Dr. Amy Shah
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2,173 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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If you do a whole cortisol lowering protocol, which includes having some downtime from your phone, which includes maybe not having the excited conversation, happy or sad with your family members, maybe shutting off the emails before bed and having a routine, that all can help you bring that cortisol down.
And also do things to increase your melatonin so that you naturally feel sleepy.
These are eat good foods.
So you can make more tryptophan goes to melatonin.
get more sunlight so that you can start to get sleepy at the end of the day.
And so those are kind of some strategies.
So cortisol is really, really tightly wound in this gut hormone brain thing.
And it tends to be really problematic because this is a time of life where we're actually facing higher levels of cortisol, but we're also facing higher levels of stress.
And that's why it was so hard to tease out which is which.
What about insulin?
So as you know, women become more insulin resistant as they move through the perimenopausal years.
So that means that women tend to have a harder time keeping their blood sugars under control.
There's a lot more women that are pre-diabetic and have issues with metabolizing their blood sugars.
My dad has five brothers.
They're five.
All five of them have diabetes.
And they were all diagnosed as skinny men, like in their 30s with diabetes.
And so when I went into perimenopause, one of the biggest signs, first signs was my hemoglobin A1C, for people who don't know, that's like your average blood sugars over three months, was creeping up.
The same.
And I was like, what is going on?
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