Hello, hello, and welcome to the Root Cause Medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

Today, I'm talking with my girl, Dr. Stephanie Estima, about tailoring exercise and nutrition to the

ever-changing menstrual cycle. It's called cycle-sinking, which is important as estrogen and

progesterone go through these different phases

that affect the whole body. Dr. Stephanie does a lot. She is the founder of Hello Betty, a community

centered around female empowerment through health and business coaching. She's a doctor of

chiropractic, host of the Better podcast, and creator of the Estima Diet, plus author of the best-selling

book, The Betty Body. She's been featured on magazine covers, Thrive Global, and The Huffington Post.

Plus, she's amassed over three and a half million article reads on Medium.com.

It was an absolute pleasure talking with her

today as she broke down the different phases of the cycle and explained how hormones impact

exercise choices and exercise in turn impacts those hormones. Here's a clip from today's conversation.

Any type of high intensity activity, if you're doing that four or five, six times a week,

and you're saying, hi, wonder why I have this extra belly weight, I have this weight loss

resistance.

The guys feel great because they're more like the sun.

They have more of a rhythm that follows.

It's more of a circadian rhythm. Now, certainly we have circadian rhythms as well, but I always like to say men are like the sun. They have more of a rhythm that follows, it's more of a circadian rhythm. Now, certainly we

have circadian rhythms as well, but I always like to say men are like the sun and women are

like the moon, right? We have a bit of a longer, we have a bit of a longer cycle, which plays out

over the course of, on an average, 29.5 days versus a guy who basically resets everything

every 24 and a half hours or so. So we are

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