July 6, 2022 • 16 mins
From our guest, Dr. Roxanne Edrington
"Life after 40 can be rough!! As we age, we have fatigue, joint pain, weight gain, unbalanced blood sugar, unbalanced hormones and much more . There are several things we can do to slow down the aging process. I designed this group to educate, motivate and provide answer to some of your health and wellness goals. We, together as a team, can collaborate on ideas to Add Life to Our Years…. not just Years to Our Lives!!"
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Colton Cockerell (00:04):
Hello and welcome to a another exciting
episode of Bridge the Gap. We'rebalancing life through health,
wealth, business andrelationships.
Trisha Stetzel (00:17):
Hey everyone, welcome to Bridge the Gap this
month on the show we're focusedon health and wellness and today
we're going to discuss why it isharder to lose weight after 40.
And who better to talk aboutthis then Dr. Roxanne Edrington.
creator and founder of LifeAfter 40 Roadmap Program
(00:38):
Roxanne, Welcome to the show.
Roxanne Edrington (00:40):
Thank you so excited to be here. It's always
fun.
Trisha Stetzel (00:44):
Well, we we are and we're having a discussion
about people over 40 And he doesnot fit in. So Colton is not
with us today. It is justRoxanne and I. He's out. And
really, you know, right beforewe started the recording for the
show, Roxanne and I were havinga great conversation about how
(01:04):
you know, most of us, after 40are really struggling with
losing weight, we can't loseweight nearly as fast as we used
to, or our bodies just don't dowhat we want them to right. And
Roxane, you've got somestrategies that you want to
share on the show. But before wego there, I would be remiss if I
did not mention who our sponsoris for this segment. And it
(01:25):
would be Sharer McKinley GroupLLC, thank you to them for
sponsoring this segment. SoRoxanne let's dive into it.
Share some strategies with meabout life after 40.
Roxanne Edrington (01:37):
Yeah, so you know what probably one of the
biggest things that I see, afterthe age 40, everyone can kind of
and they see it themselves. Aswe get older we lose muscle
mass, we don't have to losemuscle mass, I think we just
think that as we age, we needthat we naturally lose muscle
mass. But by if you're eating ina way that is like taking in
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protein that's going to maintainmuscle mass. And if you're
moving around an exercise thatwill help maintain muscle mass.
But when we lose muscle, weactually slow down our
metabolism. Because the moremuscle mass you have, the more
calories you burn throughout theday, if you're not eating in a
way to support your muscle mass,or if you're not eating, and you
start you start losing muscle,because if you're not eating
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enough food, you will break downmuscle mass to provide those
nutrients so your body cancontinue to go on. So if you're
losing muscle mass, youabsolutely are going to be
slowing down your metabolism.
And which means that you can eatwhat you have been eating, which
may be not very much and itmight be very healthy. But if
you slow down your metabolism,you will start putting on
weight. So we need to be eatingin a way to maintain our muscle
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mass. And the other thing thathappens over time is we might
put on 20 or 30 pounds for youknow about five years, then what
now we've created something thatis called the elevated setpoint.
And the elevated setpoint isbasically the weight or body
feels it should be at it's kindof like our temperature, we are
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normal temperatures 98.6 We havea set point in our weight. And
I'm sure everyone can tell mewhat that weight is the weight
that if you go out, you knowsomewhere for the week and you
eat all this food, you might goup two pounds from this certain
specific weight. Or if you go ona diet, you start losing weight,
and you lose maybe five pounds.
(03:31):
But if you have one cheat meal,it will go back to that number.
That is your set point. And sowhat we want to do, or what
people have to understand thatwhen you start losing weight,
you need to do it slowly.
Because if you lose 10 pounds,your body is going to want to go
back up to that normal setpoint.
So you need to like maybe losefive or 10 pounds, try to stay
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there, hold it for about twoweeks. And then you can
continue. If you keep trying todiet or do whatever you're doing
to lose the weight, you aregoing to jump back up to that
setpoint. So just remember that,you know you got to be patient
and go through the if you reallywant to have permanent weight
loss. But as we age, the bigthing is, is we do start putting
on weight if we have that weighton us for two to three years,
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now we've made a new setpoint.
And so the elevated setpointthat we've created will make it
hard for us to lose weight, howwe used to lose weight, you're
just going to have to slowlylose some of that weight, be
patient and then continue tostart losing weight. It doesn't
work like it did when we wereyounger. On the third day, I
Trisha Stetzel (04:34):
think a few of us may have felt that to Roxanne
with you know sitting aroundafter we went into the pandemic
right a lot of us stopped movingwe may have been eating a little
differently. And that new setweight was not desirable. And it
does take time and I appreciateyou and your advice so much
because it really is with youknow your enthusiasm that keeps
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me on track.
Roxanne Edrington (04:59):
Yes and In the biggest point out of all
through this is people have tounderstand when you lose weight,
and if you get stuck for alittle while that is okay. It
doesn't mean it's not working.
It just means your body'sreadjusting. So be patient, I
see a lot of people after 40,they get impatient like, Well,
I'm not losing, I'm gonna goback to my old ways don't stay,
patients keep doing what you'redoing. Because on a cellular
level, there's so many changes.
(05:22):
So the third thing is stress.
You know, as we get older, wehave a lot more stress, we have
kids, we have like maybe evenadult kids, we have, you know,
finances, we have so many thingsthat are happening. And we get
stressed out, when we getstressed, we make more cortisol,
cortisol is like glucose. Sowhen we if we have elevated
cortisol in our bloodstream,that's like having elevated
glucose. So we can't get awaywith eating these high
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carbohydrate meals, where if youknow, you're under a lot of
stress, basically cut back tomore protein and vegetables for
a while, just because you arealready internally making
glucose. So even if you'reeating like you'd normally be
eaten, and you usually loseweight, but if you have a lot of
stress, it's unfortunate thatour body is providing these,
these this glucose into oursystem, which is going to aid in
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having more belly fat. So again,if you know you're under a lot
of stress, it's important foryou to kind of cut back on your
carbs and focus more on proteinand vegetables, stay that route
for a while. And when the stressis the hard stress, once it's in
a better place, you can startincorporating some more carbs.
But people generally don't dothat. Because think about it,
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what happens when we getstressed, we want more sweets,
and we want more alcohol, junkfood. Yeah, and all of that is,
is carbs. And we already have alot of glucose in our system. So
now we're throwing more glucosein our system. Right, so that's
not good. And after 40, our bodydoesn't respond to high glucose
as well as it did like in our20s and 30s. And then one of the
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fourth reasons is our hormonesdo change. But what I want to
say is just because our hormonesare changing does not mean that
that's the reason why we'reputting on weight. Yes, we're
gonna have hormone changes. Butthere's a lot of things that
happen when our hormones change,whether it's low estrogen or
high estrogen, both of us canaffect us, if we're making a
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little bit less estrogen, that'sgoing to make us feel a little
bit more tired and a little bitmore fatigued. So we're not as
motivated to work out. If we ifif something happens, that's
creating an elevated estrogen.
Now you're gonna be putting onmore body fat because estrogen
tends to make us put on morefat. But the other thing about
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that is, if we're under stresswomen, there's a lot of women
that might take some hormones.
When we're under a lot ofstress, cortisol binds or
competes for the receptor sitefor progesterone. So if we're
under stress, we have a lot ofcortisol that's going to bind to
where progesterone should bindonto the cell. Which means even
if you have enough progesteronein your system, your body is not
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using it, which means now you'regoing to look like you have low
progesterone. And a lot oftimes, you're gonna go to the
doctor and they're gonna giveyou more progesterone, well,
that's not actually going tohelp the situation. Again, we
got to focus on, you know,getting rid of the cortisol. And
we also have to understand thatwhen we're eating foods after
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the age 40 that are creating aspike in our blood sugar that
affects estrogen, progesteroneand testosterone. Especially for
men. Men, when you eat somethingand it creates a spike in your
blood sugar, there's somethingcalled aromatase, so your body
is going to take thattestosterone and convert it to
estrogen. Already as men age,they're gonna have less
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testosterone, but usually it'sbecause in times of a lot of
stress, your body's not going tomake the testosterone but what's
worse is because they'restressed now their testosterone
is declining. How do men dealwith the stress they drink? Or
they eat a lot of carbs orsweets, which now they're
creating aromatase, which istaking that little bit of
testosterone and half andconverting it into estrogen,
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which that's not good. They'regonna start having man boobs and
bellies, and that's
Trisha Stetzel (09:05):
terrible. It's horrible being more than 40
Roxanne Edrington (09:08):
Yes, I know.
And then of course as we getolder we need to sleep for some
reason people think we don'tneed to sleep i We know people
you and I know someone who usedto sleep just four hours a night
you as we get older, we need tosleep more and when and even if
it's just seven hours, that'sgreat. Our body when we sleep,
that's when our body repairs andrestores and that's when our
(09:28):
body makes growth hormone. Buton top of that, when we sleep
that is going to pretty muchcontrol our appetite. If you're
not sleeping if you're gettingless than seven hours, what
happens your body makes lessleptin and more ghrelin these
are hormones leptin isresponsible in making you feel
full ghrelin is a responsible tostimulate your appetite. So if
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you have less leptin, you'regoing to be hungry all day and
more ghrelin not only you hungryall day, but it's going to keep
stimulating your your appetite.
So you're not going to feel fullwhen you eat and your appetite
stimulated, which that's goingto put on weight. And then the
well, it's not the last thing.
But one thing again, I put thisas number six, you know, the
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poor eating that you've done.
Even through COVID, maybe thelast three years, people been
eating bad. So when you do tryto make some of these changes,
just know, it's not going tohappen overnight, there's a lot
of things on the cellular levelthat need to be fixed. So what I
see with a lot of people 40 andup when they start making
changes, and they're nothappening as fast as they think
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the all the work they're puttingin, if they're only losing like
two or three pounds, they getfrustrated, and they just want
to quit, you can't quit, youjust have to, you just got to
understand trust the process.
And now if six or eight weeksgoes by, and you're not seeing
any movement, well, then youmight need to get some help. But
be patient with yourself, it'snot going to happen right away.
And a final thing, probably thebiggest thing is through
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research, you can look this upmedical research. And research
in general shows that one out ofthree people after the age 40
will become insulin resistant.
And that's kind of like one ofthe other things I've talked
about because the high cortisolbecause of all these other
things, you tip, you typicallyone in three after 40 will have
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insulin resistance, they don'teven know they have insulin,
insulin resistance, there's nota typical lab that you can take.
Sometimes people might see thecholesterol go up, triglycerides
go up, that can be anindication. But generally a lot
of doctors don't put it alltogether and say you're insulin
resistant, your blood sugarmight be fine, your hemoglobin a
one C might be normal, yourglucose levels might be normal,
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but it still doesn't mean youhave some of this insulin
resistance. When you have thisinsulin resistance, it basically
creates high glucose levels inyour in your bloodstream all day
long, which means you're goingto be putting on fat. The worst
part of this is how people tryto combat this people over 40
They try to eat less andexercise more. And this just
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makes the root cause the insulinresistance even worse. So these
are the seven things thatactually why after 40 We have
issues, but the good news is allthis can be reversed. Oh
Trisha Stetzel (12:10):
good. Like, oh, no, doom and gloom are all over
40, it's never gonna come back.
Roxanne Edrington (12:17):
No, like, this is just the reason why
after 40, it's easier for us toput on weight, especially in our
in our midsection and feel tiredand not be motivated. So these
are the seven reasons why butthe great news is is it can be
reversed, it doesn't meandoesn't mean it can't be helped,
or that we can do somethingabout it. It's just
biochemically these things aregoing to happen, every single
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one of us and unless you'reaware of it, and understand why
it's happening, you're probablynot going to be able to fix it.
But if you do know, well, thenyou can do the strategies that
we talked about in otherpodcasts where you can do things
to actually fix them. So thatagain, you're feeling good, you
have more energy, and you'regetting rid of that belly fat.
Trisha Stetzel (12:57):
Yeah, absolutely. So Roxanne, really
the the advice here, if you'restruggling is you, you've got to
go to smaller meals more times aday, right, which is a struggle
for some people I know, as abusy business owner or a
corporate person, I may skipbreakfast, I may even skip
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lunch, and then I'm reallyhungry by the time I get to
dinner. But that doesn't keep myas you call it, fire lit, right.
So learning to just have thosesmall snacks or meals throughout
the day will help keep that firelit and keep your metabolism
going. I think that's a greatplan. So you talk a little bit
(13:39):
in some other podcasts aboutmeal prep and being able to, you
know, plan for the week. Howimportant is that Roksanda plan
for your week?
Roxanne Edrington (13:50):
Yeah, it's very important because as that,
you know, everyone talks aboutif you fail to plan, just plan
to fail, right? I meal prep onthe weekend, I have my food
because if I don't meal prep andhave my food with me, either I'm
not going to eat or I'm going tograb something convenient
because once I'm hungry, I don'tcare, which this leads to all
the stuff that we talked aboutthat puts weight on us after 40.
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So you do need a meal prep youknew you do need a plan. And
people say that it's a pain inthe butt. But I'll tell you
what, I typically do it everyday and the times that I don't
do it. To me it's harder to gofind food. It takes me longer to
go find food to eat and feelgood than it does for me just to
take the 10 minutes to meal prepin the morning like grab stuff.
So I've done it both ways. And Ifeel good I have great energy
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when I have my food the days Idon't man those are the roughest
days ever. I'm tired. I just I'mnot as motivated to answer calls
or do what I'm supposed to do.
So to me the investment ofhaving my food with me is like
night or I mean it is it it'sit's more of a reward to have my
food because when I don't havemy food my day is just not good.
Trisha Stetzel (14:57):
Yeah, absolutely well and we My husband and I
both work from home, as youknow, and we actually meal prep
when we're prepping dinner. Sowhile we're making dinner that
night, we prep for the next day.
And there are some times that wedon't because we have busy we
have stuff going on and justlike you, it's like, Ah, I don't
have any food today. What are wegoing to eat? Because we live
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out in the country, we don'thave a whole lot of junk
choices. Yes. So meal prep isvery important even even if
you're working from home. Someal prepping or eating those
smaller meals throughout the daysleep. You guys sleep is not
just for dead people. I'm justsaying everyone needs to rest,
right? We've got to get our restfor sure. And movement. So there
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is no shortcut. Right? We got todo the right things for our
body, particularly after 40Roxanne, thank you so much for
being on with me today. I knowwe miss Colton. Not really.
There's a great discussion. Ifyou guys want more information,
please reach out to Dr. Roxanneor you can even find her life
(16:03):
after 40 roadmap program. Likelyon Facebook and or her website.
So check those out. And thankyou again for being here with us
today. Anytime we appreciateyou. Awesome. And we'll probably
have you back. How about yeah,that's all right. Thank you and
guys, tune in next week foranother exciting episode of
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Hello and welcome to a another exciting
episode of Bridge the Gap. We'rebalancing life through health,
wealth, business andrelationships.
Trisha Stetzel (00:17):
Hey everyone, welcome to Bridge the Gap this
month on the show we're focusedon health and wellness and today
we're going to discuss why it isharder to lose weight after 40.
And who better to talk aboutthis then Dr. Roxanne Edrington.
creator and founder of LifeAfter 40 Roadmap Program
(00:38):
Roxanne, Welcome to the show.
Roxanne Edrington (00:40):
Thank you so excited to be here. It's always
fun.
Trisha Stetzel (00:44):
Well, we we are and we're having a discussion
about people over 40 And he doesnot fit in. So Colton is not
with us today. It is justRoxanne and I. He's out. And
really, you know, right beforewe started the recording for the
show, Roxanne and I were havinga great conversation about how
(01:04):
you know, most of us, after 40are really struggling with
losing weight, we can't loseweight nearly as fast as we used
to, or our bodies just don't dowhat we want them to right. And
Roxane, you've got somestrategies that you want to
share on the show. But before wego there, I would be remiss if I
did not mention who our sponsoris for this segment. And it
(01:25):
would be Sharer McKinley GroupLLC, thank you to them for
sponsoring this segment. SoRoxanne let's dive into it.
Share some strategies with meabout life after 40.
Roxanne Edrington (01:37):
Yeah, so you know what probably one of the
biggest things that I see, afterthe age 40, everyone can kind of
and they see it themselves. Aswe get older we lose muscle
mass, we don't have to losemuscle mass, I think we just
think that as we age, we needthat we naturally lose muscle
mass. But by if you're eating ina way that is like taking in
(02:00):
protein that's going to maintainmuscle mass. And if you're
moving around an exercise thatwill help maintain muscle mass.
But when we lose muscle, weactually slow down our
metabolism. Because the moremuscle mass you have, the more
calories you burn throughout theday, if you're not eating in a
way to support your muscle mass,or if you're not eating, and you
start you start losing muscle,because if you're not eating
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enough food, you will break downmuscle mass to provide those
nutrients so your body cancontinue to go on. So if you're
losing muscle mass, youabsolutely are going to be
slowing down your metabolism.
And which means that you can eatwhat you have been eating, which
may be not very much and itmight be very healthy. But if
you slow down your metabolism,you will start putting on
weight. So we need to be eatingin a way to maintain our muscle
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mass. And the other thing thathappens over time is we might
put on 20 or 30 pounds for youknow about five years, then what
now we've created something thatis called the elevated setpoint.
And the elevated setpoint isbasically the weight or body
feels it should be at it's kindof like our temperature, we are
(03:08):
normal temperatures 98.6 We havea set point in our weight. And
I'm sure everyone can tell mewhat that weight is the weight
that if you go out, you knowsomewhere for the week and you
eat all this food, you might goup two pounds from this certain
specific weight. Or if you go ona diet, you start losing weight,
and you lose maybe five pounds.
(03:31):
But if you have one cheat meal,it will go back to that number.
That is your set point. And sowhat we want to do, or what
people have to understand thatwhen you start losing weight,
you need to do it slowly.
Because if you lose 10 pounds,your body is going to want to go
back up to that normal setpoint.
So you need to like maybe losefive or 10 pounds, try to stay
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there, hold it for about twoweeks. And then you can
continue. If you keep trying todiet or do whatever you're doing
to lose the weight, you aregoing to jump back up to that
setpoint. So just remember that,you know you got to be patient
and go through the if you reallywant to have permanent weight
loss. But as we age, the bigthing is, is we do start putting
on weight if we have that weighton us for two to three years,
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now we've made a new setpoint.
And so the elevated setpointthat we've created will make it
hard for us to lose weight, howwe used to lose weight, you're
just going to have to slowlylose some of that weight, be
patient and then continue tostart losing weight. It doesn't
work like it did when we wereyounger. On the third day, I
Trisha Stetzel (04:34):
think a few of us may have felt that to Roxanne
with you know sitting aroundafter we went into the pandemic
right a lot of us stopped movingwe may have been eating a little
differently. And that new setweight was not desirable. And it
does take time and I appreciateyou and your advice so much
because it really is with youknow your enthusiasm that keeps
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me on track.
Roxanne Edrington (04:59):
Yes and In the biggest point out of all
through this is people have tounderstand when you lose weight,
and if you get stuck for alittle while that is okay. It
doesn't mean it's not working.
It just means your body'sreadjusting. So be patient, I
see a lot of people after 40,they get impatient like, Well,
I'm not losing, I'm gonna goback to my old ways don't stay,
patients keep doing what you'redoing. Because on a cellular
level, there's so many changes.
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So the third thing is stress.
You know, as we get older, wehave a lot more stress, we have
kids, we have like maybe evenadult kids, we have, you know,
finances, we have so many thingsthat are happening. And we get
stressed out, when we getstressed, we make more cortisol,
cortisol is like glucose. Sowhen we if we have elevated
cortisol in our bloodstream,that's like having elevated
glucose. So we can't get awaywith eating these high
(05:45):
carbohydrate meals, where if youknow, you're under a lot of
stress, basically cut back tomore protein and vegetables for
a while, just because you arealready internally making
glucose. So even if you'reeating like you'd normally be
eaten, and you usually loseweight, but if you have a lot of
stress, it's unfortunate thatour body is providing these,
these this glucose into oursystem, which is going to aid in
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having more belly fat. So again,if you know you're under a lot
of stress, it's important foryou to kind of cut back on your
carbs and focus more on proteinand vegetables, stay that route
for a while. And when the stressis the hard stress, once it's in
a better place, you can startincorporating some more carbs.
But people generally don't dothat. Because think about it,
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what happens when we getstressed, we want more sweets,
and we want more alcohol, junkfood. Yeah, and all of that is,
is carbs. And we already have alot of glucose in our system. So
now we're throwing more glucosein our system. Right, so that's
not good. And after 40, our bodydoesn't respond to high glucose
as well as it did like in our20s and 30s. And then one of the
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fourth reasons is our hormonesdo change. But what I want to
say is just because our hormonesare changing does not mean that
that's the reason why we'reputting on weight. Yes, we're
gonna have hormone changes. Butthere's a lot of things that
happen when our hormones change,whether it's low estrogen or
high estrogen, both of us canaffect us, if we're making a
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little bit less estrogen, that'sgoing to make us feel a little
bit more tired and a little bitmore fatigued. So we're not as
motivated to work out. If we ifif something happens, that's
creating an elevated estrogen.
Now you're gonna be putting onmore body fat because estrogen
tends to make us put on morefat. But the other thing about
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that is, if we're under stresswomen, there's a lot of women
that might take some hormones.
When we're under a lot ofstress, cortisol binds or
competes for the receptor sitefor progesterone. So if we're
under stress, we have a lot ofcortisol that's going to bind to
where progesterone should bindonto the cell. Which means even
if you have enough progesteronein your system, your body is not
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using it, which means now you'regoing to look like you have low
progesterone. And a lot oftimes, you're gonna go to the
doctor and they're gonna giveyou more progesterone, well,
that's not actually going tohelp the situation. Again, we
got to focus on, you know,getting rid of the cortisol. And
we also have to understand thatwhen we're eating foods after
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the age 40 that are creating aspike in our blood sugar that
affects estrogen, progesteroneand testosterone. Especially for
men. Men, when you eat somethingand it creates a spike in your
blood sugar, there's somethingcalled aromatase, so your body
is going to take thattestosterone and convert it to
estrogen. Already as men age,they're gonna have less
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testosterone, but usually it'sbecause in times of a lot of
stress, your body's not going tomake the testosterone but what's
worse is because they'restressed now their testosterone
is declining. How do men dealwith the stress they drink? Or
they eat a lot of carbs orsweets, which now they're
creating aromatase, which istaking that little bit of
testosterone and half andconverting it into estrogen,
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which that's not good. They'regonna start having man boobs and
bellies, and that's
Trisha Stetzel (09:05):
terrible. It's horrible being more than 40
Roxanne Edrington (09:08):
Yes, I know.
And then of course as we getolder we need to sleep for some
reason people think we don'tneed to sleep i We know people
you and I know someone who usedto sleep just four hours a night
you as we get older, we need tosleep more and when and even if
it's just seven hours, that'sgreat. Our body when we sleep,
that's when our body repairs andrestores and that's when our
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body makes growth hormone. Buton top of that, when we sleep
that is going to pretty muchcontrol our appetite. If you're
not sleeping if you're gettingless than seven hours, what
happens your body makes lessleptin and more ghrelin these
are hormones leptin isresponsible in making you feel
full ghrelin is a responsible tostimulate your appetite. So if
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you have less leptin, you'regoing to be hungry all day and
more ghrelin not only you hungryall day, but it's going to keep
stimulating your your appetite.
So you're not going to feel fullwhen you eat and your appetite
stimulated, which that's goingto put on weight. And then the
well, it's not the last thing.
But one thing again, I put thisas number six, you know, the
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poor eating that you've done.
Even through COVID, maybe thelast three years, people been
eating bad. So when you do tryto make some of these changes,
just know, it's not going tohappen overnight, there's a lot
of things on the cellular levelthat need to be fixed. So what I
see with a lot of people 40 andup when they start making
changes, and they're nothappening as fast as they think
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the all the work they're puttingin, if they're only losing like
two or three pounds, they getfrustrated, and they just want
to quit, you can't quit, youjust have to, you just got to
understand trust the process.
And now if six or eight weeksgoes by, and you're not seeing
any movement, well, then youmight need to get some help. But
be patient with yourself, it'snot going to happen right away.
And a final thing, probably thebiggest thing is through
(10:55):
research, you can look this upmedical research. And research
in general shows that one out ofthree people after the age 40
will become insulin resistant.
And that's kind of like one ofthe other things I've talked
about because the high cortisolbecause of all these other
things, you tip, you typicallyone in three after 40 will have
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insulin resistance, they don'teven know they have insulin,
insulin resistance, there's nota typical lab that you can take.
Sometimes people might see thecholesterol go up, triglycerides
go up, that can be anindication. But generally a lot
of doctors don't put it alltogether and say you're insulin
resistant, your blood sugarmight be fine, your hemoglobin a
one C might be normal, yourglucose levels might be normal,
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but it still doesn't mean youhave some of this insulin
resistance. When you have thisinsulin resistance, it basically
creates high glucose levels inyour in your bloodstream all day
long, which means you're goingto be putting on fat. The worst
part of this is how people tryto combat this people over 40
They try to eat less andexercise more. And this just
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makes the root cause the insulinresistance even worse. So these
are the seven things thatactually why after 40 We have
issues, but the good news is allthis can be reversed. Oh
Trisha Stetzel (12:10):
good. Like, oh, no, doom and gloom are all over
40, it's never gonna come back.
Roxanne Edrington (12:17):
No, like, this is just the reason why
after 40, it's easier for us toput on weight, especially in our
in our midsection and feel tiredand not be motivated. So these
are the seven reasons why butthe great news is is it can be
reversed, it doesn't meandoesn't mean it can't be helped,
or that we can do somethingabout it. It's just
biochemically these things aregoing to happen, every single
(12:38):
one of us and unless you'reaware of it, and understand why
it's happening, you're probablynot going to be able to fix it.
But if you do know, well, thenyou can do the strategies that
we talked about in otherpodcasts where you can do things
to actually fix them. So thatagain, you're feeling good, you
have more energy, and you'regetting rid of that belly fat.
Trisha Stetzel (12:57):
Yeah, absolutely. So Roxanne, really
the the advice here, if you'restruggling is you, you've got to
go to smaller meals more times aday, right, which is a struggle
for some people I know, as abusy business owner or a
corporate person, I may skipbreakfast, I may even skip
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lunch, and then I'm reallyhungry by the time I get to
dinner. But that doesn't keep myas you call it, fire lit, right.
So learning to just have thosesmall snacks or meals throughout
the day will help keep that firelit and keep your metabolism
going. I think that's a greatplan. So you talk a little bit
(13:39):
in some other podcasts aboutmeal prep and being able to, you
know, plan for the week. Howimportant is that Roksanda plan
for your week?
Roxanne Edrington (13:50):
Yeah, it's very important because as that,
you know, everyone talks aboutif you fail to plan, just plan
to fail, right? I meal prep onthe weekend, I have my food
because if I don't meal prep andhave my food with me, either I'm
not going to eat or I'm going tograb something convenient
because once I'm hungry, I don'tcare, which this leads to all
the stuff that we talked aboutthat puts weight on us after 40.
(14:12):
So you do need a meal prep youknew you do need a plan. And
people say that it's a pain inthe butt. But I'll tell you
what, I typically do it everyday and the times that I don't
do it. To me it's harder to gofind food. It takes me longer to
go find food to eat and feelgood than it does for me just to
take the 10 minutes to meal prepin the morning like grab stuff.
So I've done it both ways. And Ifeel good I have great energy
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when I have my food the days Idon't man those are the roughest
days ever. I'm tired. I just I'mnot as motivated to answer calls
or do what I'm supposed to do.
So to me the investment ofhaving my food with me is like
night or I mean it is it it'sit's more of a reward to have my
food because when I don't havemy food my day is just not good.
Trisha Stetzel (14:57):
Yeah, absolutely well and we My husband and I
both work from home, as youknow, and we actually meal prep
when we're prepping dinner. Sowhile we're making dinner that
night, we prep for the next day.
And there are some times that wedon't because we have busy we
have stuff going on and justlike you, it's like, Ah, I don't
have any food today. What are wegoing to eat? Because we live
(15:18):
out in the country, we don'thave a whole lot of junk
choices. Yes. So meal prep isvery important even even if
you're working from home. Someal prepping or eating those
smaller meals throughout the daysleep. You guys sleep is not
just for dead people. I'm justsaying everyone needs to rest,
right? We've got to get our restfor sure. And movement. So there
(15:39):
is no shortcut. Right? We got todo the right things for our
body, particularly after 40Roxanne, thank you so much for
being on with me today. I knowwe miss Colton. Not really.
There's a great discussion. Ifyou guys want more information,
please reach out to Dr. Roxanneor you can even find her life
(16:03):
after 40 roadmap program. Likelyon Facebook and or her website.
So check those out. And thankyou again for being here with us
today. Anytime we appreciateyou. Awesome. And we'll probably
have you back. How about yeah,that's all right. Thank you and
guys, tune in next week foranother exciting episode of
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Bridge the Gap.
Colton Cockerell (16:30):
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with Sharer McKinley Group, LLCis located at 820 South
Friendswood Drive Suite 207Friendswood, Texas 77546 phone
number to 281-992-5698.
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