Dr. Tabatha BarberI teach women how to fast their way to a faith-filled, hormonally balanced, fabulous life!

Unlearning Habits: Midlife Physiology vs. Lifestyle #shorts

6 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, Dr. Tabatha Barber reflects on how habits formed during our teens, twenties, and thirties—often instrumental to career and personal success—can become maladaptive as we enter midlife. She emphasizes that the physiological transitions of perimenopause and menopause serve as a litmus test, revealing whether our long‑standing lifestyle choices still support our changing biology. The core message is that recognizing this mismatch is essential for adapting habits to align with midlife physiology.

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I think it's really hard to unlearn bad habits. Like I jokingly say, bad habits we learn in our teens, 20s, and 30s that maybe allow us to be incredibly successful people in our career, personally, professionally, can become maladaptive in midlife. And so a lot of the pause when we're talking about perimenopause, menopause, middle pause, menopause is really determining like, is our lifestyle working for our physiology? Like that litmus test. And it really is a litmus test of like, is this working for my physiology?