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The 3 PM Wall
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It is 2:47 PM and Tamsin is teaching photosynthesis. She is mid-sentence about the Calvin cycle when she feels it coming. Not sleepiness. Erasure. As if someone is pulling a dimmer switch inside her body. The classroom lights are the same brightness but the world feels darker. By 3:00 PM she is rea...
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- The 3 PM wall is two crashes colliding: blood sugar drop + cortisol drop
- Insulin sensitivity declines in perimenopause — the same meal produces higher spikes and harder crashes
- Meal architecture matters: protein and fat first, carbohydrates last, slows glucose spike
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