Hey there, welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. On this

podcast, we go in depth with leading experts from all walks of life to understand and improve

your health and well-being. Today, I'm talking with Dr. Mindy Pills, a hilariously smart

fasting expert, all about the different types of

fasting and how it affects your hormones. Dr. Mindy is a renowned holistic health expert who is

on a mission to get a million people fasting. She is a best-selling author, speaker, and a top podcaster

who had a private practice for many years.

She has worked with thousands of women. She's also the founder of the Reset Academy, a private

membership group where she teaches women how to sync a fasting lifestyle with their hormones.

It was an absolute pleasure talking with her today as I get a lot of questions

around fasting, intermittent fasting, and the menstrual cycle that she was all too happy to answer.

Here's a clip from today's conversation. Once we move into ovulation, so day, and I'm just

throwing out some general, but day 11, I mean,

no woman is exactly the same length or same cycle, but day 11 to day 15, what's interesting

there, and this is the new nuance that I have, is that I actually don't think you should fast

longer than 15 hours. Let me tell you why. This is like literally brand new. I just put it in the

book. I just made this declaration after watching all these women fast. If you have a high toxic load,

what happens is when we have all these hormones come in and you're stimulating autophagy,

you're going to get a detox reaction.

So I've watched too many women when the hormones are high and they're really in these deep

fast, they're getting rashes, they're getting brain fog, they're getting constipation.

And so I've switched to that ovulation window saying, let's just keep it about 15 hours.

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