# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcwPUz3CR-k
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70012122-ciarafoyinc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-01T17:51:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

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“Why doesn’t HRT stop the weight gain?” A woman asked me that on my masterclass last week, and she’s on HRT herself.

I’m 50. I take estradiol and progesterone, most recently, I’ve added testosterone. I am the opposite of anti-HRT, and I’m still going to tell you it will not do this job on its own.

Estrogen is protective for insulin sensitivity. Putting it back can make that easier to hold onto. What it can’t do is undo the years your body spent being asked to produce insulin all day long. Insulin climbs long before your A1C moves, and a prescription doesn’t reach that.

HRT replaces what’s gone. It does not rebuild what’s broken. Those are two different jobs.

So estrogen lands on a body that’s still spiking insulin all day, still under-slept, still digesting half of what it eats. You feel a lift for a few weeks. Then the same symptoms come back and you chase the dose, or you decide HRT failed you. It didn’t. It never had the terrain.

A hormone only ever works as well as the terrain it lands in.

Imagine waking up rested, walking past the pantry at 9pm without a fight, and feeling the HRT finally doing what you hoped it would do the day you filled the prescription.

That’s terrain work. Renew and Empower is six months of it, built around your bloodwork, health history and hormone testing. The group starts September 21, and your 1:1 gets booked the day you join.

Comment TRANSFORM and I’ll send you the details. Make sure you’re following me so it lands in your DMs and not your message requests.

Send this to the friend who started HRT six months ago and is still gaining.

Follow for a deeper understanding of women’s metabolic health and hormones in plain English.

#HRT #perimenopause #menopause #womenover40 #insulinresistance

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womenover40, insulinresistance, hrt, perimenopause, menopause

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