Dr. Mindy Pelz On Women's Hormonal Health, Cyclical Fasting, Health As A Verb, Reclaiming Your Body's Intelligence & Transforming Menopause Into Empowerment

We have to always understand that the human body for both men and women has one major priority and that's survival. Women have a second priority and that's reproduction. The reproductive system actually will respond to whatever environment you put it in. So if you put this female body into a stressful environment, the reproductive system goes, wait, this isn't safe and it shuts itself down.

If you start to feed the reproductive system, which is our hormonal system, a lot of junk food and you create this ultra-processed, agitated glutamate response is what it is, where we amp up the nervous system, her reproductive system will shut down. This is PCOS, this is infertility. So the environment in which we are sitting in, that we are living in, is not working for us. Think of it like antennas, like it's constantly looking around, going, am I safe?

Can I release an egg this month? So we have to think about our environment much differently than men do. Hey people, I am back on my jam today with some nutrition science, which going back to the beginning of the show was, and perhaps for a significant percentage of you longtimers, still is this podcast's bread and butter. But when it comes to nutrition science, there's this unfortunate thing, which is that it, and by it I mean the canon of research is quite embarrassingly deficient when it comes to studying understanding and appreciating the very significant biological differences between men and women.

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