Your Waistline. The Missed Vital Sign with Professor Katherine Samaras

This episode is such an important listen.

We’re joined by Professor Katherine Samaras — an Australian endocrinologist, medical researcher, and one of the country’s leading experts in metabolic health, obesity, diabetes, ageing, and body fat distribution.

She’s spent years helping people understand that the waistline is not just about appearance — it can be one of the clearest early signs of what’s happening with our long-term health.

In this episode, Katherine explains:

why waist circumference can be a more useful vital sign than weight alone

what visceral fat is and why it matters so much for women in peri and menopause

how insulin resistance, hormones, stress, sleep, and muscle loss all connect

what women should start measuring and asking for before disease quietly progresses

where GLP-1 medications fit, without hype or fear

If you’ve ever felt like your body changed and no one properly explained why, this episode will help connect the dots. It’s honest, eye-opening, and full of the kind of information every woman deserves to know.

And most of all, it reminds us that ageing well won’t happen by accident. It will happen when we start paying attention, asking better questions, and doing it together.

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