After 40, everyone starts telling you it’s just age. I’m 50. I’ve been a nutritionist specializing in women’s health & hormones for over 20 years, and that sentence has taken more from women than any hormone ever has. Your doctor says it. Your trainer says it. Your girlfriends say it too, and not because they don’t care about you. They got handed the same script you did. Nobody in that room was ever told what to actually do about it, so “you’re getting older” became the answer everyone repeats. You say you’re exhausted, gaining weight, not sleeping. Someone says that’s just age…You believe it and you stop asking questions. That’s the part that costs you. Your body started running on different rules somewhere in perimenopause. Nobody handed you the new ones. So everything that worked at 35 quietly stopped working and you decided the problem was you. The rules changed and your routine didn’t. That’s what’s happening. Doing something different is the whole ask, and I won’t pretend t...