Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.

I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

This is the start of a new Thursday series called The Midlife Minute that is really designed to address listeners questions in a little bit

longer length of time and or deeper dive into topics. Ideally, we're going to keep these

podcasts under 20 minutes. Occasionally, we may go over to 30, but I'm trying to reinforce

some key concepts and ensure that I'm addressing listeners' questions

in a way that's really helpful.

So the questions that I will be addressing topics are going to be items that I'm being asked over and over and over again.

I hope you enjoy this series.

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And as you know, you can always send your questions to support at Cynthia Thurlow.com.

I appreciate each and every listener.

Today is a second in a series of three talking about fiber specifically for middle age. Today is fiber hormones and blood sugar

and why midlife kind of reframes the rules. I want to talk about something that surprises a lot of

women in middle age. They come to me and they say my eating hasn't really changed, but my body has.

Shifts in body composition are a source of utter frustration. I feel like I'm more sensitive

to carbs. This is especially for women who have otherwise always been metabolically healthy,

insulin sensitive. I'm gaining weight around my midsection for the first time in my life and I'm

doing everything that used to work before and nothing now works, or they're experiencing energy crashes more

easily and readily than they did before. And so I oftentimes will say midlife doesn't just

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