The average age for Estrogen to start declining is from the age 40+. However, some women in their 30’s experience changes in their Estrogen level throwing them into menopause sooner than expected.
It really depends on your DNA, family history, body, the lifestyle you have before your body starts to transition. In rare cases, due to unforeseen debilitating emotional trauma, some women have transition into menopause earlier than their biological clock would determine.
Truth is once your Estrogen levels starts to decline, the lifestyle you have up until that point will no longer serve you. You will need to change your lifestyle because the decline in Estrogen creates havoc in the body.
Daily Lifestyle
If you pretty much have a lifestyle where you are constantly stressed out, on the go all the time, overwhelm, this will catch up with you later. All work and no play causes lots of health problems. It is no secret that stress is the underlying cause of many chronic illnesses and disease. So, its no surprise it also affects women when transitioning in to peri-menopause or menopause.
Cortisol plays a huge role in women not being able to balance their sex hormones and lose weight. HUGE role! You gain more weight if anything.
Eating Lifestyle
If you also have a poor diet, one that doesn’t provide your body the nutrients it needs, this will also catch up with you once you start transitioning. It is mostly likely those following the Standard American Diet (SAD) is Insulin resistant because 63% of the SAD is comprised of refined carbs and processed sugar spiking up your blood sugar level. Your body is just storing fat!
Which means it is also likely since your are Insulin resistant that you are also Leptin resistant because your body is not burning fat.
How Sex Hormones Work
There is a hormone hierarchy and they are all integrated and interconnected. So, when Cortisol hormone level is high, it increases Insulin hormone level as well. Insulin is the fat storing hormone. The reason why you can’t lose weight.
High level of Insulin will make Leptin hormone level, the fat burning hormone, high as a result not letting your body burn fat.
It’s a vicious cycle.
A New Lifestyle
The decline in Estrogen will definitely take you on a ride. It’s a major female sex hormone. It protects you from cancers, prevents bone loss and fractures, osteoporosis, heart attacks and insulin resistance to name a few.
It is best to be proactive in creating a lifestyle that will provide a path of least resistance once your body starts to transition. In doing so, you will minimize the chaos that occurs and suffering as your body transitions.
Weight loss and balancing your hormones is not so much about counting calories but more about managing your hormones.
Manage your hormones levels by creating a lifestyle with minimal stress eating wholesome, organic diet rich in nutrients that your body critically needs during its transition in to menopause.
