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so I wanted to create this video on the

mechanism of why menopause can make

someone fat okay okay so let’s start

with the ovaries the ovaries make

several hormones to being estrogen and

progesterone now when you go through

menopause at age 52

sometimes it’s earlier sometimes it’s

later you’re basically stopped releasing

eggs

okay so an average woman releases 400

eggs and after that last one it’s done

right so we go through this menopause so

they’re going in retirement

now even though both of these hormones

decrease the ratio of estrogen is still

much higher than progesterone leaving

someone in a state of estrogen dominance

the estrogen dominance will trigger

another hormone up in the brain

hypothalamus okay stands for

corticotropin-releasing hormone okay

which basically is a hormone that

communicates to the pituitary another

hormone called ACTH which then talks to

the adrenal so we kind of if you think

about like this you have the owner of

the football team

that’s the hypothalamus then you have

the coach which is the pituitary then

you have the quarterback which is the

adrenals okay so basically you have just

the three levels of communication you

don’t really need to know that all you

need to know is that when you have

higher amounts of estrogen and even when

you take birth control pills or are

doing hormone replacement therapy or

exposed to too much estrogen from the

environment you’re going to trigger more

cortisol and cortisol is the main

hormone that creates the problem and by

the way your own fat if you have too

much of it can also make cortisol so

excess cortisol is very catabolic which

means it breaks down muscle tissue it’s

very destructive to your muscles and

it’s going to break down the muscle

tissue and turn that into glucose sugar

which then is converted through insulin

to fat and this is why women that go

through menopause end up with a lot of

atrophy lost

muscle and fat and in their minds they

think this is all just excess fat when

in fact is a combination of loss of

muscle and fat so when they do a program

a lot of times they get frustrated when

they stop losing weight that’s because

what looks like fat is really atrophy so

what they need to do is restore the

atrophy okay and number two they need to

deal with the actual fat but I think

what’s most importantly is to address

the adrenal now this video is just on

the mechanism I put some links down

below on what to do to support healthy

adrenals and what to do for muscle loss

so click the link below and check out

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