Perimenopause & Protein - What You Need & Why It Matters More Now (Ep 10)

What The Peri? - With Kirsten Cooke · Sep 25, 2026 · 33m · transcript

(Ep 10) You've heard that protein matters at this stage of life, so you've done something about it. A poached egg on your toast in the morning, next to your coffee, and the box feels ticked. Nothing silly about that at all — you did exactly what the message told you to do. What the message never told you was how much. One egg is about six grams of protein. What I'd want to see in a meal at this stage of life is closer to thirty. So that egg, the one you went to the trouble of adding, is covering about a fifth of what that breakfast needs to do.

I ran short on protein myself for years, and…