Never Fast the Week Before Your Period! The Shocking Science About Intermittent Fasting & Women’s Health

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Speaker 1 Welcome to this extraordinary masterclass and step-by-step guide into the science and the application of intermittent fasting into your life as a tool for healing and for improving your health. Now,

Speaker 1 we're about to jump in to the step-by-step part and how you get started.

Speaker 1 And we're going to also talk about the different protocols for fasting for men and women and why this is extremely critical that you understand and follow.

Speaker 1 But for the sake of bringing everybody into the tent and so that we're all starting on the same page, if this is the first episode that you're listening to with me and Dr.

Speaker 1 Mindy Peltz about intermittent fasting, I want you to keep on listening.

Speaker 1 And I want to let you know that when you're done with this step-by-step guide on how to start and the protocols to follow and what you can expect, there is another resource for you.

Speaker 1 The episode just before this one is an in-depth analysis into the 101. of intermittent fasting and all the science and research.

Speaker 1 And so let me just summarize a few key takeaways so that we're all starting with the exact same information.

Speaker 1 Number one, intermittent fasting is a health protocol whereby you focus on periods of time where you're eating and periods of time where you are not eating.

Speaker 1 The purpose of intermittent fasting is to use periods of time where you are not eating

Speaker 1 to help you switch between the two different energy sources in your body. We learned all about this in part one from Dr.
Mindy.

Speaker 1 You have an energy source that is all about sugar and calories and energy that happens when you eat.

Speaker 1 And then you have a second energy source that only turns on after an eight hour period of not eating anything. And Dr.
Mindy calls that your fat burning energy source.

Speaker 1 And so what we learned is that you are designed to switch between these two cycles, kind of like how you have cycles of sleeping and cycles of being awake. You have a circadian rhythm cycle.

Speaker 1 If you're a woman, you have a menstrual cycle. The human body runs on cycles and rhythms, and your eating is no different.

Speaker 1 Fasting is a way for you to be very intentional, not about what you eat. And that's why this is not a diet.
Diets focus on what you eat.

Speaker 1 Fasting is a protocol that focuses on when you're eating for maximum health benefit. And so we covered all of that in the first master class.
We also talked about the six different types of fasting.

Speaker 1 And just so you know, the six different types are just a matter of how long you are fasting for. and the different health benefits and reasons why people fast for different periods of time.

Speaker 1 In this episode, we're going to focus on the first type of fasting, which is what you've probably heard of, intermittent fasting, which is when you intentionally do not eat for between 12 and 16 hours.

Speaker 1 And just so that we're using the same kind of language, that means if you were to stop eating at nine o'clock at night and then sleep through the night,

Speaker 1 sometime between 9 a.m. and noon is when you would have the first thing to eat because that means that from 9 p.m.

Speaker 1 until 9 a.m you have been fasting for 12 hours and when you fast for a minimum of 12 hours you unlock really incredible health benefits and so that's all you need to know you now know everything that you need in order to step into the step-by-step guide.

Speaker 1 And so here's what we're going to cover. Dr.
Mindy is back. Office hours are open, people.
She is here to grab your hand and help you implement a fasting protocol today.

Speaker 1 And here's what we're going to cover. We're going to cover the four questions that you need to ask yourself to determine what type of fasting you want to do and why you're going to do it.

Speaker 1 Second, we're going to do a quick start guide. How do you get started? Like seriously, how do you actually get started? And when should you start this?

Speaker 1 We're going to talk about what you can expect when you try this for the first time, day one, day two, day three. We're going to talk about what you can expect to experience in terms of results.

Speaker 1 And then, most importantly, we are going to dive deep, deep, deep, deep into the difference between fasting with men and fasting with women, because there is a profound difference.

Speaker 1 And this is not being talked about. enough.
Okay. And so it's critical that you listen to the difference.
And we're going to unpack that today. And you're going to learn a lot.

Speaker 1 And this stuff is so freaking cool. So without further ado, please help me welcome Dr.
Mindy Peltz. She is an incredible expert about fasting and the benefits.
So Dr. Mindy, welcome back.

Speaker 1 Let's get started. So first, let's start with you.
How do you fast, Dr. Mindy?

Speaker 3 Yeah, so I have gotten to a point where I love fasting so much, I have to really make sure that I eat.

Speaker 3 But I don't, I like skipping breakfast. That's my jam.

Speaker 3 So I get up in the morning and I drink a cup of coffee. I have a full fat cream

Speaker 3 in my coffee and I'll probably eat my first meal around noon or one o'clock.

Speaker 3 You know, like you, family is incredibly important to me. So we usually eat dinner as a family, you know, seven or eight o'clock at night.

Speaker 3 You can build this around your family's desires too. So I sit down with my family.
We eat dinner. We're done at eight.
My first meal will be noon or one.

Speaker 3 Now, outside of that, and we can talk about hormones if we want to go down that path. But if I feel like I'm off, you know, yesterday, I was like,

Speaker 3 I had been in Hawaii. I hadn't really been eating the way I wanted to eat.
And I'm like, I need to go into a longer fast. So I dipped into 18, 19 hours.

Speaker 3 So I'll use it as a tool, depending on what my body needs. And then once to two times a year, I'll do a three-day water fast.

Speaker 3 And I do that to get rid of the cells that are not serving me, to slow down aging, to increase stem cells. So it's like a cellular cleansing that I do.

Speaker 1 So when you're in the period

Speaker 1 of the cycle where you are not eating, you're in the fasting period.

Speaker 1 Water is okay?

Speaker 3 Water is okay.

Speaker 1 What else is okay?

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's a great question. Mineral water is okay as long as it doesn't have a sweetener.

Speaker 3 NutraSweet is not okay because NutraSweet can spike insulin. So just point on there.
Coffee's okay. Tea is okay.

Speaker 3 Anything that won't spike your blood sugar, black tea. Sometimes I'll go have a black tea, iced tea that is yummy.
Green tea, all of that is fine. It just, you can't have a sweetener in it.

Speaker 1 Gotcha. What about like bone broth? Because I see people like sipping broth during fasting cycles.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 because it has protein in it, it changes the healing response. So it's great to break a fast with, but it's not the type of fasting that I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 The type of fasting I'm talking about has your blood sugar staying low. Bone broth can increase your blood sugar.

Speaker 1 Do you have any hacks, any shortcuts, any things that you want? rapid fire for the person listening.

Speaker 1 If you're going to take on intermittent fasting, which why on earth would you not after everything we've discussed?

Speaker 1 What are the hacks and the shortcuts to really get started in a fast, successful, and supportive way when you're doing it for yourself for the first time?

Speaker 3 Let me give you three hacks that are simple.

Speaker 3 And I also want to go back to what you said before, because I want women specifically that are listening to this.

Speaker 3 When things are confusing to us, especially when they come to healthcare, we tend to reject them. I'm going to ask you not to do that.
I'm going to ask you to become curious about them.

Speaker 3 What we are discussing here is natural rhythms of your body, and nobody's taught it to you. So,

Speaker 3 I would love to come back and make sure that we don't lose women in this conversation because we need to embrace our natural rhythms. So, I'll put that there.

Speaker 3 First hack, the easiest way to get into this is to start looking at your 24-hour period as when are you going to eat and when are you not going to eat?

Speaker 3 What's your stop time at night and what's your start time in the morning? Figure that out.

Speaker 3 Second,

Speaker 3 we brought up the coffee.

Speaker 3 A hack for the coffee that is amazing is putting a little bit of MCT oil in your coffee.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you why.

Speaker 1 Yes, let me tell you why.

Speaker 3 It moves you quicker into fat burning and helps you make ketones and turns off the hunger hormone. So if you're wanting to fast a little longer and you're struggling, put a little bit of MCT oil.

Speaker 3 It's what we've seen has worked for millions of people.

Speaker 3 MCT oil specifically has the ability to turn off the hunger hormone. Put it in your coffee in the morning.

Speaker 1 What the hell is MCT oil?

Speaker 3 It's one aspect of coconut oil that has this therapeutic benefit that turns off hunger. Okay.
It's just nature made it. It's a part of coconut oil.

Speaker 1 How much? Because I once tried this with a bunch of dudes and I think they poured like, I don't know how much, but we then went on a hike. And let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 Within, within, she already knows what I'm about to tell you guys.

Speaker 1 Within about a hundred yards after about 45 minutes of drinking, what turned out to probably be like a lose shot of MCT oil in my coffee, it doubled me over with cramps and I had raging diarrhea almost instantly because it gave me too much.

Speaker 1 I don't know if it was like a joke, but how much are we talking here, Doc?

Speaker 3 Yeah, oh my God, it's so good. I'm so happy you said that because that does happen.

Speaker 3 Half a teaspoon to a teaspoon, you don't need very much.

Speaker 1 Okay, and can I put my full fat creamer, no sweetener, in with it?

Speaker 3 Yes, you can.

Speaker 1 Okay, got it. All right, so that's hack number two, everybody.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so that's hack number two. Okay, hack number three.

Speaker 3 If you don't feel good in this fasting window, which I just want to call out that in the beginning, it will be a little uncomfortable. And that's okay because the body will figure out how to respond.

Speaker 3 So in that discomfort, maybe it's a little bit of like,

Speaker 3 your brain's not quite coming back online. Try a little sea salt, Just a little bit of sea salt.
Like

Speaker 3 you can put it in your coffee if you want it. And you're going to ask me the amount, I'm sure.
A pinch, a pinch of sea salt.

Speaker 3 We have found that even the nutrients that you can find in a high-quality sea salt, like a Himalayan sea salt or something that's a really good one, it can have magnesium, it can have a little bit of potassium, a little bit of sodium.

Speaker 3 and it makes you feel better in the fasting window. There are a lot of products out there you can do it with, but all you got to do is go to the grocery store and find some sea salt.

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Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I'm assuming that's not breaking the fasting protocol.

Speaker 3 No, we're big fans of Element too. Okay.
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Speaker 3 our community is obsessed with Element because a pack of Element in your water, in your fasting window is a game changer for how you feel in the fasting window.

Speaker 1 And one thing I'd like to do before we jump into a little bit more of the protocol, of the options with this, of how to get started, of what you can expect is who is fasting an option for?

Speaker 1 And who

Speaker 1 would you say shouldn't consider it or at least need to get a sign off from a medical doctor before they do? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Thank you for asking this question because I really want to make sure that people are very safe with how they use this tool.

Speaker 3 What might shock people is that for pre-diabetes, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, it's incredible for.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 I highly encourage you to bring your doctor on this journey with you.

Speaker 3 I can't tell you the number of doctors that have flooded my YouTube channel. I leave the science there so they can understand it, so that they can be in collaboration with their patients.

Speaker 3 So to answer the who is it not for, I think that's the most important thing to say. It is not for the woman who's pregnant.
This is not your tool if you're pregnant.

Speaker 3 If you're nursing, as I go through the different healing mechanisms that happen, you need to keep your fasts very low because fasting can start to create a detox reaction.

Speaker 3 And all the toxins that you're detoxing will go into your breast milk,

Speaker 3 which will go into your baby. So, we want to keep fasts under 15 hours for nursing women.

Speaker 3 And then the third one that comes up a lot is people who have any kind of eating disorders or food challenges that would be triggered by going into this fasted state.

Speaker 1 Great. Thank you for that.
Can you walk us through the first time you fast, how shitty you might feel?

Speaker 1 Like what to expect and how long you need to stick with it it in order to move through that phase. Yeah.
Great. Cause I can't wait to learn how shitty I'm going to feel when I try this.

Speaker 1 No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 1 welcome back I'm Mel Robbins and you and I are back with Dr. Mindy Peltz she is the fasting phenom and she is now about to tell you and me what we can expect on our first day of fasting.

Speaker 1 Are we hungry? Are we bitchy? Are we bloated? What's happening? What do you want us to know, Dr. Mindy?

Speaker 3 I think it's important because if you hear this, you get all excited, you come out of the gates, you try it, and then you don't feel good, you're going to reject it.

Speaker 3 Let's use a sprained ankle as an example. When you sprain an ankle, it doesn't feel good, but the body's healing.

Speaker 3 When you have a fever, it doesn't feel good, but the body's healing. So the first time you put yourself in this this fat burning healing state, everybody will feel something different.

Speaker 3 Some people will feel not so great, but the good news is the not so great usually only lasts the first couple of times.

Speaker 1 And what is not so great? What are you referring to? Is you going to be like headache, moody?

Speaker 3 Yeah, you can be a little moody, moody, brain fog. Some people, you know, will notice even we've seen people have rashes, like the body pushes out.

Speaker 3 That's extreme, but the body will push out, you know, the bad stuff. Some people might get a little bit of constipation.
Some people will get a little bit of diarrhea.

Speaker 3 The body is getting rid of whatever's not serving it. So it is a little bit of a detox.
So as that comes out, you might have some feelings of like, yeah, I'm not feeling great yet.

Speaker 3 I'm not buying this thing yet. But here's what happens: the body is building you stronger.
So honor that that's a temporary symptom

Speaker 3 as your body moves into this healing state. And it's usually only lasts anywhere from a day to three days.
Most people, I would say 50% of the people don't even notice that.

Speaker 1 Women need a different fasting protocol than men. Why?

Speaker 3 So, this is the heart of why I do what I do. When the fasting craze came out,

Speaker 3 everybody got excited about it. And then women started to see they were losing their periods, their hair was falling out, their anxiety levels were going up,

Speaker 3 and some of them started gaining weight.

Speaker 3 And so what happened was the media grabbed that and said, hey, intermittent fasting is not okay for women.

Speaker 3 So I dove into the research because all those women poured onto my YouTube channel. And I examined the needs of two different hormones, estrogen and progesterone.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 So women follow what I call a hormonal hierarchy, and the hierarchy looks something like this. At the bottom are our sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.

Speaker 3 Those hormones are strongly influenced by insulin.

Speaker 3 When insulin goes up, we can throw our sex hormones off. Insulin is strongly affected by cortisol.
So when our stress goes up, we become more insulin resistant.

Speaker 3 But above cortisol is the best hormone on the planet, which is oxytocin. When you get more oxytocin, and the only way you can get oxytocin is through connection to other people.

Speaker 3 When you get oxytocin, you bring cortisol down. When you bring cortisol down, you become more insulin sensitive.
When you become more insulin sensitive, now you're going to balance your sex hormones.

Speaker 3 And that is how a female body operates when we look at it in a hierarchy system.

Speaker 3 Second thing I want to say is that men have one hormone. It's called testosterone.
And testosterone for a man works off a 24-hour day light cycle.

Speaker 3 Men get testosterone pulsing in every 15 minutes around that.

Speaker 3 Testosterone then goes up into the brain and converts to estrogen for a man.

Speaker 3 So a man can fast. Testosterone loves when a man fasts, and a man can fast pretty regularly and not mess up that hormonal cycle.
Women, we operate off a 28-day to 30-day cycle.

Speaker 3 And our hormones pulse in in days. Estrogen comes in the first 10, testosterone comes in in the middle, and progesterone comes in at the end.

Speaker 3 So we have to fast according to this cycling of these hormones. It's a different rhythm.
It's a monthly rhythm, not a daily rhythm. Estrogen loves when you fast.

Speaker 3 So if you, for the menopausal woman who is losing estrogen,

Speaker 3 you will die when you see how effective this is for bringing estrogen up to a more age-appropriate level you're never getting your 25 year old estrogen back but your 55 year old age appropriate estrogen will thank you for building a fasting lifestyle

Speaker 3 progesterone actually

Speaker 3 doesn't want you to fast If your blood sugar goes down too much

Speaker 3 or you raise cortisol too much, you will tank progesterone. And check this out.

Speaker 3 We all know this. We just didn't have words for it.
What do we crave when we had a cycle? What do we crave the week before our periods?

Speaker 1 Oh my God. Everything.
Ice cream,

Speaker 1 alcohol,

Speaker 1 pizza,

Speaker 1 pasta,

Speaker 1 pretzels with pimento cheese dip. Am I getting too personal here? Help me out, nachos.
I crave freaking anything.

Speaker 3 Exactly.

Speaker 3 Because progesterone is asking you to bring your glucose up.

Speaker 3 So we crave, I'm going to cycling women right now. We craved carbs before our period, not because we were undisciplined.
We craved carbs before our period because we needed glucose to be higher.

Speaker 3 And that internal mechanism inside our body increased the craving of carbohydrates so that we had enough resources to make progesterone.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 1 And so, what does

Speaker 1 the intermittent fasting protocol do

Speaker 1 for a woman who is in her menstrual cycle?

Speaker 3 So, in a 28 to 30-day cycle, every woman's different. I want to point that out.
We all cycle it differently, but have different lengths. The first 10 days is when estrogen's building.

Speaker 3 We know this as the follicular phase.

Speaker 3 In Fast Like a Girl, I call it the power phase, which means that you can power up on any all of your workouts, your fasts, anything you want to power yourself up on.

Speaker 3 About day 10 or 11, we move into ovulation. This would be the second phase.

Speaker 3 And in this phase, I called it the manifestation phase because we can manifest whatever. You can manifest a baby, but you also have estrogen at our peak.

Speaker 3 You have testosterone at its peak, and you have a little bit of progesterone. So it makes us very mentally sharp.

Speaker 3 It makes us beautiful, our hair curly, our skin look great, and we have motivation and drive because of testosterone.

Speaker 3 Then we come out of ovulation, our hormones dip. We have a five-day window.

Speaker 3 I called it, you can go back to powering up on all your lifestyle tools, but the week before our period starts around day 20.

Speaker 3 And I call it the nurture phase because you're supposed to nurture yourself that week. You need to bring glucose up, you need to bring, and you need to rest and bring cortisol down.

Speaker 3 That's the hormonal rhythm that women follow in a 28 to 30-day period.

Speaker 3 And once a woman bleeds, we go back to estrogen building, you can go back to fasting, you can go back to working out incredibly hard.

Speaker 3 Every all the rhythms change according to the rhythms of those hormones.

Speaker 3 So, if when women were got a hold of the fasting craze and they just fasted all month long,

Speaker 3 they started to tank progesterone.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 And progesterone only comes in the week before our period. That's her debut.
She comes in that week before and says, hey, everybody, we got to shut cortisol down and we got to increase glucose.

Speaker 3 So as women started to pick up fasting, they were ignoring that. They were muscling like we often do.

Speaker 3 We're muscling through this new, and I'm going to put in air quotes, diet, because we thought of it as a diet. And the the more months we did that, the more, the less progesterone we had.

Speaker 1 Is that why women in the beginning were losing hair and why they were having all this negative side effect from intermittent fasting?

Speaker 3 That's right. So progesterone is the hormone that will also shed the uterine lining.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 So we weren't making enough progesterone. So the lining wasn't shedding.
So we started to notice a lot of women noticed spotting and things like that.

Speaker 3 Anxiety went up because progesterone is the hormone that calms us.

Speaker 3 So, and our hair started

Speaker 3 falling out because over time, we were starting to restrict calories more and more and more. And so it was throwing the thigh right off.

Speaker 1 Okay. So let me just see if I can bottom line this.

Speaker 1 When intermittent fasting was first introduced, like so many things, the dudes were talking about it and they were only talking about it as it relates to men and

Speaker 1 weightlifting and that kind of thing, and carb cycling. And we've heard all this shit.
And

Speaker 1 no one took into account women's hormone health.

Speaker 1 And just like women have not been included in medical studies because of our hormone health, this is yet another example of where women have been left out of the conversation and where the science has been applied to everybody without consideration of how it actually impacts a woman during her cycle.

Speaker 1 And what you're here to say is that intermittent fasting is an enormously important protocol for all women. And

Speaker 1 women have to handle it and introduce this protocol differently because of our hormone cycle, period, full stop. And so

Speaker 1 how

Speaker 1 do

Speaker 1 you do this as a woman? Because after I heard you talk about intermittent fasting, Once we started talking about the research, I'm like, freaking, I'm in. I am not going to eat after nine o'clock.

Speaker 1 This woman is not putting shit in her mouth until noon. Like, I am down.
I'm doing the 90 days. This seems like a no freaking brainer based on body function and health.
Like, I am in and sold.

Speaker 1 When you then went hair loss, this, that, hormone cycling, I'm like, oh shit, this is complicated. I don't know if I can do this and I don't want to lose my hair.

Speaker 1 So, how do we simplify this in terms of how an intermittent fasting protocol should be introduced by women in their lives.

Speaker 1 How do you want to handle this?

Speaker 3 Yeah, let's make it super simple. Please.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 3 don't fast the week before your period if you're a cycling woman. Just don't fast the week before your period.
Oh, you can do all the other fasts.

Speaker 3 Now, in the book, in Fast Like a Girl, I give you lots of options. I gave you a whole fasting cycle, but for this conversation, just don't fast the week before your period.

Speaker 1 Wow. Okay.
And so you just go back to normal eating?

Speaker 1 Like just eating whenever you want?

Speaker 3 Yeah, eating when, you ought to eat breakfast if you chose to take breakfast out, eat whenever you want and bring up your carb load.

Speaker 3 But I'm going to ask you to not do it in a box of pizza or a tub of ice cream. Let's do it in some, you know, what I call nature's carbs.

Speaker 3 Let's do it in fruit and potatoes and sweet potatoes and vegetables, tons of vegetables, tropical fruits, bananas. Those are great for progesterone.
Chocolate. Chocolate's amazing for progesterone.

Speaker 1 You know what's interesting is I wonder if this is why so many of us just bounce with our weight.

Speaker 1 Like I've got this question from Jodi because we've got a bazillion questions from listeners when we told everybody we were going to tackle fasting and we were going to spend a lot of time talking about women and hormones and protocols for women.

Speaker 1 Jodi writes in, how do I

Speaker 1 change the fact that I get down to my goal weight and then all of a sudden I gain it back?

Speaker 1 I'm constantly up and down and beating myself up and i'm not sure if uh restriction of sugar and flour is the only way i don't know if the real ticket is something else for lasting change i'm super healthy and then all of a sudden i eat a whole pizza or i eat a batch of cookies and next thing you know the same 10 pounds comes on and off and then worse how do i feel about myself when i'm in this cycle i just need a formula that will work and what i'm wondering is

Speaker 1 this is probably what you see with women who

Speaker 1 either are just trying everything under the sun. I'm going to try the peptides and I'm going to try this thing.
I'm going to do whole 30 and I'm going to do that thing.

Speaker 1 And I'm going to try this thing, but none of it's working. Or they try fasting, but then they're bouncing all over the place because of our hormone cycle.

Speaker 1 And so what you're saying is start with intermittent fasting and then pay attention to the week before your period starts

Speaker 1 and give yourself grace and eat nature's carbs. And then the day you get your period, you go back to your intermittent fasting protocol.
Is that correct?

Speaker 3 You got it. You got it.
That's exactly correct.

Speaker 1 What do you do if you're on the IUD? So,

Speaker 1 you know, my daughters are on the IUD, and with a lot of the

Speaker 1 IUDs, you don't get a period. So, how do you figure out when that part of your cycle is?

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I have the same issue with my daughter. You know,

Speaker 3 here's what I'm going to say. And this is the best gauge that we have.
And I don't want to confuse people.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 But I, but this is what we've been using is if you have no sense of when your period is coming,

Speaker 3 use the moon cycle.

Speaker 1 What the hell does that mean?

Speaker 3 Use the way that the moon waxes and wanes.

Speaker 1 Okay. But like you break it down for me.
Because is this also what we met women in perimenopause who have really weird cycles and those of us that are like, bye-bye with the period.

Speaker 1 Okay. So everybody listening, if you

Speaker 1 either don't have a cycle or you're on birth control that compromises your cycle or you're peri or you are menopause, full Monty,

Speaker 1 you are going to follow the fucking moon. So

Speaker 1 when,

Speaker 1 what shape is the moon in, Dr. Mindy,

Speaker 1 when I'm

Speaker 1 doing

Speaker 1 the intermittent fasting protocol?

Speaker 3 So the first thing I want to point out is it's not a coincidence that the moon has a cycle that's 28 to 30 days. And we have a cycle that's 28 to 30 days.

Speaker 1 Because we're magical bitches. That's why.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 1 You have totally nailed that one.

Speaker 3 Exactly.

Speaker 3 Like, so let's just acknowledge that.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 First day of your period when when you start bleeding, would be the first day of the new moon.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Ovulation would be the full moon, which is when we're wickedly powerful.

Speaker 1 Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 3 In fact, I keep saying, let's just put all the ovulating women in one room and they can solve all the world's problems.

Speaker 1 As long as we're intermittent fasting.

Speaker 1 So if you're going to start the intermittent fasting protocol for maximum health and healing benefit, regardless of where you are with your period or not getting one.

Speaker 1 You are going to start with the new moon, which is that super thin sliver of a where the hell is the moon moon? Okay. And that's going to be the beginning of your interminute fasting protocol.

Speaker 1 And you are going to stop fasting protocol. while the moon is near its full moon phase.
Is that what we're doing?

Speaker 3 So let's just make it simple. Let's say intermittent fasting.
You're going to fast 12 to 15 hours.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Day one, starting the new moon,

Speaker 3 till about day 21.

Speaker 1 Perfect.

Speaker 3 And then at 21, you switch out and you stop fasting for a week. And then the minute the new moon comes in, you start fasting again.

Speaker 1 That's fantastic. And so that's very clear.
And I want to underscore why this matters. This matters because women are very different physiologically hormone chemically

Speaker 1 like all of it from men the system operates differently and

Speaker 1 you also have to be responsible for the fact that we run in a network of hormones that are different than

Speaker 1 people who are born male

Speaker 1 and so I want you to understand this seven-day window where you're not going to be following a fasting protocol is because of your metabolic health and your hormone health. And

Speaker 1 that's why we're being very specific about this. Now, I want to ask one more very specific question.

Speaker 1 For those of us in menopause who no longer are going through a cycle, is our 30 days, 21 days on, seven days off?

Speaker 3 You can just take that 30-day reset. and match it to the moon.
Great.

Speaker 3 And you will start to see your cycle come back on. And unless you're a menopausal woman.
So there's apps. Let's start there.
Just pick up an app and just find the new moon. It's not that hard to find.

Speaker 1 Okay, just Google new moon this month.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I can tell you the app I use is called Moonly.

Speaker 1 Moonly. Okay.
Moonly.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 look at where the new moon is.

Speaker 3 That would be day one of your cycle.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 In my book, In Fast Like a Girl, I have a 30-day fasting reset.

Speaker 1 Got it. You're going to follow your menstrual cycle if you have a regular period.

Speaker 1 If you are not sure because of birth control or other reasons when your period is happening, you're going to follow a 30-day protocol. We will link to resources with all the show notes.

Speaker 1 You can find them at melrobbins.com/slash podcast. You're going to follow a 30-day protocol and you're going to begin day one

Speaker 1 on the day of the new moon.

Speaker 3 For simplicity's sake, yes.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
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Speaker 1 Welcome back. I'm Mel Robbins.
I am here with Dr. Mindy.
She is a renowned expert on the science of intermittent fasting, and we are unpacking everything that you need to know.

Speaker 1 And what I love most, Dr. Mindy, is how simple you are making this.
Okay, so you have an example with a story of a woman named Bridget who followed this protocol. Could you share that story with us?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So what was interesting about Bridget's story is that she did what most of us do. We exercise more

Speaker 3 and we eat less to lose weight. And she's what I, what I call a rushing woman.

Speaker 3 She was CEO, like had a very, very busy lifestyle, tons of family, was in, you know, engaged in her family, engaged in work.

Speaker 3 And all of her tools that she was using to keep her weight where she wanted to be were failing her. So she found, right? Sounds familiar.
So she found fasting and she started to fast.

Speaker 3 And in the first moment that she found intermittent fasting, it was like a miracle. Like her brain came back online.
She started to drop weight.

Speaker 3 And she was all of a sudden like, wow, I'm supercharged for this rushing woman lifestyle. But she didn't know to cycle it.

Speaker 3 So 30 to 60 days into this miraculous lifestyle, the opposite started happening.

Speaker 3 She started gaining weight. She started losing her period completely.
Everything we've been talking about.

Speaker 3 So she was a patient that I figured out, she was one of the women. I figured out like, oh, there's a rhythm here.
I need to find Bridget's rhythm.

Speaker 3 And so in finding Bridget's rhythm, I found every other woman's rhythm, which is this idea that you got to step out of fasting because of this hormone progesterone.

Speaker 3 And once we found her rhythm, it was her tool to do everything she wanted at her age.

Speaker 1 Can we just say, fuck you, progesterone? Can we just say that right now?

Speaker 1 Cat to complicate things for us. You have four

Speaker 1 steps. to determine which of the six fasting protocols is the right one for you.
What are they?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I call it building a fasting lifestyle. So the first step is, what are you trying to do? You know, this is what keeps coming up in this conversation.

Speaker 3 The one size fits all protocols that we give, whether it's diet or medication or whatever, it works better for a man than it works for a woman.

Speaker 3 It doesn't work for humans in general. We need to find our own personal path.
But you might, let's use you as an example, Mel, maybe you decide, hey, I need to repair my gut.

Speaker 3 So I need to make sure that I get, train myself to get into that 24-hour fast. Whereas somebody else might say, God, my weight is so stuck, I got to throw some 36-hour fast.

Speaker 3 So make sure you know what you're doing. Second thing or what you want to do.
Second thing is you got to cycle your fasts. We already talked about that.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Third thing. You got to cycle your food.
So we haven't talked much about that. Fast like a girl goes way into how you look at different food.
And then the fourth is let's stop doing health on our own.

Speaker 3 Let's do it in a community.

Speaker 3 So,

Speaker 3 you know, women thrive on oxytocin. We're getting oxytocin right now talking to each other.
And as oxytocin goes up, it calms cortisol. When cortisol goes down, you become more insulin sensitive.

Speaker 3 And when insulin gets regulated, now all your hormones regulate.

Speaker 3 So oxytocin for a woman woman is a powerful hormone so when she goes into a fasting lifestyle and does it on her own she misses that oxytocin moment when she does it in community

Speaker 3 she actually amplifies oxytocin how do you do that how do you do it in a community yeah well we we did for years and we still do it something called a fast training week um on my youtube channel where i would just take five days and we would just i would just lead the whole world through these different weeks.

Speaker 3 So that's still there. We do three-day water fasts all the time in community.

Speaker 3 Grab fasts like a girl and do a book club with a group of women. Do it together with a group of women.

Speaker 3 One thing I do with my girlfriends, we do challenges all the time together. It's like, hey, for the next 30 days, I'm going to do this.
And then they're in on it.

Speaker 3 And now we're doing it together in a community.

Speaker 1 I love that. I love that.
I love the idea of doing it with someone else because whenever I've taken on a health challenge, just having a buddy that I'm texting with is critical.

Speaker 1 And I love that you're explaining that there's a scientific research-packed health benefit to all these reasons.

Speaker 1 I want to ask you a question from Becky, who DM'd us and said, you know, I'm studying this fasting info. This is super helpful.

Speaker 1 I want to know good, bad, or different, if there is one of your fasting plans that I can do that's a little bit more flexible.

Speaker 3 Let me explain it this way.

Speaker 3 Take your eating window

Speaker 3 and move it wherever you want.

Speaker 3 Like if you want to eat with your family dinner at seven o'clock at night and be done by eight, if your eating window is eight hours,

Speaker 3 then your eating window opens at noon and you start eating from noon to eight.

Speaker 1 See, this is why this is so great

Speaker 1 because she is asking a question that shows how we've all been trained to calorie restrict and to focus on the what we're eating.

Speaker 1 And she's like, I'd just like to know if I'm fasting, is there a day a week I could have my comfort food for lunch?

Speaker 1 And what you're saying is, if you adjust the window, yes, because you know that you're playing with a cycle of on and off.

Speaker 1 And so just figure out when you're going to stop eating the night before so that the window opens up

Speaker 1 right around lunchtime.

Speaker 3 Maybe you would want to have, you're going to a great brunch on Sunday morning and the brunch starts at 10 o'clock. Don't deprive yourself.
That's when your eating window opened.

Speaker 3 So at 10, you start and by six, you're done. Just move that eating window around to match your lifestyle.

Speaker 3 That's why people are sticking with this type of lifestyle because you can match it to the other parts of your lifestyle that are important.

Speaker 1 Does a fasting cycle for women, does it reduce the muscle? Do these things work together? Because I want to be clear.

Speaker 1 I want to make sure people understand that they got to do what works for them, but this isn't necessarily conflicting advice.

Speaker 3 Exactly. So I a thousand percent agree that muscle and protein are incredibly important and we need to prioritize them.

Speaker 3 So when you're fasting

Speaker 3 in the fasting window, you're going to break protein down. It's not a bad thing.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Your body's getting rid of stored sugar in that muscle, so it breaks it down. When you start to eat, now you need to up your protein.

Speaker 3 You need to make sure that you get enough protein so that you have enough of an amino acid. Those are the nutrients in protein that build muscle.

Speaker 3 So, where this falls apart is if you start to fast and then you open your eating window and you forget to include protein in your diet.

Speaker 3 You didn't give the fuel source to the muscles muscles that it needed. So, make sure when you eat, eat.
This is a big thing. It's like eat good quality food.

Speaker 3 If you want more muscle, you got to eat more protein.

Speaker 1 Got it. Love it.
We did not dive deep into the extensive amount of research that you do have about the kinds of food that you're eating and the impact it can have on

Speaker 1 a fasting protocol as a lifestyle. I want to give one

Speaker 1 little tip though to everybody, because you say that there are three foods that from a fasting perspective, if you focus on simply limiting these three foods, that it's going to help the fasting protocol of when you're eating and when you're not a lot.

Speaker 1 So what are those three foods?

Speaker 3 Yeah. The first one is good oils, not bad oils.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 So good oils are avocado oil. They're olive oil.
They're sesame seed oil. They're,

Speaker 3 you know, there's a lot of great ones. Walnut oil.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 What are the bad ones? Yeah. Let's give me the dice.

Speaker 3 The bad ones are canola oil,

Speaker 3 cotton seed oil, corn oil, partially hydrogenated oils,

Speaker 3 you know, safflower, sunflower oils, and they're everywhere. They're everywhere.

Speaker 1 Why are they bad?

Speaker 3 They cause your cells to inflame, to swell. They cause your cells to swell.

Speaker 3 And when your cells are swollen, your brain's swollen, your joints are swollen, your belly's swollen, and your cells are not able to pull in nutrients and hormones.

Speaker 3 So let's just get those foods out. Let's change the oils.

Speaker 1 Delete. Okay.

Speaker 3 Gone. Okay.
Second one.

Speaker 3 We've already talked about it. Nature's carbs, not man-made carbs.
The breads, the cakes, the cookies, the pastas. Can we limit those? Can we get those out of the diet?

Speaker 3 Even if they're organic, even if they're gluten-free, they should still be fairly minimal. And can we bring fruits and vegetables and potatoes, even like wild rice, quinoa?

Speaker 3 Let's bring those back into the diet and make those the highlight.

Speaker 1 Great. And the final one.

Speaker 3 The last one are toxins. So this is your Nutra Suites, your Splendas that a lot of people go on diets with.
This is your artificial colorings. This is the nitrites that we put in.

Speaker 3 Anything that has been made by humans is going to destroy cellular health.

Speaker 1 Basically, this is how I think about it, Dr. Minney.

Speaker 1 If I look at an ingredient list on a package and I either can't pronounce it or it doesn't look like something that I would see on a label at a farmer's market, probably not that great for you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And best yet, buy buy something without a label.

Speaker 1 Well, you know what my mom always said?

Speaker 1 My mom said, if you just stick to the perimeter of a grocery store, you know, you go fruits and vegetables and to the deli and to the dairy and typically to the bakery, you're good.

Speaker 1 So now that we know the three foods that we need to avoid, can we talk about the ways in which you break a fast?

Speaker 1 I know you say there are four ways that you can do it when you're doing it for the first time, but can you walk us through how you do that?

Speaker 3 So the first thing to break a fast with that's really easy is broth. This can be vegetable broth.
It can be bone broth. Broth is a good entry back into food.

Speaker 3 The second thing that I encourage people to break a fast with is actually fat. So fat will stabilize the blood sugar so that you don't boomerang back into eating a ton of food.

Speaker 3 So make sure you eat a good fat. My personal favorite is an avocado.
I usually break my fast often with an avocado.

Speaker 3 With that fat, I also encourage that people look at a probiotic-rich meal. This is like a sauerkraut.
This can be a kefir, something that has good bacteria in it to replenish your microbiome.

Speaker 3 Once you've done that, where you've done the broth, you've done the fat, you've added some probiotics in, then bring protein back in and make sure that you're eating enough protein to start to build muscle.

Speaker 3 So those are the biggest considerations is making sure that you take care of your digestion, you take care of your blood sugar, you take care of your microbes, and you take care of your muscles.

Speaker 3 That's what all of those foods will do.

Speaker 1 We've covered a ton. And so there's a couple of things I want to say.
Number one, we are absolutely going to have you back because I'm super curious about

Speaker 1 everything that you want to say about eating and specifically eating for women's health and how that impacts your

Speaker 1 natural healing and health

Speaker 1 systems in your body. Second, I know we're going to get a gajillion, that's a technical term, question.

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Speaker 1 I would love, if you have have follow-up questions,

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Speaker 1 and the information that you are sharing with patients getting to a broader audience in a simple, tactical, applicable way that I want to make her expertise available to you listening more

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Speaker 1 Mindy, you are freaking awesome. I have loved every second of this.
I am now through my fasting window too. So I am going to go faceplant a salad with some steak on top.

Speaker 1 I love you. I can't wait to have you back, Dr.
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Thank you. Thank you for explaining all this to us and giving us the gift of healing and health at zero cost.
You freaking rock.

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Speaker 1 Okay, that was so cool. I'm so excited.
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Speaker 1 It helps you tap into decades and decades of research that you can benefit from. And the thing that I love the most, you don't have to add anything.
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