07/14/2026
Women: Stop blaming your protein.
If you’re over 50 and working hard but still losing strength, it may not be because you’re not eating enough protein…
It may be because you’re losing estrogen.
Estrogen doesn’t just affect hot flashes—it helps protect muscle, supports recovery, and makes it easier to maintain strength and build muscle. As estrogen declines with age, so does that built-in support.
Women on appropriately prescribed hormone therapy may have an advantage when it comes to preserving and building muscle.
However, there’s still a lot you can do without it:
Keep up weight training and balanced nutrition so that your body will hold on to and not lose muscle at a fast rate.
Any conversation about women and muscle needs to include estrogen. There’s a reason ladies that the body form shifts when estrogen drops.
Have you ever been told that?
I explain more about estrogen and how it impacts the body as we age. Just reply by typing: “Listen In” and I’ll send you my short recording where I focus on estrogen‘s role in the challenge of weight loss 👇
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