Episode #51
Menopause weight gain: why it's happening and what actually works?
"I'm 51. I haven't changed a thing, but everything's gone to my middle." Caroline in Monmouth asked the question thousands of women are Googling at 2am, so this week I'm answering it properly. Something real is happening during perimenopause and menopause. But almost everything you've been told about it is wrong. In this episode: What the SWAN study found when it scanned over a thousand women through the menopause transition, and why fat gain doubled while the scales barely moved Why "my metabolism has crashed" doesn't hold up, and what the biggest study on human metabolism actually shows about your forties and fifties Does HRT make you gain weight? What the Cochrane review of 28 trials and 28,000 women says, and what it doesn't Why no supplement balances your hormones, and why you don't need to cut carbs The five things that actually work for menopause weight gain, in order of how much they matter Why the scales are the worst measurement you can use right now, and what to use instead thenutritionistuk.com. More on Instagram @paulthenutritionist.
