Jennifer Hanway

Jennifer Hanway is a board certified holistic nutritionist and women's wellness expert working on metabolism, hormones, energy and skin. Her approach starts from testing and biology rather than willpower, and much of her work corrects advice that was built on male physiology and handed to women unchanged.

On this episode of The BEYOND Podcast she speaks with host and producer Aleksandra King about why exhaustion is a biology problem, what her own composition wake-up call taught her, and the one fashionable habit she tells women in perimenopause to drop.

On this episode of The BEYOND Podcast, Jennifer Hanway sets out the argument in full: Feeling tired all the time is common, not normal, and Jennifer Hanway's account of the fix is biological rather than moral: willpower is five per cent and biology is the other ninety-five. The female hormonal system is the complicated one, which is why advice built on men fails women; intermittent fasting in perimenopause is, in her words, the worst thing you can do. The programme is unglamorous: protect lean muscle, mind minerals like magnesium, treat supplements as supplements, and read body composition rather than the scales, as her own same-weight wake-up call showed. The named concepts the conversation walks through, in his own words on the recording: Tired all the time is common, not normal; Willpower is five per cent; the other ninety-five per cent is biology you have wired; For women, intermittent fasting in perimenopause is the worst thing you can do; eat three to four times a day; Men's hormones are the simple system; women's are the complicated, intertwined one.

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