The Metabolism and Menopause Podcast

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Red light therapy. Cold plunges. Saunas. Your feed is full of them and women are spending thousands of dollars on these tools for fat loss and inflammation— but do they actually work? In this episode, I break down the real science behind all three tools: how they work, why some women get great results and others do not, and what you need to have in place before they will work for you.

Topics covered:
▪️ What red light therapy, cold plunges, and saunas actually do inside the body 
▪️ How each tool supports fat loss and why
▪️ How each tool reduces inflammation and why this matters so much post-menopause
▪️ Who gets results from these tools — and who needs to build the foundation first
▪️ Why women with high stress may feel worse, not better, from these tools
▪️ Specific considerations for perimenopause and post-menopause
▪️ A practical order and starting point for using these tools safely

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When More Protein Makes You Fat In Menopause (Gluconeogenesis) | MMP Ep. 301: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3p5oOusImUSbNbVLzK7wTa?si=9J6xMlQiRvOwYZI8ek70PA

• High A1C.

• Stubborn belly fat.

• Energy crashes by 2pm.

• Blood sugar swings  even when you're eating well.

Most women assume these are carb problems.

But there's something quietly driving your blood sugar that has nothing to do with how many carbs you're eating  and everything to do with your hormones, your stress load, your sleep, and your liver.

In this episode, we break down what blood sugar actually measures, why it gets harder to manage as estrogen declines, and what to do about it  without cutting out carbs

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MMP Ep. 299: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2czH3QxMJCYrIe0L7TmNiI?si=ufuXZL-qTwKtW05qDfZWZQ
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In this episode of the Metabolism and Menopause Podcast, Stephanie pulls back the curtain on what alcohol actually does to a woman's body in perimenopause and menopause. This is not a lecture and it is not a sermon — it is honest education. By the end you will have the full science and the framework to make your own choice with eyes open.

You will learn:
How alcohol shuts down fat-burning the second it hits your bloodstream — and why your liver drops everything else to deal with it
How it tanks your testosterone levels
Why "the wine helps me sleep" is a  lie 
The cortisol rebound
The gut- inflammation loop 
And how to drink but still lose weight

If you have been doing everything right and watching the scale refuse to move, this episode might be the missing piece.

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• Our Website: https://www.vitalityoet.com
• Email: stephanie@vitalityoet.com
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• Listen the Podcast on:
‣ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-metabolism-and-menopause-podcast/id1683220450
‣ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7erYECmZG7JHyzFePoaybe?si=ad89a3c7d408496e
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In this episode of the Metabolism and Menopause Podcast, Stephanie unpacks leptin — the hormone made by your fat cells that tells your brain how much energy you have stored — and explains exactly why so many women in perimenopause and menopause develop leptin resistance, where the signal between the body and the brain breaks down.

And here is the part most coaches miss: leptin resistance does not always show up as constant hunger. Some women are starving all day. Others barely have an appetite, eat 1,200 calories a day, and STILL gain weight. Both of them have a metabolism stuck in conservation mode. Both of them have leptin signaling that isn't getting through.

The hunger is just a separate system that may or may not be screaming about it. If either of those is you, this is the episode that finally tells you why.

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• Email: stephanie@vitalityoet.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vitalityoet.stephanie
• Listen the Podcast on:
‣ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-metabolism-and-menopause-podcast/id1683220450
‣ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7erYECmZG7JHyzFePoaybe?si=ad89a3c7d408496e
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If you've ever felt like you had weight loss figured out but then all of a sudden things started going backwards — this episode is for you.

Perimenopause and postmenopause are not the same hormonal environment. They don't respond the same to food. They don't respond to the same training. And the strategy that helps in one phase can quietly make things worse in the other.

In this episode, I break down how these two phases are so different — and why using the wrong approach for where you actually are is one of the most common reasons women feel stuck.

In this episode:
How your nutritional needs are completely different in perimenopause vs. postmenopause — and what actually needs to change
Why your training has to shift between phases — and the one thing that becomes non-negotiable the further you go
How fat loss strategy changes depending on which phase you're in — and why the same approach won't work for both
Why your hormones are behaving so differently in each phase — and what that means for how your body responds to everything you do
The most common mistake women make when they move from one phase to the other — and what to do instead

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📲 Connect With Stephanie:
• Our Website: https://www.vitalityoet.com
• Email: stephanie@vitalityoet.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vitalityoet.stephanie
• Listen the Podcast on:
‣ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-metabolism-and-menopause-podcast/id1683220450
‣ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7erYECmZG7JHyzFePoaybe?si=ad89a3c7d408496e
• All Resources: https://stan.store/vitalityoetstephanie

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