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The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

#255 - Dr. Mindy Pelz: Fast Like A Girl, Balancing Hormones, Quitting Food Buddies, Fixing Perimenopause & Menopause Symptoms, Fasting For Your Cycle, Maximizing Fertility, Gut & Microbiome Repair, Balancing Autophagy & MTOR, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

When I look at this metabolic switch, we should have part of the day that we eat and we should have part of the day that we don't eat.

0:07.0

It just blew my mind how the body healed in the absence of food.

0:12.0

We are not looking at absolutes.

0:15.0

We need to look at fasting in a cyclical way for a woman.

0:19.4

Estrogen really does well when you fast.

0:22.3

But on the other side of the equation, we have progestron.

0:25.0

And progestone doesn't want you to fast.

0:27.7

Fasting in an absolute.

0:29.1

So fasting is a healing tool.

0:31.6

Welcome to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast,

0:34.9

where we meet the world's top experts to explore the secrets of health,

0:40.3

mindset, longevity, and so much more.

0:43.6

Are you ready to take charge of your existence and biohack your life?

0:47.9

This show is for you.

0:49.8

Please keep in mind, we're not dispensing medical advice and are not responsible for any outcomes

0:55.3

you may experience from implementing the tactics lying herein. Are you ready? Let's do this.

1:03.7

Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast. Oh my goodness, friends. I know this is a

1:09.0

heavily, heavily anticipated episode. I have had requests to have Dr. Mindy Peltz on the show for honestly years, years, years, years, especially being the host of the intermittent fasting podcast. Her name comes up a lot. And it was such an honor to have her on for her book, Fast Like a Girl, as well as her other books like

1:28.2

The Menopause Reset. And we dive deep into so many things. She is such a wonderful person to connect

1:34.3

with. And she provides a very nuanced, personalized approach to fasting, especially if you are

1:40.1

into adjusting your fasting and your eating patterns around your cycles. Dr. Peltz is your

1:45.6

girl for that. We dive deep into so many topics in today's episode. We talk about something

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