A Guide to Taking Back Women’s Health & Fasting Like a Girl

Mindy Pelz  

On this episode of The resetter podcast, I bring you something really new and different. And I am incredibly excited to bring this to you all. Because literally, we’ve never done this. And it’s a keynote speech that I gave in Phoenix at the Hay House, I can do it event. I love speaking from stage. So if you’ve never heard me from stage, you’re gonna get a little glimpse here of why I love speaking from stage so much. I wish all of you that have been following me and listening to my podcast and wish I could see your faces as you were listening to these incredible conversations that I’ve been having. And what I love about speaking from stage is that I really get to see the audience’s reaction. And this keynote speech was on a Sunday morning of the I can do it three day conference, and it was to a roomful of 1000 plus women. And it was a really magnetic crowd, and a really good moment to share my passion for lifestyle and hormones. So we loved it so much, I got such great feedback on it that we decided to bring it to you and make it accessible to you on the resetter podcast. So I hope you enjoy it. As much as I enjoyed delivering it, I hope you get a little more information than you might get typically get in one of my solo episodes or in my interview conversations. And as always, I’m always here to present information to you that moves your health and your life forward. So here you go. Here’s my speech from the I can do an event in March of 2024. Enjoy. Welcome to the resetter podcast, this podcast is all about empowering you to believe in yourself. Again, if you have a passion for learning, if you’re looking to be in control of your health and take your power back. This is the podcast for you.

I really appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to kind and I got a lot of information for you all today. So if you like drinking from a firehose, you’re about to take a big step. So let’s start with this just so I know who I’m talking to. How many of you have read fast like a girl? Nice. How many of you actually read it? Let’s just say I mean, I’m buying it ready? That doesn’t mean this is the same thing. Okay. Okay. And we found out on Friday that a lot of you didn’t look at the appendix, which I put some really good things in the Bandag. Tell me put people saw the lists in the appendix. Thank you. Thank you. So I’m gonna start from the beginning. So I was in practice for over 25 years, I had a holistic health center that had was multifaceted. It had chiropractic massage, a lot of bio hacks, we did a lot of oxygen, red light therapy, and we did a lot of detox. And we did a lot of hormones. And we did a lot of lifestyle. And when I was first in practice, I was like, sweet little baby, 26 years old. And when women would come in to my office, they usually had one symptom. It was like, oh, you know, my back hurts or my thyroids off, or I’m fatigued, we’re at brain fog, there was like one. And it took about three tools to maybe put these women back together. And within about 30 to 90 days, these women were healthy, and doing fabulous. So it was very, very simple. Fast forward 15 years into practice. And these women started to come in with multiple health problems. They started coming in with struggles with weight. I mean, God, so many people were like, my metabolism is broken. We’re gonna fix that one today. It’s that’s what you think. So my metabolism? I think it’s my thyroid, can you check my thyroid? I think I got a gut issue. I can’t get out of bed, I’m overwhelmed. I’m not sleeping, I have depression, I have anxiety, I can’t think straight. Anybody have those symptoms? What Keep your hands up, keep your hands up. Because you’re not alone. This is what I really, really want everybody to understand is that there is some reason that so many women are struggling with their health. And when I was first in practice, I saw a lot of people would come in and they would be like, well, whatever you’re saying, I need to go check it out with my primary care physician. And it was like this relationship I needed to have with the primary care physician in order to be able to get the person the woman well, and then fast forward 15 years and the thing that I heard the most Post was whatever you do, do not send me back to my doctor. I need to do everything I possibly can to stay out of that office. They don’t listen to me. They’re giving me antidepressants. And they’re no, they’re giving me no solution. So you are my last solution. So do not send me back there. So I started, let’s see how right where do I push this where I point this? Not going, Oh, now it’s giving away all the good stuff. There we go. I was told that we have some glitches in technology here. So I started to dive in. And I realized that the women in my practice, were not alone, that women in general were suffering. So these are the statistics I put in fast like a girl we have 41% of women over 21 are obese. I’m going to explain why today. We have high blood pressure we have Alzheimer’s is happening to us. We’ve got diabetes, thyroid, thyroid problems, you know, 50% of women that go through menopause are going to be diagnosed with a thyroid problem. We’ve got autoimmune 80% of autoimmune conditions happen to us. I saw a statistic this morning that women are more likely to have posed PTSD from an event than men. That’s low estrogen, by the way, and we’ll talk about that. So and we it’s it’s overwhelming how women are suffering. And what we’ve got going on in our doctor’s office is this. By the way, just so we’re all clear if anybody’s offended, by my swearing, you might leave now because this bullshit has to stop. I know I get and I just I just Just so we’re all clear, because this one really irritates me to words. I love words. I’m an author, I like to write I like to geek out on words. And one of the thing about certain words in our society is they’re taboo, like the word fuck. And so, I like to say it because I know it’s like it’s not, you know, it’s raised by a 50s mom’s like, Oh, that’s not very lady like, well, Caitlyn. Well, let’s look at what lady actually means. Lady means that you play a certain way. So society thinks that you’re wonderful and perfect. I’m not perfect. I might be a tad bit wonderful. And I like to fucking swear. And I’ve and I’m definitely not a lady. Definitely not a lady. Ladies follow the rules. Legends, according to Stevie Nicks, legends, make the rules. So I would rather be a legend than a lady. So if you are one of those women that have walked into your doctor’s office, and you have been told that it’s in your head, that you need an antidepressant that there’s genetic that they don’t know what it is, and they don’t have any answers. You’re a whiner, you keep coming back with more symptoms. Today’s the day I free you from that, because this is what’s going on when you leave. And the man comes in. He’s told completely different opinion. It’s horrific, we have been grossly left behind. And the reason that I’m so mad about this, is because I’ve sat with these women in the trenches, and they are mothers, their grandmothers, their community members, and they are suffering and our health care system is sitting there with their arms crossed, not listening to us. When we look at the research right now, for on for women, it’s it’s despicable. Like I’m going to tell you a statistic that nobody talks about, that I think we all should be talking about. If you are a cycling woman, did you know that your cholesterol goes up in the front half of your cycle, it goes down in the back half of your cycle. And so you walk into your doctor’s office, and they draw blood and they’re like your cholesterol is high, you might need to look out for that. Did they ever ask you what part of your cycle you were in? Did you know that if you have a traumatic event and your estrogen is low estrogen is neuro protective. So if the trauma happens and you don’t have estrogen to protect your brain, then that particular trauma is going to stick on your brain and in your body in a deeper way, because you didn’t have estrogen to be able to protect you. Anybody who’s in a deep theory, therapy over trauma. Have you ever been told that this is where we are food, dropping the ball in health care for women, and thank God, it’s changing. And to you guys, I just want to say one of the things that was the most exciting for me about fast like a girl is how you all just took it and you shared it and you talked about it. It’s like I had my dream was fast like a girl was we were going to crack open a cultural conversation and we have so thank you for that. That should probably be another thing we should say. And here, we talk a lot wherever I go around, we’re going to talk about all the messy symptoms of menopause. And I love talking about menstrual blood. So if you are like, oh, like, I don’t really like to talk about my period, Well, today’s the day that changes chill. And if you’re a menopausal woman that’s like, Oh, my God, nobody has been able to, like, fully let me express what the suffering that I’ve gone through. I’ve had to keep it quiet. I want also free you have that?

So, because that’s how we make change. And what’s happening is that all of a sudden, now, you all are waking up. And I mean that not in a like, Oh, you were like any less than, but you’re seeing what’s happening. And you’re starting to talk about it. And we’re starting to see change happening here in this country, where the first lady’s like, hey, this bullshit doesn’t work anymore. This isn’t why are we researching medication? Why aren’t we looking at the menstrual cycle? One of my favorite favorite, I always will, will will. This was like the epitome of social media. Last year, I went on the Mel Robbins podcast. And she loves the quote that I said about how postmenopausal women could time, their fast according to the moon cycle. And as I said in the in the podcast, if you listen to her podcast, I said like it’s a theory. And I think it’s really it’s a really interesting one. Because we have to look at how women and nature go together. And there’s no coincidence that the moon cycle averages 29.5 days, and a woman’s menstrual cycle average is 29 days. Hmm. Fascinating. So I say this to her, she clips it on a rail puts it on Instagram. And this one person that leaves a comment and says, Well, I looked at the moon cycle thing that she’s saying, and I can’t find any evidence on there. Therefore I don’t believe anything else. She says. And I wanted to just jump in there. You can’t, by the way, respond to any negative things on on social so used to sit back and just close your phone. And so but I was so mad because I wanted to say it was a woman who said it, I want to say they’re not even researching us like on on blood pressure medication and cholesterol. They’re not even looking at what’s in menstrual blood. You know, there’s four toxins in menstrual blood menstrual. When you men straight, you’re detoxing, you’re getting rid of plastics, and phthalates and pesticides and forever chemicals, you need to be able to shed, we’re not even studying this stuff, let alone the moon cycle. So I say this to say that we have been underserved by our health care community. And so what I did in my practice is I made a really clear line in the sand. And I said any woman that’s coming into my practice, we are going to master lifestyle, because the health care the goal, and this is still the goal, by the way, until they clean that system up. The goal is to keep you out of that system. So if I can keep you out of that system, by teaching you how to improve your lifestyle, now we can move forward with your health. So what I started to do is I started to pull together all the women in my practice, and we would do monthly talks. So I would pick a different subject I would pick like one month it would be on brain. Next month, we’ll be on site Freud. And we would fill my practice and I would sit down I’d say okay, here are the blood tests you need to look at, here’s the lifestyle that you need to think about, here’s how you need to approach your health. And this became so crazy popular that all the women brought the women because that’s what we do it right we like when we have a good idea. We don’t just keep it to ourselves. We’re like, oh my god, this is amazing. You got to know about this. So it’s created this flood into my practice, it got so big that we ended up having to rent a church. And we would a couple times a year rent this church. And I would hold these huge events and all the women who bring the women. And one of the things that I realized in that is how thirsty women were for two things. They were thirsty to understand their bodies. And they were thirsty to figure out lifestyle. And it’s so fascinating to me, because so many doctors will tell you, yeah, my patients don’t want to do lifestyle. No, they do, I promise you, you just haven’t yet you don’t have the time to be able to commit and that’s not their fault, but you don’t have the time to be able to teach them lifestyle. So I’m gonna do it. And that’s what I am. And by the way, hopefully you know this, once you understand it, I’m gonna task you to continue to put this information out into the world. Because it’s time that we take back our own health, bring it back into our own responsibility. So where we are in health right now may not be our fault. But it is our responsibility. So if you don’t love the body you’re living in, it’s your responsibility. You may have gotten there because of Allah Other things that I’m going to teach you today. And we can point a lot of fingers at a lot of people. But ultimately, today’s the day you go, it’s my responsibility. I’ve got to do something about it, I have to make a change, because nobody else is looking out for you. Except maybe me. Okay. Second thing that I learned in these incredible Mama’s and women in my practice, was that we are, are much stronger together. And when we come together in community, we start to thrive with our health. It’s not just like, oh, it was nice. Like my office was a big party, literally, like people would come in, they bring their kids after, after school, and all the women would meet that met at the talks. And now they were best friends. And they were doing things together. And like, I got to be a problem where I was like, the waiting rooms really full. But those people have already, like done, there are therapies in here and they won’t leave, because they’re all connecting to each other. And so I started to realize that oxytocin is the most powerful hormone we have, and we don’t give her enough credit. So oxytocin, all of you there smiling at me, thank you. You’re getting oxytocin. I’m getting oxytocin, oxytocin pulses in for a couple of minutes when we have a really cool human connection. And I will show you here in a minute, why oxytocin calms and balances all other hormones out, and we walk around, and we’re like, oh, I don’t have time for that. I have the I said this on Friday at my pre conference, how many of us are like I had some good friends while ago. But then like, I got really busy with like my career and my family, and I just didn’t make them a priority. And now you end up like me an empty nester. And you’re like, huh, where did those rights go? I didn’t put any effort into that because I was too busy. We walk around as a society, but women especially. And if you are this, I really want to free you from this today. We walk around and we’re like, I’m so busy. So busy. I’m so busy. I’m so busy. I’m so busy. I know, I know, I should do that. But I’m so busy. So busy. I’m sorry, I didn’t call you because I was so busy. I’m so busy. And it’s like a frickin badge of honor that we’re so busy. Busy actually destroys your health. And I’ll show you why hormonally here in a second. So if you’re suffering with any part and we’ll, I’m going to walk you through a thought process today. But if you’re suffering at all with your health, and you have your I got a I heard this last night I was at a dinner and this woman came up to me and she was like, I’m eating the right things. I’m fasting I’m taking the right supplements, like I’m doing all these things. Why am I not getting better? And it was a it was a it wasn’t the place to inform her this but what I wanted to say was like who you’re hanging out with? How many in your day? How many bouts of oxytocin Are you getting? are you stopping calling a friend? are you prioritizing laughter I started listening to comedies at the end of the day because I was like I need to bring my oxytocin up. All those friends I had left in the dust when I was so busy. I now actually talk to them. Every morning I have a little anybody’s Voxer I have a really cool little like walkie talkie system where I can like text message of voice text message all of my friends in the morning so that I get my oxytocin. So I started to really prioritize oxytocin. The other question that I really saw clearly from these women, is how many people say I want to be healthy, but they don’t really know what health is. I don’t even think our health professional, you know, care system knows what health is. In the healthcare system. Health is the absence of symptoms. That’s not health. What happens to the woman who like goes in for the routine mammogram had no symptoms, didn’t see it come in now. She’s got breast cancer, cancer, was she unhealthy? We are wishy healthy on the drive to the mammogram.

And then she gets the mammogram. And now she’s unhealthy. No, you don’t lose your health of the diagnosis. It was a process it takes seven years for cancer to build up in your body. It was a process that over time you got more just dysregulated and more dysregulated more dysregulated so this is a new concept that I am teaching now to my reset Academy members. How many reset Academy members in here just raise your hand? These are my this is my membership group. My tried and true and we’ve been unpacking this concept. I did a podcast on it. It’s you can go listen to it. My podcast is called the reseller podcast. And I did a whole one hour lecture on this concept that I am now calling the dysregulation loop. And here’s how it works. It and you can enter in this loop at any single at any point in time. So your metabolic system goes off, you haven’t been taught how to eat, you never need a fast your hemoglobin a one C, which we’ll talk about in a moment is going up, it’s over five, you’ve been told you need to lose weight, how many but by the way, how many people walked in there die, that’s another one, they walk in their doctor’s office, and they’re like, I have all these symptoms, and the doctor looks at their BMI, which is a bunch of bullshit, and was like done like back in the 50s. And I mean, everybody’s weight should be different. The fact that we’re like, judging everybody off one average called the BMI was ridiculous. So then we ended up with this BMI is too high. And all your problems now be are because you’re not losing weight. Anybody had that problem? That was really, really common one that the women in my practice came in with. And so this disarray, what happens in this dysregulation loop is usually the metabolic system goes off first. And now all of a sudden, you’re putting on weight for no particular reason you can’t lose weight, the old strategies aren’t working for you anymore, and your glucose and insulin balances going off, then you’re upset about that, because you’re like looking in the mirror. And I’m just going to pick on weight loss today, because we’re going to unpack what how you can lose weight forever. And if you’re if you don’t need to lose weight, don’t worry, I got plenty for you, too. So but we we look in the mirror and we’re like, oh God, like I can’t dye it. I can’t exercise. I don’t know why this reflection that’s facing back at me is not changing. I’m doing everything to make her change. And I hate her. I just want to point out that this is happening in the mirrors of millions of women when they see their reflection. So if that is you, you are not alone. When we see extra weight on our body, what ends up happening is we think it’s our fault. I’m going to show you today why it’s not. So when the metabolic system goes off, now we’re frazzled. Now we’re, we’re stressed out. So some of us will continue to shame ourselves and, and, and knock ourselves down, which only raises cortisol, as you’re looking in the mirror. And you’re like, I don’t like that I don’t like what is going on there. I got to look away. I mean, some women are like, I don’t look away. And when you’re looking in that mirror, cortisol is going up. The same thing, by the way is happening when we get on our phone, and we’re like, on Instagram or like, oh my god, that person looks so good. That person lost weight doing that, oh my god, like, Oh, they’re doing that, oh my God, how did they go there? What are they doing? They went on that vacation, oh my God, look how happy they are with their husband. I’m not that happy. And so every time we’re on Instagram, or social media doing that our cortisol is going up. And so you have one group of women that will stay in this free spot and they won’t do anything, they’ll just keep shaming themselves and comparing themselves. And then you have another set of women that come over here and they’re like, I have to try harder. Any of those I was that one. If I don’t get or get a result? Well then I should probably 10 times my effort. So this is what we saw in fasting on my YouTube was like so many Pete women started to not lose weight with fasting. And they were so frustrated because their husbands were losing weight. And that like they like started to fast three days and their husband’s like, like, yeah, my belly and a woman’s on the scale. And she’s like, I gained a pound. I’m gonna tell you why that happens to. And so what this group of women over here do as they do more. And so when they do more, same thing, they’re amping up their cortisol, they’re remembering it, they’ll go, they’re fasting. They’re on one meal a day. They’re like, I’ve talked to a lot of these women that you know, they’re like, I just, if I could just master that one meal, let me just master the one meal. I’m fasting all day, and I’m at the gym for three hours. And what they don’t realize is that they’re ramping up their cortisol and every time you ramp up your cortisol, you throw off your nervous system. So even when you’re sleeping, even when you’re on the couch, your nervous system is so running you all the time because of where your thoughts are at. Okay, then we start doing damaging things to ourselves like, Okay, we’re gonna go here ready? And no judgment. I just I’m a just a strongly opinionated woman. My mom taught me that you’re a woman. You have an opinion, share it and so that’s what I’m doing. ozempic ozempic the weight loss drugs. No, I’m not criticizing anybody that’s on him but we have a massive problem. Because what’s happening with ozempic is that food is staying undigested in the stomach’s of the people that are taking those out ozempic. And so much so that if this, if a woman or a man has been on ozempic, and they go into surgery, they asked him to get off of ozempic for two weeks before the surgery, because what they started finding was when they went under general anesthesia, that they were throwing up their meal from days before it never been digested. This is a massive problem to the microbial system. The other massive problem of the microbial system is birth control pills. When my 24 year old daughter, when when we were having discussions about what would be the healthiest form of birth control, she said, all my friends take the pill. And I just want to take the pill. And I said, No, you won’t. Because every study I’ve ever seen shows that the pill decimates the microbiome, and we’re leaving women on the pill for 20 years, 30 years, we’re telling menopausal women, they should stay on the pill. Meanwhile, it’s destroying the microbiome and in your microbiome is a set of bacteria that break estrogen down, it’s called the Austro below. And then we start putting women on antibiotics, when you put everybody on antibiotics. Luckily, we’re changing that a little bit. But then as the stress goes up, and the poor eating goes up, and the shame goes up that microbial system, you have trillions of beautiful bacteria in your gut. And you’re actually more bacteria than you are human cells, by the way, and you have trillions of these and they’re like little pets down there. They’re like, Hey, you want to be happy, I’m gonna make you some serotonin. Oh, you came in touch with it with a virus, I’m gonna amp up your immune system, oh, your energy is low, you know what the next meal feed me and I’m going to break that down and put them into vitamins and move that through the system. So that you can start to have more energy, these little microbes in our gut are so pivotal for our health. And we are not taking care of them. And we are going on medications that are destroying them. And I can’t tell you how many women I sat with that I had to we really had to work on bringing their microbial system back. And then once your metabolic systems off, then your nervous systems off, then your microbial systems off your immune system goes. So once your immune system goes in, it’ll go two ways for women. It goes like somebody sneezes on you. And you’re like, Oh, great. Now I’m gonna have a cold by the way, I just want to end this because this is a pet peeve I just have to slip this in here. Nobody can make you sick only you can make yourself sick. So just so we’re clear. You’re a host to the to these unusual new bacteria that come into your into your your path. So you’re stressed out your hemoglobin a one sees too high. You are your microbial system is totally depleted. someone sneezes on you. And now you’re like it’s their fault. No, we have three systems that are off, or the worst that happens is that your immune system becomes overactive. And so now everything this is what autoimmunity is we start attacking Hashimotos anybody have Hashimotos in here, look at raise your hand, okay. Look at this. Okay, now put anybody had PCOS? This is another one that Yes. So these autoimmune conditions are your body attacking itself. There is a dysregulated immune system that has identified that there is a trauma going on in the body. And it’s either a physical trauma like a toxin, or it’s an unhandled handled emotional trauma. I just sat with Dr. Garrett, Sarah Godfried. On my podcast, it’ll come out on Monday, she wrote a new book, not a Hay House book. Sorry. And but I guess I can say that name. It’s called the autoimmune cure. And the whole book is about trauma. And I’m like, it’s so interesting that the book is not like there’s some nutrition, some, some fasting and things like that in there. But it’s all about how to handle your unresolved trauma. And she said, what’s happening to women is that when we don’t deal with our traumas, the body turns on itself, it starts attacking itself. This is very much the Body Keeps the Score another not.

So fabulous book, and so the body starts to turn on itself. So when we don’t handle these things, our immune system ramps up, and it starts attacking itself. If toxins get in, it starts attacking itself. I can’t tell you how many women over the last year in their 20s. And 30s came up to me and said, Hey, do you have anything in your book about PCOS? And I’m like, I didn’t at the time. You know, when you write a book, sometimes you just write it and then you walk away and you’re like, I don’t know. Remember when I said that was like 83,000 words like you want me to know what 87 83,000 words. But when I read the audiobook, I noticed how many times I said PCOS. And I was like so now I’m like, Yeah, and I do. I there’s a lot in there. Because what PCOS is, is the body attacking the whole hormonal system. And there’s a reason for that. So then the immune system is off. And now you’ve got your you can’t you don’t have your metabolic health, your nervous systems ramped up your microbial systems depleted your immune systems, either hyperactive or not working at all. And now your hormones are a hot mess. And you go into your doctor’s office and you’re like, you gave me the wrong cream. I need a pellet. No, I can’t do the patch. I need a cream. Where am I supposed to put the cream? Am I supposed to go to my forearms or my inner thigh? Because I think that makes a difference. So where should I put the cream? Again? How much cream should I use? And we have mass confusion going on with hormones right now. Just so you know, 4% of Japan, women in Japan go on HRT, compared to 50% of the peri menopausal women here in the United States that are going on to some form of HR tier bioidentical. We may want to take a lesson from their lifestyle. It’s not because they’re scared to, to, to prescribe it. There’s something that they’re doing. I have some strong suspicions about it. So then the the hormonal system goes off. And then where all my perimenopause and menopausal women. Nice. So our hormones get depleted when we don’t have enough estrogen, you better not look at us right or wrong. Because if you look at us, and we are irritated, now, you’re gonna hear about the whole last 10 years and how you irritated us. And I’m gonna need to lash out and tell you why you suck. Anybody? See, I don’t know if there’s any husbands in the room, but are the partners of you know, like, this is what’s going on for us is like, we have been storing all this stuff down there. And then we lose this neuro chemical armor that protects it from coming out. So I’ve heard so many menopausal women that are like I just, I just say it now I just say it, I can’t keep it down. I’m like, Yeah, that’s your neurochemical armor. It came down and now you’re like, Okay, I’m gonna really tell you what I think. When I was 45, I’ll never forget, like, I couldn’t sleep. And I was tossing and turning and tossing and turning. And I was like, in my, in my upstairs, and I could literally hear one of my children eating, they had just gotten gotten home from their sporting event. And I’m like, they’re chilling, so fucking loud. And so I went downstairs, and my son’s just sitting at the table, you know, 1617 years old eating. They’re eating cereal. And I’m like, do you really need to fucking chew that loud? Anybody? Let’s just like yes, thank you, Dad. Thank you. And then I went upstairs, I’m like, oh, maybe this little harsh on him. Yeah, but I was like, I can’t sleep. And if I don’t sleep, I’m gonna kill somebody. And it’s gonna be somebody in this family. So we go around and around and around this dysregulation loop. And so we try to use fasting to fix the metabolic system. I’m just laughing because I’m the one over here in the nervous system right now trying to regulate my nervous system. And I’m like, okay, okay to sit down and meditate. And then my brain is like, Okay, you should probably do this. Maybe you should call that person. Oh, my God, I forgot that thing. I didn’t do that. II. Okay, what am I gonna do this afternoon? I’m like, No, you’re supposed to be meditating. Anybody I know if there’s a lot, yes, raise your hand, please let it out. I know, there’s a lot of meditation experts in here. They’re like, you just don’t have the right form of meditation. I probably don’t. Very clear, I doubt. Because when I sit in, and I’m trying to meditate it meditate, all I can do is think because you took all the external stimulation away. So we try to meditate, we try to fast we go on probiotics, or we’re out to living How many times do we do this route for ladies night. And one of our friends is like how you stop bloating really bad. And then I was on Instagram one night, and this amazing supplement came through. And it said, if you take this supplement, you will not blow and so I ordered it. And it came and you know what it was right? I first day I took it and all of a sudden the bloating was all done. Look at me. And then the other and then the other woman is like, Well, fuck, I need that supplement. And so we start ordering the supplement. We take it and then we’re like, day one. Well, it didn’t really work for me. Day two didn’t really work for me. Day seven didn’t work for me. And then we turn in shame ourselves. It’s not the supplements part of it problem is my problem. So be careful what you talk about it ladies night. So we go around and around and it’s like a dog chasing its tail. And so we’ve got to come up with some solutions that are going to finally serve women and this is why I strongly believe that the only answer is lifestyle. And it is multipronged and with fastonic agree Well, we hit we started the conversation on this metabolic system. And you probably didn’t know it. But we also had a conversation about your nervous system. Because when you fast in a rhythmic way, you are taking these cortisol surges, and you’re putting them at the right hormonal moments. So you didn’t know we were having that conversation. But that is exactly what we were doing. And fastonic a girl. And if you haven’t heard it, eat like a girl is coming out in November. And it is a cookbook, and it has got a lot of frontmatter. In fact, a little more, when I turned it in, it was quite wordy. I guess I have a lot of things to say about food. So there’s a lot in there about foods some of you’re going to hear today. So the metabolic system has been an incredible place to start this conversation of regulating women. But what I really want you to understand is that you are dysregulated you are living in a world that I call a patriarchal pace, there is like, see more, do more, be more and and eat, you know, in all the foods, you’re going to see what I’m going to tell you about the food system, everything is just regulating all of these systems. And so we started the conversation with the metabolic system. In November, when it comes out, the book comes out we’re gonna go into eating and how we can eat differently. And then we’re going to talk about this, the next book is going to be about this neuro chemical armor that comes down for women after 40. And how we can deal with with our traumas, and how we can come into this most authentic, beautiful self that we deserve to be at using menopause as a tool. So that will be the next one. But that I want you to understand if you think you’re going crazy. You’re not You’re just dysregulated and this world has dysregulated us okay, so metabolic health, how did I start with metabolic health? For those of you are like, Hey, I just want to know like, can I put butter in my coffee? I don’t know why I have to go off on all this stuff. I just want to know like butter, my coffee. Does that work? Anybody want to know that? I guess the brave few. Yes, you’re gonna butter in your coffee. And I had a woman literally, like, stalk me around my house and follow me to ask me if Kerrygold butter was okay to put her coffee. No Kerrygold butter is not okay to put in your coffee. And I’ll show you why here in a second. So this statistic came out in an bout March, or April of 2020 When we were all in quarantine. And at that time, I had a really interesting moment in my career because we had this really busy practice, which quickly got cut in half because nobody wanted to cut out come out. We were having I had to hire more staff to be able to like see people away from each other. We had fights in my in my practice all the time mask, no mask, people were like that person’s not masked. Another person’s like, I can’t come in because these people are masked. I’m like, oh my God talking about dysregulated. And so my husband and I actually spent the first 90 days of COVID just scouring PubMed. So PubMed is like Google for research articles. It’s where you go to get the vetted research article. And by the way, because I know somebody’s gonna ask me and you’re gonna go look on my Instagram, that frickin article that came out, or it wasn’t even articles media blitz, it says that you’re gonna increase your chances of a cardiovascular event by 91%. When you intermittent fast, that wasn’t on PubMed. That is a bullshit fake article. So anything every doctor knows this, every scientist knows this that if you want to see what has been vetted as legitimate science, you go to PubMed that that research study is not on PubMed. I just did an Instagram on it, so you can go to my Instagram and look at it. So but this was this is this is this came out that only 12% of Americans are metabolically fit. So what is what does it mean to be metabolically fit, so you need to have your hemoglobin a one C under five.

You have to have your blood pressure be normal. You have to have normal cholesterol. All of them total LDL is triglycerides. HDL is they all have to be normal. You can’t have any signs of liver damage or any of the liver enzymes being high bilirubin as TL T can’t have any imbalance there. And it’s the circumference around your waist. So those are the measurements and here’s what’s really fascinating. Just thought about this right now. All of those need to be normal without the use of medication. So if you’re like I have no high I’m normal, high blood. I had high blood pressure. It’s normal now because I went on a medication you’re not metabolically fit. So ozempic right now even though it’s Everybody’s losing their midsection. We’re not making everybody metabolically more fit because the actual language says you can’t be on medication for any of those. Otherwise, you are not metabolically fit and we only have 12% of Americans. Do you know that after the COVID, that number went down to 8.6. Then this is our problem, right now, this is how we stop the dysregulation is we have to fix the metabolic system. So a good question. You’re ready, everybody ready to be really mad? You’re gonna want to take some pictures here. A good question is how did we get so metabolically off course? There is a chemical that they’re putting into our food called an obesogen? How many people have heard of obesogens? Ah, yeah, there’s a good grip, good grip. obesogens are literally chemicals that they are allowed to put allowed, allowed by the FDA, which by the way, the joke within the FDA is the F is silent and it is. F stands for food, they’re more interested in drugs. And why would we have an administration that puts food and drugs together? That doesn’t make sense. So what they are allowing these chemicals to pour in to our foods, and they are making us fat. And I’m going to show you how that works. And I’m going to show you which which foods they are. The other thing they’re doing and this should make you really mad is these chemicals that are poured into our food system are acting as estrogen mimickers. An estrogen mimicker means that they go into it in an estrogen receptor site, your body thinks it’s estrogen, but it can’t use it like estrogen. And so since it can’t use it, what it does is it stores it and guess where it stores it. Fat. And if you haven’t heard this, if those of you that are new to my teachings, if you haven’t heard that all fat is is excess. So when you’re standing in front of the mirror, and you’re not liking what you’re seeing, and there’s you just translate that into God, there’s a lot of excess here. I should probably figure out how I can undo this excess. And this is where fasting really comes in. So it’s throwing off our hormonal system. One of the most shocking, shocking I did not see this, I thought I wrote a fascinating book, I’m gonna be really honest, I thought I was just writing a fascinating book. And what I learned last year was that I wrote a women’s empowerment book. And what I also learned was that our 20 and 30 year olds are suffering, the number of 20 and 30 year olds that have messaged me that have reached out to us and said, I don’t have a cycle. I can’t get pregnant. This is because the place we have to start is with these toxins. So I found this this is actually these charts are going in eat like a girl. So you’re definitely gonna want to get eat like a girl because I have list after list after list and eat like a girl how many mama bears out out there? Like I just want my daughter to understand what you’re saying, Dr. Mindy, keep your hand up. Keep your hand up. Okay, I wrote a book for you. It’s called eat like a girl. And I literally thought of the 20 and 30 year old in every single moment that I was writing that book, I wanted that book to be something that mothers would give their daughters and be like, I can’t tell you But Dr. Mindy can. They’ll hear it from me, right? Like we always hear it from another mother. They don’t hear from me or just give them the book. So but in the book, I map out these chemicals. So these obesogens are actually being poured into our foods. And what they do and I know some of you are gonna be like, well, caffeine. Oh my god. Caffeine isn’t obesogen? Well, Starbucks coffee is. I know Sorry. That’s a chemical laden caffeine. This is why when you drink coffee, you drink more organic amount. But look at all of Look at this. Look at all of these heavy metals are in all of us. Our soils, glyphosate. If you’re not eating organic, you’re getting obesogens we BHT and BHA are on here. Vani. Hari was on my podcast. And we she told me we were talking about like, how do you navigate an ingredient label? And she’s like, just look for natural flavors. Most of these are hidden in natural flavors. What it says natural. How can they do that to us? In fact, Bonnie and I had a fun conversation because I was like, hey, I want to know what was like when you like went into the corporations and you were like going after the man and you’re like, why are you putting this in our food? I’m like, let’s go do that together. That sounds fun. And she was like, I’m a mom. Now. I got kids. I’m a little more mellow. I’m like, I’m not I’m a menopausal woman who’s fucking fired up. Come on. Vani Let’s go. So I’m trying to pull body out of her cozy home So we can go storm into some of these big corporations. But these are the chemicals. These are the ones and they’re every fucking where you’re putting them on your skin, you’re eating them, I just got a good dose of them in my hotel room forgot to bring my favorite soap lathered some obesogens all over me, they’re everywhere. And what they do is that they turn your stem cells, and they tell your stem cells to make fat cells. So these are two very interesting studies, the white mice on the end there, when a fetus is exposed to these obesogens in the womb, it takes a stem cell that is supposed to make bone, and it reprograms it and tells it to make fat. And so now, we’ve got an childhood obesity epidemic. And we are shaming the parents. We are putting them on ozempic, which is horrible. And we are not acknowledging that our food system has done this to our children. I had an interesting conversation with Jesse and top Sue who is the glucose goddess also not at shed sorry, I feel like I like going against the team. As you may know, the glucose goddess, really cool conversation, you can listen to it on my podcast. And we we got talking about these obesogens. And she told me she’s from Europe. And she told me that actually they’re concerned in Britain, because kids aren’t growing to the same height that they used to grow, like their height is smaller and smaller as the generations are coming on. That’s because the mom was exposed to obesogens that were allowed in her food that took her child stem cell that this baby’s born with all these stem cells that are going to help grow a healthy body. And the stem cells that were supposed to make bone so that they can grow to be the height of their of their generational family is now being put towards fat. And then this guy, this agouti mouse, anybody heard about the agouti mouse. So the agouti mouse here over here with this was a study done years ago, and I don’t know why we don’t talk about this as I go, Yeah, that study came and went. But this study, what ended up happening is that the mouse, these are twin mouse, mice, they all had a gene for obesity. And the mouse on the left, they were fed Oh, there’s another point one, they were fed exactly the same amount of food, they were given exactly the same amount of exercise. So their calorie in calorie out was exactly the same. The only difference is the mouse, the bigger mouse with the yellow hair was fed plastic. And the minute that they put plastic into that mouse’s body, that mouse became obese. Now, before you all go, throw your water bottles out, which you probably should, the really cool thing is when they stopped giving the plastic, the mouse started to lose weight. That’s how miraculous your body is. So we have this toxic soup we are swimming in that is causing this obesity problem, what’s the fastest way out, and it literally is fasting. And I didn’t realize this again, when I went and when I wrote the book, I had no idea how it was going to play out for millions and millions of women. I knew how it played out on my social media. I knew how it played out in my practice. So I knew it was a tried and true method. But I did not see how dysregulated and out of balance women were until I watched women finally be able to lose weight. So people who are like I finally was able to lose weight with fasting, raise your hand. Keep your hand up. The reason? Okay, go ahead and put it down. The reason is because you took a break from all of these

and you gave your body a moment to repair itself. That is the most fundamental reason why fast like a girl worked for you. So this was the most common study or the most, I think it’s the best study that was ever put out. It’s not even really a study. It’s a meta analysis where the New England Journal of Medicine, which by the way is like the Bible for medical doctors, they looked at all of the studies done on fasting and they basically decided that intermittent fasting was great for about five things and that they were willing to say so obesity, Alzheimer’s and dementia, cardiovascular events, thank you social media, wound repair or surgery repair and gut changes. And they said we looked at the studies and this is what we have found. So when you are going into a fasted state, you are in a healing state. So So, what happens for those of you that are like, well, I ate breakfast this morning. I’m feeling really guilty. Anybody who hasn’t eaten breakfast this morning, okay, yeah, my people, and I might no judgment if you ate breakfast like I said, if it was like us, you know, like, a sweet roll in the lobby like maybe tomorrow you’ll you’ll do it different because you didn’t know it I like getting it’s not judgment. But you have to metabolisms how many people like I have a slow metabolism? Oh, God, how many people have at one point in their life said I have a slow metabolism. I can’t believe I heard so many women say that you don’t have a slow metabolism. You just weren’t taught how to use your fat burner metabolism, you have two metabolisms. You have a metabolism that clicks in when you eat, we call this the sugar burner system. And you have a metabolism that kicks in when you fast. And the name of the metabolic game is to go in and out of these two states. And when you learn to metabolically switch in and out, your metabolic system is healed. So a big question that so many podcasts, interviewers asked me last year was who was who is fasting for? And I’m like, it’s for everyone. And then they love that quote, click it, make it a real. And then all the naysayers want to come and say, well, it didn’t work for me. Well, guess what? Sleeping, it works for everyone. If you didn’t know that, but not everyone can sleep. So this metabolic switch is truly your door in to fixing your metabolism and fixing your your body’s ability to regulate the glucose that comes in. So I scoured the research. And I found over a 10 year period that there were six different length fasts. I’m not going to go into all of them. I wrote them in extensively in the book, if you want to know what chapter was the hardest hardest to write and which I wrote five times and rewrote and rewrote and rewrote. And it was the art of fasting. And I feel like I have nailed that chapter. So if you get confused on this, go read chapter two, it’s called The Art of fasting. And when we take a break from food for 13 hours, we start to see inflammation come down, we start to see growth hormone go up growth hormones, the hormone that slows aging down. It’s the precursor hormone for all other hormones in our body. When we go to 17 hours, our intelligent body knows what it does. It’s like oh my god, no food, no nutrients, I better be a better version of myself. And so it repairs everything inside the cell. And you know what else it does, it’s like, Hey, you are a bad cell, you’re about to become a cancer. So you are you are speeding up the aging process, you need to go and it creates something called apoptosis, which is it will remove that cell and kill it and get it out of your system. At 24 hours, your incredible body goes, oh my god, you know what we haven’t any food or glucose coming in, we better get the microbiome repaired and ready for food. Because when food comes in, we need to be our best. And so it takes all that bad bacteria and it gets it out of your system. It takes a leaky gut, and it fixes the leaky gut, a 20 to 2124 hour fast. At 36 hours, your brilliant body knows what it does. It’s like huh, okay, this is not good. We have not had food for a long time. There’s no nutrients, there’s no glucose. But guess what, I stored some food somewhere years ago. I’m gonna go find that and burn it. So those of you are like I tried size and document it’s not working, try more 36 hour fast, because it’s enough time for your body to go and find the food that it didn’t know it was there. 48 hour fast. Your whole dopamine system reboots itself, so that you have motivation to go find food. So you get new dopamine receptor sites, and the whole system from you being like saturated with all the obesogens and all the social media, all of a sudden, like without food for 48 hours, the whole system dopamine system reboots itself. And you will be the happiest, just try it. Anybody happier and happier after two days of fasting. I can tell the fascinating people because they’re the ones that walk. They just walk in and they’re like they would walk into my office and they’re just like, yeah, it’s working. It’s working. Because at 48 hours, we changed the whole dopamine system and at 72 hours, you change, you reboot the whole immune system. The best thing we could have done at COVID is put everybody on a three day water fast because we would have rebooted the whole immune the immune system and the metabolic system and we would have made everybody stronger. But instead we get If people Dunkin Donuts Okay, so then this leaves like why do women need to fast differently and there’s two things that I want to tell you on this. And this is where the firehose part comes in. I’m gonna go really fast through this, because I want you to get every little bit of information I possibly can, so that you can make good decisions for yourself, men, men work in a 24 hour cycle. So they work. They get testosterone every 15 to 20 minutes. You notice that? I, one of my favorite interviews last year was Steven Bartlett, on Dyer, the CEO. Anybody listened to that interview, if you haven’t go to go to go to YouTube, because it was a really fun, he had me there for three hours. By the way, you should never sit a menopausal woman down and ask her questions for three hours. I will at the end of it. I was like, Oh my God, give me some estrogen. So but he but one of the things that that we talked about was, how in man, you guys get pulses of testosterone every 15 minutes. And I said to him, You know what we say about your right? And he was like, No, I’m like, if we don’t like your opinion, we’ll just come back to, you know, 20 minutes, 25 minutes later. And your opinion may be different because it depends on when testosterone came in, when it might affect your answer. And testosterone is made in the testes and it goes up into the brain and converts to estrogen. Women, we’re not like that. We work off a monthly cycle. And we have the estrogen progesterone and testosterone and it pulses in at different times during the month. And one of the things that I have noticed throughout my whole experience is how many women don’t understand their fucking menstrual cycle. And we go into our doctor’s office and we are not asked even where we are in our cycle and it matters and I’m going to show you why. Sorry. Okay, so here are the fundamental rules, there’s 10 of them. First one is cortisol is your absolute enemy. It is the bully on the hormonal play yard. So those of you who are trying to balance your hormones you need to balance insulin first. If you are not insulin sensitive, these hormones will be off. This is PCOS. This is menopause. This is menopausal belly weight. This is infertility. If you want if you’re struggling with fertility, you need to make sure that you are insulin sensitive. Those that statistics so it’s so hard right now, for couples to get pregnant. And then we look at 8.6% of Americans metabolically healthy, we have to fix insulin. And now the next thing we’ve got to think about is cortisol. As long as we stay in a dysregulated world, all of our efforts to balance insulin become more difficult. But then at the top of the hierarchy is our beautiful queen oxytocin. This is why it matters that you smile, it matters that you hug, it matters that you go find that bestie you didn’t have time for it matters that you pet your dog, it matters that you laugh that matters for all of these hormones. So please, please don’t be too busy to put those aside. Rule number two, you have to fast to your monthly hormonal cycle. So if you are a cycling woman, the most the easiest way I’m gonna go through this really fast and I’m gonna break each one down. But the easiest way to look at this is when hormones go high. You’re gonna pick up like a girl. When hormones go low, you’re gonna pick up fast like a girl so we fast more when hormones are low. Now in the middle phase here you can fast a little bit and I’ll talk about that in a moment. But in general when hormones are high, fast go low. When hormones are low fast go high now that’s for the cycling woman.

Let me just make sure I Oh yeah, okay, don’t worry menopausal women. I know you what you’re thinking you’re like Oh, I’m so tired of her always talking about the cycling woman. I have some in here for you. Don’t worry, I am one. Okay, so first 10 days of your period day one of your period is when you bleed and you have to use feminine care products. If you spot that’s not day one. Day one is the day you bleed. And for the next 10 days what’s going to happen is your estrogen is going to build and I have a new phrase I love about estrogen and I call she call it she brings her girl gang with her when those first 10 days as estrogen is building building building you know what estrogen stimulates? She stimulates dopamine and serotonin and acetylcholine and glutamate and and oxytocin and BDNF. She brings all those neurotransmitters with her she’s like her girl gang. And so those first 10 days maybe the first two you don’t feel great, but for the next eight until you go into ovulation you should feel like a rockstar because you are neuro chemically locked and loaded. This is the time that you want to fast more estrogen If she could talk to you, she’d be like, can you make yourself insulin sensitive please, I need you to bring insulin down. The other thing estrogen er would say to you is like, I don’t really care about cortisol, whatever, if you want to stay up all night good and stay up all night, I don’t really care if you want to push hard with your workouts. You want to push hard with your fast go for it. I don’t freaking care. The I care about one thing and that’s it your insulin sensitive. That’s all I care about. So conditions like PCOS, trouble regulating health, your your weight, all of infertility, all of that, oh, I’m definitely not out of time. So it says zero there, but I’m gonna keep going. So but this, this is what you want to do when you are in those first 10 days. Okay. Oh my gosh. All right, yeah. Okay, the middle part called ovulation. I called it manifestation phase. By the way, I gave all these parts of the cycle for names, I have a dear friend who’s a hormonal expert. And she said, Oh, we should give each hormonal phase and nail polish names. And I was like, that’s a really good idea. Except for I don’t, I’m not like a girly girl. Like I don’t put a lot of nail polish on. So I’m not like familiar with my favorite, my favorite nail polish names. So I gave him a lot, I wanted to give them names of what is going on. So power phase means you can power up on your health activities. that’s those are the moments manifestation means you’re a fucking badass. And if you want to manifest a baby, that’s what your hormonal superpowers are in that moment, or you can manifest a new job, you can get a promotion, you can resolve a conflict because you are hormonally locked and loaded. So during ovulation between day 11 And day 15, estrogen her hits her peak, estrogen gives you access to both sides of your brain. So you can be creative and you can be logical at the same time. Estrogen also makes you a really good verbal processor, which is why we like to talk. And estrogen allows you to stay focused, which is why when we go into menopause, we’re like boom, me, me, me, me, me, me and we can’t stay focused. So but in the I said throughout all of COVID I was like, if we just put every ovulating woman in the room, we would solve this problem right now. Let’s just grab we’re half the planet live when when we are all the ovulating ones, let’s just put it in one release. Okay, how do we get out of this? We would have the answer because we have so many so many hormones, we also by the way, have a lot of testosterone. It’s the only time of our cycle that testosterone comes in. And testosterone is more than motivate and more than libido. Its motivation and drive. Okay, then we come out of ovulation and all our hormones crash again, which is why you can be the front half of your cycle for the cycling women. You can be like, skipping along and you’re like yes, feel dad feel God’s gray. Oh my god, I like I have the best workout of my life. Yeah, because you just got a good dose of testosterone. I’m so motivated, I’m just killing it. And then day 16 hits and you’re like, I don’t fail God, because all your hormones came crashing down for a five day period. And this is where we can do more hit training. We can do more fasting again. We have if you’re bloated, you want to focus on your opening up your detox pathways. There’s so much to say about this, but I’m gonna for the sake of time move through. And then this is the outliner outlier. This is the nurturer phase. It’s the week before our period. And it’s when progesterone comes in. So we’re estrogen and testosterone are like yeah, I came up with this idea. I don’t know if they’ll cut it out eat like a girl but I really liked it. Estrogen. If you were at a party, estrogen would be like the one that’s like, turn the music up. This is so fun. There’s my friend, this person and that person in that prison. I love this. And testosterone would be the one that’s like this better not stopped. This is so fun. We can’t let this just we have to leave this place at noon. Like what can’t we just party all night long. That’s what testosterone said would say and maybe testosterone and find somebody to make out with in the corner as well. But progesterone is like, oh my god, it’s too noisy. Everybody’s trying to talk to me. I don’t really like any of the conversations on here. Nobody’s here. Honey, can we go? So when you are like different at different parts of your month, you’re supposed to be because you have these hormones coming in and out. So rule number three is that you need to also fast to your hormonal cycle where or to your life cycle of hormones. So here we go menopausal and Peri menopausal women. Where are the peri menopausal women in the room? Raise your hand. Okay, all the peri menopausal women stand up? I know. This is okay. I want everybody to look around the room. I know. I know. It’s really embarrassing. Come on, just say it up. Because here’s what these are the women that need It hugs. These are the women that are like calm like they will do so well with a smile. They’ll do it please help give them more oxytocin. That’s why I want you to stand Okay? Go ahead and sit down. So in perimenopause, we have to often faster eat according to our, to our symptoms. Because sometimes we have a period every two weeks, sometimes we have 365 days. Sometimes it’s 75. Like what the hell is going on. So when we can’t think straight, we fast more. When when we’re anxious when we can’t sit on on the couch, and rest we eat more. And it’s doesn’t mean you just sit with a box of pizza and a tub of ice cream, but you’re gonna go into food. We also know that when you have low progesterone, you’re anxious, you’re reactive, you’re irritable. Do you know what the number one symptom of menopause is? And it’s not hot flashes. It’s the one that everybody wants to talk about. But it’s not. It’s irritability. And that’s because we are losing progesterone and with progesterone hurt, she only has one gay. She has a bestie she doesn’t have a gang. her bestie has GABA. And so wherever progesterone comes, she brings GABA with her and she’s like, just calm down. Everybody calm down. Can we just relax and when you go into perimenopause, she goes away and nobody’s telling your brain to calm down. So food is more of your resource yoga, get stopped overscheduling yourself, like rest more and recover more. That is your tool. post menopause. Tell me it’s gotten I’m only I’m like a year and a half without a cycle. So I’m like a new postmenopausal woman. Like this is awesome. This is really good, right? I sat and taught this to so many people and all the postmenopausal women just sit there and they smile and I’m like shit. He didn’t tell me how good it gets. So when we fasted postmenopausal what I found is that a lot of women who are not who who went through perimenopause, and they couldn’t lose weight, and they still have hot flashes and they’re still struggling to sleep. And there they’ve been years without a cycle. It The first thing to do is to start practicing fasting and if you practice fasting, over and over and over again, you will lose that menopausal belly weight. My favorite favorite review out of the over 4000 reviews on Amazon for fast like a girl and thank you to those of you who have left reviews, but one of my favorite was an 80 year old woman who said I finally lost my menopausal belly weight. She lost 30 pounds with this. So I wrote a book for you by the way, menopausal women I read a book for him postmenopausal woman it’s called the menopause reset and there’s five lifestyle changes you’re supposed to make after 40. So even for Peri and post, you need to make these changes and if you don’t make these lifestyle changes, you will spend a good portion of your perimenopause and post menopausal years trying to lather creams on you and take tro keys and slap patches and divorcing your spouse and getting rid of the friends that you think have harmed you. Do the five lifestyle changes before you get divorced. Okay. Like literally like the one of the statistics is like 70% of what of divorces that happen over 40 happened are initiated by women. Men, there should be more men in this room, if they’re in a heterosexual relationship to witness that. Okay, the other thing I wanted before I moved off post menopause. I recently found a study about two weeks ago that when our hormones dip, it triggers a part of the brain that initiates suicidal thoughts.

So I just want to make this really important to say this because 45 to 55 is the most common time for a woman to commit suicide. It is not the 16 year old that’s killing herself. It’s the fucking 47 year old who doesn’t wasn’t given the answer in her doctor’s office and wasn’t taught how her body is and wasn’t given lifestyle tools. And all of a sudden it got too tough and she this part of her brain got triggered and she was out. So if you’ve had suicidal thoughts, I want you to know it’s normal, it doesn’t mean that you have to live with them to the five lifestyle changes, get the menopause reset. Okay, number four, is when we look at his fasting lifestyle. So remember, you’re a sugar burner. You when you eat food, you’re burning energy from the food. When you don’t eat food, you are burning energy from fat. So that diet that you have been on forever trying to burn fat, it’s never going to work. It’s never going to have a lasting result. You’ve got to be able to pair it to a fasted window by So what I’m finding and this is a real pet peeve right now, because people are trying to take down fasting because nobody’s getting wealthy off of people not eating, the food industry is struggling, and Big Pharma is struggling. So just know that the studies are and the media blitzes are gonna keep coming. So when we look, one of the criticisms is audience muscle, oh, it eats the microbiome. I’m like, Oh, God, I’ll get like, calls from my team. They’re like, we’re getting a lot of DMS on like, supposedly fasting eats muscle. I’m like, fuck, you want me to answer this again? Like, let me explain this. So fasting is a healing state that you you put yourself in in your body repairs, and it heals. It’s like, it’s like a meditation retreat for the metabolic system. And then, when you eat that first meal matters. So if you want to regrow the microbiome, eat the three P’s, I listed them in appendix B, if you didn’t look at Appendix B, go look at Appendix B. And it’s Polly, fetal probiotic, and prebiotic foods. It’s fiber. It’s salads, it’s vegetables. Make sure that first meal has that. And if you’re worried about losing muscle, make sure that you’re putting in more protein in that first meal, that first meal back over here, really, really matters. That’s why I put a whole chapter in fast like the girl is one of the one things that was kind of controversial was like, Do we really need a whole chapter on how to break your fast? Yes, we do. And in eat like a girl, do we really need a whole bunch of recipes on how to break your fast? Yes, we do. And so I’ve provided that for you. Okay, rule number four, you’ve got to keep your detox pathways open. So this is really important. This is the one you’re going to want to take because this is life saving. So every Oregon has this ability to get rid of toxins and get them out of there out of the system. And so your livers one of the hardest working Oregon’s and so if it’s it’s detox pathways called the common bile duct, and then out of the common bile duct that goes into the stomach, the small intestine, and and I’m sorry, it goes into the small intestine and into the large intestine. So you need to be having bowel movements every day. If you’re not you’re not detoxing. You need to be sweating every day, because your skin is going to get toxins out. And you need to be checking your Pathways every day. And the pathways that I check every day are right above the supraclavicular area. Is it puffy? Or is it pity? I checked my inguinal area is it puffy? Is it pity under the arm, is it puffy? Or is it pity it is an arm pit, not an arm puff. So if you keep it, where this the lips, pathways get congested toxins are not getting out of you. I am now adding menstrual blood for those of you that are menstruating as a way of releasing the toxins out of you. And for women, when they fast their body goes into this amplified healing state. So we got to open these pathways up, we have to pay attention to all of the pathways and make sure that we’re doing taking good care of them. So there’s a couple of really cool hacks. I just want to throw this one in here. When I was on Steven Bartlett’s podcast, we got a beautiful message from a woman, because we got talking about the pit in the buff. I mean, we went down lots of pathways, three hours, three hours. Again, I just want to I’m a little upset about that. But But what happened was that a woman listened to the podcast and sent us a message and said, after she heard the pit and puff story, she went and looked in the mirror and had a really big puff. And so she went to her doctor turned out she had a rare form of limp cancer, and they caught it early enough to be able to treat it, and we literally fucking saved your life. So check your own pit. I every morning in there. Every time I take a shower, I’m checking it, I’m checking this. And if it’s puffy, start, I put a hole, put a whole chapter and a bunch of information on it opening detox pathways have a bunch of videos on opening detox pathways, so make sure you’re opening it and go teach another woman. Okay, number five, is that women need more minerals when they fast and more amino acids. So very interesting study, not to geek out on science, but I do love science, spend a lot of time in PubMed. So it’s kind of like a friend. Check this chart out. Look at this, these, the first column is your menstrual phase, the second column, that’s when you’re bleeding. This is when you’re bleeding. This is after your bleed and you’re building your estrogen restores this is this is when you ovulate, and these two are right before you actually shed and what the colors mean. On the other on one side are all the amino acids and they meant minerals that you need. And the red is a time when you need them the most. The blue is when the time you need them, the less the least. So why are we taking supplements all month long the same supplement over and over again, we should be cycling everything we should be cycling more minerals more aminos. Again back at menstrual blood. When we shed these toxins out, we also shed electrolytes out why are we not teaching women to bring electrolytes back in. So what I noticed with all these women fasting was that they were getting brain fog and dizziness and rashes, and they had symptoms mend in half. And that’s because you need more minerals and amino acids. And I like to put them in my fasting window. So I walk around with jugs of water with lots of different weird things. And um, but for sure aminos and minerals are in them, and I drink them all my fasting window. And if you’re like, Oh, the fasting window is really hard, put it in a wineglass, put it in a martini glass. It makes it a whole lot more fun. Okay, number six. This is coming in eat like a girl, I got some fast snacks for you. So yes, you can eat and you can drink things in your fasting window. So this was an a study that I found a couple years back, I guess it was 2021. It was done. And basically they took two groups of people and they said, Okay, let’s have one group just fast to 13 hours. And then stop and let’s have the other group go to 13 hours and then eat a fasted snack and go three hours more. And let’s see if we can tell what the metabolic difference was. The group that went longer with the fasted snack lost more weight around the belly. I know everybody wants that. And the metabolic markers hemoglobin a one C cholesterol improved more dramatically. This was done over a 30 period 30 day period. So I looked up what’s in a fasted snack. This is what that study said the fasted snack has to be under 200 calories. It has to be 18 grams of fat, or these are these are the upper ends. So it has to be less than 18 grams of fat. It has to be less than five grams of protein, and it has to be less than four grams of carbohydrates. And you know who knows this is our good friend Dr. Valter Longo. Anybody seen her that sort of prolonged the fast mimicking fast. That’s what he did, he just created five days of a fasted snack. So in the new book, I have recipes for you on fasted snacks that are pretty delicious. I’m very excited. I’m like, this is the whole reason to buy the book is to learn what you can eat and drink and your fasting window. But here’s here are some of the things that you know MCT oil, yes, keto cups are my favorite. I wish I owned some stock in that company. I do not. But I freaking love keto cups, raw nut butter, avocado bone broth, is also if you keep it under you can’t drink too much because you got to keep that protein under 18 grams in that total in that fasting window. If you’re like I don’t know what the heck you’re talking about. Don’t worry. I’ve elaborated on the fasted snack and eat like a girl so it’s coming to you. Number seven, when you eat, eat.

So when we go into this eating window, nourish yourself with food, that’s why I have a whole cookbook coming for you is to teach you how to nourish yourself with food. And so one of the things that happens when we fast is we lose our hunger how many people so what we don’t want to eat, you got to eat you got to eat the thyroid needs 1200 calories a day. So if you consistently don’t get 1200 calories a day, because you’re not eating, you’re going to destroy your thyroid. So very quickly I went I’ve came up with two different styles of eating one and one is called keto biotic one is called hormone feasting and they are basically carb cycling. So you go low carb high carb will all those studies that came out all the media blitzes that came out whole keto is bad for women, they forgot to say at certain points of your month, and for set for menopausal women, they have to cycle keto. So keto is great and I’ll show you here in a second for fat burning hormones the state is when we want to bring up our nutrients so we can make hormones hormones are made out of aminos and protein and minerals you need food to be able to make hormones and when we look at the carbohydrate we went you know we got into this big crazy thing in our society about like carbs are bad. The only carbs that are bad are these carbs right here. So make sure you when you’re talking about a carb you’re not putting a man made carbon and and and a and a nature’s carb because nature made us amazing carbs. So if you want to lose weight if you want to get yourself insulin sensitive if it’s the first part of your cycle, if you’re having hot flashes if you hate the belly weight if you’re having trouble focusing We go into keto biotic more. Whereas if you are struggling with anxiety, you have bad PMS symptoms, you’re spotting your periods are heavy and they’re clotting, you can’t sleep, we go into hormone feasting more, that’s as simple as I can make it. The other piece about food that I really want to emphasize is protein definitely is the hero macronutrient right now, and it’s having its moment in the culture. So you if you when we look at protein, whether you’re plant based, or your animal, an animal, omnivore has a better omnivore, you have to make sure you’re getting one gram of protein for every pound of ideal body weight. Now, how many people have tried that? It’s hard. So I’m trying to make things simple. So just make sure you’re having 30 grams of protein, at every single meal in eat like a girl, I list out all the plant based proteins and how much they are in all the animal based protein. So you’ll have a resource for that. Okay, second rule of this sugar burner system or another role is fat with every meal, every meal needs to have fat fat is like a break for your blood sugar. So if you’re hungry all the time, if you’re if you’re finding that you can’t get the results in a fasted state, make sure you’re please, please, please, you’re adding in the healthy fats. And by the way, just so we’re all clear, I listed the healthy fats in appendix B, if you didn’t see them. Everybody better go to appendix B and fast I get it all after this. Okay. Number eight, fasting is a lot easier in a community. Because of oxytocin. How many people did our water fast here with Hay House in January? Oh, you guys, that’s we have we have some some peeps to bring over to the fasting world. Because it was I still get stopped by people on the street that did that collaboration project that we My my, my business family, I’m gonna call it did it with with Hay House, we came together, we had over 100,000 people do a three day water fast and I lead every single day, we will do it again, it was a huge hit. Fasting is a lot easier in community. Okay, number nine, this is my favorite one. And I have a whole section on this and eat like a girl because I should have said it more and fast i girl, there is a theory in science called N of one. So when we look at a study, the n is how many people were in the study. So the study from last week that hit the news, there was like close to two we looked at that were like how many people were in the study, it was 20,000 people that they looked over a very long period of time. And by the way, one of the things that they that they had is they over like a seven year period, they had them report twice, and call in and talk about their symptoms and their timing of their food. And the people that were in the intermittent fasting group, by the way, 27% of them are smokers. So that could potentially be why there was a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular health. So I just had to go there. But here’s the thing about no one, no one means the only person that matters is you. So if you if you read my book, and you’re like I love this, I don’t love this doesn’t work for me, then you do you pull out works. If you’re on Instagram, and you’re like, oh, everybody’s saying I should lift heavy weights. But God when I go to the gym, I hate and I’m injuring myself, then find a strategy that builds muscle that’s unique to you. Stop trying to be like everybody else when you’re out at Ladies Night. And the ladies are like I took this supplement, I went on ozempic I did all these things. And now I look like this be me. Don’t be your friend be you. i I’m just giving you tools. If you’re like I’m if you think I’m an idiot, no problem. Just stand for something, stand for something and find your own path. And the last thing that I’m going to say here last couple of things, is that I spent a lot of time thinking about hormones if you can’t tell. In fact, I love when I left on Thursday to come here. My 24 year old daughter was in the kitchen. And I was like, I gotta go back on a plane and I gotta go back to a hotel room. I was on a plane in hotel rooms every week last year and it killed me. And so I was like, oh, I need some oxytocin. Ooh, there’s one of my children. So I went into the kitchen, and she was making coffee on her way out the door to work and I was like, I need some oxytocin. And she’s 24 And so I was like, Oh, this feels like God. It’s like reattaching my arm I’m like, I’ll get one of my children. That’s amazing. And she’s like, you know, you can just ask for a hug. You don’t have to say you need oxytocin That’s how much I think about hormones. But this Here’s what I have decided, I have decided that your hormones are always adapting to your environment. They are signal chemicals. So if you put yourself in a stressful environment, they they shrink. If you put them yourself in a loving environment, they will start to feel like it’s safe to come out. When your body doesn’t feel safe, those hormones go away, it cannot heal. And so what I’ve noticed is that I’ve done both individual coaching with people. And I’ve done group coaching with people. And what I find is that when we gather women in a group, all the women start to heal because they feel supported, they feel safe. And you can say, well, yeah, it’s like nice, but it actually creates an environment where women can heal. So a friend of mine said to me, like, don’t we need to invite the men into this, and we do need to invite the men into it. But as women, we’ve been fighting against the patriarchal pace for so long, that we just need a hot fucking moment to gather around each other, give ourselves a big hug and support each other, which is why we are natural nurturers, we are natural collaborators. We don’t We shouldn’t be competing with another woman, we should be collaborating with another woman. We are half of the planet, and we need to come together. And so I end on this, I found I saw that Marianne Williamson is a friend of mine, and she posted this on her news feed and I loved it. And it was when one woman heals. The world heals, we are 50% of the population. If we just stand up and heal ourselves, start with yourself first. Because we always want to go to other people don’t we know we’re gonna start with ourselves, put your own oxygen mask on first. And you’re gonna take care of yourself first. And then everything that you learn through what I’m teaching other people teaching now you’re gonna go share that with other women, maybe even the woman you don’t like go find her and go teach her. And we send the mama bears are teaching the kids and their grandkid, granddaughters and we’re rallying all the women together, you know what we can do because we’re 50% of the planet is we can change the frequency of the planet if we come together.

So last thing, I will say because I’ve 52 seconds, and I’m very proud of the fact that I made it on time. I am trying to grab a girl gang to take this message out to the world, I cannot do it on my own. So I have partnered with Hay House to create a certification program called fast like a girl certified. And if you want to know more about hormones, if you’re a health coach and you want to bring be fast girl certified, you want to bring it in to your environment. If you want to learn how you teach this, join me in my certification course. There are over 80 videos that I literally sat down in three days and just taught you everything I know about hormones, and about guiding other people through balancing their hormones if that feels right to you. The QR code there is for the certification course. And please join me in that if that does Oh, I got one second. Whoa, oh no, it’s going the other way. Okay, last thing I want to say. Don’t ever, ever, ever give up on yourself. Please don’t ever, ever, ever let somebody tell you how healthy you should be how worthy you are. Don’t let anybody else determine your health fate only you determine your health fate thank you so much for joining me in today’s episode. I love bringing thoughtful discussions about all things health to you. If you enjoyed it, we’d love to know about it. So please leave us a review share it with your friends and let me know what your biggest takeaway is.

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