How to Fast for Fat Loss, Hormones, and Better Sex | Dr. Mindy Pelz

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Dr. Mindy Pelz, fasting expert, functional health practitioner, and bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl, joins Lewis Howes to discuss intermittent fasting, the hormonal hierarchy, the menstrual fasting cycle, ketogenic energy systems, cortisol, oxytocin, the effects of birth control on the gut microbiome, the Power Sync 60 fitness program, and how fasting timing affects fat loss, libido, and hormone balance for both men and women.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to the School of Greenness.
0:05.4	Very excited about our guests.
0:06.6	We have the inspiring Dr. Mindy in the house.
0:09.2	So good to see you.
0:10.2	Thank you.
0:11.2	It's so great to be here.
0:11.8	You are an incredible fasting expert teaching people how to burn fat, balance hormones,
0:17.6	and live better lives.
0:19.3	And my first question is, you're going to set you up.
0:23.5	How do we look and feel younger?
0:26.1	How do we burn the fat that we really don't want our bodies faster?
0:31.2	And how do we have the best sex of our lives through fasting?
0:36.3	Oh, wow.
0:36.8	We're going to put all those together. Okay, let me start
0:40.9	with a principle and then I'm going to answer each one individually. So here's the principle.
0:45.5	We have two energy systems, one where we create energy when we eat and one energy system
0:52.0	that kicks in when we're not eating. Okay. Okay, this is where
0:54.9	every diet has ever failed. This is where aging starts to speed up. This is where you get your
0:59.6	libido wrong is because every conversation around nutrition has only been around what we should
1:06.5	eat. And what fasting is doing is I'm now and me, plus many other experts are coming to the
1:13.1	masses saying, why don't we talk about when we eat? So when you, your blood sugar starts to come
1:19.7	down, usually around eight hours, eight, ten hours without food, you switch over into what we
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