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Welcome to the Waste Away podcast.

Check out this quick snippet from the Fasting Reset Summit.

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So I want you to talk a little bit about how the effect of estrogen is on your glucose and insulin levels.

And I know that the hormones, estrogen, and progesterone affect how your cells respond to insulin. And talk a little bit about perimenopause and what happens in the changes in your hormone

levels and how they can, those fluctuations can change your blood sugar levels.

Yeah. So estrogen at a healthy level. So a woman's menstrual cycle starts day one, the first day of

bleeding, right? And at that point, all of the sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone,

testosterone, testosterone are at their relatively lowest levels. But pretty quickly around between

days three and five, estrogen especially and testosterone

start to increase.

So you have your highest levels of estrogen and testosterone about the week before ovulation,

which is about the halfway mark of the menstrual cycle.

So when estrogen in particular is at its highest levels, women are naturally

more insulin sensitive, which is good because we can kind of, you know, it's easier to fast,

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