Empowerment Through Knowledge: Navigating Menopause and Cardiovascular Health

Episode Highlights With Jessica

• Why does cardiovascular disease risk rise in menopause to match the rate of men?
• What happens to hormones and the heart when a woman goes through menopause?
• 45% of women have some marker of cardiovascular disease
• How the loss of estrogen in menopause is the tipping point
• 1 in 3 women will die of cardiovascular disease which is more than all cancers combined
• What to monitor and look out for starting in our 20s
• 50% of people in the US have high blood pressure and this is a marker of metabolic disease
• How insulin comes into play and why this marker is so important
• What metabolic markers to start tracking to know your risk
• How visceral fat comes into play and why this is important
• What causes visceral fat to accumulate in the body
• Her take on microdosing GLP-1 medication and if you lose lean muscle

Resources Mentioned

• The Loving Diet - website
• Jessica's Instagram