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Hello and

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welcome to a another exciting

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episode of Bridge the Gap. We're

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balancing life through health,

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Hey everyone,

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welcome to Bridge the Gap this

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month on the show we're focused

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on health and wellness and today

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we're going to discuss why it is

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harder to lose weight after 40.

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And who better to talk about

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this then Dr. Roxanne Edrington.

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creator and founder of Life

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After 40 Roadmap Program

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Roxanne, Welcome to the show.

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Thank you so

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excited to be here. It's always

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fun.

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Well, we we are

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and we're having a discussion

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about people over 40 And he does

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not fit in. So Colton is not

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with us today. It is just

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Roxanne and I. He's out. And

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really, you know, right before

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we started the recording for the

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show, Roxanne and I were having

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a great conversation about how

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you know, most of us, after 40

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are really struggling with

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losing weight, we can't lose

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weight nearly as fast as we used

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to, or our bodies just don't do

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what we want them to right. And

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Roxane, you've got some strategies that you want to share on the show. But before we

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go there, I would be remiss if I

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did not mention who our sponsor

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is for this segment. And it

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would be Sharer McKinley Group

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LLC, thank you to them for

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sponsoring this segment. So

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Roxanne let's dive into it.

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Share some strategies with me

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about life after 40.

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Yeah, so you

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know what probably one of the

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biggest things that I see, after

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the age 40, everyone can kind of

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and they see it themselves. As

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we get older we lose muscle

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mass, we don't have to lose

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muscle mass, I think we just

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think that as we age, we need

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that we naturally lose muscle

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mass. But by if you're eating in

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a way that is like taking in

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protein that's going to maintain

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muscle mass. And if you're

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moving around an exercise that

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will help maintain muscle mass.

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But when we lose muscle, we

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actually slow down our

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metabolism. Because the more

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muscle mass you have, the more

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calories you burn throughout the

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day, if you're not eating in a

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way to support your muscle mass,

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or if you're not eating, and you

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start you start losing muscle,

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because if you're not eating

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enough food, you will break down

2:23

muscle mass to provide those

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nutrients so your body can

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continue to go on. So if you're

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losing muscle mass, you

2:30

absolutely are going to be

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slowing down your metabolism.

2:34

And which means that you can eat

2:38

what you have been eating, which

2:38

may be not very much and it

2:41

might be very healthy. But if

2:41

you slow down your metabolism,

2:43

you will start putting on

2:43

weight. So we need to be eating

2:47

in a way to maintain our muscle

2:47

mass. And the other thing that

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happens over time is we might

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put on 20 or 30 pounds for you

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know about five years, then what

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now we've created something that

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is called the elevated setpoint.

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And the elevated setpoint is

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basically the weight or body

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feels it should be at it's kind

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of like our temperature, we are

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normal temperatures 98.6 We have

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a set point in our weight. And

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I'm sure everyone can tell me

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what that weight is the weight

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that if you go out, you know

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somewhere for the week and you

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eat all this food, you might go

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up two pounds from this certain

3:23

specific weight. Or if you go on

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a diet, you start losing weight,

3:27

and you lose maybe five pounds.

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But if you have one cheat meal,

3:31

it will go back to that number.

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That is your set point. And so

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what we want to do, or what

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people have to understand that

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when you start losing weight,

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you need to do it slowly.

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Because if you lose 10 pounds,

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your body is going to want to go

3:46

back up to that normal setpoint.

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So you need to like maybe lose

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five or 10 pounds, try to stay

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there, hold it for about two

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weeks. And then you can

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continue. If you keep trying to

3:55

diet or do whatever you're doing

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to lose the weight, you are

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going to jump back up to that

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setpoint. So just remember that,

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you know you got to be patient

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and go through the if you really

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want to have permanent weight

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loss. But as we age, the big

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thing is, is we do start putting

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on weight if we have that weight

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on us for two to three years,

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now we've made a new setpoint.

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And so the elevated setpoint

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that we've created will make it

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hard for us to lose weight, how

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we used to lose weight, you're

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just going to have to slowly

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lose some of that weight, be

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patient and then continue to

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start losing weight. It doesn't

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work like it did when we were

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younger. On the third day, I

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think a few of

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us may have felt that to Roxanne

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with you know sitting around

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after we went into the pandemic

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right a lot of us stopped moving

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we may have been eating a little

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differently. And that new set

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weight was not desirable. And it

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does take time and I appreciate

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you and your advice so much

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because it really is with you

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know your enthusiasm that keeps

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me on track.

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Yes and In

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the biggest point out of all

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through this is people have to

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understand when you lose weight,

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and if you get stuck for a

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little while that is okay. It

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doesn't mean it's not working.

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It just means your body's

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readjusting. So be patient, I

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see a lot of people after 40,

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they get impatient like, Well,

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I'm not losing, I'm gonna go

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back to my old ways don't stay,

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patients keep doing what you're

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doing. Because on a cellular

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level, there's so many changes.

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So the third thing is stress.

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You know, as we get older, we

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have a lot more stress, we have

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kids, we have like maybe even

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adult kids, we have, you know,

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finances, we have so many things

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that are happening. And we get stressed out, when we get stressed, we make more cortisol,

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cortisol is like glucose. So

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when we if we have elevated

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cortisol in our bloodstream,

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that's like having elevated

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glucose. So we can't get away

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with eating these high

5:45

carbohydrate meals, where if you

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know, you're under a lot of

5:49

stress, basically cut back to

5:51

more protein and vegetables for

5:51

a while, just because you are

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already internally making

5:55

glucose. So even if you're

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eating like you'd normally be

5:58

eaten, and you usually lose

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weight, but if you have a lot of

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stress, it's unfortunate that

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our body is providing these,

6:04

these this glucose into our

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system, which is going to aid in

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having more belly fat. So again,

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if you know you're under a lot

6:12

of stress, it's important for

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you to kind of cut back on your

6:14

carbs and focus more on protein

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and vegetables, stay that route

6:17

for a while. And when the stress

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is the hard stress, once it's in

6:20

a better place, you can start

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incorporating some more carbs.

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But people generally don't do

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that. Because think about it, what happens when we get stressed, we want more sweets,

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and we want more alcohol, junk

6:33

food. Yeah, and all of that is,

6:33

is carbs. And we already have a

6:37

lot of glucose in our system. So

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now we're throwing more glucose

6:41

in our system. Right, so that's

6:41

not good. And after 40, our body

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doesn't respond to high glucose

6:45

as well as it did like in our

6:48

20s and 30s. And then one of the

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fourth reasons is our hormones

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do change. But what I want to

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say is just because our hormones

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are changing does not mean that

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that's the reason why we're

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putting on weight. Yes, we're

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gonna have hormone changes. But

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there's a lot of things that

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happen when our hormones change,

7:07

whether it's low estrogen or

7:07

high estrogen, both of us can

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affect us, if we're making a

7:11

little bit less estrogen, that's

7:14

going to make us feel a little

7:14

bit more tired and a little bit

7:17

more fatigued. So we're not as

7:17

motivated to work out. If we if

7:21

if something happens, that's

7:21

creating an elevated estrogen.

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Now you're gonna be putting on

7:25

more body fat because estrogen

7:29

tends to make us put on more

7:29

fat. But the other thing about

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that is, if we're under stress

7:33

women, there's a lot of women

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that might take some hormones.

7:36

When we're under a lot of

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stress, cortisol binds or

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competes for the receptor site

7:44

for progesterone. So if we're

7:44

under stress, we have a lot of

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cortisol that's going to bind to

7:47

where progesterone should bind

7:50

onto the cell. Which means even

7:50

if you have enough progesterone

7:54

in your system, your body is not

7:54

using it, which means now you're

7:58

going to look like you have low

7:58

progesterone. And a lot of

8:00

times, you're gonna go to the

8:00

doctor and they're gonna give

8:03

you more progesterone, well,

8:03

that's not actually going to

8:05

help the situation. Again, we

8:05

got to focus on, you know,

8:09

getting rid of the cortisol. And

8:09

we also have to understand that

8:14

when we're eating foods after

8:14

the age 40 that are creating a

8:18

spike in our blood sugar that

8:18

affects estrogen, progesterone

8:22

and testosterone. Especially for

8:22

men. Men, when you eat something

8:26

and it creates a spike in your

8:26

blood sugar, there's something

8:29

called aromatase, so your body

8:29

is going to take that

8:32

testosterone and convert it to

8:32

estrogen. Already as men age,

8:36

they're gonna have less

8:36

testosterone, but usually it's

8:39

because in times of a lot of

8:39

stress, your body's not going to

8:42

make the testosterone but what's

8:42

worse is because they're

8:45

stressed now their testosterone

8:45

is declining. How do men deal

8:50

with the stress they drink? Or

8:50

they eat a lot of carbs or

8:53

sweets, which now they're

8:53

creating aromatase, which is

8:55

taking that little bit of

8:55

testosterone and half and

8:57

converting it into estrogen,

8:57

which that's not good. They're

9:00

gonna start having man boobs and

9:00

bellies, and that's

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terrible. It's

9:05

horrible being more than 40

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Yes, I know.

9:08

And then of course as we get

9:12

older we need to sleep for some

9:12

reason people think we don't

9:14

need to sleep i We know people

9:14

you and I know someone who used

9:17

to sleep just four hours a night

9:17

you as we get older, we need to

9:21

sleep more and when and even if

9:21

it's just seven hours, that's

9:24

great. Our body when we sleep,

9:24

that's when our body repairs and

9:28

restores and that's when our

9:28

body makes growth hormone. But

9:31

on top of that, when we sleep

9:31

that is going to pretty much

9:35

control our appetite. If you're

9:35

not sleeping if you're getting

9:39

less than seven hours, what

9:39

happens your body makes less

9:42

leptin and more ghrelin these

9:42

are hormones leptin is

9:46

responsible in making you feel

9:46

full ghrelin is a responsible to

9:50

stimulate your appetite. So if

9:50

you have less leptin, you're

9:54

going to be hungry all day and

9:54

more ghrelin not only you hungry

9:57

all day, but it's going to keep

9:57

stimulating your your appetite.

10:00

So you're not going to feel full

10:00

when you eat and your appetite

10:03

stimulated, which that's going

10:03

to put on weight. And then the

10:09

well, it's not the last thing.

10:09

But one thing again, I put this

10:12

as number six, you know, the

10:12

poor eating that you've done.

10:16

Even through COVID, maybe the

10:16

last three years, people been

10:18

eating bad. So when you do try

10:18

to make some of these changes,

10:21

just know, it's not going to

10:21

happen overnight, there's a lot

10:24

of things on the cellular level

10:24

that need to be fixed. So what I

10:27

see with a lot of people 40 and

10:27

up when they start making

10:30

changes, and they're not

10:30

happening as fast as they think

10:34

the all the work they're putting

10:34

in, if they're only losing like

10:36

two or three pounds, they get

10:36

frustrated, and they just want

10:38

to quit, you can't quit, you

10:38

just have to, you just got to

10:42

understand trust the process.

10:42

And now if six or eight weeks

10:47

goes by, and you're not seeing

10:47

any movement, well, then you

10:49

might need to get some help. But

10:49

be patient with yourself, it's

10:52

not going to happen right away.

10:52

And a final thing, probably the

10:55

biggest thing is through

10:55

research, you can look this up

10:59

medical research. And research

10:59

in general shows that one out of

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three people after the age 40

11:03

will become insulin resistant.

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And that's kind of like one of

11:06

the other things I've talked

11:09

about because the high cortisol

11:09

because of all these other

11:12

things, you tip, you typically

11:12

one in three after 40 will have

11:16

insulin resistance, they don't

11:16

even know they have insulin,

11:19

insulin resistance, there's not

11:19

a typical lab that you can take.

11:23

Sometimes people might see the

11:23

cholesterol go up, triglycerides

11:25

go up, that can be an

11:25

indication. But generally a lot

11:29

of doctors don't put it all

11:29

together and say you're insulin

11:32

resistant, your blood sugar

11:32

might be fine, your hemoglobin a

11:35

one C might be normal, your

11:35

glucose levels might be normal,

11:39

but it still doesn't mean you

11:39

have some of this insulin

11:41

resistance. When you have this

11:41

insulin resistance, it basically

11:44

creates high glucose levels in

11:44

your in your bloodstream all day

11:48

long, which means you're going

11:48

to be putting on fat. The worst

11:53

part of this is how people try

11:53

to combat this people over 40

11:56

They try to eat less and

11:56

exercise more. And this just

11:59

makes the root cause the insulin

11:59

resistance even worse. So these

12:03

are the seven things that

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actually why after 40 We have

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issues, but the good news is all

12:06

this can be reversed. Oh

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good. Like, oh,

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no, doom and gloom are all over

12:15

40, it's never gonna come back.

12:17

No, like,

12:17

this is just the reason why

12:19

after 40, it's easier for us to

12:19

put on weight, especially in our

12:22

in our midsection and feel tired

12:22

and not be motivated. So these

12:25

are the seven reasons why but

12:25

the great news is is it can be

12:30

reversed, it doesn't mean

12:30

doesn't mean it can't be helped,

12:33

or that we can do something

12:33

about it. It's just

12:35

biochemically these things are

12:35

going to happen, every single

12:38

one of us and unless you're

12:38

aware of it, and understand why

12:41

it's happening, you're probably

12:41

not going to be able to fix it.

12:44

But if you do know, well, then

12:44

you can do the strategies that

12:48

we talked about in other

12:48

podcasts where you can do things

12:52

to actually fix them. So that

12:52

again, you're feeling good, you

12:55

have more energy, and you're

12:55

getting rid of that belly fat.

12:57

Yeah,

12:57

absolutely. So Roxanne, really

13:00

the the advice here, if you're

13:00

struggling is you, you've got to

13:04

go to smaller meals more times a

13:04

day, right, which is a struggle

13:11

for some people I know, as a

13:11

busy business owner or a

13:15

corporate person, I may skip

13:15

breakfast, I may even skip

13:18

lunch, and then I'm really

13:18

hungry by the time I get to

13:21

dinner. But that doesn't keep my

13:21

as you call it, fire lit, right.

13:25

So learning to just have those

13:25

small snacks or meals throughout

13:30

the day will help keep that fire

13:30

lit and keep your metabolism

13:34

going. I think that's a great

13:34

plan. So you talk a little bit

13:39

in some other podcasts about

13:39

meal prep and being able to, you

13:44

know, plan for the week. How

13:44

important is that Roksanda plan

13:49

for your week?

13:50

Yeah, it's very important because as that, you know, everyone talks about

13:52

if you fail to plan, just plan

13:55

to fail, right? I meal prep on

13:55

the weekend, I have my food

13:59

because if I don't meal prep and

13:59

have my food with me, either I'm

14:03

not going to eat or I'm going to

14:03

grab something convenient

14:05

because once I'm hungry, I don't

14:05

care, which this leads to all

14:09

the stuff that we talked about

14:09

that puts weight on us after 40.

14:12

So you do need a meal prep you

14:12

knew you do need a plan. And

14:15

people say that it's a pain in

14:15

the butt. But I'll tell you

14:17

what, I typically do it every

14:17

day and the times that I don't

14:21

do it. To me it's harder to go

14:21

find food. It takes me longer to

14:24

go find food to eat and feel

14:24

good than it does for me just to

14:28

take the 10 minutes to meal prep

14:28

in the morning like grab stuff.

14:31

So I've done it both ways. And I

14:31

feel good I have great energy

14:36

when I have my food the days I

14:36

don't man those are the roughest

14:39

days ever. I'm tired. I just I'm

14:39

not as motivated to answer calls

14:43

or do what I'm supposed to do.

14:43

So to me the investment of

14:46

having my food with me is like

14:46

night or I mean it is it it's

14:51

it's more of a reward to have my

14:51

food because when I don't have

14:55

my food my day is just not good.

14:57

Yeah, absolutely

14:57

well and we My husband and I

15:00

both work from home, as you

15:00

know, and we actually meal prep

15:04

when we're prepping dinner. So

15:04

while we're making dinner that

15:08

night, we prep for the next day.

15:08

And there are some times that we

15:12

don't because we have busy we

15:12

have stuff going on and just

15:14

like you, it's like, Ah, I don't

15:14

have any food today. What are we

15:18

going to eat? Because we live

15:18

out in the country, we don't

15:20

have a whole lot of junk

15:20

choices. Yes. So meal prep is

15:25

very important even even if

15:25

you're working from home. So

15:28

meal prepping or eating those

15:28

smaller meals throughout the day

15:31

sleep. You guys sleep is not

15:31

just for dead people. I'm just

15:35

saying everyone needs to rest,

15:35

right? We've got to get our rest

15:39

for sure. And movement. So there

15:39

is no shortcut. Right? We got to

15:45

do the right things for our

15:45

body, particularly after 40

15:49

Roxanne, thank you so much for

15:49

being on with me today. I know

15:53

we miss Colton. Not really.

15:53

There's a great discussion. If

15:58

you guys want more information,

15:58

please reach out to Dr. Roxanne

16:03

or you can even find her life

16:03

after 40 roadmap program. Likely

16:08

on Facebook and or her website.

16:08

So check those out. And thank

16:14

you again for being here with us

16:14

today. Anytime we appreciate

16:18

you. Awesome. And we'll probably

16:18

have you back. How about yeah,

16:22

that's all right. Thank you and

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