Moving Mountains Health - Dr Cyndi and Dave Reed

Good choices. Good life 👇

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WHAT IF MENOPAUSE WEIGHT GAIN ISN'T A WILLPOWER PROBLEM? And what if the answer isn't simply another calorie deficit, more cardio or another prescription? Let me be clear: I'm not anti-medication. I'm not anti-GLP-1. I'm not anti-supplement. I'm pro-physiology. Because menopause is a physiological transition. As estrogen changes, many women experience changes in fat distribution, muscle mass, insulin sensitivity, sleep, appetite and metabolic health. And one of the changes I care deeply about is visceral fat—the metabolically active fat stored around our internal organs. So rather than asking only: “How can I lose weight?” I want us to ask: “How can I improve body composition and metabolic capacity?” That changes everything. 🌱 FOUNDATION FIRST 🌿 THEN… THE TOOLS 🏋️‍♀️ AND PLEASE DON'T FORGET THE MUSCLE. So during menopause, I don't want you obsessing over becoming smaller. I want you thinking about becoming: STRONGER. ☀️ THIS IS WHERE MY BIOENERGETIC + ANCESTRAL LENS COMES IN. Your mitochondria don't simply respond to calories. They respond to the environment. Light. Food. Movement. Minerals. Sleep. Stress. Temperature. Connection. Our ancestors didn't have perfect diets or perfect lives. But their environment provided many of the biological signals our modern environment has disrupted. So perhaps our answer isn't always: “What else can I take?” Sometimes the answer is: “What signal am I missing?” And sometimes… we need both. Foundation + tools. Not foundation or tools. ❤️ THE GOAL I don't want women entering their 50s, 60s and beyond trying desperately to become smaller. I want us building: stronger muscles stronger bones better metabolic flexibility better insulin sensitivity better sleep better resilience better energy better quality of life Because menopause isn't the end of your prime. It may be the beginning of your strongest chapter. What foundation has made the biggest difference for YOU? ☀️ Sun 🧂 Salt/minerals 🧘 Stress regulation 😴 Sleep 🥩 Nutrition 🏋️ Strength training 🚶 Movement Educational content only and not individual medical advice.

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Nobody tells you what it actually found.

1987 JAMA paper. 30-year follow-up. People whose cholesterol FELL had higher death rates. Not lower. Higher.

Each 1 mg/dL drop per year = 11% higher death rate. 14% higher cardiovascular death.

After 50, falling cholesterol didn’t save lives. It predicted who died next.

The researchers weren’t even sure why. They floated it might be hidden illness driving cholesterol down, not the other way round.

That uncertainty got dropped. The “get your cholesterol down” message did not.

The famous “healthy” targets everyone quotes? Never came from Framingham. They came later, from committees, then got glued onto the original study like it proved them.

It didn’t. It’s sitting in JAMA, public, unread, since 1987.

Go check it yourself before you argue about it with your centralized MDs or re**rd army.

One of the biggest nutrition myths I still hear is: "Salt is bad for you." It's a little more complicated than that. Your body was designed to need sodium. Every heartbeat, every nerve impulse, every muscle contraction depends on it. What often gets overlooked is that the type of salt and the overall dietary context matter. There is a difference between a home-cooked meal made with whole foods and a pinch of minimally processed sea salt... ...and a diet built around ultra-processed foods, where most Americans get the majority of their sodium. As a functional medicine physician, I encourage patients to think beyond a single nutrient and look at the whole picture. ✔️ What foods are providing the sodium? ✔️ Are you eating enough potassium- and magnesium-rich whole foods? ✔️ Are you sweating regularly? ✔️ Are you supporting your body's hydration and electrolyte balance? For many women in perimenopause and menopause, these questions become even more important as hormone changes affect hydration, exercise tolerance, and overall resilience. Health isn't about fearing food. It's about understanding it. I'd love to hear from you... 👇 Did you grow up believing all salt was unhealthy, or has your perspective changed? If this helped simplify a confusing topic... ❤️ Like this post 📌 Save it for future reference 📤 Share it with someone who's still afraid of the salt shaker ➕ Follow along as we continue through the 4 S's of Foundational Health—simple, evidence-informed habits that help your body thrive the way God designed it. Grace and peace, friends. 🤍 #FunctionalMedicine #RootCauseHealth #Perimenopause #AncestralHealth References National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium. 2019. DiNicolantonio JJ, O'Keefe JH. Sodium intake: not too much and not too little. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2016. Mattes RD, Donnelly D. Relative contributions of dietary sodium sources in the U.S. diet. J Am Coll Nutr. 1991. (Supported by more recent CDC and FDA analyses showing most sodium comes from processed and restaurant foods.) U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Sodium in