🚨 But perimenopause is its own beast because your hormones: estrogen, progesterone, testosterone…
They're all doing this wild dance that no amount of discipline can fully control. Your body is literally going through a hormonal transition.
Here's what actually happens:
1. Progesterone is usually the first thing to tank and progesterone is the calming hormone. When it drops, you get irritable, you can't sleep, you have no patience. People don't recognize it as hormonal at all. They think they're losing their minds.
2. Then estrogen starts doing this erratic up-and-down thing that creates hot flashes, mood swings, heavier or lighter periods, it's all over the map.
3. The metabolic piece? That's real too. As estrogen and progesterone drop, cortisol steps in to try to fill the gap, and that messes with your blood sugar management and your ability to lose weight, even when you're doing everything right.
✅So what do you actually do about it?
👉🏼 You start with testing, not just a basic hormone panel, but comprehensive labs of your sex hormones, your thyroid (full panel, not just TSH), your stress hormones.
👉🏼 You track your symptoms and your cycle so you can see the patterns. And then, here's the part people resist: you may actually need bioidentical hormone replacement. Not everyone. But many women do.
The lifestyle pieces we've talked about…
The protein, the strength training, the sleep; those still matter enormously, but they work with hormone support, not instead of it.
If you still are curious and have questions, drop them in the comments below!
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