Dr. Vonda Wright

It's what fits in your life.

And if you're really motivated on losing weight, the first thing I tell people to do is ditch alcohol.

Yeah, sure.

Plant forward.

And there's quite a few studies that are coming out in the four to five years before the one point in time called menopause.

So in late perimenopause, that there's a significant decrease in gut microbiome diversity.

Oh, Zoe did that work.

Yes.

Yeah.

And it's really interesting because of the second pass and the way that hormones are metabolized.

When we have our natural cycle and we have an exposure of our sex hormones, the common cycle, then we have more diversity because the gut bugs help

So there's some other research that's come out looking at skinny fat.

So that's normal weight obesity.

So not as we're talking.

Normal BMI.

Low muscle mass.

So they took...

A group of women split them up.

So you had a control group and then you had this intervention group.

And the only change they made, there's no exercise, and the only change they made was they brought the intervention group up to 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram.