What You Need to Know About Weight In Menopause and Beyond with Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA (Episode 113)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been led to believe weight is a simple equation: energy in versus energy out, which implies it’s all in our control. We’re in charge. We just need the right diet, exercise, and willpower. And while nutrition and physical activity matter a lot, and some maintain their weight through those means, others feel like their bodies have a mind of their own, which is actually true, as this week’s guest, obesity medicine scientist, educator, and policy maker Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford explains. That’s because the central nervous system, which is governed by the brain, ultimately regulates weight. We dive deep into all the factors that influence how much fat we store, where menopause comes in, and what having a healthy weight really means. It’s all a whole lot more complicated than we’ve been led to believe.

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a national and international sought-after expert in obesity medicine who bridges the intersection of medicine, public health, policy, and disparities. In 2022, The National Academy of Medicine named her a Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence. You can learn more about her and her work at harvard.edu/faculty-staff/fatima-cody-stanford

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.7	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.4	Boy, do I have a great show for you this week.
0:37.5	This one is going to challenge a lot of preconceived notions,
0:41.1	and I'm also imagining it's going to cause a lot of mixed emotions,
0:45.3	and that's okay.
0:47.0	We're here to have challenging conversations about what can be a pretty challenging time of life.
0:52.8	And this week's show is all about weight.
0:56.2	And I'll preface this by saying that we are going into the third year of this show. And this is
1:01.6	only the second episode I've done that speaks directly about weight gain in menopause, which
1:08.5	when you look at the menopause universe out there might seem shocking,
1:12.8	because in some spaces, that is all they talk about. But not here. And there are myriad reasons for that.
1:21.0	At this point in our lives, many, if not outright, most of us, and I'm in that camp, have spent the greater part of our precious
1:30.8	years on this planet obsessing about our bodies, and that makes me sad.
1:37.4	My dad is 84 and still hating on his body, and it kills me.
1:44.0	And as anyone who listens to this show knows,
1:46.8	I have spent too many years writing for health and fitness magazines perpetuating this weight
1:53.7	obsession, and I would like to spend the rest of my ears, laundering my karma, and not being
2:00.2	part of the mainstream diet culture.
2:03.7	That said, I do understand that this is a topic of interest to many.
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