What Happened When I Stopped Drinking: Hormones, Weight, Stress, and Breaking the Cycle

Podcast: The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health · Karen Martel: Certified Hormone Specialist

Opublikowano: 2026-09-19

This may be one of those episodes you are tempted to skip because nobody really wants to hear that their nightly glass of wine could be working against them. But this is not a lecture about why you should never drink again. In this episode, I'm having a very honest conversation about alcohol, especially for women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. We talk about how drinking may affect sleep, cortisol, cravings, estrogen metabolism, liver health, insulin sensitivity, weight loss, and the way your body handles stress as you move through perimenopause and menopause. <...