Losing Weight after Menopause Harder?
Why is it so easy to gain weight and harder to lose weight after menopause?
Excuse us for this post, guys. You can go discuss your favorite interval training tips amongst yourselves for now.
This will deal with something many generations of women have noticed. The naive among us put it down to less activity, less muscle mass, things like that. Those could be involved, but Yale researchers have shown that there is an independent pathway in the brain for suppressing appetite that is turned on with estrogen. It works a lot like the leptin pathway but is turned on by estrogen. So now we know.
But what’s a body to do? Should we all run out and start taking those hormone replacement therapy pills again? Just when the breast cancer incidence went down a lot because we older ladies stopped taking HRT? No way! The key is in finding a form of estrogen that only works on the brain, not on other tissues and organs. That’s probably a long way off but the Yalies are on it.
Meanwhile, there’s always the wonderful adpatable soybean with its estrogen mimicing constituents. No, I don’t mean running out to buy some pills with soy things in them or even they soy shakes that have huge amounts of sugar or high fructose corn syrup in them. Try a salad with some cooked shelled edamame (green soybeans) on it. Tofu stir fry anyone?
And then there’s always the tried and true watching of the diet and scaling up of activities. Those always work and have only good side effects.  –Di
ScienceDaily: Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way As The Hormone Leptin
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