Hi, I'm Dr. Michael Butler, and you're listening to Thinner Peace in Menopause and Beyond

with certified master weight loss coach and my wife, Dr. Deb Butler.

Episode five, using mindfulness and another tool called the four

types of eating to help you lose weight. Hi there. So good to talk to you again. Well, we've been

working together for about four weeks now. And from what I understand, I've gotten

some lovely letters and some notes telling me that you're starting to connect and that you're

starting to become aware. And I'm so proud and happy for you. And today I'm going to share

another tool that's also going to help you become even more aware of what's

happening when you sit down to eat. But first, I want to share a little bit more about the connection

of mindfulness and menopause because I know you're going through menopause, and I know you want all the

information that you can get. And I also know the most important thing to you, you think at this

point, is to lose weight. But really, what I think you're going to get out of all of this in the

end is that you're going to become much more conscious of what's going on in you and in your life

at any given moment. And I think that's really the best gift that you could give yourself

and the best thing that you can learn. So I want to talk to you about one of my teachers,

Dr. Christian Northrop, and I'm sure you've read some of her

books or have seen her on Oprah, but she talks about menopause. Her perspective on menopause is

so lined up with the way that I like to teach and how I understand the process and why I think

it's so important right now.

And one of the things that she says is research into the physiological changes taking place in the perimenopausal and menopausal woman is revealing that in addition to the hormonal

shift that means an end to childbearing, our bodies, and specifically

our nervous systems, are being quite literally rewired.

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