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Episode 52: Blood Sugar & Perimenopause - Why the Way You Ate in Your 30s No Longer Works
Summary
In this episode, Gloria Halim explains the direct link between oestrogen decline and insulin resistance in perimenopause and why this single shift drives the afternoon energy crashes, 3am wake-ups, afternoon anxiety, and weight that won’t shift that so many women experience.
She also addresses the fasting question honestly: when it helps, when it backfires, and what the biology says. Plus four practical principles that genuinely move the needle.
Takeaways
Why oestrogen is a metabolic hormone not just a reproductive one
How oestrogen decline causes insulin resistance and what that…
The skinny
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