You’re eating the same meals you always have. But something shifted. You finish dinner and thirty minutes later your body is scanning the kitchen. That low-grade hunger that sits behind your ribs and won’t resolve — it’s not emotional eating. It’s not discipline. It’s a disrupted satiety signal, and emerging research is identifying exactly where it breaks down.

In this episode, functional nutritionist Miriam breaks down the connection between a specific gut bacterium called Akkermansia muciniphila, the satiety hormone GLP-1, and why the menopause transition undermines this signaling pathway. She explains what the research actually shows, why this isn’t about willpower, and why targeted gut repair is central to the Rhythm Shift — the second phase of the Tri-Shift Method™.

If you’ve been told your hunger is stress eating, emotional eati ...