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GLP-1s and Perimenopause: A Naturopathic Guide to Protecting Your Muscle, Hormones, and Long-Term Health<\/span><\/h1>\n

The number on the scale was down 22 pounds. The number that scared her was on a different report.<\/span><\/p>\n

She’d come in for an InBody scan after eight months on a GLP-1, expecting good news. She’d lost the weight she wanted to lose. Her clothes fit. Her blood pressure was down. By every conventional measure, this was working.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then she saw how much of that 22 pounds had been muscle.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I thought I was getting healthier,” she said. She was 47. Perimenopausal. Exhausted by 3 p.m., losing hair in the shower, waking at 4 a.m. most nights. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>And now she had a printout in her hand showing that a meaningful piece of the muscle her body would need for the next forty years was simply gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

GLP-1s and perimenopause deserve their own conversation because this is not just about weight loss. It is about protecting muscle, nutrients, hormones, and long-term metabolic health during one of the most important transitions in a woman\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what I want to be clear about before we go any further. The medication may still be exactly the right tool for her. What’s missing isn’t the prescription, it’s the monitoring and support her body deserves while she’s on it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the conversation that needs to happen more with women on GLP-1s,\u00a0 and it’s the one that matters most.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re a woman in perimenopause taking Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, or Zepbound, this article is for you. Not to tell you to stop. Not to scare you. To give you the honest clinical picture of what’s happening inside your body, and the practical steps that can help you come out of this chapter stronger, not depleted.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The scale just shows a smaller number and calls it progress. What’s actually happening inside her body is a different story.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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