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ZOE Science & Nutrition · June 3, 2024 · 48m

What Women Need to Know About Menopause and Nutrition

Jonathan Wolf

Wolf interviews leading menopause researchers about how hormonal changes during menopause affect metabolism, gut health, bone density, and cardiovascular risk — and what dietary strategies can help.

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Menopause dramatically reshapes the metabolic environment — the same diet that worked at 35 may cause weight gain and blood sugar problems at 50
The researchers explain that declining estrogen changes how the body processes food: insulin sensitivity drops, fat distribution shifts to the abdomen, and blood sugar responses to identical meals increase. The internal metabolic environment changes even if diet stays the same.
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The medical community has systematically underresearched menopause — a false narrative that it is a minor life transition has prevented adequate scientific attention
Wolf highlights the research gap: menopause affects 50% of the population but receives a fraction of the research funding dedicated to other major health transitions. The false narrative that menopause is a minor inconvenience — not a significant metabolic event — has persisted for decades.
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