For women who have insulin resistance, taking estrogen will improve insulin sensitivity and reduce their cardiovascular risk. It can worsen hot flashes, and it’s where many health risks come from. If you do develop insulin resistance during menopause, it has real consequences. The Consequences of Insulin Resistance With Hormonal Changes As we all know, the foods that we eat can contribute to insulin resistance. With the drop in estrogen, there’s a shift to insulin resistance. Estradiol during our reproductive years gave us an edge over men in terms of maintaining insulin sensitivity. With menopause, in straightforward terms, there’s a shift to insulin resistance. There are lots of things working against us in our food environment. Unfortunately, we live in a food environment that is excess calories, empty calories, and way too high carb. Our Food Environment Is Working Against Us If women knew that perimenopause was temporary, they would feel a lot differently about it. Menopause should be a reasonably healthy state with not a lot of problems. In contrast, menopause is the life phase that begins one year after the final period. Perimenopause is this time of transition, time of symptoms, and time of turbulence. Luckily, the second puberty is temporary. About a year after the final period, we drop back to the stable state of relatively low hormone levels. Some women go through these changes as early as age 35. Then the reverse happens in second puberty.

In first puberty, estrogen fires up quite dramatically, a few years before progesterone manages to get going.

Supporting the GABA receptors during hormonal changes.Natural ways to reduce symptoms of perimenopause.About the symptoms that occur throughout perimenopause.Insulin resistance and the hormone connection.How America’s current food environment is impacting your hormones.Why perimenopause is the second puberty.In this podcast, Breaking Down The Hormonal Transition of Menopause, we cover: She has more than 20 years of experience in women’s health and currently has a consulting room in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she treats women with PCOS, PMS, endometriosis, perimenopause, and many other hormones- and period-related health problems. Lara Briden is a naturopathic doctor and author of the bestselling books Period Repair Manual and Hormone Repair Manual.

In this episode, we dive into hormonal changes and the effect hormones and missing hormones have on brain health.

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