11/24/2025
Random perimenopause advice you’ll be glad you ignored
1. “Avoid cardio and stick to low-stress workouts only.”
Hard fact: Your body needs a mix of strength, conditioning, and recovery to feel its best. Low-intensity conditioning supports cortisol regulation. Strength training protects muscle and metabolism. HIIT can be helpful when used intentionally. Balance is the hormone-friendly formula, not avoidance.
2. “Just cut calories.”
Hard fact: Eating less pushes cortisol higher, slows your thyroid, and worsens insulin resistance. Perimenopause bodies respond better to protein-forward meals, stable blood sugar, and consistent lifting.
3. “You’re too young for perimenopause symptoms.”
Hard fact: Hormonal changes often begin in the mid-30s. Shifts in sleep, mood, cycles, and midsection weight are early physiological signs, not something you’re imagining.
4. “You just need to manage stress better.”
Hard fact: Perimenopause changes how your body interprets stress signals. Hormone therapy, peptides, stress management and exercise help retrain your stress response. This is physiology, not willpower.
5. “Your labs are normal so everything is fine.”
Hard fact: Standard labs often miss the early hormonal fluctuations that drive symptoms. You can have normal numbers on paper and still feel off. Your lived experience matters just as much as lab data.
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