Many women who are undergoing HRT or Hormone Replacement Therapy report a sudden gain in weight and because the two things coincide the automatic assumption is that they are somehow linked. Many researchers believe that there is no connection between middle aged spread and HRT and that the resulting weight gain is more down to the inactivity after the full or partial hysterectomy and not necessarily hormone related.
Research also suggests that there is just about an equal number of women who gain weight as do not at the time of menopause and this doesn’t seem to matter whether they are having hormone replacement therapy or not. This would maybe then suggest that the weight gain or middle aged spread as it is often referred to is related to metabolic changes as opposed to the HRT treatment.
Hormone Replacement Therapy can generally be linked to around 4-5lbs of weight gain. Let us not forget that the whole point of HRT is that it is designed to replace hormones that occur naturally in the body in any case but in much smaller concentrations. This also may suggest that there is no link between the two things and possibly means that there are other factors involved.
Another consideration is that men also seem to suffer from middle aged spread around the same time in their lives but this is not normally attributed to hormones going crazy!
As with any type of weight gain including middle age spread, the most effective way to treat it is very simple. Good diet and a reasonable amount of exercise. That does not mean having to run a marathon or swimming the Atlantic, or eating like a mouse. Just simply walking to the store rather than taking the car or climbing stairs rather than using the elevator can quite often be enough to lose any excess weight and not only that you’ll feel a lot better for it too.
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