Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast I'm Katie from wellness Mama.com and this

episode all goes deep on the topic of metabolic health nutrition body composition changes

especially around menopause and pari menopause and all that comes with that and I am back with

Kristen and Maria who have developed a really comprehensive program that helps

address all of these factors for women who are navigating those phases of life.

They have a deep background in holistic nutrition and nutritional therapy,

and have done mentors with doctors,

natural paths and specialists in hormone replacement therapy

and the very specific changes for women

in mid-life time periods.

And in this episode, I was really excited

to deep dive with them into what we need to know

about metabolic health and how that changes

as we age, including factors like what changes when it comes to nutritional needs, lifestyle factors,

body composition changes and how often when we will get more visceral fat during these time periods

and how we can mitigate that, the importance of muscle mass,

especially as we age and how even if we are doing all the things right and supporting with diet and lifestyle,

menopause is essentially a time of inflammation and changing metabolic demand on the

body and how we can best support our bodies through that as well as a lot of important

nuance on things like testosterone and how we have

dual sources as women from our adrenals and our ovaries and while we often focus

on ovarian sources that supporting the adrenals in very specific ways can be tremendously

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