Hormone Imbalance #4- Sex hormone imbalance

Brian Williamson

15d • Education

Here are 5 things that happen during perimenopause when sex hormones are imbalanced:

Slower metabolism. Your body reduces energy expenditure to conserve resources.
Increased hunger signaling. Your body increases appetite to encourage food intake.
Enhance fat storage. Your body prioritizes storing any excess energy as fat rather than using it.
Decreased satiety signaling. You don't feel full as easily.
Preferential muscle loss over fat loss. When in caloric deficit, your body breaks down muscle for energy while protecting fat stores.

When most people think about sex hormones, reproduction is usually what comes to mind for most people.

Fertility, menstruation, libido, pregnancy.

As important as those functions are, they’re only a fraction of what these hormones actually do.

Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are profoundly metabolic hormones.

They regulate fat storage and distribution, influence insulin sensitivity, affect thyroid function, and affect brain function among a host of other things.

However when your body is in a state of hormonal chaos, it interprets this as a threat.

From an evolutionary perspective, hormonal decline signals aging and reduced resources. It’s at this point your body’s imperative is to conserve resources.

In perimenopause it’s why being told to “eat less, move more” stops working (I know you’re absolutely DONE being told to do that).

You’re not battling a lack of willpower or discipline.

You’re battling your own biology.

-Brian

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