Is the Keto Diet Safe to Do During Menopause?
15 Dec 2025 · 6 min
JJ Virgin talks with Dr. Anna Kabeca about using keto during menopause. Kabeca argues that hormonal changes make the body less efficient at using glucose, so ketones become better fuel. She recommends a "keto green" approach that combines keto with alkaline vegetables, leafy greens, and intermittent fasting.
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Is the Keto Diet Safe to Do During Menopause? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert and and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions, and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the health expert. Sharon, 12 from Instagram asks, is the Keto Diet safe to do during menopause? Hey, it's JJ and I've got my longtime friend Dr. Anna Kabeca here with me to answer this question. She's a hormone expert and Author of Keto Green 16 who specializes in using a keto approach during menopause. And she's quite the tequila aficionado as well. We'll be right back.
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Not only is the keto diet safe safe to do during menopause, but it is mandatory to do during menopause because as we age we start to have a decline in some key hormones that protect the brain and the body such as progesterone, estrogen, testosterone and even dhea. That what we have to understand is that with these hormonal changes we become less efficient at using glucose as energy. So without doing anything different, often we will experience weight gain, memory loss, brain fog, and that is unacceptable. So what we have to do is shift to using ketones for fuel. I like to tell my menopausal clients that glucose is to gasoline as ketones are to jet fuel. And the way we do it has to be different than the way men do it. Now remember, men have 10 times as much testosterone as women and and that is an anabolic hormone. An anabolic hormone builds us up. So we have to really recognize that in addition to ketogenic foods, we have to create the balance with an alkaline lifestyle. In other words, alkalinizing nutrients such as dark leafy greens and cruciferous vegetables and lots of herbs and spices to throw in there too, as well as incorporating intermittent fasting so that we push our body into ketosis and start using those amazing ketones for fuel. It is safe and effective and we see magical results by going keto green or going keto the safe way.
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