The Metabolism and Menopause Podcast

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➤ Bloating, Brain Fog & Weight Gain — The Truth About Estrogen Detox | MMP Ep. 299: https://youtu.be/RAta9uC_E-k
➤ Top Foods to Lower Inflammation and Accelerate Fat Loss | MMP Ep. 318: https://youtu.be/1Hsa0pmLTVQ
➤ Cortisol + Inflammation Grocery List: https://www.vitalityoet.com/cortisol-grocerylist

You were told progesterone would help you sleep, calm your anxiety, and support your hormones through perimenopause and menopause. So why do you feel WORSE?

In this episode of the Metabolism and Menopause Podcast, Stephanie Crassweller breaks down the two metabolic pathways your body sends progesterone down — the alpha pathway (which produces the calming neurosteroid allopregnanolone) and the beta pathway (which produces inactive metabolites that do nothing for your brain, mood, or sleep). She explains why standard blood work cannot see which pathway your body favors, why the DUTCH test is the missing piece, and what inflammation, cortisol, thyroid, insulin resistance, and liver congestion have to do with whether progesterone helps you or hurts you.

If you started progesterone and feel worse — this episode is for you.

What you'll learn:
👉 The alpha (5-alpha reductase) and beta (5-beta reductase) progesterone metabolism pathways
👉 What allopregnanolone is and why it determines whether progesterone calms you or causes anxiety
👉 The GABA paradox — why too much of the "calming" molecule can flip to panic
👉 Why serum progesterone blood work is blind to metabolic pathway preference
👉 How the DUTCH test reveals your alpha-to-beta pregnanediol ratio
👉 The five root causes that drive the wrong pathway: inflammation, cortisol, thyroid, insulin resistance, liver
👉 The exact order to fix before touching your HRT dose

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➤ When More Protein Makes You Fat In Menopause (Gluconeogenesis) | MMP Ep. 301: https://youtu.be/WqmzEHghfGQ
➤ High Insulin + Blood Sugar is NOT a Carb Problem in Menopause | MMP Ep. 305: https://youtu.be/YIkJ27Vtfdc

The carnivore diet can feel like a miracle - joints stop aching, the bloat disappears, the brain fog lifts. So why does the weight come roaring back, often on a diet with almost no sugar in it? In this episode, Stephanie breaks down the real mechanism behind why an all-meat diet works short-term and backfires long-term - especially for women in perimenopause and menopause.

You’ll learn when carnivore is actually the right tool (and it genuinely is, for a season), why it should never be a permanent way of eating, and the mechanism almost nobody explains: gluconeogenesis - how your body turns your steak, and even your own muscle, into the exact sugar you were trying to avoid. Stephanie connects the dots between adaptive insulin resistance, low thyroid T3, rising cortisol, a starved gut microbiome, and stalled estrogen clearance - and gives you the precise five-step order to walk it back without losing what carnivore gave you.

If you’ve been all-in on carnivore for autoimmune symptoms and can’t figure out why your fat loss stalled, your hair is thinning, and your morning blood sugar is climbing - this one’s for you.

In this episode:
When a carnivore diet is the right short-term tool (autoimmune flares, gut resets, elimination diagnostics)
Why it was never designed to be long-term
How your body starts turning protein into sugar
How “no-carb” diets can drive insulin resistance and make fat loss stall
The thyroid, cortisol, gut, and estrogen consequences specific to perimenopause and menopause
The exact order to reintroduce food without flaring

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Trying to maintain your weight, let alone lose weight, in the summer can be incredibly challenging. The issue is that women try to use the same strategies they use in the fall and winter for summer, and it won't work because your environment is drastically different. I am going to cover the8-Step Summer System you build once and run every single year — so you stop being reactive and stop gaining it back each fall.

In this episode:
➤ Why summer is an environment problem, not a discipline problem
➤ The three problems that make fat loss feel impossible in the summer
➤ The eight-step summer system

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Inflammation is the quiet brake on your fat loss — and some of the most powerful ways to take that brake off are sitting in the produce section. In this episode of the Metabolism and Menopause Podcast, Stephanie gives you the exact polyphenol and antioxidant foods to build your plate around, explains why getting them from food beats every supplement on the shelf, and names the five biggest inflammation drivers in perimenopause and menopause you have to turn down so those foods can finally do their job.

You will learn why lowering inflammation releases the fat-loss brake, the top polyphenol and antioxidant foods to eat, and why whole food wins every time — the fibre, the blood sugar control, the fullness, and the gut microbiome support a capsule simply cannot give you. Then Stephanie breaks down the top 5 inflammation drivers in this season and exactly how to counteract each one.

If you are a woman in perimenopause or menopause who wants to lower inflammation, feel less puffy and stiff, and finally get fat loss moving again, this one is for you.

In this episode:
➤ Why lowering inflammation is one of the fastest ways to release the fat-loss brake
➤ The top polyphenol and antioxidant foods — berries, pomegranate, olive oil, greens, green tea, cacao, herbs & spices
➤ Why food beats supplements every time: fibre, blood sugar control, fullness, and gut microbiome support
➤ The top 5 inflammation drivers in peri and post-menopause — and how to turn each one down
➤ The order that turns “lower inflammation” into “accelerate fat loss”

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➤ Gallbladder Hormone Connection - What you need to know whether you have one or not | MMP Ep. 312: https://open.spotify.com/episode/78FCAHtbEgmxJJ15d6mvd5?si=QwdLyC4bSkWk9m7VKIuGUw

➤ MTHFR, Methylation & Menopause: The Hidden Link Between Genes, Detox, and Fat Loss | MMP Ep. 246: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5zEgHSoV4RfB9xgG5x2kVv?si=rmhhcKhkT7SPFDhA3AzOHw

You eat well, you take your vitamins, and you’re still running on empty — and the scale won’t move. In this episode, Stephanie breaks down what B vitamins are really doing inside your body. They don’t hand you energy; they’re the crew that turns the food you’re already eating into energy your body can burn. When they’re depleted, you feel exhausted and your body gets bad at burning calories — the same problem wearing two faces. And in perimenopause and menopause, that crew gets depleted faster than you can replace it.

You’ll learn:
Why B vitamins sit at the center of both energy and fat loss
The four jobs the B’s run: converting food, making stress hormones, steadying blood sugar, and methylation
Why stress, alcohol, caffeine, low stomach acid, PPIs, metformin, and oral contraceptives quietly drain you
Why a “normal” B12 lab can hide a real deficiency
The exact order to fix it — and why throwing a B-complex at the problem does nothing if you do it backwards

This episode is educational and not a substitute for individual medical advice. Talk to your provider before changing any medication or starting new supplements.

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• Listen the Podcast on:
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