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The Menopause Body: What's Really Changing, Why Weight Gets Harder, and What Actually Helps
Feriha Turan
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The menopause transition reshapes your bones, muscles, metabolism, and even your gut — often all at once. Understanding what's happening is the first step to working with it, not against it.
Something shifts in your 40s and 50s that almost nobody explains to you properly. Clothes fit differently even though nothing about your habits has changed. The scale creeps up despite eating the same way you always have. You're more tired, your joints ache in ways they didn't before, and the strategies that used to work — cutting a few hundred calories, adding an extra walk — simply stop working the way they used to.
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