feminist women out there are not going

to like this women are perishing in this

modern world more than men well that's

terrifying if we want to exist on this

planet we're going to have to do Dr

Mindy Pelt renowned functional health

expert bestselling author and keynote

speaker one of the leading voices in

educating us about our bodies spending

two decades helping Millions worldwide

you got pretty famous from talking about

this certain subject matter which is

fasting what do I need to know research

shows it's going to make me stronger

more lean

1,300% increase in testosterone in men

oh wow we see inflammation go down

growth hormone go up it's the hormone

that keeps you young and helps you burn

fat you know where it dropped the most

amount of weight belly yep literally

takes cells that are turning into cancer

and it gets rid of those you are tapping

into a healing state that you never knew

was there I'm sold where do I stop so

the first place to start is menstration

or the Big M is considered a taboo topic

I'm going to say something which is

really embarrassing here I know nothing

about menstrual cycles I'm in a

relationship what advice have you got

for me well the first is do you know her

cycle moving on tell me about your

childhood let me give you gold first two

days give her some space if you have any

conflict you want to resolve with her do

it between Day 2 and day 12 her libido

is going to be the highest between day

10 and day 15 and then here's the goal

you're going to have to report back to

me how this works around day 17 this is

where you got

to once in a while on this podcast I

have a conversation that I desperately

wish I'd had sooner this is one of those

conversations I'd heard about fasting

but I had no idea no idea at all of its

potentially lifechanging impact weight

loss your sex life A woman's menstrual

cycle how to heal from illness and

injury the incredible power of fasting

I'm incredibly happy that you chose to

listen to this particular conversation

because if you're like me and you've

never really taken the time to

understand fasting and you don't

understand the six types of fasting then

maybe this is the conversation you've

always needed to hear because it

certainly was for me you are really

really going to enjoy this one take my

word for

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it

Mindy if you took the full body of work

that you've produced over the last let's

say 10 years and the work that you're

going to produce over the next 10 years

and you had to

summarize the mission that you're on and

why it

matters how would you do that wow that's

a great question um I'm trying to

empower people to believe in themselves

again and I want to do that through

everything that in our lifestyle that

Taps into our body's own ability to heal

itself we' have gotten so far far off

course we don't even realize that we're

giving so much of our health power away

our happiness power away and all we've

got to do is come back home to ourselves

and learn that every single thing inside

of us every cell every neuron everything

is working for us not against us and we

have to stop villainizing our body we

got to figure out how to believe in

ourselves again we're the ones that are

going to save ourselves and we've just

lost our way what have we fallen into

the Trap of believing well in the health

World we've totally fallen into the Trap

that if I take this pill if I do this

diet if I do this exercise then that

will cure me nobody cures you you cure

yourself and so you have to start to

look at the human body as this

self-healing organism that's always

figuring out how to keep you alive how

to keep you at your best and if you're

not feeling at your best then the only

thing you to look at is that there's an

interference there's physical emotional

spiritual chemical interference that is

pulling you away from this power that's

inside of you so that you can start to

heal Once you pull those away you see

yourself in a whole new light I mean

this is what fasting did for millions of

people you just see yourself so

differently in what you're capable of

doing where where have we gone wrong in

terms of our attitude towards what it is

to be a human because you know I often

think much of the health advice that we

is through thrown at us these days has

this underlying belief that like in some

way we're broken yeah yeah yeah oh my I

I so agree with you it's the messaging

is like you did something wrong you have

a genetic profile that you're doomed to

to have a you know a disastrous outcome

and everything is is is exogenously

blamed at us and I really think that

that comes from not only our Health Care

system and I and I'm not trying to bash

the healthare system but we have lost

our way and it comes from for women

specifically it comes from the messaging

we get from you know social media and

magazines like everything is outside in

we got to go inside out now and start

asking what we want on a physical

spiritual emotional level so that we can

create the life we want and stop looking

outside for the answers we got to go

within I love that inside inside out the

inside out inside out living you got

pretty famous from talking about this

certain subject matter which is fasting

yeah now I want to talk about fasting

because I've heard about it and I I I'm

sure here I represent a lot of my

audience right now I've heard the term

fasting I've heard loads of people in

recent times over the last I'd say two

years get really excited about it and

say that it's a good thing yeah but

that's really the extent of my knowledge

on the subject so let's just start right

there I mean you wrote a book called

fast like a girl you've got so much

content out on the internet about

fasting for both men and women this book

was written in

2022 why why why are you so focused on

fasting why do I need to care about it

what's it going to do for me it it's the

quickest antidote to what we just said

if we've got all this physical emotional

chemical stress coming at us we've got

taste buds we've got to change we've got

behaviors we have to change there's a

lot there but I can show you how to

compress your eating window into a

10-hour eating window leaving 14 hours

for fasting something as simple as 14

hours and I can show you how you can

start to heal yourself without money

without time it's you are literally

tapping into a healing state that you

never knew was there and I think part of

why we've had so many people pour on to

YouTube and so many women gravitate to

the book is that it's it's so once you

learn how to fast you start to see your

body in this whole new way it can Absol

absolutely heal itself so for me fasting

became this incredible tool that

everybody could do and we just had to

learn how to do it the women that I'm

watching that are just dropping I mean

men and women hundreds of pounds and

medications they're getting off of and

mental health that's coming back just

because I taught them how to compress

their eating window and leave a longer

time for rest so their body can repair

that is all each individual is doing

that I didn't do that I'm the type of

person that very much needs

like stats believe things I'm one of

those people and once I've got the stats

or some kind of like scientific evidence

then I'm all in beautiful what do I need

to know from a scientific standpoint

what research has been done on fasting

okay so let's let's go through the basic

principle of fasting and I think this

will help everybody is that you have two

metabolisms so you burn energy when you

eat

and you burn energy when you don't eat

but there are two different

mechanisms so when you eat like let's

use myself as an example I had eggs and

some avocado for like around 11 o'clock

today so that's going to bring my blood

sugar up now as my blood sugar starts to

drop what's going to happen is my body's

going to switch over into this other

Energy System and I call this the fat

burning Energy System I call this one

the sugar burner Energy System when it

switch over into this fat burning Energy

System it starts to make a byproduct

called a ketone and that Ketone will go

up into the brain and it starts to

repair your brain and what most people

don't realize is your brain is needs 50%

ketones 50% glucose so you're giving a

fuel source to your brain that it

desperately needs which is why people

when they fast are like their mental

Clarity goes up their cognition improves

their brain fog goes away because

because you're literally giving a fuel

source to your brain that it may never

had have been given before it takes

about eight somewhere between eight

hours to metabolically switch over into

this fat burning Place ah okay so if I'm

doing a podcast and I want to be sharp

yes I shouldn't eat eight hours before

yes ah

[ __ ] did you come back in seven

hours seven

hours yeah

sure should have given you the memo

before we got

here yeah so I think of it like a hybrid

car you know you you're SW you switch

over into this fat burning place so at

eight hours you start to make the switch

by about 12 hours your body's now

starting to make a good dose of ketones

the brain is excited so you're getting

that mental Clarity ketones turn off the

hunger hormone so you also when you

switch over at there's going to be a

point which you're not hungry um and

that all happens at about 12 hours but

you're also if you stay there a little

longer if you stay there and you go 14

hours 15 hours so check this out

research shows at 15 hours we see growth

hormone go up okay growth hormone is the

hormone that keeps you young and helps

you burn fat we also see in men,

1300% increase in testosterone just from

somewhere between a 13 to 15 hour fast

133% increase in natural testost Stone

stores and we can explain why that

happens in a moment and then we start to

see inflammation go down so all of a

sudden if you have people who have like

joints that are hurting they start doing

15 hours of fasting every day and

they're like God you know my joints just

don't have that same stiffness in them

anymore but if you stay in that fasted

window you keep going 17 hours your

brilliant body turns within and it goes

wait a second no food's coming in we

better get stronger so it literally

takes this the bad cells the cells that

are slowing you down the cells that are

turning into cancer and it gets rid of

those they're called ccent cells and it

it literally recycles them out of your

system and it goes into the cells that

are still usable and it makes them

stronger it fixes the inner Cellular

Parts we call that autophagy and that

actually was the if you want stats the

Nobel Prize in 2015 by a Japanese

scientist Dr osumi he won the Nobel

Prize medicine and Physiology for this

term called autophagy and that's when

you go without food your cell your cells

will heal

themselves that was back in

2015 so I want to go into all of that I

want to start with why why does why does

fasting help so much and really like

what I'm getting at there is if

this if the effects of this are so

profound in so many ways then where did

we go wrong because from what I you know

have been told breakfast lunch dinner

yeah breakfast lunch dinner and then

maybe you know dessert yeah and then you

know yeah that's the narrative that I

was brought up on yeah well breakfast is

the most important meal a day I've done

a lot of research on that phrase do you

know where it came from no it was

actually and I don't mean to diss any

companies out there but it was a tagline

that they came up with for cornflakes

for Kellogg's cornflakes back in the

1970s they needed a tagline that made

people eat corn flakes in in the morning

and so they came up with cornflakes

breakfast is the most important meal of

the day and that has continued until

this day we I can't find any research

and and many other fasting experts many

other blood sugar experts will tell you

the same thing there's just no research

showing that breakfast is the most

important meal of the day so that became

that became a a a myth that we need to

bust second myth we've been taught is

you can speed your metabolism up the

more you eat six meals a day remember

that one okay also a myth there is no

evidence that the more you eat the

faster your metabolism will be the F if

you want a faster metabolism you need to

know how to metabolically switch you

need to know how to go from sugar burner

to fat burner and that's where you start

to lose weight so that's the SEC the the

other myth that I feel like we have to

break apart and then we have this you

know I can tell you as a mother and I

and this is you know not for anybody to

have M mommy guilt but what we do as

parents is we have certain statements we

make to our kids like you know breakf

dinner's being served the kitchen's

closing in an hour um you need to eat

lunch you need to eat breakfast like we

are programmed when to eat by a clock

not by our own internal sense so kids

are raised to eat according to a clock

not according to when they want to

eat we don't say am I hungry right

now that's so true we all wait until 1:

p.m. to have lunch and the morning we

wake up we feel like we we have to have

breakfast or we're doing something wrong

yep and then dinner time you know

anytime between I don't know 6:00 and

eight we have to sit down and eat again

or we're doing something wrong yep like

have you like if you just unwind that

yeah where did that come from right

usually from your parents and it came

from a schedule what did my ancestors do

before my parents existed and and my and

the schedules existed I can tell you

exactly what they did what did they do

they came out of the cave I'm going to

go back to our our Primal friends go

back to our cave friends they came out

of a cave they didn't have refrigerator

they didn't have a pantry they didn't

have door Dash they had to go find food

did they have Uber Eats they didn't have

Uber Eats delivery yeah I'm pretty sure

they didn't have U eats but what they

did is they came out of the cave and

they went to go hunt hunt

food sometimes they could make a kill

really easily and bring it home and they

would

Feast sometimes the kill wasn't as easy

and they had to go far to find an animal

to kill

exercise exercise but what did they do

when they had to go super far and they

couldn't get food they switched over

into this ketogenic Energy System and

that ketogenic Energy System supercharg

them because every cell in the human

body is the number one priority of our

cells is survival so we were built to

make sure we could stay alive in the

absence of food so their ketones kicked

in and when ketones kicked in they

became mentally very focused so they

could go find food they were able to

stay calm ketones will affect a

neurotransmitter called Gaba and cause G

Gaba to come on so you feel calm you're

focused ketones will power up your

muscles so that all of a sudden you have

this incredible muscular energy all

because

they were meant to go find food so they

can bring it home okay so the body which

is orientated towards survival when you

hadn't eaten it invests a lot of its

sort of resources in your brain to

increase the chances that you'll catch

something to eat so that's why when I

fast or when I haven't eaten I'm very

focused I'm very articulate that's right

it seems um and I perform at my best

Bingo that's it makes sense and then

what what did they do when they got a

kill they came home and they feasted

they didn't necessarily ration it out

they ate and then they divied it up

again amongst the tribe and then they

went out again until when the food was

gone maybe a couple days maybe they'd

Feast for a couple days when the food

was gone they go out again it's called

Feast famine cycling it is how humans

were meant to be to live the challenge

we have is we have access to food all

the time that we are you know feasting

has taken on a really negative

connotation because we're feasting on

the wrong Foods M but if we could go

back and just be like our Primal friends

and we could learn how to go in and out

of this Feast famine cycling using

fasting as as a tool for performance for

healing and using food in the proper way

and eating the right food so that our

brains will work well and you know

there's a whole hormonal pack or sense

of of food that can help support

hormones if we're really conscious about

the quality of the food that we eat

we're now mimicking what our Primal

ancestors were doing does that also

imply that we should exercise fasted

because I was thinking if thinking about

my ancestors they would have been doing

the most physical activity when they

hadn't eaten yet that's right yeah they

would have been doing the most physical

activity right before they ate yeah so

really interesting point and and you and

I were talking about this in the

beginning is that when you exercise in a

fasted State you're going to get rid of

the glucose that's been stored in your

muscles so as that glucose comes out

because your body body needs it to go

you know you you don't work 100% off of

ketones and 100% off of glucose you're

needing both of them at both time at at

at different moments of your day so when

you're exercising in a fasted State

you're getting ketones and your muscles

are releasing stored sugar which is

great for anybody who wants to lose

weight because now you can lean out

those muscles now let's go back to what

our Primal ancestors did when they came

home they ate meat they ate protein and

they stimulated something called mtor

mtor is when you actually create muscle

growth and what we now know is it takes

about 30 grams of protein to trigger

these amino acid receptor sites in the

muscles to cause them to grow stronger

so for you if you work out in a fasted

State you're going to release all those

stores you're going to have those

ketones for performance but then you

want to follow that up with protein so

you can build your muscles strong and

that is a hack that has worked

incredibly well for for so many people

okay historically people have thought

that

fasting is a one- siiz kind of fits all

um technique and there's one kind of

fasting which is you just I don't know

you might just not eat for a prolong

period of time but in your book and

throughout your work you describe these

six different types of fasting yeah what

are the six types of fasting and tell me

what the the difference is in outcome

and benefit yeah it's a great question

so again fasting is when we switch over

so now we're in the fat burning uh place

at about 13 to 15 hours we start making

ketones this is intermittent fasting

that's pretty much what most people when

they say they're intermittent fasting

that's what they're doing okay they take

12 to 16 hours yeah they're making

ketones testosterone's going up

inflammation's coming down hunger might

be going away they're kind of having

this they might be a lot of people lose

weight with that it's it's kind of the

most common fast does it matter from the

the window does it matter what time I

start and what time I end you get to

choose you choose what that window

should be so I could eat at 3:00 a.m.

you could there's a whole another level

we can talk about why you don't want to

eat in the dark what's ideal an ideal

window do you think um I really like it

depends on the on the time of the year

but in the summer I really like

somewhere if you're going to do an 8

Hour eating window like 11 to 7 in the

summer and then in the winter because

it's darker earlier you would do more

like a like a 10 to five kind of eating

window it's not so hard to do 11 to S

right

not hard at all not hard at all that's

not that's not fasting that's that's

just a slight having a a slightly later

breakfast and a slightly earlier dinner

yeah but it's it's like being

intentional right yeah exactly because

you don't want to you got to you got to

keep blood sugar low otherwise the

minute blood sugar goes up you're going

to switch over right so you can't put it

you know if you walk past the kitchen

and put a grape in your mouth yeah yeah

exactly yeah yeah which is you pulled

yourself guil of yes yes so that's the

first type of the six fast

um styles the second is I'm going to try

and say this

word or of ai ai AO

aagi it's one way of saying it people

say either call it um autophagy or

autophagy people say it different you

tell me I said it wrong I kind of landed

on autophagy I feel like autophagy is

the best way to say it autophagy fasting

what's that so autophagy fasting is

about 17 hours in with without food your

cells will turn within and they'll start

to heal themselves and that was what Dr

osi's big uh Discovery was is that the

cells clean themselves up so what's

interesting on this one and this is

something I really want to get out to

the world is that when you stimulate

autophagy what you're doing is you're

turning on the intelligence inside the

cell and that intelligence is looking

around and it's going hey there's a

virus there's a bacteria get them out so

let's push these infections out out of

the cell that mitochondria it's not

working well we need to repair it that

endoplasmic reticulum inside here it's

it's lagging we need to fix it so it

literally goes in and fixes everything

inside the cell just at 17 hours but one

of the greatest studies that was I've

seen in fasting was done during covid

and it showed that if a virus comes into

a cell that's in a state of autophagy it

can't replicate viruses have to live off

of your energy system so when viruses go

into a cell that's Laden with glucose

they have a party in there they love

that they munch on that and then they go

out and they start replicating if you

were in a fasted State when a virus

comes in it can't replicate there's

nothing inside that cell for that virus

to take over and it

dies why does that happen what's the

reason for the the that sort of the CEO

within my C looking around and saying

right let's clean all this stuff up well

because the it when once you've stim at

autophagy there is one goal for that

cell and that is survival so everything

in there is on high alert okay

everything is going to be in your

survival interest so a virus is not in

your surv survival interest so it pushes

it out so it's kind of like an emergency

signal because there's not been food for

a while

so it's kind of like the

last the last attempt to do everything

the body can to help you make it through

this period of hunger or that's right

that's right you've put yourself in this

state of extreme healing and it's all

based off of this idea that your body

wants to stay

alive okay so that's are you write in

your book that that's good for balancing

sex hormones and preventing colds so

yeah with with autophagy it's great for

preventing colds what here's what's

interesting about autophagy for sex

hormones is that the major part of your

brain for both men and women that

control hormonal all hormonal control is

your hypothalamus and pituitary that

part of the brain does not have a bloodb

brain barrier so it's very vulnerable to

toxins so whenever we have massive toxic

exposure that part of the brain starts

to malfunction we see this with uh

polycystic ovarian syndrome most common

hormonal imbalance for women well a lot

of that is this imbalance of

testosterone and estrogen and there's a

huge toxic piece that has destroyed or

or in interfered with the part of the

brain that control

hormones so when we look at

autophagy there are certain parts of our

system that are more uh easily

influenced by autophagy than others well

it turns out the hypothalamus and the

pituitary are easily influenced by

autophagy and can repair themselves when

they're in the state of

autophagy the other interesting cellular

makeup that is highly influenced by

autophagy are the the cells around the

testes and the cells around the ovaries

the those are the the cells that are

putting out sex hormones and if you that

whole system is malfunctioning when you

go into a state of autophagy those cells

will respond and become better cells and

be better at producing these hormones

because of you dipping in and out of the

state of

autophagy that really got me thinking

because I've been looking at a lot of

companies from an investment standpoint

at the moment that are trying to solve

for this macro decline in male

testosterone you know I had a few guests

come on this podcast and tell me that

male testosterone has been decl

declining year-over-year and then kind

of paired with that we're becoming more

and more sexless our libidos seem to be

in Decline I've got a lot of close

friends of mine that are taking certain

hormonal um supplements to try and get

their libidos back up and for the first

time ever in on a show called Dragon's

Den that I'm on in the UK we had someone

come into the den for an investment that

was producing a supplement to try and

get our sex drive back feels like a big

macro conversation that we're not having

and looking at your work and the work

around you've done about fasting and

what you said there it seems like there

could potentially be a link yeah between

the two the ways we're living our life

and what we're eating and our decline in

testosterone and our libidos there's a

beautiful book I don't know if you've

read it called countdown and it's about

the sperm counts going down in across

the world and I actually brought her

onto my podcast the woman who wrote the

book and she said that there's one

chemical that's reducing uh sperm counts

more than any and it's phades and phades

are in fragrances oh they're in our

Colones they're in our perfumes they're

in our laundry detergents they're in our

air fresheners they also are now

infiltrated into our water so they've

infiltrated into they're now being

sprayed on our Foods animals that are

drinking the water have phalates in them

so it's the number one toxin that's

destroying testosterone levels and it's

a brilliant book that she wrote you talk

about in the reset factory your first

book from 2016 chapter 10 you said

something which I hadn't quite um

appreciated you said that even the

things we put on our skin are absorbed

into our body um and then they go

directly into our bloodstream and into

our kidneys I didn't think when I read

that it got me thinking because there's

so many things that I sort of

unconsciously just spray on my body

right every day and I never look at

what's in them because I just think it's

on the outside and it'll wash off y but

now you're saying that yeah your skin is

a breathable organ so it's going to push

toxins out and it's going to take toxins

in so think about it if you've ever like

eaten something that didn't react well

with you you might get a rash that's

your brilliant body trying to push that

toxin out but the same thing happens

when you put something on your skin it

actually goes into your body so a good

general rule is if you aren't willing to

eat it don't put it on your skin and

beyond that if we even look at at the

microbiome you have bacteria on your

skin that protect you and that bacteria

is are actually talking to the bacteria

in our gut there's actually a connection

between the two bacteria so if you start

putting things on your skin that destroy

that microbiome you're actually going to

ultimately have an adverse effect on the

microbiome in your gut so what you put

on your skin is massively important and

then the smell we know the hippocampus

which is the seat of all Alzheimer's and

Dementia is also where the olfactory

nerve innervates so when we smell

something toxic and breathe something

toxic in it goes straight into the

hippocampus and starts to create

degeneration in those neurons that are

ultimately can lead to dementia and

Alzheimer's toxicity is a huge human

problem

toxicity when you say the word toxicity

how are you defining that you're saying

like toxic chemicals that we introduced

into our lives on our skin consume

inhale have around us Bingo and that are

in our Foods Etc yep Bingo what are what

are some of the the most toxic chemicals

or Foods or products that we consume

without thinking that you think we need

to stop consuming on a day-to-day basis

oh here's the most the easiest one is

Plastics BPA plastic they say that it's

that there's it's not a matter of if you

have plastic in your body it's a matter

of how much so let's use it in a in

context of something that people are

really motivated by which is weight loss

what's BPA plastics it's it's a it's a

chemical within plastic that's within

our water bottles it's on in our

Tupperware um they actually are putting

they're saying that they're now in the

microfibers of our of our clothes and

that's being washed out to this it gets

really depressing when you start talking

about toxins gets washed out into our

oceans so but the for the sake of

Simplicity it's it's you know bottles

mostly that you see but you know we've

got plastic containers we've got plastic

plates we've got plastic everything and

that is has BPA in it and that is a a a

toxin that destroys human health and the

biggest and most interesting thing that

BPA Plastics do is there was a study

around something called a Audy Mouse and

they took this mouse that had a gene for

obesity and they were twins they fed

them the same food they gave them the

same amount of exercise but one of the

mice got introduced BPA plastic and the

one that got the BPA plastic all of a

sudden started to gain weight and the

hair color started to change and they

that was the only difference between

these two mouse mice with the same

genetic profile and so then when they

detoxed the BPA plastic out the mouse

lost weight so that was the beginning of

us understanding a term called obesogens

and obesogens are toxins that actually

make us insulin resistant actually cause

us to hold on to to more weight and

that's just one category of

toxins well that's terrifying it is

terrifying to be completely you know

from the center of my heart this is it's

this is why we have to educate ourselves

this is why we have to wake up we have

to understand that we are living in the

most toxic time in human history and it

doesn't it's not just mental stress it's

not just social media it's a barrage of

all of that that is pulling us off

course and I can tell you that I have

sat with some of the most brilliant

doctors who are generally so concerned

on the direction of humanity and where

we're going because of the abundance of

these

toxins as you said that I could see a

sadness in your face where does that

come

from I think it's really easy when you

hear a podcast like this and and what

saying to reject what I'm saying because

it's it's too

overwhelming to

understand what the evolutionary

mismatch we're in right

now

we so many people are suffering whether

it's physical or mental mentally and

they don't realize that it's everything

from the food to their shampoos to the

plastic water bottles it's it's so vast

and yet nobody doing anything about it

and and that's where my heart hurts it's

like people are suffering that don't

need to be suffering and if they

understood that the modern world we're

living in has taken us so off course

with our health and we've got to start

to one by one figure out how to bring it

back on

course and you know yesterday I sat with

um Dr Dale bredis on my and interviewed

him on my podcast he wrote a book called

the end of Alzheimer's and he laid out

seven things that we need to do to stop

Al Alzheimer's and he strongly feels

that Alzheimer's is optional you don't

have to you don't have to get that and

those seven

things are so intense like it's

everything from detoxing to

metabolically switching to prioritizing

sleep to human connection to um

understanding e you know what the best

exercise is for you and it's easy for

humans to look at those seven things and

go I'm out I can't do all

that but we if we want to exist on this

planet we're going to have to do that

that's the new level of Health we're in

right now and I'm I love being the

cheerleader I want to be the one that's

like come on we can do it but I also

need people to understand that where

we're living as humans right now is a

very very dangerous place and it's just

in the existence of moving in and out of

grocery stores and restaurants and you

know and the drugstore everything has a

toxic insult on us and it's overwhelming

it's

overwhelming drastic action because

we've we're so drastically far away from

where we're supposed to be Y where our

ancestors were y we've built up this

Society that's full of plastics and

toxins and alcohol and drugs and sugar

everywhere and I can't move in bloody

New York city which is where we are now

without someone offering me you know

every block is almost every block is

really bad food horrible but food that

tempts the certain part of my brain that

maybe is looking to help me stay alive

and to survive whether it's pizza or

sweets or whatever it might be yeah um

so it's it is difficult and I have a

great deal of empathy for anyone that's

struggling yeah with it me too me too

it's a it's a it's it's it's we've hit a

point where the door out of poor health

is

multifaceted it's not just one door and

if you're healthy and you're just like

you know someone like you just wants to

get in better shape then the path is a

little bit easier MH but what do we do

for the for the person that gets the

cancer diagnosis what do we do for the

woman who's suicidal in going through

her menopause years like where are we

helping her how are we getting to them

and each time they walk into their

doctor's office they're typically giving

getting a pill and not being taught how

to live a life that works with their

body in this modern world that's where

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much back to the episode you told me

about the first two styles of fasting

the first one was intim fasting which is

12 to 16 hours which is good for weight

loss brain fog that kind of thing the

second is autography autophagy what did

I say autography but I like it I said

autophagy I said autophagy we can play

that back I definitely said autophagy

and if I didn't we'll fix it with AI um

autophagy fasting which is 17 to 72

hours good for balancing sex hormones

and preventing illness yeah number three

we haven't spoken about gut reset fast

yeah what's that yeah so that's based

off uh a study that came out of MIT that

showed 24 hours without food and your

intestinal stem cells inside your gut

actually start to reboot themselves now

a stem cell is a cell that can go to

anywhere in the body and repair itself

but at 24 hours you get a plethora of

them in your gut and in the gut we've

got a damaged microbiome from everything

that that we've just been talking about

so what I discovered in this 24-hour

fast is I could take women that have

been on birth control pill for years um

people that had been on multiple rounds

of antibiotics people who had been

eating horrible food and I could

actually put them through a 24-hour fast

once a week once every couple of weeks

and these stem cells would come in there

and they would start to repair and so

now if I teach that person How to Eat

Right their food is actually starting to

build a better microbiome in the gut so

that 24-hour fast became this go-to in

my clinic where I could take all these

gut challenges and I could start to

unwind them just because I knew the body

had this capability of making these

intestinal stem cells and it was crazy

like we got people off supplements we

got people that were didn't weren't

making serotonin which affects moods

comes from the gut all of a sudden

started to become happier people who

hadn't had bowel movements in like three

days all of a sudden we started to put

in these this gut reset and it was like

a miracle it was incredible number four

fat burner fast so the fat burner fast

is probably my favorite for those people

who want to lose weight the research was

done that 36 hours without food followed

by 12 hours of eating and then another

30 they actually did it over a 30-day

period but we've been using it in our

community just dosing it in that at 36

hours what happens is that's enough time

where the blood sugars come come down

where all of a sudden the body it's so

smart it goes okay blood sugar's not

common we've been in this fasted State

we've triggered autophagy we've brought

inflammation down we've made you ketones

we're trying to go find food but this

extra weight it's not serving you you

because remember you got to go find food

so it drops weight and it's the most

beautiful way to get a person to unstick

any kind of weight loss resistance

but most importantly you know where it

dropped the most amount of weight from

where does everybody want to lose weight

belly yep so it is the I probably should

have called it the fat burning belly fat

burning yeah the belly fat yeah that

would have banged yeah but yeah and so

that's what they showed is that actually

a 36-hour fast started to unstick weight

loss and it was started with weight

around the

belly

compelling number five the dopamine

reset fast yeah so number five um I

found some research showing that when

people go without food for 48 hours the

whole dopamine system will be rebooted

so what's important to know about the

dopamine system is it is our molecule of

happiness it is the thing that it's

actually a motivation molecule and it's

a neurotransmitter that allows thoughts

happy thoughts to go across from neuron

to neuron and so what happens and I'm

sure you've talked about this on your

podcast that were so dopamine saturated

right now but specifically people who

are Overeaters they actually are finding

the study I quote in the book is that

they found that people who had food

addiction people who had extra weight

like obese

situations they were not getting as much

happiness out of their food because

their dopamine receptor sites were

saturated so they had to eat more food

to get more happiness and a lot and you

know food is a state Chang it does make

us happy so what they found is if they

put them into a 48 hour fast that they

actually rebooted the whole dopamine

system and new dopamine Reyes appeared

so that when they brought food back in

to the equation they actually got more

enjoyment out of food with less food

this kind of got me thinking about a

conversation I was having yesterday with

some of my team here we were talking

about how um it almost feels like

sometimes if I've eaten sugar I can go

into a bit of a sugar cycle and what I

mean by that is I'll have some sugar and

then like a couple of hours later I'll

have another craving for sugar and then

a couple of hours later I'll have

another craving for sugar but then at

other times specifically for example

when I did keto I was I did the keto

diet for about eight months uh eight

weeks bloody eight months I wish um

eight weeks and throughout that period I

didn't have any cravings for sugar yep I

would we had some chocolate come into

the studio and I walked over to the

chocolate and I smelled it yep and I

didn't want any of it yep it had gone

but then when I'm in my what I call like

the sugar cycle I'm eating sugar maybe

you know once twice a day and I'm

getting like the craving for it where

which I just can't seem to resist yep

well dopamine's the molecule more it's

not the molecule of enough so what it

does is when you get sugar you get this

dopamine rush and the Brain goes woo

love that give me more of that and so

you con you it's it's endless you will

never be fully satisfied it constantly

wants you to come back for more and more

and more so when you start to go off the

ketogenic Energy System you're getting

the same Foria you probably felt the

same high the same mental Clarity but

you've totally taken this molecule more

out of the out of the picture it's it in

fact dopamine will actually you know you

you get those receptor sites that will

be repaired but you're not getting a big

dopamine buzz when you're in a ketogenic

State you're getting ketones I was I was

mulling it with my team how long I had

to stay away from sugar to kind of get

out of that vicious give me more cycle

yeah my experience has been it's about

three days three days that's what I

thought yeah I think I said four or five

but it's just from experience as well if

I haven't had sugar for 3 or four days I

mean like a like a chocolate but

something significant in terms of sugar

then after three or four days the

craving for it seems to to vanish yeah

yeah it's not it's not if you think

about that it's not hard if you're

trying to overcome a sugar addiction

yeah like just bear it for three days

and then that dopamine stops barking at

you and then if you attack fasting onto

it now you're getting ketones and so

you're not needing that as much ketones

kill hunger and they make you so

mentally mentally clear they give you

this euphoric feeling so you don't have

that urge to go for the for the sugar

and the ketones come from fasting which

is when your body switches metabolic

State go yeah the last and final fasting

style immune reset fast yeah so immune

reset was built off of Dr vter Longo's

work and he did a study on people who

had cancer and were going through ch

therapy and one of the challenges we

know about chemotherapy is that it wipes

out the whole immune system and so he

wanted to see well what if I put

somebody in a fasted State as they went

through chemotherapy would there be a

difference and what he found is after

three days of fasting the white blood

cells in our system actually reboot

themselves so what they do is all old

white blood cells are are sloughed away

and new white blood cells emerge so

people were able to come out of that

chemo therapy experience and have a

stronger immune system as opposed to

what we were seeing was that it was

wiping the immune system out so that

launched the whole three-day water fast

sort of craze at least here in America

we're seeing a lot of people that are

just going after three-day water fast to

Prime their immune system but you also

also at three days get stem cells full

systemic stem cells so all of a sudden

your body's got in surging with stem

cells going to all parts of the body

repairing it the great example I always

use on this one was I had an Achilles

tendon injury and nothing was nothing

was helping it so I threw a 5-day water

fast at it on the fourth day I felt this

buzz in my achilles tendon I was like oh

wonder what that is and it stayed all

the way through I went five full days

and um about the fifth and sixth day so

sixth day I was entering food back in

all the pain completely went away and it

never came back I tried everything I

tried everything and that was the only

thing that repaired

it it does make again evolutionary sense

that if our body senses we're injured

because we're not eating or you know

some other signal that we

are on a course to not survive to put it

nicely it does make sense that it might

set about to repair whatever needs to be

repaired you're getting it you know

because like if I was a wounded human

back in on the savanas of I don't know

Africa or wherever we came from um and

I'm laid there and I'm not eating my

body should probably go okay Steve might

need something fixed so he can get back

to yeah hunting so you're getting it so

survival that is the number one priority

of the body so when you go without food

you amplify every resource it has to

keep you alive and if repairing my

Achilles means I can now go hunt for

food it's going to do that it's going to

make me stronger and I in the book I I

stumbled when I was writing the book I

stumbled upon a really cool hypothesis

that's called the Thrifty Gene

hypothesis and it said that what it's a

theory obviously it's a hypothesis it's

a theory that the people the humans that

evolved out of the Primal days had a

very specific genotype and this genotype

allowed us to metabolically flex and and

be stronger in a fasted State because we

had to survive and the people that

didn't make it from that time period

didn't have that Gene but think about

this for this moment so they think we

all have this Gene inside of us right

now this Thrifty Gene where we can go

long periods without food and we can

survive so what happens when we're

eating all day what happens when we're

ignoring and we're not actually

activating that genetic profile

so what they are now believing is that

diabetes metabolic syndrome all of that

is largely happening because we are

going against the G the genetic profile

that we are now seeing in humans we're

like on the opposite end of the spectrum

we're overloading our bodies

yeah which is meaning that the survival

Gene you referen there is not being

activated to help us that's right that's

right interesting what about what about

coffee you know if I'm going to fast

asked for I know people are so addicted

to coffee so I feel like I have to ask a

question as their representative if I'm

going to fast do any of these six fasts

that you just mentioned does coffee

break that fast yeah it does break it no

well it depends okay so this is this I'm

just I yes or

no um I can't give you a yes or no on it

I'm going to give you most likely okay

no let me give you most likely it's okay

okay most likely it's okay yes there's

not a high degree of certainty and

conviction there no let me let me

explain myself okay so when you drink a

cup of coffee it shouldn't spike your

blood sugar it shouldn't should not it

doesn't so if it does it shouldn't so if

you have black coffee and your blood

sugar doesn't Spike and you're you're

trying to metabolically switch over into

your fasting window you're good you're

golden drink that black coffee okay okay

now I'm gonna add some sugar to it okay

now now you're not switch now you've

pulled you've pulled yourself out of

fasted State uh okay so no sugar just a

plain coffee with no milk or sugar in it

is is most likely going to keep you in a

fasted State most likely uh well I've

seen a few occasions where it didn't

okay um this is why we have people test

their blood sugar like it it it's Unique

to you so you can test your blood sugar

have the cup of coffee half an hour

later check your blood sugar again those

numbers should be equal okay so for most

people coffee should be fine when

they're fasting but there's a couple of

an anomalies who their blood sugar does

Spike yes um which means that they're

not going to switch over to the fasted

State yes yes exactly and you know

coffee mate

creamers um those can be a little more

problematic um but some people put full

fat cream in there with no sugar um some

people put MCT oil in there you know the

buttered coffee became very very common

and that was because of the fasting

movement so the reason they did that was

because when you put a fat in coffee you

stabilized your blood sugar and so you

were able to stay in the fasted State

and switch over I had glucose God this

on the podcast who um Jesse she talks a

lot about glucose spikes it was the

first time my eyes were really open to

the consequence of living a life where

your glucose levels are spiking and

crashing and spiking and crashing and

I've invested in this company called Zoe

where they give you a glucose monitor

which I attached to my arm for 14 days

as part of the initial test and then

they give me this big sort of nutrition

plan and profile and um that was the

first time I got to see you know I was

in America at the time I was I was in LA

for a couple of months and I in La I

mean I pulled up at a gas station and I

was it's funny I was walking through

this gas station and everything in there

was sugar it's CU cuz now I was looking

right now I had my eyes open cuz I'm

wearing this bloody monitor so I'm about

to see the impact within minutes that it

has on my body and I was just looking

around thinking oh my God the only thing

that I can see in this whole store that

I can eat without spiking my glucose is

water so is it a monitor where you can

see it you can scan it yeah yeah so so

they've got two Game Changer yeah so

they've got two one of them you scan the

new one they've got it's automatic by

Bluetooth so it just keeps constantly

updating on your phone I honestly think

we could dramatically change the health

of the world if everybody put one of

those on amen amen because then what you

would do is you would just go cuz you

know this is like coffee like you should

it should be so simple for me just to

say yes drink your coffee you're fine

but your microbiome in your gut is going

to determine what it does with whatever

hits that so it's going to determine

your blood sugar levels your microbiome

my microbiome completely different so

food no longer is a one-size fits all

there's an individual approach so you

have to know what your blood sugar is

doing yeah you know like when I eat

believe it or not when I eat a grass-fed

steak my blood sugar goes down it's

amazing wow so whereas other people eat

a steak and their blood sugar goes Super

high and so then again you go to a

thread of this conversation which is how

do we help Humanity yeah and Humanity

wants the one size fits all I can't give

you that yeah you're gonna have to learn

your own you got to learn you and

something like that teaches you you but

you're going to have to become very

curious about you like you are and

what's really fun to me when you put one

of those things on I it's my favorite

thing to do with patience is I say just

eat normal just eat everything yeah yeah

yeah and then and then every day I have

them send me their readings and we just

talk it through I I just did this with a

beautiful patient that I've been working

with who has a long history of eating

disorders and she was counting calories

and um really wanted the control of

being able to keep her weight where she

was where where it needed to be and I

said okay you can count calories if you

want but I just want you to stick this

monitor on and let's just eat and let's

see what you're doing and she was vegan

and and this isn't a this isn't an

anti-vegan conversation but her spikes

were up and down and up and down like

there was like eight of them a day and

her moods followed those spikes too and

so then we started to go okay well let's

add a protein here could we add fat here

could we add some more fiber here and

she got to watch for herself and within

four weeks she was free of any food

control and she was off teaching

everybody else it was so beautiful to

watch that calorie counting point

though there's a there's a big school of

thought that in order to lose weight and

be healthy all you've got to do is count

those calories yeah you know there's

something called a set point have you

heard about the set point yeah which is

the amount of calories that I need to

consume in order to hit my that's right

so we all have a set point if you're

going to go down the calorie path you H

you have to understand you have a set

point and the set point is there's a mo

how much calories coming in and how much

calories going out what's the Delta of

that and that will keep you at whatever

weight you want to be so let's use an

example you eat 1,500 calories a day you

exercise 500 you have a Delta of a

thousand so if you want to keep your

weight where it's at you always have to

do a th000 calories every single day

yeah okay well what happens on the day

you decide not to work out so now you

have 500 extra calories that your body's

not used to and so what does it do with

those calories stores it so then you all

of a sudden start you're gaining weight

and you don't really understand why so

you're like well let me count I need to

restrict calories yeah so then you start

eating maybe I mean I have less yeah and

then you bring the set point down well

that's your new that's your new set

point you're going to have to stay at

that set point now if you don't ever

want to gain another

pound you see the game oh okay so my set

point is moving the crafty it moves

because as you restrict and you if as

food restriction goes down and energy

output goes up your set point goes down

and now you're like I feel great but you

can't leave from that set point you're

going to always have to make sure that

that set point is 1,000 calories or 800

calories so I was told I mean this is

the school of thought that I have to

have for me as a male that has my weight

2,000 calories a day and then if I'm

under 2,000 calories a day then I'll

lose weight that's what I was told yeah

so you go now you go to 1500 calories

you drop weight yeah to lose the weight

yep you go back up to 2,000 and for most

people they start to gain weight again

ah because my my set point has moved so

now it's 1,500 yeah to maintain my

weight yeah which is why if you think

about it have we have we ever seen a

calorie restriction diet work long term

no right I haven't longterm being the

key word there yeah it's short term it

it works great but this is why I'm such

a fan of metabolic switching how about

we watch blood sugar we put a monitor

like you're talking let's put a monitor

on so that you keep your blood sugar

spikes minimal it's like what I did with

this woman is I was like let's can we

have two two spikes in a day not eight

and we just keep your blood sugar at a

at a at a low level so that when you're

not eating you can switch over and now

you can burn fat in the fat burning

Energy System so metabolic switching is

where you're keeping your blood sugar at

a stable place it's not got all these

Spikes all over the place so that when

it starts to go down the body is going

to want to switch over and it can start

to burn fat in the in and use that other

energy system what do you think our

relationship should be with

sugar well you know there's only 12% of

Americans that are metabolically

healthy is that means that they have the

right blood pressure the right

cholesterol that their hemoglobin A1c

their insulin all those metabolic

markers are in Balance only

12% of Americans have that

right that is a huge problem and that is

largely because we're addicted to

Sugar so what's the consequence of poor

metabolic health obesity cancer heart

disease mental health challenges I mean

you name it every chronic disease on the

planet at the root has a metabolic

thread now I hate to to bring back a a a

a really traumatic concept uh topic but

during covid when we looked at the

people that fell prey to covid this is

no no disrespect they were metabolically

unhealthy and the people that had less

covid symptoms were the ones that were

more metabolically healthy in general so

and largely because the virus could grow

could really replicate if you had a lot

of glucose in your system so the

consequence is huge and the health care

Consequence the amount of money we pay

trying to help everybody put their

health back together because they're

metabolically unhealthy if we just

started with metabolic Health we would

change everything and metabolic Health

people think of metabolic Health often

as being you know I'm in good

superficial

shape I'd like to think um but that's

not metabolic Health you could be I'm

guessing you can be metabolically

unhealthy but also have abs oh oh yeah

you could this woman I was telling you

about with all the the spikes she was

she's actually a a model and an actress

oh wow that that is beautiful and we had

to go back in and really work with

getting her metabolically healthy so

yeah you we call it skinny fat you look

you look skinny on the outside but

you're dealing with excess sugar on the

inside that is putting fat around your

liver putting fat in other areas I think

a lot of people can relate to that

skinny fat concept yeah so it's it's a

major major issue and and you know we

can look at different things like

hemoglobin A1c it's a marker in the

blood everybody gets it tested every

year when they go to their doctor it

should be under five if it's not under

five what's happening is all that extra

sugar is is going around your red blood

cells and your red blood cells carry

oxygen to your body so they're gummed up

with sugar so they can't deliver things

oxygen to the brain to your eyes to your

muscle so you're not getting oxygenated

because of the sugar just gumming up

these blood

cells in chapter one of your book you

talk about this um metabolic Health

crisis in great detail you share some

stats which I pulled out which I I

thought were terrifying it's page page

four of your book you say according to

the CDC 41% of women and TW 21 and older

are obese 45% have high blood pressure

out of two one out of two will develop

cancer in their lifetimes one out of

five will develop Alzheimer's one out of

nine will get typed two diabetes one out

of eight will develop a thyroid problem

and 80% of all autoimmune conditions

occur in

women why is that that last one 80% of

all autoimmune conditions occur in women

yeah so autoimmunity is a really

interesting one um and um if you look at

what an autoimmune condition is it's the

body attacking

itself and so when we look at where to

go we're back of the toxins Hashimoto

why is the body attacking the thyroid

there's something there that needs to

get out so it's usually a toxic issue so

the body's attacking the the thyroid

when we look at ra and Joints there's

toxins in there body's attacking that so

it's happening more to women largely

because well this is this this could go

dark real fast but largely because we

have so many influences that are

affecting our our horm hormones so the

best way I can explain this is something

I call the hormonal hierarchy where our

sex hormones are going to be completely

thrown off by insulin so when you get

insulin resistant your sex hormones are

off and insulin is going to be so

impacted by cortisol so when you're

stressed all the time you're going to be

insulin resistant and when you're

insulin insulin resistant you're going

to have trouble balancing estrogen

progesterone and testosterone but at the

top of the hierarchy is oxy toin and

oxytocin is that we're getting oxytocin

right now just from connecting with each

other and it'll calm start to calm

cortisol down and then when it calms

cortisol down you can be more insulin

sensitive and when you can be more

insulin sensitive now your sex hormones

can can balance better so we need that

hierarchy as as women to be in balance

in order for our bodies to be in Balance

but what do we have women doing right

now we have poor diet lots of stress uh

and our our sex hormones are way off

which sugar and sugar you're going after

the sugar yeah so women are are are

perishing within this modern world more

than

men so we've got to help a woman bring

back more insulin sensitiv sensitivity

we got to get her doing better uh Stress

Management and when we do that now the

immune system can regulate now the

immune system can calm down and stop

being so hyperactive attacking all the

toxins that are in the body so it's very

complex does that imply that women and

men have a different relationship with

stress oh yeah yeah yeah for sure we're

not I okay so I'm gonna I'm gonna be as

bold as to say this and I know all my my

feminist women out there are not going

to like this and I I was raised by a

strong woman I am a strong woman I've

raised another strong woman and I have

to tell you that we are not meant to

handle the stress loads as well as men

and that's largely because of two

hormones so estrogen makes us very out

outward makes us very much an extrovert

and we can handle a lot of stress when

when estrogen is present in our body but

progesterone she can't handle stress at

all so progesterone will start to

diminish a as cortisol goes up I always

say when when cortisol goes High

progesterone becomes shy so now we're I

the number of women since fast like a

girl came out that I have heard from the

20 and 30 year olds that have no cycle

none that is because they're insulin

resistant they're more stressed

progesterone's not making her appearance

so there's no shed of the uterine lining

that is absolutely a stress issue and

not having a period for a woman is a

major problem because that's how we

detox that's how we get these hormones

out of us so if you're not having a

cycle you're not getting rid of estrogen

you're not getting rid of so many toxins

and it's just staying inside of

you that's that's a major

problem controversial idea but it rings

true for a lot of people yeah and I know

this because I've had women very close

to me in my life talk to me about this

exact thing and

um specifically not having their

menstrual cycle and

then focusing on the stresses in their

life and then comes back the menstrual

cycle coming back um people very very

close to me in fact that I've I've

struggled with because of this exact

challenge

yeah it is a controversial idea though

isn't it it's a it's slightly

problematic um as an idea is there any

scientific basis for that idea well we

know based off science that when

cortisol goes up progesterone goes down

cortisol is the stress hormone yeah so

when you're under stress cortisol goes

up

and so if you're let's say it's the week

before your period That's when you're

supposed to have the most amount of

progesterone if it doesn't matter if

you're trying to run a marathon doesn't

matter if you have a work deadline

doesn't matter if you're skiing on sleep

as long as cortisol is going up

progesterone is not going to make her

appearance and if she doesn't make her

appearance then the uterine lining won't

shed that's that's been proven over and

over every hormone expert would agree

multiple studies but women don't realize

that so we if there's ever a time to

mind your stress it's the week before

your period which is why you don't fast

the week before your period because

that's a that's a bit of a stressor it's

why you shouldn't train for you know a

big Spartan Race or a crossfitting event

or a run a marathon you should be doing

more yoga and Recovery the week before

your period this is why we should

prioritize sleep the week before our

periods because that we don't want

cortisol up so in a in an interesting

world this is sort of the vision I have

for women right now

is what if there is this moment where

the week before our period we have the

the capability of maybe not working as

hard they're like Spain they're giving a

three-day menstrual leave to

women they with no questions asked

before before the period or well it's no

questions asked they anticipated it that

women would use it the first three days

of her period but a woman can use it any

time I say use it the three days before

your cycle is supposed to come

interesting Have you shared this idea

before publicly uh I've on several

podcasts I've talked about it I had a

great interview with Kate northrip um on

my podcast and she's an entrepreneur and

she actually Maps her whole business

cycle around her menstrual cycle and so

we had a beautiful conversation about

this and she said that she doesn't do as

many Zoom calls she tells her team that

she's going to take get get off uh work

a little bit earlier on those days she

slows everything down her workload goes

dramatically down and she said what

ended up happening is that when her

period started her productivity went up

so see what when estrogen comes in on on

starting day one day two of our

menstrual cycles estrogen makes us

really mentally clear makes us very

verbal estrogen's an incredible hormone

for

productivity but if you aren't minding

that back half of your cycle and you're

not slowing down

then then you're coming into your period

and you're having you hear so many women

who are like I'm cramping I'm bleeding a

lot it's really painful that's because

you didn't mind the back half of your

cycle and what's the sort of

evolutionary basis for all of this why

is the body doing this why is the body

um not going to give us our periods I

mean listen I don't have a period but um

well I have a version of it right I'm

sure men have some kind of you guys you

guys have a you work off a 24-hour cycle

okay so every 15 minutes you get

testosterone okay you know we joke about

that right what do you say you J behind

our

backs kind of what' you say the joke is

like if you don't like what your

husband's saying just ask him in 15

minutes he might say something different

oh that's what you've been say oh just

letting you in on what might be going on

behind the scenes okay so what is the

evolutionary basis for why why that is

true so think about yeah let's go back

to our Primal days so you know

testosterone is meant to have you go out

and Hunt it's some very motivating it's

you get it every 15 minutes so you know

God this sounds as I'm saying it sounds

so sexist but when we look at the body

this is actually how we're built so you

were your body was driven to go hunt and

go find and Go Achieve that's the number

one hormone that it works off of for the

women what our we are meant to be more

outgoing before ovulation okay why is

that oh we need to connect we need to

start to feel that that mental Clarity

you know estrogen makes your hair really

like full and your skin really glow and

it starts to make us more beautiful all

leading up to to ovulation once

ovulation hits now we have estrogen at

our Peak we have a little bit of

testosterone and we have a little bit of

progesterone okay well why is that

because now we our libidos up we're

motivated to reproduce we're looking

beautiful because we have so much

estrogen going through our body we're

verbal we can connect and we have

progesterone to keep us calm so we're

supposed to reproduce when ovulation

hits and then the back half technically

we would be have a fertilized egg and we

would be winding

down and if we didn't get a fertilized

egg then we're supposed to relax so we

can go back and do the extroverted piece

of our elves in the front half of our

cycle so it's all based off of

reproduction so I need some advice then

because I'm in a relationship and I want

to understand I guess this goes both

ways I want my girlfriend to understand

how hormones are influencing my behavior

and I want to know how hormones are

influencing her behavior yeah what

advice have you got for me well the

first is do you know her

cycle moving on we're going to talk

about sugar again no no this is too good

so sugar it's really bad isn't it who's

to blame no seriously tell me about your

childhood know get to know her cycle I'm

GNA give you I'm Gonna Give You gold now

let me give you gold okay so day one of

her cycle day one to day 10 she's

building estrogen first couple of days

of her cycle just let her be like she

you know that she's transitioning out of

the back half of her cycle she might be

having some heavier bleeding you know

she's moving into that extroverted place

so the first two days give her some

space now day three estrogen's starting

to to build so you're going to notice

she's more verbal she's going to be more

present she might feel more outgoing

she's going to feel like she wants to

connect with you that's going to go all

the way through ovulation like in the

middle of ovulation which is about day

12 day 13 where all of a sudden

estrogens at its peak if you have any

conflict you want to resolve with her do

it between like day two and day 12 of

her cycle she's going to be so ready to

handle any conflict with you between let

me write that

down day day two and day 12 day two like

literally my battles I had a I had a dad

come to me and tell me that he was

struggling to understand his teenage

daughter and I said well do you know her

cycle and he was like no I don't I said

well you would never ever bring a

conflict to her on day 18 or 19 of her

cycle bring it to her on day 10 10 and

now she's going to talk to you I'm going

to say something which is really

embarrassing here I know nothing about

menstrual cycles and no point in my life

did anybody teach me about menstrual

cycles the only Insight I have in my

life to what a menstrual cycle is is

overhearing my sister when I was younger

talking about it yeah and when I say

overhearing I mean maybe a sentence and

then maybe my girlfriend once in a while

she'll say oh I'm coming into my cycle

or whatever she'll say I'm on my period

that's for most men that's in fact the

extent of the education we have about

the female

reproductive um menal menstrual cycles y

so talk to me like I'm an idiot about

the menstrual cycle yeah how long is it

oh I love this and do you know that most

women don't know oh really so I mean

most women are ignorant to their own

Cycles so it's 28 days anywhere from 28

days to 32 every woman has a different

length okay and what day does the period

come on day one so day one is the first

day she bleeds okay then how long that

lost for what seven days uh it

everyone's different anywhere from three

to seven days okay so day you said day

between day two and 12 is when to pick

my battles yes so day two you're going

to start to see her being emerge a

little more gregarious she may be a

little more outgoing so I mean as she

get closer to day 12 you want to go

party with her you want to take her out

make her feel good like that's the time

to whine and dine her okay cool we'll

put all the dates then and the fights

and then after day 12 what am I doing

then after day well okay so day 12 is

right when she's ovulating so you're GNA

have to choose your battle there but

ovulation occurs for most women between

day 10 and day 15 there's a small little

five-day window there that's if this is

a when once I figured this out I was

like why don't why don't men know this

um that's when she's going to be her

libido is going to be the highest okay

so we're having sex one day yes so if

you want to have sex with her I'm just

writing this down have sex with her

around that time around that time if

she's willing yeah she's going to be

more motivated cuz she has testosterone

she's going to feel more like it okay

then after she finishes ovulating off

day 15 yeah so then there's going to be

a crash of hormones you might see a

change in her personality she might feel

a little low go stay in a

hotel but you could ask you know like if

she's having a bummer day like or a low

day ask her do you know what day your

cycle are you on be really nice be

really nice really nice and then here's

the gold here's gold this is so good

you're going to have to report back to

me how this works uh when around day 17

or 18 Gest drones coming in this is

where you got to give her foot rubs you

got to be extra special and cater her

like like she's the queen that she

deserves to be okay so all my

compliments that's where I pull out the

notepad but what you need to know is

she's probably going to be like if

you're like oh you look so beautiful

today she might at that time be like no

I feel horrible I'm bloated I'm I don't

feel beautiful but and I should disagree

I should say no you no you you're no you

don't you look amazing okay cool and you

do that till she bleeds and you take

amazing care of her in the back the week

before her period and you will get kudos

like you you can't even imagine and then

start it all over again and then start

it all over again got you yeah I mean

just once you understand our patterns

and then it also helps you understand

that we're going to be more outgoing in

the front half of our cycle we're going

to be more introverted in the back half

what about men you guys every 15 minutes

you you're pretty you're pretty black

and white really yeah you're pretty

straightforward

so if she was asking you the same

question about me would you say anything

to her about my hormone Cycles at all

you you just say what it it really

depends on the issue at hand so if it's

a a a mismatch of libido then the best

time to have sex with a woman is during

ovulation okay which because she has the

most amount of testosterone day 10 to 15

of her CLE it would be really handy

wouldn't it just to have a little

menstrual cycle chart on the wall at

home I know that sounds a bit strange

but just so I know what's going on

inside bud I the first time I discovered

this I started using an app called The

Clue app yeah and it shows you in a

circle it kind of shows a little cloud

and then it shows you where PMs Clicks

in and it actually has a button that you

can share it with people in your life

and I thought not only does my husband

need this but my staff needs this they

need to understand where I'm going and

what if all the women on my on my team

actually shared it with each other and

we could see where each other was at in

the menstrual cycle we would understand

why a woman's moods can be so up and

down it's really you know it because of

these three hormones our moods are much

more volatile than yours you guys are

pretty steady Edy we're a and this is

general you know this is I hate to be

sexist in this conversation but this is

hormones and the way they work it's

actually really helpful to know this

because without this Insight it's very

easy to fall into the Trap of just

assuming your partner is Moody or that

they are they have like mood swings or

that they're you know people say things

like they're too emotional or they're

whatever it might be but with this I

actually think it creates a ton of

empathy yeah that's certainly the

reaction that I get from hearing that

there's a there's significant hormone

fluctuations in my partner and they

happen at certain periods it actually

now would change my behavior the way

that I receive certain times where I