Perimenopause and Fatigue: How to Beat This Common Symptom

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling with that relentless fatigue during perimenopause? You’re not alone -over half of women in perimenopause experience this exhaustion, and it’s not about willpower or laziness. In this episode of Dishing Up Nutrition, Leah and Kara get real about why fatigue often appears during these years, from sleep struggles and hormonal shifts to the hidden impacts of skipped meals, excessive caffeine, or insufficient protein and healthy fats. You’ll learn how small changes -like having a balanced bedtime snack, supporting sleep naturally, and rethinking nutrition -can help you reclaim your energy and spark. If you’re ready for solutions grounded in real food, you’ll walk away feeling encouraged and empowered.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:14.2	We are a family-owned Minnesota company that specializes in real food nutrition, education, and counseling.
0:21.3	My name is Leah Kleintraud, registered and licensed dietitian.
0:24.9	And joining me today is Kara Karpur, licensed nutritionist and who has a master's degree
0:29.6	in holistic health.
0:32.0	Today, we're chatting about the chronic and sometimes crushing fatigue that hits around 50 to 55 percent of women
0:39.7	in perimenopause.
0:42.8	And Kara, I didn't know this until I was doing some background research on the show, but I came
0:48.5	across several research papers.
0:50.2	So these are actual research papers that you can go on PubMed.
0:53.8	And if you typed in the phrase, I don't feel like myself, there's going to be research papers that pop up on that.
1:00.2	I didn't know that, did you?
1:02.1	No, I actually didn't either until you told me about it.
1:05.2	And we were preparing for our show today.
1:07.6	Of course, I had to go look it up then as well.
1:10.4	Yep.
1:13.3	And I was surprised by that statistic that half of women are struggling with this really can be debilitating fatigue in the peri-menopausal
1:20.9	years. I would actually hear this from women back when I was doing individual counseling.
1:26.9	And sometimes, you know, they talked about the fatigue. Sometimes, you know, they talked about the fatigue.
1:31.0	Sometimes it was a little bit more related to moods.
1:34.7	They would say, I just feel more irritable, more on edge than I used to.
1:40.0	Another thing that I recall is their stress resilience was lower than it used to be.
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