#216 Fasting for Women with Dr Mindy Pelz
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Fasting is one of the hottest topics at the moment and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr Mindy Pelz to dive into this fascinating area.
Like I always say to people, fasting is potentially a phenomenal, multifunctional tool that we can use to improve our immune system and our metabolic health. But the dose of fasting, the method of fasting and whether fasting is at all appropriate if you have a pre-existing condition, are all questions that are very hard to answer.
Adding further complexity to the decision of how and when to fast, is the menstrual cycle. For years Mindy has been educating 1000s of women online on how to make the best use of this tool with the consideration of their shifting hormones.
We go into a lot of detail today, but as ever there are so many more things that we need to discuss and will probably have to do a part 2 at some point in the future.
Do check out Mindy’s fabulous book, “Fast like a Girl”, I’ve been recommending it to everyone and it’s a great resource for anyone interested in fasting as a tool for health.
We also talk about some caveats of fasting and who fasting is NOT for in this episode. This is especially the case for anyone pregnant, breastfeeding or who has a history of eating disorders.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't diskitch it recipes health lifestyle and so for the first time people are |
| 0:07.2 | losing weight permanently it is falling off of them because they tapped into a |
| 0:13.8 | whole energy system they didn't even know was there and if we could we could |
| 0:18.6 | probably spend hundreds of years of arguing about food and and I you know I |
| 0:26.1 | love what you're up to because God we keep turning food into just plastic and |
| 0:32.5 | people and I hear so many people like oh well I don't have time to eat blah blah |
| 0:36.1 | and it's like yeah okay well let's start with fasting let's change your |
| 0:40.7 | microbiome let's get you dropping weight and now we can start to work with your |
| 0:45.6 | food it's a different door in and my favorite quote that I just got I found |
| 0:50.0 | in this guy and talking to this guy and helping him lose weight is I really |
| 0:54.0 | realize that you don't need motivation to lose weight you need momentum |
| 0:58.4 | welcome to the doctor's kitchen podcast |
| 1:03.6 | the show about food lifestyle medicine and how to improve your health today |
| 1:10.9 | I'm Dr. Rupi your host I'm a medical doctor I study nutrition and I'm a |
| 1:16.3 | firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine join me and my |
| 1:23.5 | expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to |
| 1:28.6 | lead your best life |
| 1:35.6 | fasting is one of the hottest topics at the moment and I had the pleasure of |
| 1:41.2 | sitting down with Dr. Mindy Pell to dive into this fascinating area and like |
| 1:46.0 | I always say to people fasting is potentially a phenomenal multi-functional |
| 1:51.6 | tool that we can use to improve our immune system and our metabolic health but |
| 1:56.8 | the dose of fasting the method of fasting and whether fasting is at all |
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