#485: Does Menopause Alter Appetite?

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Menopause is commonly associated with hormonal changes and physical symptoms, such as hot flashes, mood changes, sleep issues, and weight gain. Based on anecdotal reports, another interesting question emerges: what is the potential impact of menopause on appetite?

As women undergo this transformative phase, many report fluctuations in their food intake and body weight, raising the question: Does menopause alter appetite?

Understanding the relationship between menopause and appetite is of great significance, as it can potentially provide insights into the mechanisms behind weight gain and obesity risk that often accompany this stage of life. Furthermore, comprehending the factors that contribute to changes in appetite during menopause could aid in the development of tailored interventions and strategies to support women's overall health and well-being.

In this episode, we delve into the research to see if we can unearth any answers. What studies have been done? What results do we see? What conclusions does this allow us to make? And what does future research need to do in order to provide better answers?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
0:17.6	You are listening to episode 485 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon,
0:23.1	and with me is Dr. Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you today? I'm very well, sir. And we're just
0:27.8	off the back of a recent discussion we had with Dr. Eric Trexler that you may have heard in our
0:32.2	previous episode of the podcast. If you have not yet, I highly encourage that. That was a
0:36.5	thoroughly enjoyable conversation.
0:38.3	Yeah, I think it's such a fascinating topic.
0:41.3	And from both the kind of practical application standpoint, but also I think for people that
0:48.3	kind of geek out on the methodology of research and how is it that we come to think something or know something at a
0:56.0	given time. I think that was a really cool episode to tease out some of that as well and what is
1:01.6	really something that exists as a real phenomenon versus something that appears to exist based on a
1:07.4	certain methodology that's been employed to investigate that thing, that phenomenon.
1:12.0	So, yeah, I think it was a really cool episode, and it was great to have someone with Eric's
1:17.5	kind of expertise and own hands-on research experience in that area to contribute.
1:24.5	Well, one of the things that I think we touched on in that episode was
1:28.4	essentially how broad that potentially could be and how many of these different strands you
1:33.5	have to pull together to try and get a handle of that particular topic. And today we're
1:38.3	probably going almost at the other extreme of looking at a question where there's maybe not a whole lot of us, a whole lot to
1:46.3	grapple with, certainly in relation to what many people would hope, and certainly from a
1:51.5	pragmatic perspective, what people may ask. So today, we're going to look at a specific question,
1:56.7	and from time to time we do take some of these interesting niche questions that have been proposed by some of our premium subscribers as a chance to discuss them in a bit more detail as a podcast episode.
2:08.6	And so the particular question we want to look at today is, does menopause lead to changes in appetite?
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