5 Menopause detox strategies to feel your best. Are hot flashes becoming a part of your daily life? Are you frustrated by the extra 15 lbs. of belly fat you’ve been trying to lose for the last 5 years? Has it been ages since you had a good night’s sleep? These issues have their origins in toxicity. We discuss these toxins and 5 menopause detox strategies you can do to lose weight, gain energy and feel better!
If you suffer from these issues (and others) your body’s detox systems aren’t releasing their toxic load. And in today’s world, the toxic burden is great.
You are exposed to many environmental toxins and endotoxins from within. You create toxins from stress, bacteria, parasites, fungus, poorly digested food and your own internal metabolic processes.
Efficient menopause detox pathways move out waste products, poisons and toxic substances. This helps your body to release excess weight.
Your body has its own built-in detox systems that are constantly removing these toxic waste products without you even having to think about it. Detox depends on your foundational health systems working efficiently. Your foundational health systems are your digestion, blood sugar, minerals, hydration and fatty acids. When we consider menopause detox strategies, they are always a consequence of your foundational health systems working well.
You can see why a 2-week quick cleanse won’t resolve the symptoms you may be suffering from, including those hot flashes and extra pounds of belly fat, right? Actually a cleanse may even make you more toxic if your detox pathways are clogged and you can’t release the toxins. Crazy right?
Menopause detox strategies begin with digestion in your brain. Seeing and smelling food before you even take your first bite gets the digestive process started. But unfortunately in our modern stressed life, we often don’t stop to smell our food; chew our food or even eat at a table.
We eat at our desks while still on the phone, in the car collecting kids or on a train or bus during our commute.
We are shoving food down our throats with no mindful thoughts to what is going to happen to these chemicals when they hit our stomachs.
By the time your food does get to the stomach, your brain, pancreas, liver and gallbladder have been hard at work trying to do their best to digest the food and breakdown into chyme. This north to south process goes from your brain to mouth all the way to your anus. It is closely involved in breaking down your toxic exposure.
Being toxic is stressful and keeps you in a sympathetic state. This makes every process from digestion to blood sugar to stress management more challenging leaving you emotionally exhausted.
A toxic build up can lead to weight gain in women of all ages but it is especially problematic for women who are already experiencing hormonal fluctuations in perimenopause and menopause. Hormones act as messengers that instruct cells and organs on what to do and this includes sending important signals for your body to get rid of waste and toxins.
Estrogen dominance is very common in menopause because the liver is unable to efficiently metabolize estrogens and xenoestrogens due to toxins. This can be made worse by certain genetic variations such as COMT but generally if your detox systems are working well, then this shouldn’t be a problem.
Hormones are produced and broken down along specific metabolic pathways in your body. When your metabolic pathways are burdened by toxins and waste material, it’s much harder for your cells to communicate effectively and that can lead to weight gain in menopause.
Too much adipose tissue – the 15 lbs. of belly fat that has crept up on you – hurts you!
Adipose tissue stores toxins like heavy metals, petroleum (even from your beauty products!) and other harmful chemicals. These toxins are known as xenoestrogens because they act like estrogens in the body.
Xenoestrogens are “foreign” estrogens, substances that are close enough in molecular structure to estrogen that they can bind to estrogen receptor sites with potentially hazardous outcomes. Sources of Xenoestrogens include plastics, pesticides, chemicals, and water systems. This is particularly problematic in women in menopause.
In order to let go of these toxins, your metabolism must be able to convert fats into water. Then the toxins can leave your body via urine in your kidneys and poop from your bowels.
This is when menopausal women’s weight issues begin. You are not able to metabolize fats in your liver so you aren’t releasing toxins. And then your body holds onto fat!
This is why at Metabolix Health, we are passionate about testing women for their ability to metabolize fats, carbs and protein. If you aren’t metabolizing well, then you won’t lose weight and you also won’t have much energy. You are likely to also experience brain fog, feel anxious and other unpleasant symptoms.
A 2-week cleanse isn’t going to correct this process. Sadly, the word detox has become synonymous with marketing driven quick cleanses.
Are you ready to lose the 15lbs of belly fat for good; get a good night’s sleep and put an end to hot flashes? Getting your toxin overload under control through healthy menopause detox strategies is the way to go.
You don’t want to move the toxins around your body, you need to get them out so menopause detox starts with healthy foundations.
If you find that you have more questions than answers, and you are interested in learning more, schedule a free menopause detox call with our team. Don’t continue to suffer and waste money on pointless 2 week cleanses!
Working with a trained functional medicine and nutritional therapy practitioner who can help you dig into the foundations of your health is the way to go. We’ll help you put together a bio individual plan specifically designed for your needs. We look forward to working with you!
Your partner in health, Clare
Perhaps you have questions you would like to ask before you become a client. Schedule a Free Discovery Call with Clare Kelway HHP to answer your questions and determine if Metabolix Health is right for you.
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