What can happen with chronic under eating and restriction is that it sends the body into a stress state.

So it starts to actually slow down metabolic rate.

That can kind of long term leads to things like actually putting back on more weight than because our metabolic rate has actually decreased.

It's really about our long term health.

You know, weight is one metric, but there's

our energy levels, there's our moods, there's, you know, quality of life, there's our bone health,

and we need to be focusing on nourishing the body as a whole. Now, are you struggling to lose weight and maintain vitality as you age?

Well, nutritionist Georgie Murphy says instead of trying to eat less, we need to be nourishing

ourselves more.

I'm Liz Earle.

Welcome to Age Better, the podcast on a mission to change the conversation around aging.

And this episode is brought to you by Sister Lee.

Now, something that I've come to realize over many years of research and, of course, through

talking to so many midlife women, is that calorie counting, crash diets and GLP1 medications, the dominant approaches to weight loss, share

a common problem.

They can leave women undernourished.

So when we reach for low-fat, processed packaged foods, you know, just to hit a calorie

number, we are stripping out the wonderful nutrients that our lovely bodies desperately need even more of

as we age. Well, Georgie Murphy has a Masters in Nutrition from King's College London and a

diploma in naturopathic nutrition. She's very clear that prioritising a rich and varied

vitamin intake through both food and careful supplementation

is what will best support healthy weight management, energy and skin health.

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