Dr. Mary Claire Haver
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How about that?
It is normal to gain abdominal fat.
So a woman who is premenopausal, her total body fat, generally 8% to 10% is intra abdominal inside the abdominal cavity.
Okay.
Bell, what we call belly fat, take her through the menopause transition.
No changes in stress, no changes in diet and exercise.
Nothing has changed.
You will increase that by two to three times.
So roughly 23% of her total body fat will shift to the abdomen.
Wow.
At the same time, she's undergoing age-related muscle loss.
So what does she do to combat the weight gain?
She does more cardio.
She's not lifting weights.
She's doing cardio.
So she's losing more and more muscle.
She's under eating to try to get low cal so she can lose the weight.
So she's chipping away at her muscle strength, which is lowering her basal metabolic rate while all the inflammation from menopause is driving more fat to the abdomen.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Do they use them in Australia?