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Episode 59: The Stress-Weight Connection — How Chronic Stress Impacts Metabolism in Menopause
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Menopause is already a lot. Add chronic stress and your body’s “alarm system” can get stuck on loud — nudging appetite up, sleep down, and storage towards the waist. In this episode, Juli and James break down how stress messes with midlife metabolism and what you can actually do about it without living like a monk or counting almonds.
What you’ll learn
Why short bursts of stress are fine — but living there all day tilts you towards snacky, central weight gain
How the midlife oestrogen shift changes your “storage postcode” (hello, tummy)
The sleep–stress–snack loop and…
The skinny
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