Progress Your Health Podcast

Getting rid of stubborn belly fat is one of the main complaints I hear from patients. In particular, the female patients. More specifically, the female patients over 40 years old. Why is it you can eat a cheeseburger, fries and shake when you are 20, but forget it at 40? Why does it seem that the waistline keeps growing regardless of exercise and diet? This is where it becomes an issue of balancing metabolic hormones rather than eating less or exercising more.  Our metabolic hormone balance at 20 is vastly different from 40. I know it sounds like age, but it is more about metabolic hormones. Even in younger women, there can be a metabolic hormone imbalance. It isn't really about age, but more about the chronic stress altering our metabolic hormones causing one of three things: Weight distribution changes Waistline enlarges, and legs get thinner Belly fat, muffin top, and back fat All of it: back fat, muffin top, spare tire and thin legs Chronic stress affects all of our hormones. Mainly causing insul