02/10/2026
💪🏼Strength: hormone all decline, which speeds up muscle loss. Your muscles also become less sensitive to insulin. Strength training helps your muscles absorb blood sugar again, and it protects your bones and balance.
🥩 Protein: Lower anabolic hormones mean your muscles respond less to protein. You need more at each meal to keep building and repairing them.
🥦 Fiber: Insulin resistance rises with age. Fiber slows how fast sugar enters your blood, so you get fewer insulin spikes. It also feeds your gut bacteria, which helps produce GLP-1, and keeps you full for longer.
😴 Sleep: Poor sleep raises ghrelin, your hunger hormone, and lowers leptin, your fullness hormone. It also raises cortisol, and the next day your insulin sensitivity drops. Most growth hormone is released during deep sleep, so sleep is when you actually recover.
Your hormones are changing, so your habits need to change too. 🙌
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