's actually so wise that it's like, helping. You still have enough estrogen around in the form of estrone to slow down those disease processes. So we assume our body's betraying us and falling apart and getting old and doing all these things when it's really not. So if you don't want weight gain at menopause, part of the thing that you can do is to get on hormone replacement therapy and give yourself the estrogen. Your body so wants to make.
