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The Vitality Formula
The Vitality Formula hosted by Dr. Marie Livesey, a board-certified physician, Navy veteran, and founder of Lively Holistic Health helps busy professionals and leaders reclaim energy, metabolism, and mental clarity without rigid routines or burnout.
Each episode blends evidence-based medicine with holistic strategies for stress, sleep, metabolim, weight loss, and sustainable wellness that fit real-life demands. Learn how to reset your biology, align your habits with your circadian rhythm, and make sustainable choices that support your body, mind, performance, longevity, and leadership.
If you’re ready to bridge science and self-care and turn wellness into your next professional advantage this is your formula for vitality.
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Website: https://www.livelyholistichealth.com/
The Vitality Formula
#25: Why Is It Harder to Lose Weight After 35? A Physician Explains
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Weight loss after 35 often becomes more complicated due to changes in hormones, metabolism, stress, and sleep. In this episode of The Vitality Formula, physician Dr. Marie Livesey explains why weight loss becomes harder in midlife and how hormone physiology influences metabolism after 35.
Dr. Livesey breaks down how thyroid function, cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and sleep rhythms interact to influence weight, energy, and metabolic health. She also explains why the traditional advice to “eat less and move more” often stops working the same way in midlife.
This conversation clarifies the difference between influencer-driven hormone hype and physician-guided decision-making. You’ll learn when hormone testing is actually useful, how stress and sleep directly affect metabolism, and why extreme dieting or over-exercising can backfire after 35.
Rather than blaming hormones, this episode focuses on understanding them so weight, energy, and long-term metabolic health can be approached with strategy instead of frustration.
What You’ll Learn:
- How thyroid, cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone influence weight and metabolism after 35
- Why stress and sleep disruption affect insulin sensitivity and fat storage
- When hormone testing makes sense and which lab tests are most useful
- How hormone health interacts with medical weight loss strategies, including GLP-1 medications
- Why extreme dieting and over-exercising often worsen hormonal imbalance in midlife
If you want a physician-led framework to help you think clearly about weight loss, hormone care, and modern health advice, you can download The Metabolic Clarity Guide .
Connect with Dr. Marie today!
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Website: https://www.livelyholistichealth.com
This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice or establish a provider–patient relationship.