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This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 606.

If you've been a long-time listener to the podcast, I'm sure you've heard me talk about the

importance of eating fat about the importance of eating

fat, the importance of balancing macronutrients. We need sufficient protein fat and carbohydrates

in order to make hormones, in order to have a healthy menstrual cycle. But in today's episode,

we are diving into a really interesting study that provides a more specific insight as to why we actually need to

consume sufficient fat if we're really looking to optimize our hormones and maintain healthy

menstrual cycle. So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump in to today's study.

Like I always say, the title of these studies leaves something to be desired.

So I will read a portion of the title for the study, but if you're wanting to take a look at

the abstract and take a peek at what we're talking about today, head over to fertilitypriday.com

slash 606 for details.

So the title of today's study affects of a low-fat, high-carbohydrate

diet on plasma sex hormones and pre-menopausal women. So this study is so interesting for a number of

reasons, which we'll get into. But I think what you should know about this study is that they were not

trying to improve menstrual cycle health. They were not trying to show the importance of fat for

hormone production. This study was actually designed to try to figure out if putting women on a low-fat diet

might reduce their risk of cancer because of the hypothesis that estrogen causes cancer to grow.

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