Hello and welcome back. Today's episode is a really special one because the format is a little bit

different. I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Thomas Hemingway on his podcast, Unshakeable

Health, where we had a deep conversation about keto for women and metabolic flexibility and

fasting and hormones and how to actually make

nutrition work for your body long term. And so I wanted to publish this interview that was on his

podcast, on my podcast, and really get into a personal story around losing my menstrual cycle for

eight years, how changing my diet, like ultimately really helped

restore my cycle. And we talked about how keto has evolved over the years, why strict dieting

can sometimes backfire, and really why metabolic flexibility might actually be the real goal

that we're all after. And we've talked about this, even recently,

in metabolism after 40 in episode 570, we went through some of those aspects. So in today's

episode, we're going to cover carb cycling, fasting around your cycle, the role of stress and adrenal

health during perimenopause and menopause and really why

the diet of keto works now, but not later, and why that's happening and why five years down the

road you can't do the ketogenic diet. So if you've ever like wondered whether or not keto is right

for you or kind of my stance on the

ketogenic diet, I kind of wanted to cover this because if you've been following for any

amount of time, you know that there was a good amount of time where I educated quite substantially

on the ketogenic diet.

In fact, I had a friend recently say, you know, would you write another book on keto or what else do you have to

add to the conversation? I'm like literally nothing. I have nothing else to add to the conversation on

keto. I covered it from 2014 to 2021, I want to say. And so like that's a good amount of time. That's seven years covering the ketogenic

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