{"podcast":{"title":"Grace & Grit Podcast","slug":"grace-grit-podcast-991716","podcast_index_feed_id":991716,"rss_url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://graceandgrit.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/4/4/0/f4405a4688bbcbb088c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Grace_and_Grit_Podcast_3000px.png","author":"Courtney Townley","episode_count":608,"summary":"The Grace and Grit Podcast takes the health fairy tale you've heard all your life and turns it upside down and inside out, helping women rebuild their relationship with their body once and for all. Placing the focus on love and respect, rather than the aggressive demands and unrealistic expectations that have become the norm, Courtney Townley is determined to help women mend the fabric of what is driving the female health story.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T14:20:56.758135+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 530: Understanding Your Hunger Hormones in Midlife","slug":"episode-530-understanding-your-hunger-hormones-in-midlife","published_at":"2026-05-08T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-530-understanding-your-hunger-hormones-in-midlife","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716","url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/episode-530-understanding-your-hunger-hormones-in-midlife","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/graceandgrit/May_8.mp3?dest-id=329309","summary":"You have been told that hunger is weakness, that managing your appetite is a matter of discipline, that wanting food is a problem to override. None of that is true — and believing it has kept you in a war with your own body you were never supposed to be fighting. Your appetite isn't a willpower problem — it's a hormonal signaling problem. Courtney breaks down ghrelin and leptin, explains how declining estrogen disrupts your hunger and satiety cues in midlife, and gives you practical strategies to recalibrate your hunger system so you can stop fighting your body and start working with it. Get your free chapter of The Consistency Code at https://theconsistencycode.com/freechapter #HungerHormonesWomen #GhrelinAndLeptinExplained #LeptinResistanceMidlife #WhyAmIAlwaysHungryMenopause #HungerAndEstrogen #AppetiteControlWomenOver40 #OvereatingHormones #MidlifeHungerCues #HowToStopCravingsWomen #HungerAndSleepConnection #HormoneDrivenHunger #IntuitiveEatingMidlife","meta_description":"You have been told that hunger is weakness, that managing your appetite is a matter of discipline, that wanting food is a problem to override. None of tha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":587,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episodes/episode-530-understanding-your-hunger-hormones-in-midlife/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-530-understanding-your-hunger-hormones-in-midlife.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}