Sarah Martinez | Functional Health Practitioner on Instagram: "Estrogen plays a major role in where your body stores fat. When estrogen is too high, relative to progesterone, it increases fat storage in the hips and thighs. This makes fat loss in these areas harder, even with diet and exercises. This is hormonal biology, not because you’re not doing enough hip and thigh exercises. This is a common characteristic I see in women entering perimenopause. Perimenopause can start as early as 35 years