EP 303. Before You Start a GLP-1, Get These Labs Done First
A woman came to me ready to buy a GLP-1 and I could have made the sale in ninety seconds. Instead I asked her one question, because in perimenopause and midlife, starting a GLP-1 or HRT without your labs is guessing with your money. If your bloodwork came back normal but the weight will not move, this episode is the one to save.
Most women think midlife weight loss is a discipline problem. It is a data problem. You cannot out-discipline missing data. In this episode I walk you through the exact way I help my clients connect the dots between their labs, their symptoms, their stress, and their identity, so their body finally responds again. I also tell you about a client who swore she was in perimenopause. Her hormones came back solid. The real story was somewhere else entirely.
What You'll Learn in This Episode
Why "everything looks normal" does not mean nothing is wrong
The four things to handle before you start a GLP-1, HRT, or any peptide
What a baseline is, and the costly mistake of skipping it
Why your 3 a.m. wake-ups may be blood sugar and cortisol, not just hormones
How comprehensive labs reveal what four separate specialists usually miss
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Jennifer Dent Brown is the creator of the Grown Woman Weight Loss Strategy and host of the Stop. Dieting. Forever.™ podcast. She helps women in midlife connect the dots between their symptoms, metabolism, hormones, habits, and identity so they can finally feel like themselves again.
Before building Luxe Life Coaching, Jennifer spent more than two decades in corporate America at companies including Ernst & Young, Accenture, Bank of America, and Deloitte. She built this work for the woman she once was. High-performing. Outcome-driven. Running everything. And quietly falling apart in her own body.
Jennifer works with busy, high-achieving women who have done everything right and still cannot get their body to respond. She takes a holistic approach, looking at labs, symptoms, hormones, and habits to build a strategy designed for the woman you actually are right now. The result is real weight loss, lasting energy, and finally feeling like yourself again.
She coaches women privately through The First Ten and ForeverWell, and hosts intimate luxury retreats for women ready to embody the strategy in real life.
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