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The Women”s Hormonal Phase series discuss the hormonal changes we go through in our lifetime from our teens to after menopause. Each posts discuss what is going on with our bodies at each stage, the health challenges, and possible solutions.
This final concluding post in the series discuss what happens after menopause and how to staying physically independent as we age.
Most of the decline we experience after menopause comes from disuse. After the age of 50, we start to lose 1 pound of muscle year. After 3 years, we lose the ability to burn 150 calories each day, which is the equivalent of 14 pounds of weight gain a year.
Sometimes it is not about how much you eat and how much you exercise, but how effectively our bodies use the calories we ingest. Healthy eating and exercise is still important, but sometimes understanding how our bodies function allows us to focus on health rather than skinny. This post discuss our ability to lose weight when the body’s normal function to produce heat is hindered and how to boost our metabolism.
The Women’s Hormonal Phase series talk about the hormonal phases that women go through in their lifetime from their teens to beyond menopause. Each post will talk about what’s going on during each phase, the health challenges, and possible solutions. This third post will focus on the perimenopause years between our early 40s to our early 50s.
This is the second part of the Women’s Hormonal Phases series. The Women’s Hormonal Phase series talk about the hormonal phases that women go through in their lifetime from their teens to beyond menopause. Each post will talk about what’s going on during each phase, the health challenges, and possible solutions. This second post will [...]
I have written in the past about the differences in the fat cells between women and men. That is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the differences in our genetic makeup. This post and its subsequent posts will talk about the hormonal phases that women go through in their lifetime from [...]
Did you know that being overweight or obese decrease the amount of testosterone in a man body? Testosterone is as important to a man as estrogen is to a woman. This hormone that the male bodies produce gives them the physical upper hand over women by giving the males more muscle mass and less fat storage capacity. But by being overweight or obese, men weaken their physical advantage.
Men have only 26 billion fat cells in their bodies. That sounds weird, using the word “only.” Women, on the other hand, have 35 billion fat cells in our bodies. In addition, the fat cells in a woman”s body are 5 times larger than a man”s (more room for storage!).
How dieting impact our fat cells
Dieting shrinks the size of our fat cell, not decrease its number. However, most people end up starving themselves, eating poor nutritional foods, or not strength training (sometimes all three) when dieting. So what happens when you lose weight? You end up losing precious metabolically active muscle.
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