{"id":51806,"date":"2026-11-11T12:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/menopause-weight-gain-and-brain-fog-could-hormone-therapy-help\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:50:35","slug":"menopause-weight-gain-and-brain-fog-could-hormone-therapy-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/menopause-weight-gain-and-brain-fog-could-hormone-therapy-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Menopause Weight Gain and Brain Fog: Could Hormone Therapy Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gi7kiWVm7ew?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Brain fog, sleep changes and weight gain can leave women wondering whether perimenopause or menopause is to blame and what might help. Kari Beal talks with nurse practitioner Kimberly Sadri about hormone replacement therapy, individual risks, exercise and questions to bring to your health care provider.<br \/>\n00:00 \u2014 Introduction<br \/>\n01:05 \u2014 Meet Kimberly Sadry<br \/>\n02:32 \u2014 What is hormone replacement therapy?<br \/>\n04:14 \u2014 Perimenopause symptoms beyond hot flashes<br \/>\n05:44 \u2014 When to seek care and the limits of hormone testing<br \/>\n06:49 \u2014 HRT safety, breast cancer and individual risks<br \/>\n11:33 \u2014 Hormone blood tests<br \/>\n14:34 \u2014 Bioidentical vs. synthetic hormones<br \/>\n17:00 \u2014 Testosterone for women<br \/>\n20:23 \u2014 Menopause and weight changes<br \/>\n23:37 \u2014 GLP-1 medications and menopause<br \/>\n24:50 \u2014 An individualized approach to care<br \/>\n25:48 \u2014 Exercise, resistance training and HIIT<br \/>\n29:39 \u2014 Closing <\/p>\n<p>For more Local News from WHNS:<br \/>\nFor more YouTube Content: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain fog, sleep changes and weight gain can leave women wondering whether perimenopause or menopause is to blame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":51807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}