You used to feel at home in your body. You used to dance in the mirror for fun. Get dressed without overthinking it. Catch your reflection and feel like yourself. That feeling wasn’t an accident. It was hormones working with you, not against you. Then somewhere after 40 the rules changed and nobody told you. So you started doing more, trying harder, working with a body that suddenly stopped responding to everything that used to work. Most women I work with land on the same conclusion: “it must be my hormones.” And they’re right. But here’s what nobody explained to them. There are two completely different hormone conversations happening in your body, and you’ve only been told about one of them. The first conversation is your sex hormones….estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. These are the ones HRT replaces. HRT can be a useful tool. It has its place. The second conversation is your metabolic hormones, insulin, cortisol, thyroid hormones, leptin, ghrelin. These are the ones t...