Is Menopause Making You Fat? – Dr. Berg on Menopause Weight Gain

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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 the second part so we’ve been getting a lot of success stories but I don’t have your success story yet so click the link down below and upload you before and after I want to actually hear about your success story I want to see your before and afters and every week we do featured success stories so click the link down below and share your success