Inositol And Fibroids: The Insulin-Hormone Connection
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Much of the foundational fasting research was done in men. Female physiology responds to energy availability differently — who benefits, who should avoid it, and the protein problem nobody accounts for.
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You lose 3 to 8% of muscle per decade from 30, with an extra acceleration through menopause. That loss — not a slowed metabolism — drives the shape change, and only one type of training reverses it.
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Adrenal fatigue is not a recognised diagnosis — but the exhaustion is real. What is usually happening is a flattened cortisol curve with normal total output, and that shape is what produces tired-but-wired.
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TSH runs to 4.5 in most labs while over 95% of genuinely healthy people sit below 2.5. What subclinical hypothyroidism means, the two tests usually missing, and the symptoms that lean thyroid over perimenopause.
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Insulin resistance develops ten to fifteen years before blood glucose rises, so a normal fasting result proves little. The physical signs that appear first, the tests worth asking for, and what genuinely improves it.
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Bloating that builds through the day means something different from bloating that tracks your cycle. Four distinct mechanisms, how to tell which is yours in one week, and the red flags that need a doctor.
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Waking at 3am with clockwork consistency is not random insomnia. Three mechanisms drive it — a nocturnal glucose dip, alcohol rebound, and the progesterone-GABA effect — and each has a different fix.
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Perimenopause commonly starts around 40, and the early phase is erratic hormone output rather than steady decline. The early signs at 40, what needs assessment instead, and why blood tests rarely answer the question.
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Your metabolic rate barely changed after 40 — muscle mass, fat distribution, insulin sensitivity and sleep did. Why aggressive restriction now backfires, and what preserves lean mass instead.
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Estrogen dominance describes a ratio, not a level — and in your forties it is usually progesterone falling rather than estrogen rising. Which symptoms genuinely indicate it, which prove nothing, and how to test properly.