The Missing Link to Women’s Weight Loss: Hormones

Experts say cortisol, estrogen, and progesterone play a critical role in helping women lose weight.

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Hormones play a crucial role in everything from mood to brain function, and now, many are learning they also play a role in weight loss.

For many years, much of the science around health performance and cutting-edge nutritional trends, such as intermittent fasting, was centered around male biology. But research is beginning to show that, due to hormones, what works for men may not work for women.

What Makes Weight Loss Different for Women?

As Stacy Sims, exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist, says: Women are not small men. Their inherent biological and chemical makeup insists that women adapt fitness and nutrition programs to meet their unique requirements at different phases of their lives.