Sep 24, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 12 segments
In this episode, we explore why muscle may become increasingly important as women age, how menopause and hormonal changes can affect metabolism and recovery, why traditional dieting may sometimes work…
I told you that when I first moved away from delivering babies, I went into the practice of obesity medicine, so medical weight loss.
And when my husband and I moved to Florida in 2019, I took a job working for a local physician and built his medical weight management program from the ground up.
And what has broken my heart repeatedly working with patients over the years is the number of women, especially who would come in for an initial consultation with me.
And one in particular that I can think of in her early eighties, she was there to see me for weight loss, which was, That alone is heartbreaking enough.
Your doctor also understands that at 83, there isn't a whole lot that you can do to move the needle on your longevity.
Much of that has already been established based on what the previous 40 years looked like.
She'd lost a great deal of muscle through traditional dieting and was really in a state where I needed to be more concerned about her frailty because of the muscle loss that she'd experienced.
Not to mention those years spent pursuing one diet after another, when who knows if she had just been able to check that off her list and say, you know what, 10 or 15 pounds, that's not going to make her break it.
And if you check that off your worry list, what, I don't know, like maybe, I don't even remember what her career was, but I think about women who have so much to contribute to the world.
We are brilliant scientists and clinicians and artists and teachers and advocates.
I told you that when I first moved away from delivering babies, I went into the practice of obesity medicine, so medical weight loss.
And when my husband and I moved to Florida in 2019, I took a job working for a local physician and built his medical weight management program from the ground up.
And what has broken my heart repeatedly working with patients over the years is the number of women, especially who would come in for an initial consultation with me.
And one in particular that I can think of in her early eighties, she was there to see me for weight loss, which was, That alone is heartbreaking enough.
Your doctor also understands that at 83, there isn't a whole lot that you can do to move the needle on your longevity.
Much of that has already been established based on what the previous 40 years looked like.
She'd lost a great deal of muscle through traditional dieting and was really in a state where I needed to be more concerned about her frailty because of the muscle loss that she'd experienced.
Not to mention those years spent pursuing one diet after another, when who knows if she had just been able to check that off her list and say, you know what, 10 or 15 pounds, that's not going to make her break it.
And if you check that off your worry list, what, I don't know, like maybe, I don't even remember what her career was, but I think about women who have so much to contribute to the world.
We are brilliant scientists and clinicians and artists and teachers and advocates.
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