Learning to Glow: Tips for Women's Health, Optimal Wellness in Midlife and Aging Gracefully
Welcome to Learning to Glow, a podcast about Women's Health, our skin health and wellness optimization. Join us as we learn together and explore ways to live our best lives and personal growth. Whether you're looking to improve your physical health, cultivate a positive mindset or explore topics important to women, we've got you covered.
If you have ever found yourself googling:
*How come I can't lose weight?
*Why am I always so tired?
*How do I set up my morning routine for success?
*What is a healthy way to eat without restricting or beating myself up
*How do I manage stress?
*How can I treat my skin naturally and see results?
*Do I need help with my gut health?
*How to Balance my hormones?
*How to lose weight over 40?
*How to be Healthy in Midlife?
Just to name a few, you are in the right place!
Each episode, we'll invite experts and share tips and strategies to help you on your journey towards glowing up. From holistic and functional nutritionists, Chinese Medicine Acupuncturists, Ayurvedic healers and gut health specialists, you are in for some real enlightening information! So if you're ready to make some positive changes and take control of your life, tune in and let's start glowing up together.
Learning to Glow: Tips for Women's Health, Optimal Wellness in Midlife and Aging Gracefully
163: Metabolism, Midlife Weight Gain & Fatigue with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer, MD
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After a decade in emergency medicine, Dr. Gajer shifted her focus to proactive, root-cause care centered on metabolic health, habit change, and improving healthspan. We talk about what’s missing in modern medicine, why being told “it’s just genetic” is rarely the full story, and how insulin resistance quietly drives many midlife symptoms.
We dive into fatigue, weight gain, poor sleep, and loss of vitality, especially during perimenopause, and how insulin resistance, muscle loss, inflammation, gut health, thyroid and cortisol imbalance, and hormone shifts all connect. Dr. Gajer explains insulin resistance in simple terms and why the eat less move more approach often backfires in midlife.
What we cover:
- Why midlife weight gain often comes down to insulin resistance
- What insulin is doing behind the scenes
- Why genetics are not the whole picture
- The metabolism shift that works in midlife: building muscle and stabilizing blood sugar
- Protein and fiber targets for metabolic health
- Simple tools like post-meal walks and consistent eating windows
- How sleep and light exposure affect insulin resistance
- Perimenopause hormone changes and sleep disruption
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