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
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