A short educational/personal video by Dr. Tabatha Barber explaining why women may gain weight during menopause. The speaker frames the issue with personal experience, then attributes weight shifts to hormonal changes—particularly declining estrogen—leading to changes in fat cell metabolic activity.
Why am I gaining weight during menopause? And I've wondered that myself when I was going through the transition, because my weight has been stable for a decade, and all of a sudden it started to shift. Our body has amazing innate intelligence. God actually created us to be able to handle these transitions. And so when our ovaries stop producing estrogen and progesterone and testosterone like they naturally do when menopause happens, that lower estrogen triggers our fat cells to start being more metabolically active.
