You're eating 1,200 calories and gaining weight. Your breakfast is "healthy" but your energy crashes by 10am, you're anxious mid-morning, and your weight won't budge.

Your breakfast is spiking your cortisol - creating a metabolic cascade that makes weight loss impossible in perimenopause.

Functional nutritionist Miriam breaks down:

• Why your "healthy" smoothie is sabotaging your metabolism
• The cortisol-insulin cascade that starts every morning
• Why 15 grams of protein isn't enough (and what you actually need)
• 5 specific breakfast swaps you can implement tomorrow
• Why intermittent fasting makes perimenopause worse
• What changes first when you get this right (timeline: 3 days to 4 weeks)

This is nervous system regulation in practice. This is metabolic literacy. This is why the T ...