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On this episode of the Dr. Tina show, I'm going to be talking about hormones and menopause.

I know I've done lots and lots of episodes about metabolism.

I know I've talked about menopause a little bit, and I know I've talked about hormones

at decent length on the show, but I wanted to put them all together because the other day

I made a post on Instagram, and I was using Dr. Ben Beakman's voice over on the reel,

and Dr. Beakman talks about how we don't actually have our metabolism slow down in menopause,

and that didn't seem to hit well with everybody.

There was a lot of discourse.

The reel kind of blew up. I got a lot of feedback on my stories and in my DMs.

I wanted to just talk about it here and try to make this succinct so that I can cover it.

Maybe it just put it all together for, yeah, in a way that makes sense.

When you go through menopause, it's a pretty commonly thought.

It's a common myth that your metabolism is slowing down, and that's why you're gaining weight.

To say that women are gaining weight in menopause or are not gaining weight is not correct,

but they are. I fully acknowledge that weight gain is a part of menopause. In fact,

I am living it. I am walking into perimenopause, and I am definitely living the belly fat phenomenon.

I get it. I refer to it as the middle-aged middle. It's real, and it is frustrating as all heck.

So I totally acknowledge that there is weight gain. I'm getting different body fat distribution

than I've had in the past. No matter if I change things or not, I'm not changing

volume of calories. I'm not changing types of foods that I am eating. I eat pretty darn good.

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