THE BIG PICTURE: INSULIN

It’s time to figure out how to balance insulin for happy hormones. Here’s why:

Insulin is one of THE BIG THREE hormones and it affects many hormones including the sex hormones. If this one is out of balance, then you can guarantee the other ones are too.

In menopause, women become insulin resistant - which means the carbs you are eating are unable to find storage in cells to be used as energy so your liver has no choice but to store the carbs as fat. You will notice that your waistline cannot tolerate carbs (including the good ones like grains and fruit) and it definitely cannot handle snacking either.

Here’s the FIX: you need to train your body to use fat as fuel by keeping your body’s carbohydrates stores empty. This is known as keto and it works wonders for your menopausal mombody. When your body becomes insulin-sensitive, your body no is longer flooded with carbs it cannot use and is storing as fat.

Insulin resistance is the primary cause of many of the symptoms you experience during menopause: hot flashes, fatigue, sleep problems, weight gain.

This week we discuss ways to MBODY8 your mombody to rebalance insulin levels:

1) Use Keto to help burn fat and teach your body to be insulin sensitive again

2) Help the liver to detox

A SMALL DETAIL FOR CARVING YOUR MOMBODY - ALIGNMENT

This week we are going deep inside your mombody to see how your skeleton stacks up. There is a famous saying that goes, “You are only as young as your spine”. At MBODY8, we like to add, ‘you are only as young as your spine “AND YOUR PELVIS”’. Let’s talk about why both pieces are so important to your mombody.

The problem is this: Your mombody core needs some help after having all these children. Or maybe it’s middle age. Or maybe it’s weight gain and stress over many years that leads to a core you aren’t proud of. The skin is loose, the muscles are inactive or weakened, love handles start to set up residence, maybe a pooch hangs over your jeans, etc.

The solution is this: Start paying attention to your alignment. Hand’s down, your mombody looks its best, and functions its best, when you have three gorgeous curves in your spine, and a pelvis that has found neutral.

First, proper alignment makes you appear slimmer around your waistline - there’s a reason why supermodels know how to “pose” for the camera to make their waistlines smaller instead of appearing wider. Second, with proper alignment you can literally reclaim 1-2 inches of height that you have lost over the last decade. Our elders complain all the time that they shrink as they age - well, compression of the spine, tucking of the pelvis, and the rounded shoulders is the reason why! Lastly, when you have a neutral pelvis, your internal organs and pelvic floor are more fully supported so you can absolutely have confidence while jumping and laughing, And the best part is, your lower belly will actually be flat again when this all comes together.

In these videos, you will learn how your muscles can be quite imbalanced after pregnancies, bad habits, poor posture, and a stressful life. These things all wreak havoc on your alignment.

Do you have tight rounded shoulders? Do you have a wide waistline? Do you have a flat mom butt? Do you leak urine while running or jumping? Do you have pain anywhere in your mombody? These things are what can happen when your spine and pelvis are out of alignment. Proper alignment is crucial for living a pain-free, injury-free, and leak-free life.

My apologies up front - we cover finding neutral pelvis and those three curves in your spine SEVERAL times in this week’s video collection. I’m sorry up front! Just fast forward when you think you’ve got it down.