Have you ever felt like you're doing everything right? You're eating healthy. You're exercising,

counting calories, or macros, and yet the scale refuses to budge. Or maybe you hit your 40s and

suddenly all of the strategies that used to work, they just don't anymore.

Today we're talking about something that so many women experienced, but honestly rarely fully understand

and it is not addressed enough when you go to your doctor because this is not simply calories in

and calories out or move more amen okay

we're talking insulin resistance hormone imbalance and why dieting alone often fails in midlife

and every lady who's probably 35 plus just raised their hand and said amen. So this episode,

I think, is going to be really eye-opening. We've been talking a lot lately about the inflammation

loop and hidden inflammation and chronic inflammation, where that comes from and how it affects

so many things in the body.

And I'm really excited to dive further into the topic specifically of blood sugar and hormone.

So today I'm joined by Ruth Suka.

And Ruth lost nearly 50 pounds in her 40s, and it wasn't by dieting harder, but by shifting

her focus to hormone balance

and metabolic health. So we're diving into what insulin resistance actually is, why it is so

common and prevalent, and it is, and especially in women over 40, what traditional, and I don't

mean like traditional, like Sally Fallon traditional I mean like mainstream to

traditional diet culture gets wrong and what actually works for sustainable and long term health

like what we can do really for the rest of our lives because so many of the fad stuff I mean like

can everybody just raise their hand with me right now?

We all know so much of the fad things.

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