Hey, Dr. Mindy here and welcome to the Live Like a Girl podcast, where I bring you icons, disruptors, educators, scientists, and doctors that show you what can be possible when you love and celebrate the female body you are blessed to live in. Let's dive in. One in three adults are

completely overwhelmed with their stress loads. Looking at it through that picture, fasting might not

be the best tool for a completely stressed out human. It doesn't mean fasting doesn't

work. It means that once again we need to think about if fasting is right for you. So in this video,

I am going to walk you through five signals that your body will give you to tell you

if fasting is working or if fasting is not working. I call them green lights and red lights.

And I'm going to show you five action steps you can do to either modify your fast, stopping your fast, or do more fasting

depending on where your stress loads are at and how your nervous system is handling it.

This is a video we've needed to do for you for a very long time, and I can't wait to dive into this.

So here we go. Let's go. First, we have to say, just like exercise, fasting is a stressor.

So that's not a secret. Hopefully you understand that it is a hormetic stressor.

Hormesis is a good stressor. This is how fasting works, is that it applies just a little bit of stress on the system that causes your

body to grow bigger and do better things, just like exercise. When you go and exercise,

if you are lifting weights, you break muscle down and that muscle is under stress, but it builds

itself strong again. That's the same thing that's happening with fasting. But it's if you think about it,

it's when we're already in a broken down overwhelmed state. If we put more fasting on top of that,

that's not a good system. The stress that we put ourselves in, whether we fast, whether we exercise, whether we cold plunge

or sauna, that is a signal, but it's in the aftermath of that, in the recovery where the

magic starts to hit.

So think of it like your metabolic switch. Remember how I taught you about the metabolic switch?

You could, when you eat you're a sugar burner, there's no stress there unless you're eating the

wrong food, like ultra-process foods. But then when you switch over into fat burner, this is called

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