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Obstetrician/gynecologist and functional medicine expert Dr. Wendy Warner explains how the hormonal changes of menopause affect weight gain. Watch Dr. Warner's video for tips and information on women's health.
Most people when they hit menopause they get that five or 10 pounds right here, it's really irritating, what happens is your estrogen gets unbalanced and so that causes some weight gain, and then the weight gain changes how much insulin you're making and that changes how much oestrogen you're making, and that changes how much inflammation is there, which then causes more weight gain, and it's just a vicious cycle.
So it really comes back down to not only doing any inflammatory abs and supplements to break the inflammation part of the cycle, eating a low glycemic index diet to help keep the insulin stable, doing whatever you need to do to bounce at the oestrogen, and then the weight sort of settles back down.
Wendy Warner, MD, is a board certified holistic gynecologist. After 14 years of general ob/gyn practice during which she delivered thousands of babies, she now focuses on office gynecology and holistic medicine.
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