The Metabolism and Menopause Podcast

Stephanie Crassweller built this podcast around one of the most frustrating aspects of menopause: the metabolic shift. Women who have maintained the same weight for decades suddenly find their bodies responding differently to food, exercise, and stress. The scale moves. Clothes fit wrong. Energy crashes at odd times. Crassweller addresses all of it head-on, and she does so with a specificity that generic diet podcasts cannot match. The show focuses on the science of metabolism during hormonal transitions. Crassweller explains how declining estrogen affects insulin sensitivity, where visceral fat accumulates and why, how cortisol interacts with menopausal symptoms to create a cycle that feels impossible to break, and what actually works for body composition changes in midlife versus what is just recycled advice from a 25-year-old's fitness plan. She is blunt about the fact that what worked before menopause often stops working, and she offers alternatives grounded in current research. Episodes run about 20 to 35 minutes — concise and focused. Crassweller does not pad episodes with unnecessary preamble. She picks a topic, explains the mechanism, and gives practical takeaways. Guest episodes bring in nutritionists, exercise physiologists, and endocrinologists who add clinical depth. The show is a good fit for women who are specifically struggling with metabolic changes and want targeted information rather than a broad survey of all things menopause. If weight gain and energy changes are your primary concerns, this podcast speaks directly to those issues.