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5 Diets to Heal Your Hormones - with Dr. Anna Cabeca | The Empowering Neurologist EP. 150

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Insulin Resistance and Weight Loss Resistance

The inflammatory component of what you just mentioned in that inflammatory mediator cytokines if you will can antagonize the receptors for these hormones and therefore render them less effective. We're more metabolically efficient we've naturally as our reproductive hormones are declining insulin and cortisol are increasing as we age. The loss of testosterone and DHEA which increases our metabolism and increases our muscle is one reason why women become weight loss resistant.

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