Functional Medicine of Idaho

After age 50, the body’s metabolic environment shifts in ways that make fat accumulation more likely and fat loss more difficult. Declining hormones, slowing metabolism, and growing insulin resistance all work against the strategies that may have worked in earlier decades. The frustration most patients feel is real, and it has a biological explanation.

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You’re doing everything right. You’re eating reasonably well, staying active, trying to sleep. But somewhere in your late 30s or 40s, something shifted. The fatigue doesn’t lift after a full night of rest. The brain fog rolls in mid-morning and stays. Your mood feels harder to regulate, your waistline less responsive, your sleep lighter and less restorative than it used to be...