Episode 56: Why You’re Losing Muscle in Perimenopause and Why Eating Less Is Making It Worse

Beyond Hormone Symptoms Podcast · Jun 24, 2026 · 28m

If you have been eating carefully, exercising, doing everything you were told and still losing muscle, feeling flat, struggling with energy and wondering why your body is not responding the way it used to, this episode is going to change something fundamental about how you understand what is happening.

Gloria Halim explains why the advice to eat less is precisely the wrong advice for perimenopausal women, why protein is the most underestimated nutritional lever in midlife, and what chronically under-eating it is doing to your muscles, your mood, your blood sugar and your brain. Including her…