Losing Muscle After Menopause? Protein Isn’t Enough (Do THIS 2x a Week)

Let's talk about the real reason why women lose muscle after menopause and exactly what to do to get it back. There's a 3-year window in a woman's life where she can lose more muscle in that period of time than the previous 20 years combined. As they cross from pre to postmenopausal and notice that their muscles are

falling apart. A lot of women are going on low carb, they're eating cleaner, they're even exercising and nothing's happening. So, let's talk about what's really happening behind the scenes. You know, we have this idea that if we eat more protein, we're going to build more muscle. So, that's the dietary protein. If we exercise more, that'll

create more growth and building of muscle mass. Because we think that if you're eating muscle, you're going to give your muscles exactly what they need to build them up, right? But within the muscle, there's really only one thing in that muscle that tells the muscle to grow. It's an amino acid called leucine.

And right there, you might think, "Well, I'll just take a leucine supplement through the day and I'll keep growing my muscles or preserve my muscles." The problem is it's just the message. It doesn't do the actual building. To do all the building, you need several things and one is the raw material, which is actually in the other part of

the protein. So, you really need between 3 to 4 g of leucine within your protein. And I'll explain the best protein sources for leucine in just a little bit. But the requirement for leucine and protein actually increases as you get older, especially if you're trying to maintain and preserve your muscle. The body is in a constant balance of