Perimenopause & Sugar Cravings

Name: Perimenopause & Sugar Cravings
Uploaded: 2025-12-29T23:38:49+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Jennifer Dent Brown
Description: Perimenopause causes faster cortisol spikes that intensify stress responses. Combined with the exhaustion of juggling career, childcare, eldercare, and…

29 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Perimenopause causes faster cortisol spikes that intensify stress responses. Combined with the exhaustion of juggling career, childcare, eldercare, and community work, your brain craves sugar as quick relief. Women in their 50s face a perfect storm of hormonal change and life pressure.

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So when you're in perimenopause, you've got the cortisol, which is spiking faster, the stress that you're under, it hits your body harder, and then your brain becomes more desperate for quick relief. And this is why we feel like we're battling our need to eat sugar. So now when you're in your 50s and above, in your 50s, and you're dealing with perimenopause and those changes, we got hormone changes, we got chronic stress, we have emotional exhaustion because most of us are at like the peak of our careers. We're taking care of children. We may be taking care of elderly parents. Like there's, we're volunteering in social and civic and church organizations, and there's a lot happening and there's a lot of things and a lot of people that depend on us. And so our brains automatically go to sugar to help relieve all of the stress and the pressure that we feel that we're under.