If you're exercising consistently and your perimenopause symptoms are getting worse — not better — this episode is for you.

You're doing everything you were told to do. Fasted morning workouts. High-intensity training five days a week. Pushing through the fatigue because that's what discipline looks like.

And your weight is going up. Your cortisol is elevated. Your body feels foreign to you.

This is not a willpower problem. This is what happens when the approach that built your fitness in your 30s meets a biological context it was never designed for.

In this episode of The Perimenopause Reset, functional nutritionist Miriam breaks down what she calls the Exercise Paradox — the clinical reason why fasted, high-intensity training actively worsens perimenopause weight gain, cortisol dysregulation, and metabol ...