Dr. Mindy Pelz On Women's Hormonal Health, Cyclical Fasting, Health As A Verb, Reclaiming Your Body's Intelligence & Transforming Menopause Into Empowerment

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Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Dr. Mindy Pelz is a functional medicine expert, bestselling author of "Fast Like a Girl," and a specialist in women's hormonal health. This conversation explores why modern life creates an evolutionary mismatch for women, the hormonal hierarchy that controls everything, and why fasting isn't one-size-fits-all. We discuss metabolic switching, why your pre-period cravings are biological, and how menopause can be empowerment rather than decline. Mindy uncovers the fundamental flaws in our approach to female health. This is a must-listen for any woman ready to stop giving her power away and start trusting her body's intelligence. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: On: High-performance shoes & apparel crafted for comfort and style 👉https://www.on.com/richroll Lincoln Financial: Check out the NEW 4-part series "The Action Plan"👉https://www.lincolnfinancial.com/richroll Momentous: Save 35% OFF your first subscription order 👉https://www.livemomentous.com/richroll WHOOP: The all-new WHOOP 5.0 is here! Get your first month FREE👉https://www.join.whoop.com/Roll Prolon: Get 15% OFF plus a FREE bonus gift 👉 https://www.prolonlife.com/richroll Calm: Get 40% off a Calm Premium subscription 👉 https://www.calm.com/richroll Check out all of the amazing discounts from our Sponsors 👉 https://www.richroll.com/sponsors Find out more about Voicing Change Media at https://www.voicingchange.media and follow us@voicingchange

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0:00.0	We have to always understand that the human body for both men and women has one major priority,
0:08.8	and that's survival.
0:09.9	Women have a second priority, and that's reproduction.
0:13.0	The reproductive system actually will respond to whatever environment you put it in.
0:18.9	So if you put this female body into a stressful environment,
0:23.2	the reproductive system goes way, this isn't safe, and it shuts itself down.
0:27.4	If you start to feed the reproductive system, which is our hormonal system,
0:31.4	a lot of junk food, and you create this ultra-processed, agitated glutamate response is what it is where we amp up the nervous system
0:40.6	her reproductive system will shut down this is PCOS this is infertility so the environment in which
0:47.3	we are sitting in that we are living in is not working for us think of it like antennas like it's
0:52.9	constantly looking around going,
0:54.8	am I safe?
0:55.6	Can I release an egg this month?
0:57.3	So we have to think about our environment
0:59.6	much differently than men do.
1:10.2	Hey, people. I am back on my jam today with some nutrition science, which going back to the beginning of the show was, and perhaps for a significant percentage of you long timers, still is this podcast, bread and butter.
1:26.7	But when it comes to nutrition science,
1:30.8	there's this unfortunate thing,
1:33.1	which is that it and by it I mean,
1:37.5	the canon of research is quite embarrassingly deficient
1:43.4	when it comes to studying, understanding,
1:46.8	and appreciating the very significant biological differences
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