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Episode: Dr. Mindy Pelz: #1 Question to Ask Yourself if You Want to Get Rid of Your Belly Fat & The ONE ingredient to Add to Your Diet that Will Suppress Your Appetite
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Have you ever tried different ways to get rid of belly fat? Have you ever tried different ways to suppress your appetite? Today, Jay welcomes women’s health expert, bestselling author, and podcast host Dr. Mindy Pelz to discuss how women can optimize their health, particularly through fasting, hormones, and metabolic
health. Dr. Pelz explains the biological differences between men and women and emphasizes the importance of understanding the female body's rhythms and cycles for maintaining health and hormonal balance. Dr. Pelz begins by discussing common fasting mistakes, highlighting how doing the same fast daily can slow down metabolism. She introduces the concept of "feast-famine cycling," stressing the need for variety in fasting durations and windows, particularly for women. According to her, fasting must be adapted to the individual’s lifestyle and, for women, their menstrual cycle. She also addresses Jay’s personal approach to fasting and offers tailored advice for him, including when to eat before and after workouts. The conversation then turns to the topic of belly fat and how stress and toxins contribute to weight gain, particularly around the belly area. Dr. Pelz explains that excess cortisol, which is heightened by stress, leads to belly fat, and she provides practical tips to manage cortisol levels, including movement, time in nature, and spending time with positive people. In this interview, you'll learn: How to Start Fasting Gradually How to Manage Stress with Movement How to Reduce Belly Fat Naturally How to Customize Your Eating Schedule How to Stabilize Blood Sugar with Timing How to Stay Full Longer with Healthy Fats How to Lose Weight with Fasting Cycles How to Align Fasting with Your Menstrual Cycle The message is clear: everyone has the ability to transform their well-being by taking small, intentional steps toward a healthier lifestyle. With the right mindset and commitment, a vibrant and balanced life is within reach for all. With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 02:59 The Worst Mistake One Can Make While Fasting 04:38 How Do You Fast Properly? 06:22 What’s Your Intention for Your Health? 09:37 What’s the Fastest Way to Lose Belly Fat? 13:42 Common Toxins That Accumulate in the Body 18:00 The Chemicals that Turn Stems Cells to Fat Cells 19:43 Does Counting Calories Matter? 25:45 How to Have a Better Relationship with Food 29:16 How to Detox from Sugar Cravings 32:47 How Much Protein Should You Eat? 38:19 What is Toxic Fat? 39:50 When is the Best Time to Eat Fat? 43:38 Are You Getting Enough Nutrients for Your Hormones? 46:14 What is the Fasting Cycle? 49:08 The Female’s Hormonal System is Highly Complex 52:52 Should You Reconsider Hormone Replacement Therapy? 55:22 Positive LIfestyle Changes That Could Help You 58:40 Is There Anyone Who SHouldn’t Fast? 59:58 What is a Clean Protein? 01:03:25 How to Empower Your Body 01:04:40 How to Know Your Got Your Meal Right 01:09:09 How Do You Train Yourself to Fast? 01:12:44 Is the Female Body Meant to Have More Fat? 01:17:37 How Do You Manage Fasting and Working Out? 01:20:22 Mindy on Final Five Episode Resources: Dr. Mindy Pelz | Website Dr. Mindy Pelz | Instagram Dr. Mindy Pelz | Facebook Dr. Mindy Pelz | YouTube Dr. Mindy Pelz | LinkedIn Eat Like a Girl: 100+ Delicious Recipes to Balance Hormones, Boost Energy, and Burn Fat See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What causes your body to gain weight? Your body, if it could talk to you, was like, you just had a lot of extra stuff you've been giving me and I didn't know where to put it. So I started in your belly and I'm putting it there to save your life.
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Women's health expert, podcast host, Dr. Mindy Peltz. What is the worst mistake someone can make while fasting that will make them gain weight?
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Doing the same fast, the same way every single day. This is the part that I want to scream from the rooftop.
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Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the place you come to to become a happier, healthier, and more healed. Today's guest is going to help us do just that from the inside out.
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Dr. Mindy Pells is a women's health expert, podcast host, and bestselling author of Fast Like a Girl, The Menopause Reset, and her new book, Eat Like a Girl.
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With a mission to empower women by helping them understand their bodies, Dr. Pels has become a leading voice in the fields of hormones, fasting, and healthy living.
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Dr. Mindy's work provides invaluable guidance for women navigating the complexities of hormones, metabolic health, and nutrition. Please welcome to On Purpose, Dr. Mindy Pels. Mindy, it's great to see you and thank you for being here.
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Oh, I'm excited. I'm super happy to be here and have this conversation with you.
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I just want to point out how amazing you are because you're actually here on your birthday, which shows how much you value and deeply believe in the work you're doing to be spending your birthday with us.
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So I feel even more lucky and grateful to be with you.
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Yeah. You know, I'm sure it's like your work, you know, it is, it's just oozes out of me. So it's not like I had to sacrifice to be here on my birthday. It was more of a joy to be here. So thank you for having me on my birthday.
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I love it. Well, let's get right into it. I wanted to start off with a big question. When we knew you were coming on the show, we asked our audience for things that they would love to learn from you, things they'd love to know about you.
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And one of the biggest ones that came up is, what is the worst mistake someone can make while fasting that will make them gain weight?
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Ooh, this was the biggest question? Okay, this is really great because there's not a one sentence answer. So the biggest mistake for starters is doing the same fast, the same way every single day over and over and over again. Wow.
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We were meant to vary, men and women were meant to vary our fasts. And here's the way you look at it, is that the human body will adapt to what we call a hormetic stress, a little tiny stressor that puts it into a forced adaptation.
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So you go without food, all of a sudden you're like, your body's like, wait a second, no food's coming in, we're gonna need to go find that food that we stored years ago, and so it will go to the fat storage and burn that fat.
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If you do that same style of fasting, maybe it's one meal a day, over and over and over again, the body gets really smart, and it's like, wait, no food's coming in, I only get a little bit of food every single day, I'm gonna slow my metabolism down.
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So the biggest mistake that people make is that they've got to vary their fast, vary the length. You don't fast every day. It's what we call feast, famine, cycling, and it's how the human body was designed to be.
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I was not expecting that answer because I feel like everything we're ever told is like, here's the hours, here's what it is, do it five days in a row. Maybe you can take a couple of days off a week or a month or whatever it may be.
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How do you know then how to structure it to give yourself some sort of system to follow so that you're not just, I guess, completely out of sync as well?
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Yeah. So first I want to say is if it makes logical sense, if you go back and you think about the hunter gatherers, like they came out of the cave and sometimes they had a meal leftover from a kill they made the night before.
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Sometimes they had a lot of food and then sometimes they had no food. So our body is used to that feast, famine, cycling, because that's how we were primally designed. So I want to point that out.
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Second thing, the way that I see this is that every day you have a fasting window and you have an eating window. And your eating window, you get to vary. And it should vary for most people based off your lifestyle.
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So let's use the example of the soccer mom, because that was sort of a big part of my practice was all these, I call them the mama bears. And what we found is that they want the most important meal for them was dinner with the family.
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So they needed to skip breakfast and start their eating window somewhere around 12, 1 o'clock so that they could finish that eating window at 7, 8 o'clock. So Monday through Friday, they would make their eating window in the afternoon, evening.
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But then on the weekends, like a lot of families want to have brunch on Sunday, or maybe they'll go to the farmer's market, or maybe they'll go out to breakfast on Saturday morning.
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So then they would move their eating window up in earlier in the day. So I think you should base it off your lifestyle. And then of course, base it off of, women should base it off their cycle, which is what Fast Like a Girl was about.
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Yeah, so I'm someone who loves systems and routines. So I end up eating, I'm a three meals per day kind of person. I have to eat three meals a day. My body reacts in whether it's cramps or fatigue or whatever if I don't.
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So if I try and miss breakfast or have a late breakfast, I'm feeling that. If I'm skipping a meal in the middle of the day, I'm feeling that, like my body wants it. So I generally end up eating three meals a day pretty much at the same time every day.
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Is that bad? Am I doing that wrong?
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Well, I mean, I always say it depends on your intention. So what's your intention for your health?
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My intention right now is to gain strength and muscle as I've been training and trying to eat enough protein as someone who follows a plant-based diet.
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And then you are doing it when you're working out in the morning?
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Yes, in the morning.
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Yeah. So for you, because you're trying to up muscle, you're going to want to make sure that you eat before your workout and you're going to want to make sure you eat after your workout.
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I'm not doing the before. Yeah.
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Yeah. So then what will end up, so you go in fueled, you're breaking that muscle down while you're working out, and then you're refueling afterwards. That would be like the perfect way to stack protein. But then where does the fasting window fit in?
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So the fasting window would probably be more towards the end of the day. And one of the things that I just try to make this simple for everybody is the best thing you can do is always eat in the light.
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The minute we start eating in the dark, like at the end of the day, we've got melatonin coming into our body and melatonin causes us to be more insulin resistant.
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So if you were working out at nine in the morning, I'd want you to have a meal, maybe a small little protein shake at eight. You do your workout, then you follow it up with a recovery meal. So that's enough.
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Yeah, I would do, yeah, I would, just enough to kind of fuel you. Yeah, you wouldn't need a huge amount. And then, five, six o'clock at night, depending on the time of year, you shut it down.
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And then now if you're done eating at six, you would go, you know, six to six all the way till eight. That's a 14 hour fast every day. And that's pretty good.
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Yeah. So that's pretty much what I do. Fasting was I stopped being at like six 30. We always have an early dinner.
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Yeah.
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But I guess, yeah, that means no, no. none of those late night snacks that if I end up being out till late if I have to, got to stop those late night snacks.
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Yeah, that's the challenge.
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Eating the light.
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Yeah.
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So eating the light and then what a lot of people do because of that night snacking, what a lot of people decide is, you know what, I'd rather delay my breakfast so that I can eat a little bit later because I maybe sit down with a bowl of popcorn and watch a movie at night and so they'll make their first meal noon.
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But this is the whole point of what I'm trying to teach, is all of this is customizable. But you should customize it to your intention and your goals and your lifestyle.
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And if you can do it that way, it's a health habit that becomes effortless over time, as opposed to what we typically do, which is, I'm gonna get healthy, I'm gonna get fit, I'll just discipline myself into this new body I want, right?
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And then after a while, we lose the discipline and we boomerang back into our old habits.
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Well, you've already given me something. I'm going to start having that bite to eat before my workouts now. I think that will make a huge difference for me, for sure. No, I love that.
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The second thing that everyone asked about, which was the big one, which is, what is the fastest, most effective way for people to lose their belly fat? Everyone's obsessed with belly fat.
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Everybody is obsessed with belly fat. Okay, I want to start with this understanding. What causes your body to gain weight? And that's a better question to ask yourself than, how do I get this weight off? Because you need to know the mechanism.
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Here's what the body does, is whenever there is excess, excess glucose, excess hormones, excess toxins, the body is so well designed that it knows, I can't put all this excess around your heart and lungs.
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I probably shouldn't put this around your liver. I'm not going to go over here and put it around your spleen. I'm gonna store it somewhere that will keep you alive. So it stores it first around your belly.
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No way.
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So this is the thing that I'm like trying to free women from is then you look in the mirror and you're like, wait a second, I hate that belly fat.
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And you shame yourself, you guilt your way into the next diet when your body, if it could talk to you was like, okay, listen, You just had a lot of extra stuff you've been giving me and I didn't know where to put it.
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So I started in your belly, then I put it in your booty, then I put it around your face and the back of your arms. And for women, sometimes it goes in the chest and I'm putting it there to save your life.
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So I think the first step to losing menopausal belly fat is getting in alignment with the body.
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That's a great answer.
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And thank the body for what it's doing because it's trying to save you.
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Great answer, yeah.
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So now we have that understanding, we go, okay, well, belly in general, we know cortisol. So we are a cortisol saturated world right now. And so we got to do something to help with cortisol.
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Well, there are things to help with cortisol other than, you know, becoming a monk. There are other things you can do other than sitting somewhere and just meditating, like
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Easy things a stressful event hits you the worst thing you can do is sit get up and move Cortisol was meant to make you move It's it's that hormone that gives you up get up and go because you're running from a tiger So if you're sitting at your desk boss walks in is like hey I need this by the end of the day and you're like there's no way I can get it and you're all upset the worst thing you can do is stay seated and
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Go move your body.
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So constantly walking will help bring that cortisol down getting out in nature more bringing cortisol down Hanging out with positive people so that you're not in an environment where negative people are throwing cortisol Bombs at you all day long where your thinking starts to become one that's intrinsic that you're starting to like think everything is a threat and you're not safe and Cortisol is high
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That all relates to belly fat. This is why I'm like going into the detail on this because people want the quick fix. But with the belly fat, the first thing I want people to ask themselves is, what is the stress level of my life?
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And how can I bring that stress level down? And how can I start to work with cortisol? Walking being the biggest one, hanging out in nature, and then getting your body in the right environments. Then you can look at toxins.
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So we started this conversation before we recorded about toxicity. We live in the most toxic time in human history. Women are putting over 200 toxic carcinogenic chemicals on their skin every single day.
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The brilliant body is like, I don't know what to do with all this, so I'm going to put it around your belly and your chest. And again, then we look in the mirror and we're mad at ourselves because we weren't disciplined enough.
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So go and look at your toxic load, what toxic chemicals are constantly coming into your body. Start looking into different detoxes because we got to bring your toxic load down.
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What are the most common places that people are putting toxins into their body?
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Well, skin is a big one. Food is horrible. I put a whole thing in Eat Like a Girl and I was so depressed after I wrote it all about obesogens. So, obesogens are chemicals that are in our food.
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BPA plastics are what our food are wrapped around, that's an obesogen. Pesticides are an obesogen. There's a long list in the book, like artificial colorings and flavorings, BHT, BHA, all of these.
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synthetic ingredients, what they do, and this is the part that I want to scream from the rooftops, is what they do is they literally, those chemicals go into stem cells and they reprogram those stem cells to actually make fat cells.
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And one of the places we're seeing this is in the UK right now, because kids have lots of stem cells. And as we get older, we have less. And so what we're seeing is that the stem cells that were supposed to make bone are now making fat.
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And so kids are becoming, their height is smaller and shorter than ever before and they're bigger and bigger than ever before. So these chemicals are totally changing our fat distribution and the belly fat is one of them.
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So what you put on your body and what you're putting in your mouth, start there.
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Yeah, it's so terrifying.
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It's terrifying.
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It's terrifying because it feels like everything you turn over these days, every pack is labeled with a million different things.
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If you're not conscious and aware and checking, pretty much everything you pick up is going to have one of those things in it.
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That's right. And the best thing you can do is eat food without a label. Go to your farmer's market, get healthy fruits and vegetables. If you eat meat, know who your butcher is and know where that meat came from.
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Make sure it wasn't packed with chemicals. I think we used to think it was like woo-woo and people who ate organic were hippies.
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And I would say at this particular moment in history you should know an ingredient label, you should know those chemicals that are going into your food because they are reprogramming your body and one of the things they're reprogramming are stem cells
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these fat cells and you're double downing on dieting and you're double downing on working out and you don't even realize that it's actually this chemical load that has completely reprogrammed your body.
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And so they're conscious of it.
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Oh, yeah. So the chemicals are there for two reasons in food. One is shelf life. So much easier for these food companies to make sure that their food, if it sits on a shelf, is going to last a very long time.
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The second one is that they are hijacking your taste buds. so that you're addicted to it. Let me give you an example.
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Years ago in the LA Times, this was like 15 years ago, this three spread page spread comes out in the LA Times, like huge about what, it was Lay's specifically potato chips.
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What they were doing, what the company was looking at was what kind of chemicals can we spray on the potato chip
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so that it hits all the dopamine receptor sites in the brain, but we gotta keep that chip light enough that when it hits the stomach, it doesn't trigger a reaction in the brain to kill hunger.
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So it needs to be light, it has to be salty, it has to have a little bit of sweetness in it so it can hit those dopamine sites, but we can't let the person fill up on it. So think about that.
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How many people open a bag of potato chips and- It does just that. It does that. You can't just eat one. You're like, the whole bag's gone. And then the next thing you know, you're like, I need more food.
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And that is what all this Western processed food is doing, is it's hijacking our taste buds. So now we don't even have control over our taste buds.
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It's so hard when you know that you're being manipulated and programmed and it's been hardwired since such a young age that the habit that we have of grabbing that bag of chips or the chocolate bar or whatever else it may be, it feels like that is us.
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Almost like, oh, but that's who I am. I just love that type of food or that's what I'm used to. And we're trying to go against this deep long-term conditioning it feels like. And so breaking that habit is a lot harder than it seems.
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Yeah.
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And, and again, I'm always looking at things through the slant of women's health because what I think women do is that when they don't know this information is that they start to think they can't lose weight because there's something wrong with them.
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and they have no idea that the chemicals they've been eating in their diet food that was low fat and they bought because they wanted the lower sugar version actually had a chemical in it that reprogrammed stem cells to make fat cells and hijack their taste buds so that they're addicted to these foods over and over again.
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But the woman doesn't know that, she's like, Oh God, I can never lose weight. It must be my fault. She goes into the doctor's office. The doctor's like, your BMI is really high.
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And so now all of a sudden, he's, you know, the doctor's like, you got to lose weight. She doesn't know what to do. So she's like doubling down on eating less. She's doubling down on exercise. She's doubling down on shaming herself.
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And she didn't realize that it was actually the food industry that changed her whole body. And she needs to unhook from that food system in order to get the results she wants.
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A lot of people, when they're in that position, something they do is people count calories. Do they matter?
00:25:11 Speaker_06
So this question comes up all the time, so I'm so happy that you asked it. Because based off of research, yes, calories matter. But based off of human behavior, calories don't matter.
00:25:25 Speaker_06
So this is why in Eat Like a Girl, I have a statement that blood sugar matters, calories don't.
00:25:32 Speaker_06
And the reason that I say that is that every single woman I sat with in my clinic and all the feedback we're getting on our socials from women who are fasting is that they don't know how many calories they eat in a day and they don't know how many calories is their output in a day.
00:25:50 Speaker_06
So nobody can actually succeed at calories in, calories out. But I can take a CGM and I can put it on the back of a woman's arm and I can say, just eat.
00:26:02 Speaker_06
And then she can see real time what that blood sugar spikes, how many does she have over and over and over again.
00:26:10 Speaker_06
And from that visual, she can start to make better choices about her health that affects her blood sugar better and so that she can start to keep her blood sugar low. I'll give you an example.
00:26:23 Speaker_06
I had a patient a couple of years ago that was plant-based and not wanting to change plant-based, I was in honor of her choice. But when we put a CGM on her, she had about 10 spikes of these really high spikes of glucose every single day.
00:26:39 Speaker_06
And I asked her, I was like, how do you, like, what do your moods follow these spikes? And she's like, yeah, I'm like up, I'm down. I'm hungry. And then I'm not hungry. Like, I feel like I'm on a roller coaster all day long.
00:26:52 Speaker_06
So what I did is we worked with, okay, how about if we add a little bit of fat? How about if we add a little bit of fiber?
00:26:58 Speaker_06
What if we take some of these things like oat milk and let's sort of switch oat milk or maybe if you love your oat milk, let's make sure it's really clean oat milk and let's add a little MCT oil in your coffee.
00:27:09 Speaker_06
And we started to change how a meal was put together and she went down to about four spikes a day. She didn't change really anything she ate.
00:27:19 Speaker_06
She changed the way that she put a meal together, and then the blood sugar changed, and then her moods changed, and then her weight changed because I taught her blood sugar. That doesn't happen with calories.
00:27:31 Speaker_02
How many spikes a day is okay?
00:27:33 Speaker_06
I don't know if there's an average spike amount, but let's say that when you get a glucose spike, the most important thing is that it comes down to its pre-meal amount within 90 minutes.
00:27:49 Speaker_06
So textbook is two hours but I like to say if we can do like an hour and a half where you have a blood sugar spike and within an hour and a half your blood sugar is right back where it was before you ate that meal, you're pretty insulin sensitive.
00:28:04 Speaker_06
If it's taking more than two hours for your body to be able to integrate that glucose, now we may have a little bit metabolically resistant, insulin resistant body. So it's your recovery from the meal that matters more than anything else.
00:28:20 Speaker_02
Interesting. Oh, right. Okay. So 90 minutes is what we should be aiming for.
00:28:24 Speaker_06
That's my personal standard. Like what most doctors will say is two hours, but I like it to be a little quicker than that.
00:28:32 Speaker_02
Got it. So that's what we should be measuring. That's what we should be looking at.
00:28:35 Speaker_06
And then the other thing is one of the greatest studies done on fasting is 16-8, and Sachin Panda was the leader of that study.
00:28:45 Speaker_06
And what he found is that if you ate all your food in an eight-hour eating window, leaving 16 hours for rest and recovery, that you basically became metabolically immune from the harsh metabolic consequences of a processed diet.
00:29:04 Speaker_06
So what that meant was I can take all the bad food and I can put an 8-hour eating window and if I give my body 16 hours to rest, then the metabolic system rebooted itself and was able to continue forward without seeing insulin go up and hemoglobin A1C go up and inflammatory markers like CRP go up.
00:29:26 Speaker_06
So when I look at the spikes, I wanna see the recovery of the spike, and then I wanna see that part of the day, you're just not eating anything, that there's no spikes.
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00:31:07 Speaker_02
One of the things that I find fascinating that you talk about in Eat Like a Girl is you talk about eating for your microbes, not your taste buds.
00:31:15 Speaker_02
And I find this to be the constant kind of challenge that people in my life have when I'm talking about healthy eating or healthy habits when it comes to food. We generally eat for our taste buds or eat for our emotions.
00:31:29 Speaker_02
Before we talk about eating for your microbes, talk to me about how our patterns of our taste buds have changed over time. Because I feel, again, we're not aware of the root of where this started. Yeah.
00:31:41 Speaker_06
And the reason I put that as a real foundational rule is, again, I'm trying to free women and help women have a better relationship with food. And there's so many women that just find out, like, let's use carbohydrates or sugar or alcohol.
00:31:57 Speaker_06
They'll say, I just crave it. I can't, I can't uncrave it. I just, it's like the tub of ice cream just calls me. Well, if you actually look, there can be microbes and there can be fungus that lives in your gut that is doing the calling.
00:32:13 Speaker_06
So those are the ones that are sending a signal to the brain, feed me. So we have trillions of bacteria in our gut and they all want to stay alive.
00:32:21 Speaker_06
And so they send signals to the brain and they tell the brain, feed me this, don't feed me that, so that it can stay alive. And then on top of that, we add this dopamine response we're getting from the chemical food.
00:32:34 Speaker_06
We're actually not really in control of our food choices when you look through that lens. So let's go to your friends. Your friends who are like, I have no willpower or I don't know how to get over my sugar addiction.
00:32:49 Speaker_06
Well, the first thing is make sure you're eating chemical free. Get back to nature's food because nature didn't create food that made you addicted. So get off those processed foods.
00:33:00 Speaker_06
And then let's look at feeding your microbes, let's give your microbes more food. Like what I found in my clinic is the people were eating the same foods over and over and over again, like the same 20 foods.
00:33:13 Speaker_06
And now when I opened it up, their whole food window and said, hey, how about instead of iceberg lettuce every night, what if we try a spring mix with a little parsley and maybe some dandelion greens so we can support your liver?
00:33:25 Speaker_06
Like all of a sudden we just opened up the foods they were eating and the microbes changed. And if you mix that with fasting, the greatest study that I love, one of the greatest that was done on fasting, was the every other day diet.
00:33:41 Speaker_06
And what a researcher did is she took a group of people that were metabolically challenged, had food addiction, and had cardiovascular challenges, and said, you can eat anything you want one day, and then the next day you don't eat.
00:33:56 Speaker_06
And the next day eat whatever you want, next day don't eat. And what she found was that, and they had to do it over a course of a year. By the end of the year, everybody's metabolic markers improved.
00:34:09 Speaker_06
Everybody lost weight, which is what she thought would happen. But what surprised her was that everybody's choice of food, what they were craving, changed.
00:34:20 Speaker_06
So when I look at those people struggling with like, I can't get over my cravings, we've got to change your microbiome and we've got to put you in some fasted states so we can have, you can start to have a different experience with these cravings.
00:34:35 Speaker_06
And it's a combination of those things.
00:34:38 Speaker_02
How do we detox the bacteria that's calling out for the sugar or calling out for the fats or carbs or whatever it is? How do we detox those?
00:34:48 Speaker_06
You starve them out.
00:34:49 Speaker_02
Really? That's the only way?
00:34:50 Speaker_06
Yeah, you start starving them out. And that's why, I mean, I've spent a lot of time really asking myself, like, why did Fast Like a Girl connect with people? What was it that was in there?
00:35:04 Speaker_06
I mean, we have, across all the audio and the ebook and the hard copy, over 800,000 versions of Fast Like a Girl was purchased. And I think, yeah, thank you.
00:35:16 Speaker_06
I think what happened is that people finally were able to take a break from food and they saw the result and they started to starve out the microbes and they started to go after all these places that the body stored excess and they started to see a result.
00:35:34 Speaker_06
And I really believe if you want to be healthy, you don't need motivation, you need momentum. And once you have momentum, the motivation comes.
00:35:43 Speaker_06
So one of the things that we do when you're looking at these microbes that are controlling your taste buds is let's just start tacking on some fasting windows every day where you just give the microbes a break and they will start to die off.
00:36:01 Speaker_06
And the longer you fast, the more they die off and your food choices will change, which is what happened in that study.
00:36:07 Speaker_02
I've experienced that personally. I always talk about how my wife trained me off of sugar because when I met her I was addicted for sure. I was that friend.
00:36:17 Speaker_02
And it's, I can empathize with it because I know how strong it was for me because I grew up eating four chocolate products a day and now I'll have one dessert a week. And it's taken me, or like one refined sugar product a week.
00:36:32 Speaker_02
And then I'll only eat natural sugars like fruits and things for the rest of the week. And I think it's been such a journey for me, but you're so right that it had to be starved, had to be substituted, and then eventually
00:36:45 Speaker_02
Eventually I started realizing how many other things were impacting my desire for sugar, i.e.
00:36:50 Speaker_02
it was a lack of workout, it was poor sleep, it was a lack of the right vitamins and supplements, which means my body had low energy, so it turned to what I thought gave me energy. And so you started realizing how interconnected all those things were.
00:37:04 Speaker_06
Exactly.
00:37:04 Speaker_02
Rather than it actually being about my addiction to sugar.
00:37:07 Speaker_06
That's right. That's right. When people are like, I've had so many over the years, people were like, I could never fast.
00:37:14 Speaker_06
And I'm always like, oh, actually sit with me for a hot moment because there hasn't been a person I haven't been able to train to fast. You just trained your body to eat.
00:37:23 Speaker_06
And you could look at the same thing with the food you're eating when you're like, I can't, I can't overcome my sugar addiction. No, you should rephrase that. And you should say, I've trained my body to crave sugar.
00:37:37 Speaker_06
I would like to train it to crave something different. And that's what you did, is you found out what we would call a multi-therapeutic approach.
00:37:45 Speaker_06
A lot of different things came into play so that you could literally train your body to crave something different.
00:37:51 Speaker_02
Yes, and still doing it today. It's a practice that has to continue and last. No, for sure. There's another thing that you brought up, which you talk about protein being the hero macro-ingredient. Yeah.
00:38:02 Speaker_02
And right now I feel like protein's like the hot talking point everywhere. It's having its moment. It's having its moment for sure.
00:38:09 Speaker_02
I wanted to ask you about, you know, no one seems to be getting the amount of protein that everyone says you should be getting. So how much protein should we be getting and how do we actually get there?
00:38:18 Speaker_06
Well, to me, the protein is very much like when we were counting carbs or when we were counting calories, like they're fun to do in a moment and then nobody sustains it over time.
00:38:30 Speaker_06
So I'm in alignment with everybody, what everybody's saying, which is one gram of protein for every pound of body weight. Like, I think that's a good measurement for you to look at.
00:38:40 Speaker_06
I've heard some people even say you need, you know, two grams of protein for every pound of body weight if you're trying to grow muscle. So I think in theory, that's great.
00:38:51 Speaker_06
And then we have things like make sure you have 30 grams of protein per meal so that you can open up amino acid receptor sites to grow muscle. I think that's all great. Now let's talk to the woman in the Midwest.
00:39:04 Speaker_06
Let's talk to the single mom in the Midwest that's working two jobs. And she's like, I'm just trying to stay afloat. And now you want me to count how many grams of protein I eat every day so that I can be optimally healthy.
00:39:19 Speaker_06
This is why I put in there what I want her to know is just know protein is the hero macronutrient. It has amino acids in it and amino acids are going to make you hormones and neurotransmitters.
00:39:30 Speaker_06
So at every single meal, I want you to look at the protein source first and how do you get as much protein in that meal and then build the carbohydrates around it and build the vegetables and everything around it. Don't skimp on the protein.
00:39:46 Speaker_06
Every meal has to have a protein.
00:39:49 Speaker_06
That is a more doable like language and for a woman who is or and man who is like so busy because again, I don't know if people are successfully counting this day in and day out unless they're really making a priority.
00:40:04 Speaker_02
Yeah, my appetite wouldn't even allow me to eat that much protein. I struggle with two things. One is I don't think I can eat that much protein. I've tried. And second of all, it's heavy on my gut. It's hard on my gut.
00:40:17 Speaker_02
That much protein, my gut can't process it. So how do you work on those two things?
00:40:23 Speaker_06
This actually came up in another interview and I explained that this February of this year I decided to try the protein theory and I was working out with a trainer, I was lifting heavy weights, I'm 55 as of today.
00:40:36 Speaker_06
I was 54 at the time, I'm post-menopausal and I was like, okay, let me experiment with this protein thing.
00:40:44 Speaker_06
In January, I was still with the trainer, I was still tacking on my fasting window, and I was really doing what I talk about in the book where I would have keto days and I would have hormone feasting days, but I wasn't as focused on protein.
00:40:58 Speaker_06
In January, I lost weight and I built muscle. In February, same thing, I just upped my protein to one gram per pound of body weight. By the end of February, I had put on more fat than if I had been doing none of that.
00:41:17 Speaker_06
And I was like, this isn't working for me. This is too much protein for my body. And I went back to just protein with every meal, Mindy. Stop trying to get it to a certain amount. That was my experience.
00:41:30 Speaker_06
Now, other people will say, oh, I've built so much muscle with it. Amazing. But I talk about this in the book, that we have to go back to N of 1. N of one means you can hear us talk about protein and now your job is to figure out if it works for you.
00:41:46 Speaker_06
Didn't work so it was hard for you, it sounds like.
00:41:48 Speaker_02
It's been hard right now. I've been practicing with it for like three months, maybe experimenting.
00:41:54 Speaker_06
So it was hard for me, whereas other people are like, this works perfectly for me, which is great. So I just think protein with every meal, we have to prioritize protein.
00:42:07 Speaker_06
And then you've got to find what pattern of the amount is going to be best for you.
00:42:13 Speaker_02
Yeah, the point is to remember it's the hero ingredient.
00:42:15 Speaker_06
That's right.
00:42:16 Speaker_02
And then build around it. That's right. And don't worry if you're not getting 30 grams per meal or 40 grams or even depending on your body weight, 50, 60 grams per meal, it's a lot.
00:42:25 Speaker_06
Do you remember the zone diet?
00:42:28 Speaker_02
I do, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:29 Speaker_06
Okay, so Barry Sears, this was back when I was in university, so this was back in the 90s.
00:42:36 Speaker_06
He was the first one to say when you put a meal together, and he used pasta as an example, he was like, the worst thing you could do is have pasta with red sauce and no protein.
00:42:47 Speaker_06
because that is all glucose and you'll get this incredible glucose spike. But actually, if you put a meatball in there and you drizzle some olive oil on it, now the metabolic cost to you will be much less and you will lose weight.
00:43:02 Speaker_06
And his whole thing was like, stay in the zone. You got to stay in the zone.
00:43:06 Speaker_06
So the protein conversation to me, I feel like needs to evolve to protein at every meal and let's make sure we're putting it there with fat and some of nature's carbs and some fiber and how you put that meal together is gonna have a bigger effect on you than just the protein amount.
00:43:27 Speaker_02
Yeah, that's very helpful. That's very helpful and I hope everyone who's listening and watching kind of eases up on it or finds a way that it works for you. Yeah, that's the point.
00:43:37 Speaker_02
When does, you know, I think we've been talking a lot about belly fat and fat in general, when does fat make you fat?
00:43:44 Speaker_06
That's a great question. Okay, so toxic fat makes you fat.
00:43:48 Speaker_02
What is a toxic fat?
00:43:49 Speaker_06
So our canola oils, our cotton seed, corn oils, soybean oils, partially hydrogenated oils, vegetable oils, highly processed sunflower and safflower oils. Those are the biggies. Those are toxins. So let's go back to what is fat.
00:44:07 Speaker_06
Fat is a storage place for things your body doesn't know what to do with. Those oils, your body doesn't know what to do with. So it's putting it around your belly, it's putting it in fat.
00:44:19 Speaker_06
So stop giving it to your body, because when you give it to your body, the body's so smart, it's like, I'm just gonna go store it over here.
00:44:28 Speaker_06
If I come over and I do now avocado oil, olive oil, olive oil is like the hero oil, even some MCT oil or even some of the nut oils like walnut oil or some seed oils like sesame seed oil, Your body knows what to do with that.
00:44:48 Speaker_06
It knows how to integrate that. It doesn't cause cellular inflammation. And so it'll kill hunger. It's gonna help nourish your brain. It's gonna stabilize your blood sugar. You need these oils to make hormones. So totally different beasts.
00:45:03 Speaker_06
One makes you fat and the other one actually will make you healthy and can actually help you lose weight because it kills hunger.
00:45:12 Speaker_02
When we're also talking about our fat intake, is there a time of day that's better for us to be eating fat versus others, or is it something that needs to be spread out across the day?
00:45:21 Speaker_06
I think of fat as like a blood sugar break. So let's use today as an example. what, 3 o'clock in the afternoon. And so I had my first meal. I worked out in the morning on an empty stomach. It was just where I decided to go today.
00:45:36 Speaker_06
I had some collagen powder in my coffee and a little bit of raw cream. And then I went out and worked out. And then I had my first meal around 11 o'clock.
00:45:47 Speaker_06
And one of the things that I made sure I did is get a lot of protein and a lot of fat because I knew I wasn't going to eat again until tonight and I was coming here for this podcast. So I didn't want my blood sugar to spike at one or two.
00:46:01 Speaker_06
and then show up in your chair and have brain fog and be unable to focus and my energy low. So I made sure I had extra fat on my breakfast and extra protein so that my glucose stayed very steady.
00:46:19 Speaker_06
So I like fat when you are not trying to, you're really trying to minimize a glucose spike. So performance is what I just explained. Or I don't want to be hungry in two more hours, I should use some fat.
00:46:34 Speaker_06
Or I don't want to crave that chocolate at 10 o'clock at night, so I should have some more fat with my dinner. Because all of that stabilizes blood sugar and then those cravings and those brain fog and that lack of energy doesn't show up.
00:46:49 Speaker_02
That's really helpful because I think
00:46:52 Speaker_02
Again, it comes to if we have the time and energy to be that mindful with what we can plan, but especially when it comes to big events, big moments, big meetings, big high performance moments in our life, it seems like that's
00:47:07 Speaker_02
That's something good to be mindful at those times.
00:47:08 Speaker_06
Oh, yeah. That's why I love olive oil. Just start drizzling it on your meal and you will be shocked at how it kills hunger and you'll be shocked at how you're not hungry for hours afterwards and your brain power is completely online and focused.
00:47:25 Speaker_06
It's the easiest thing to add.
00:47:26 Speaker_02
Yeah, me and my wife were joking about how often what happens is you end up eating smaller meals, but then you end up eating junk afterwards. Yeah, right.
00:47:34 Speaker_02
And that happens so often because we're like, oh no, I want to be mindful of my portion size or whatever it is. And then at 10pm you want a dessert.
00:47:42 Speaker_02
But the idea of sprinkling something as simple as olive oil onto your meals to help curb a craving later on.
00:47:48 Speaker_06
And then you know olive oils are high in polyphenols and polyphenols feed the good microbes.
00:47:54 Speaker_06
So when you're drizzling olive oil on your meal, you're stabilizing blood sugar and you're feeding the good microbes, so those good microbes are going to keep giving you signals to crave good food. So it really is multifactorial.
00:48:10 Speaker_06
But let's go back, just so we don't confuse people, let's go back to the calorie in calorie out. Because some people are like, wait a second, if I put too much olive oil on top of my food, that's a lot of calories.
00:48:22 Speaker_06
But I'm back at, does the calorie in calorie out, is it working for you? I'm more interested in you feeding your body through the lens of metabolic health so that your blood sugar can be stable.
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I'm interested in food being a performance enhancer for you.
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And I care a lot about your microbes because not only do they control your cravings, but they control your immune system, your neurotransmitters, like they are the thing that is driving your health if you actually look into it.
00:48:52 Speaker_06
So olive oil, you drizzled it on your meal, and like magic happened in your body.
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In Eat Like a Girl, your new book, you talk about how we need to eat to make hormones, especially for women. Walk me through the importance of that, because I don't think I'd ever heard that before.
00:52:41 Speaker_06
Yeah, so this came kinda out of my frustration with women feeling like, if I have low hormones, then I just need to take an exogenous form of hormone and put it into my body. And what I wanted women, I'm not saying that's wrong,
00:52:58 Speaker_06
I just wanted to say, can we have a conversation first before you start to feel like the challenge with your female body is you don't have enough hormones?
00:53:08 Speaker_06
Can we look at your food behaviors and ask ourselves, are you getting enough nutrients in to be able to actually make hormones? So I look at it like if you were making bread. you have to have a certain amount of ingredients.
00:53:25 Speaker_06
You've got to have flour, you probably have to have yeast, you have to have some baking soda. Like there are certain ingredients that need to go into bread in order for it to rise and for it to be able to be bread. Same thing with hormones.
00:53:39 Speaker_06
And what I did in the book is I spent a lot of time researching, well, what are those nutrients that we need? And I came up with what I call the key 24. You need these 24 nutrients every single day to be able to even make a hormone.
00:53:55 Speaker_06
And when you look at those 24 ingredients, like nine of them are amino acids, which takes us back to protein. And you got proteins where you're getting amino acids from. And one of the major one is omega-3 fatty acids, which takes us back to olive oil.
00:54:12 Speaker_06
So if I'm a woman who is like, let's just talk about, I'm sure this is going to come up because it keeps coming up. Let's talk about the weight loss drugs. Let's say I'm taking a shot that kills my hunger.
00:54:26 Speaker_06
So I'm not eating very much and I'm losing weight. But if I'm not getting food in with enough nutrients into my body, I don't have enough of these vitamins and minerals and fatty acids and amino acids to make hormones.
00:54:43 Speaker_06
So down the road, something's gonna give from my lack of intention around a diverse meal. So that's why I put it in there was like, can we start looking at food as hormonal medicine? Food isn't just pleasure. Food isn't just energy.
00:55:01 Speaker_06
Food is actually feeding these hormones, but you've got to get a good variety of food in order to do that.
00:55:07 Speaker_02
Is there any indication to women's health at age 20, 30, 40, 50 where different hormones and different foods are more of a priority in the different decades?
00:55:18 Speaker_06
Yeah.
00:55:19 Speaker_06
Well, in the younger years, I mean, again, what we're talking about is gold and Fast Like a Girl introduced something I called the fasting cycle, which is where the front half of your cycle you're going to keep your glucose low and then the back half of your cycle you want to bring your glucose up.
00:55:36 Speaker_06
And I showed that through the lens of fasting. In this book, in Eat Like a Girl, I really want women to see front half of your cycle, you're really catering to estrogen and estrogen likes glucose to be low.
00:55:51 Speaker_06
So the keto diet, the low-carb diets that you were on, they'll work in that front half of the cycle, just again, keep diversifying your food choices.
00:56:01 Speaker_06
Whereas the back half of your cycle, progesterone is showing up and progesterone actually wants you to keep glucose higher.
00:56:09 Speaker_06
This is why every single woman craves carbohydrates or chocolate or something sugary the week before her period, because her body is so intelligent, it's like, I need you to bring up glucose so I can make progesterone so that the uterine lining can shed and you can have a cycle.
00:56:26 Speaker_06
So for those women, 20 and 30, this is the message they need to know. Front half of the cycle, lower carb. Back half of the cycle, higher carb. That's as simple as I can make it. It's more detailed in the book.
00:56:40 Speaker_06
Now let's go into perimenopause and menopause. Estrogen is going away. And when estrogen goes away, that woman becomes more insulin resistant. So I can't tell you how many women will tell me, I haven't done anything. I'm 43 years old.
00:56:58 Speaker_06
I haven't done anything different. And I am gaining weight. That's because you're losing estradiol. And estradiol kept you insulin sensitive. And so now you have to find other ways to keep yourself insulin sensitive.
00:57:13 Speaker_06
And fasting is one of the best ways that I know to keep yourself insulin sensitive.
00:57:19 Speaker_06
And then you're probably going to need, again, as you move through perimenopause, you're going to need a little lower carbohydrate diet mixed with splashes of a higher carbohydrate diet.
00:57:31 Speaker_06
So this is why in the book I'm like here's your, I call it ketobiotic, is when we want to go lower carb but keep enough fiber in there. And then hormone feasting is when we want to go higher carb so we can cater to progesterone. It sounds confusing.
00:57:46 Speaker_02
No, no, not at all, yeah.
00:57:47 Speaker_06
But it's, think of it like gas pedal brake. Like, you know, there's a rhythm to a female body. So you're just gonna understand the rhythm of your hormones so you can match the foods and the fast according to that.
00:58:01 Speaker_02
What are our greatest misunderstandings of the female body? And in what decades are we so confused about or uneducated about that you'd like to point out?
00:58:12 Speaker_06
Oh, thank you for asking me that. The female body is highly complex. It is highly rhythmic. So it's constantly having ups and downs to it. If you look at our hormones, we are meant to have moments of where we're in complete joy.
00:58:30 Speaker_06
and then there are moments we're crying, and there are moments that we're rushing to the gym and we're so excited to go work out, and then there's other moments that we can't get off the couch.
00:58:41 Speaker_06
And that's all because you live in a female body that is driven by different hormones. So the first thing I want women to know is your hormonal system makes you highly complex. And a male's body isn't that complex. This is the way I've been saying it.
00:59:00 Speaker_06
And I always say like, you know, no offense to men, but like, you guys are like a ukulele and we're like a violin. Like, it's just, we are a very, our body is a very sophisticated instrument.
00:59:15 Speaker_06
And because of our sex hormones, we require more rest and recovery. We don't do as well with toxicity.
00:59:25 Speaker_06
When we become insulin resistant, we start to become infertile and we start to get things like PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and our menopause symptoms will be off the chart like crazy. So that doesn't happen so much to men.
00:59:41 Speaker_06
So we're just a more sophisticated body we're living in.
00:59:44 Speaker_02
what are some of the things you would encourage people to be mindful of at different stages to spot those signs early and to respond?
00:59:52 Speaker_02
Because it seems like we don't really talk about the difference that clearly and we expect the same things in the same areas or decades of life.
01:00:01 Speaker_06
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think the thing that we have to look at is that lifestyle impacts both men and women. But for women, really, we've got to dial in a lifestyle for women.
01:00:13 Speaker_06
That's like go to lifestyle first before you go to the antidepressant, before you go to the hormone replacement, before you go to the weight loss drug. Ask yourself, have I dialed in my lifestyle?
01:00:25 Speaker_06
And what that means is there needs to be a rhythm of where I'm maybe working out a lot and then I'm recovering. I'm maybe going low carb and then I'm feasting on healthy foods. So we need to have a rhythmic lifestyle.
01:00:40 Speaker_06
And that's like new conversation that's just coming up in the last couple of years. Whereas men don't have to worry about that as much. You guys are a lot more resilient. You have one hormone to think about, which is testosterone.
01:00:53 Speaker_06
You operate off a 24-hour cycle. We operate off a 28-day cycle. So we're just a lot more complicated, but that's why lifestyle is so important for women. And this is like, this is like my rally cry.
01:01:10 Speaker_06
Like, oh my gosh, when we look at autoimmune problems, when we look at the menopause symptoms, like please, can we have a conversation about lifestyle as being the first line of treatment for women before we start medicating the shit out of us?
01:01:25 Speaker_02
No, I love the rally cry and I think it's so important. I'm so glad that you're sharing it so passionately here because I couldn't agree with you more.
01:01:35 Speaker_02
I've heard so many women recently when I've been at events or listening to panels or I've been hearing so many women talk about perimenopause, menopause, and what I found so fascinating when I was listening was that
01:01:49 Speaker_02
I was, obviously I was like, okay, I knew, I had no clue.
01:01:51 Speaker_07
Right.
01:01:52 Speaker_02
But a lot of the women in the audience were like, oh my gosh, we didn't know either. Right. What we were going through. And so I think there's such a need for it because there seems to be the misinformation or to be honest, no information. That's right.
01:02:04 Speaker_02
And so we're just turning towards pharmaceuticals.
01:02:07 Speaker_06
Right. So on that conversation, when I first started teaching this cycling of fasting and food on my YouTube channel, nobody talked about menopause.
01:02:16 Speaker_06
And then I started getting people pouring in and asking me, like, well, how do I do this for perimenopause and menopause? At that time, I was like mid-40s, and so I just shared, hey, here's what I'm doing. I actually put it in a book.
01:02:29 Speaker_06
It's called The Menopause Reset. I was like, here are the lifestyle changes that I've made, and they've worked really well for me during perimenopause. Okay, fast forward to today.
01:02:40 Speaker_06
We've gone from a cultural hush around menopause where we're like, oh, she's a little irritable. Let's not like poke the bear and get her all upset because she might be menopausal." But we don't want to say that to her face.
01:02:54 Speaker_06
To cultural chaos, where women are like, finally like the conversation of menopause is emerging. And that part is amazing.
01:03:03 Speaker_06
Like there's been a lot of authors, there's been a lot of influencers, there's a lot of people that are cracking that conversation open, which is so good.
01:03:13 Speaker_06
But what we have turned the conversation to now is you are suffering in the perimenopausal experience, and so you need to think about hormone replacement therapy. I'm not opposed to that.
01:03:28 Speaker_06
But every woman who goes on hormone replacement therapy has a different path to it. And that's because alongside hormone replacement, whether it's HRT direct or bioidenticals, needs to be a lifestyle change.
01:03:45 Speaker_06
And the diet you had at 35 doesn't work for you at 45. and the stress load you were able to do or handle at 35, you're gonna need some breaks and some new tools at 45.
01:03:58 Speaker_06
So there's a lifestyle that I'm just still trying to bring in, like, hello, the answer isn't in the patch, the answer's not in the pill.
01:04:06 Speaker_06
Those are good support systems, but let's make lifestyle the change that happens once you go into those perimenopausal years.
01:04:15 Speaker_02
What would you say are the top three lifestyle changes that changed everything for you or were positive for you?
01:04:20 Speaker_06
Yeah, so in the menopause reset I wrote five. I started fasting, that was a big one. I started varying my foods, which is what I teach in Eat Like a Girl. I went low-carb, high-carb. I started feeding my microbes. So how do I support?
01:04:34 Speaker_06
Because the microbes break down estrogen, so I wanted to be able to increase the diversity of my microbes so they could break down estrogen, the less estrogen I was getting.
01:04:45 Speaker_06
I did a massive detox, I detoxed my whole house, I started detoxing myself, throughout my whole 40s detox became my obsession.
01:04:56 Speaker_06
And then the last one is something called the rushing woman syndrome, which was actually coined by a woman, Dr. Libby Weaver, who showed biologically why women that are constantly in a state of stress end up having hormonal problems.
01:05:12 Speaker_06
So I started saying no to more things. Um, I'm a competitive athlete. I was a competitive tennis player in my early twenties and I started learning how to do more yoga. I started learning how to walk more.
01:05:26 Speaker_06
I started getting out of that mentality of I've got to push my body. And so I just started looking at how I could recover a little bit more. And those were the five I changed and it was like gold.
01:05:37 Speaker_02
It's so refreshing to hear that they're all interconnected as well with Eat Like a Girl and Fast Like a Girl. It seems that what we need to do is simple, but it's so hard because of our wiring, because of society's expectations.
01:05:53 Speaker_02
because of maybe our own pressure on ourselves. What gave you the permission to just say, you know what, I'm going to unsubscribe from all of this and I'm going to find a way. What was that for you?
01:06:05 Speaker_02
Because I feel people are really looking for that breakthrough and you said it's not motivation, it's momentum, but it's almost like, how do you give that stone or that rock a push down the hill so that it gains momentum?
01:06:17 Speaker_06
The best door in is fasting. This is why I started with Fast Like a Girl. If you want a totally different experience with your body, learn how to create an eating window and a fasting window.
01:06:30 Speaker_06
And it's interesting because my practice was built by what I call the mama bears. They were like these women who would bring their families to me and who would come in to learn about detox and hormones and food education and lifestyle.
01:06:45 Speaker_06
My clinic was like a lifestyle clinic. teaching people how to live a lifestyle to build health. And it was the mama bears that I got to experiment on, you know, I put that in like, you know, a loving way.
01:06:59 Speaker_06
I got to take these principles that I was studying and using on myself and try it on them.
01:07:04 Speaker_06
And I remember with weight loss, one of the things that blew me away is once I started teaching women how to fast, maybe two weeks would go by and I didn't see them and they'd walk into my clinic and it looked like a fat coat had been taken off of them in two weeks.
01:07:21 Speaker_06
And I was like, oh my God, like fasting got you that in two weeks? So I think that's why I'm like the evangelist for fasting.
01:07:33 Speaker_02
Is there anyone who should never fast or shouldn't fast?
01:07:36 Speaker_06
Great question. I always say, if you're pregnant or nursing, it's a no, that's not your tool. And I write about that in both books. If you have an eating disorder,
01:07:47 Speaker_06
you need to be working with somebody who can work alongside you because there's little tricks that you can do to line yourself up for that. Certain cancers don't do well with fasting and certain cancers do incredibly well with fasting.
01:08:03 Speaker_06
So going to a specialist that knows that. Outside of that, everybody else can fast. I just want to point out the person I didn't point out who couldn't fast is the diabetic.
01:08:16 Speaker_06
this is the one that shocks everybody, is the type 1 and type 2 diabetic, when done right and done with doctor supervision, actually does really well with fasting. Interesting. Yeah.
01:08:28 Speaker_02
Wow. Yeah, that is surprising. Right? You wouldn't expect that. No. There's a trend right now of women eating meatballs in order to lose weight. What's your take on that? Is that all they're eating? Or at least a big part of it, yeah.
01:08:41 Speaker_06
Yeah. Well, I mean, they're just trying to dose up protein. So, what I would say is if you're going to dose up protein, make sure it's a clean protein.
01:08:51 Speaker_02
What would you define as a clean protein?
01:08:52 Speaker_06
Yeah, like hormone-free, antibiotic, not pumped with antibiotics, not pumped with hormones, grass-fed if you're going beef and you really want grass-fed because it has higher omega-3s. it needs to be a clean source of protein.
01:09:08 Speaker_06
I'm also a real fan for women specifically of fiber, because fiber feeds those microbes that break hormones down. So if you're only going meat, you're missing out on the vegetables, we need more fiber.
01:09:22 Speaker_06
But from a metabolic standpoint, from a blood sugar standpoint, meatballs, if you didn't have a lot of fillers and stuff in them, could be really good. Are they losing weight?
01:09:32 Speaker_02
Yeah, that's what I said, meatballs. Yeah, meatballs, sorry, not balls, it's my accent. It's my accent, yeah, meatballs, yeah. My accent, meatballs.
01:09:41 Speaker_06
Okay, meatballs.
01:09:42 Speaker_02
Balls, yeah. Like B-O-W-L-L-S, okay. Yeah, B-O-W-L-L-S, sorry, it's my accent, yeah.
01:09:46 Speaker_06
No, no, you say it better than, oh my God. So, what kind of meat, is it a variety of meat in there?
01:09:53 Speaker_02
I believe so, I mean.
01:09:54 Speaker_03
It's basically just these bowls that people are having that just like are, ground beef essentially, like good grass-fed ground beef, but it's like the main thing that they're eating like lunch and dinner and breakfast.
01:10:08 Speaker_06
Are they eating any fiber at all or are they just eating that?
01:10:10 Speaker_03
I think it's like very minimal like carb.
01:10:13 Speaker_06
Okay. Okay. This is interesting and let's dive into the mechanics on this. So, protein stabilizes your blood sugar.
01:10:20 Speaker_06
So, if I'm only eating a meat bowl all day long, then what ends up happening is I'm really not... Those blood sugar spikes we talked about, I'm not getting very many of them. So, that's good.
01:10:32 Speaker_06
If you don't have a lot of blood sugar spikes, you're not asking your body to make a ton of insulin. So, from a metabolic standpoint, that is really fascinating.
01:10:41 Speaker_06
From a gut microbiome standpoint, and this is really controversial and I still stay by this to this day, is the carnivore diet. The carnivore diet kind of had its moment and then people were like, this is crazy and it went away.
01:10:57 Speaker_06
Well, what we saw in my community and in my clinic and in the research that I dove into is that when all you do is eat meat, you actually can stimulate a immune cell in your gut called your T-regulatory cells.
01:11:12 Speaker_06
And your T-regulatory cells make sure that your immune system isn't too low and your immune system isn't too high.
01:11:20 Speaker_06
So in my clinic, I would do something called carnivore fasting, which would be like a therapeutic process for a patient who had an autoimmune condition for like two to three weeks.
01:11:32 Speaker_06
They would just eat meat and they would fast about 17 hours every day. And the rest of the time, all they did is eat meat. And what I was trying to do is calm the immune system down and help them drop weight because they weren't spiking their glucose.
01:11:51 Speaker_06
It worked, it absolutely worked. But especially for things like SIBO, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, like it was phenomenal. And so you got the benefit of fasting and you got the benefit of meat. It's just not something you sustain.
01:12:05 Speaker_06
I would do it two to three weeks to balance the immune system with my autoimmune patients, and then we would go back into fiber because we need that fiber to be able to break those hormones down. So it became a therapeutic tool.
01:12:16 Speaker_02
Interesting. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's it's I love what you do by actually explaining what is going on behind the scenes. Yeah, because to me, that's the part which a makes it click. And then it's not just a hack.
01:12:27 Speaker_02
Yeah, it's like, Oh, I actually understand how my body's working and why it's doing what it's doing.
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And therefore now, when I'm having that feeling or that experience or that craving, yeah, I can actually talk myself through it. That's right. That makes sense.
01:12:39 Speaker_06
Yeah, I mean, so this is like another big pet peeve and rally cry for me, is that you should learn how to do health from your health professionals, whether it's your doctor, your fitness trainer, your favorite health influencer.
01:12:56 Speaker_06
But if we go into this place where we're like, eat this, don't eat that, but we don't know why, we're never empowered. Doctor means to teach.
01:13:06 Speaker_06
So, you know, O'Reilly cried all the doctors out there, are you teaching your patients or are you just prescribing to your patients?
01:13:13 Speaker_06
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01:16:40 Speaker_02
Yeah. For, for people who talking about, you know, giving, making people feel empowered for people who don't have access to expensive technology and want to know their muscle fat percentage, body fat percentage, et cetera.
01:16:53 Speaker_02
Like how, how do they get that information in a way that's affordable and accessible? Because it seems that so much of that data and that insight you need to be empowered is expensive.
01:17:05 Speaker_06
Yeah. So, you know, all the wearables are really exciting right now. The CGMs and all that, the continuous glucose monitors, really exciting, but they are expensive. So in the book, I put a list of symptoms you would experience if you nailed your meal.
01:17:22 Speaker_06
If you got your meal right, if your lifestyle was working for you, this is are some of the symptoms and I'll share with you some of them. After you eat a meal, you should be energized. You shouldn't be sleepy.
01:17:34 Speaker_06
If you're sleepy, we got to go back and look at the makeup of that meal. After a meal, you should have better brain clarity. You should feel uplifted. It should be like something that puts you into an enhanced performance state.
01:17:50 Speaker_06
You also, it's not normal to be hungry every two to three hours. So those things become really important. The other piece is that you should be able to control your cravings. You should be able to be like, hey, I'll give, use me as an example.
01:18:05 Speaker_06
I used to have a sugar addiction too. And I had a moment where, when in the height of my sugar addiction, where if I looked at a piece of sugar, I couldn't control myself.
01:18:17 Speaker_02
I remember that, yeah.
01:18:18 Speaker_06
Yeah, and it was like, I know I'm not supposed to eat that, but I'm gonna eat it anyways. Once I started doing fasting and eating windows, that craving went away. So I now have a better relationship to food.
01:18:35 Speaker_06
I don't feel like I'm eating food because I can't control myself. So there are symptoms we can look at. And all the biometric wearables, they're great. But I want to help the woman in the South that's working two jobs.
01:18:53 Speaker_06
The story I tell a lot is that during the pandemic, I had a high school principal in South Carolina reach out to me.
01:19:01 Speaker_06
She was watching my YouTube channel, and she said, my high school teachers are about to come back to school, and they're super scared about their immune system. and COVID. And so can you give us some ideas on how we can keep our immune system high?
01:19:17 Speaker_06
Well, I come from a family of teachers and I was like, oh yeah, can I give back to the teachers and teach them? This is really exciting.
01:19:24 Speaker_06
So I pop on this call with about a hundred teachers at this high school and I go into all, you should take this supplement and you should eat this oil and you should do all these things.
01:19:34 Speaker_06
And I get to the end of the presentation, it was all done on Zoom, and this really brave man raises his hand. And he's like, I hear what you're saying, but if I'm at the supermarket and I'm looking at nut butters,
01:19:51 Speaker_06
The nut butter with the right oil in it is $8 more than the one with the wrong oil. I don't have that $8." And then another woman raised her hand and said, I'm up at four in the morning and I drive to get my classroom set up at five.
01:20:08 Speaker_06
I don't take a lunch break. And by 3.34, I'm driving home exhausted. And the only place I wanna go is through the drive-through at fast food.
01:20:18 Speaker_06
Okay, we will never ever get our country healthy until we help those people because they're on a limited income and they are trying to be healthy, but everything in front of them is leading them towards chronic disease.
01:20:33 Speaker_06
This is why fasting became my tool, because everybody can afford it and everybody, even the busiest person can do it and it works for the majority of people. And then they have that momentum. So that's what, you know, the fast food lady,
01:20:49 Speaker_06
Okay, so let's eat your fast food in a compressed eating window. The nut butter guy, it was like, okay, well maybe nut butter isn't your go-to.
01:20:58 Speaker_06
Like let's figure out how you can look at maybe some getting some oils from food that you're getting up in your omega-3 and other oils. Like we just found lateral changes.
01:21:09 Speaker_02
Yeah, how do you train someone to not eat for a period of time? Because I think we've talked about fasting, but actually it's really hard when someone has to do it. How do you, how did someone train themselves to do that?
01:21:21 Speaker_06
Yeah. So you start by pushing your breakfast back. That's what I typically do. You can push your dinner up if you want, but most people, I start with breakfast. So I tell people, push your breakfast back an hour.
01:21:33 Speaker_06
Most people will say, well, can I have my coffee? Yes, you can have your coffee, but not your creamer.
01:21:39 Speaker_06
If you're putting some kind of sugar creamer in there, or you're putting oat milk or almond milk in there, those tend to spike your blood sugar a little bit too high. So cow's dairy, goat's dairy does a little bit better.
01:21:53 Speaker_06
Or black, have your coffee black. push your breakfast back an hour is going to be uncomfortable. That's the first thing.
01:22:04 Speaker_06
That moment, you're going to be like, why did I listen to Jay Shetty's podcast where that crazy lady came on and told me to push my breakfast back an hour? Now all I want to do is yell and scream because I'm angry. I'm hangry.
01:22:20 Speaker_06
But if they stay with that the next day, and then the next day, by the third or fourth day, that hour is going to feel like nothing. So when it starts to get easy, now you're going to push it back another hour. So now you're two hours back.
01:22:34 Speaker_06
And then maybe you go a couple days with that, and then you're going to push it back another hour. And everybody that I've done with this, within two weeks, they are effortlessly fasting somewhere between 13 to 15 hours.
01:22:48 Speaker_06
you're just taking all that food and you're just compressing it into an eating window, but you're gently moving your body into that place.
01:22:56 Speaker_06
You're not, I've had people just out of nowhere going three day water fast, but that's a lot more suffering involved.
01:23:03 Speaker_02
Yeah. Is there anyone who should eat as soon as they wake up?
01:23:07 Speaker_06
There's a lot of theories on this.
01:23:10 Speaker_06
Sachin Panda, who is the premier researcher on circadian rhythm, he came on my podcast and he likes that you wait an hour after you wake up if you're gonna try to get into the proper circadian rhythm, meaning your melatonin and your cortisol are being secreted at the right moment.
01:23:30 Speaker_06
So he would prefer that you would wait an hour.
01:23:33 Speaker_06
Dr. Stacey Sims who is an expert and one of the leading experts in exercise and menopause came on my podcast and she strongly feels you need some kind of nutrients coming in the minute you wake up, the first half hour you wake up to trigger the hypothalamus to start hormonal production.
01:23:54 Speaker_06
When I broke that down with her, she's also plant-based. When I broke that down with her, she said, I put collagen powder in my coffee every morning and a splash of- Vegan collagen powder. Yeah. Vegan. Yeah.
01:24:08 Speaker_06
So she probably uses a vegan one or maybe a marine one. I didn't ask her through the vegan lens if she did fish. Yeah.
01:24:16 Speaker_06
and then she does MCT oil and then she does a plant-based cream and she does like a loaded coffee and that on some mornings that's how she triggers this hypothalamus. So I tell you all that to say that here we have two leading experts.
01:24:33 Speaker_06
One says wait a half hour, the other one says you need some nutrients in very quickly. I think everybody's got to be their own end of one.
01:24:40 Speaker_02
Yeah, yeah, definitely. What works for you?
01:24:43 Speaker_02
Yeah, it's hard to know, and I think that's why so much of this is also being able to listen to our bodies and not our minds, because I think so much of our food habits are driven by our minds, not our bodies. Yeah.
01:24:52 Speaker_02
I even mentally crave something, emotionally crave something.
01:24:55 Speaker_07
Yeah.
01:24:55 Speaker_02
Whereas when you actually listen to your body, kind of like what I was saying to you earlier, that when I'm listening to my body, I'm like, this amount of protein just doesn't feel right.
01:25:03 Speaker_06
Yeah.
01:25:03 Speaker_02
Even if I'm trying.
01:25:05 Speaker_06
On that, I just wanna point out, because again, I'm always gonna be the voice of women's empowerment. What I'm discovering in women is we are massively disconnected from our bodies.
01:25:18 Speaker_06
So we look at Instagram, we look at magazines, and we're like, I wanna look a certain way, so then I will manipulate my body to look that way. We are not clued in to the rhythms and cycles of our body.
01:25:32 Speaker_02
And that's so sad. And often you could end up looking that way, but because the internal setup isn't right. Like, we often think it's also, oh, I don't have self-worth or self-esteem, but it's completely chemical.
01:25:43 Speaker_07
That's right.
01:25:44 Speaker_02
Right? Like, it's just a hormonal imbalance. It's not even, it's not this mental idea that, oh, I don't believe in myself or I don't love myself.
01:25:52 Speaker_02
It's like, well, of course, if I've been shifting my body and diet and everything to look this certain way, it could be that my hormones and nutrients and everything are so imbalanced that I can't sustain a healthy mood.
01:26:04 Speaker_06
Yeah, something I've deeply thought about is that when we look at the woman who's size two or the woman who's a size four or a size zero, like we look at that, we say, that's what I'm supposed to look like because the magazines, Instagram, everybody says I should look like that.
01:26:21 Speaker_06
But actually, if you look at what estrogen does to the female body is it makes us, it's what I call a little more padded. It gives us a little more of a cushion of fat on us. And that might be what's normal for us.
01:26:38 Speaker_06
We just have this skewed view based off of what we're seeing on social media that we're supposed to look that way. But if you ever stopped like for the women listening and asked yourself, is that the healthy way?
01:26:52 Speaker_06
I mean, one of the things that came out of Fast Like a Girl that really disturbed me and motivated me to write Eat Like a Girl was how many 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds don't have a menstrual cycle.
01:27:03 Speaker_06
And they don't have a menstrual cycle because they've been manipulating their diet.
01:27:07 Speaker_06
Their diet's too low calorie, their weight is too low, because they're trying to look a certain way that the culture says, this is beautiful, and when you're beautiful, you're worthy.
01:27:18 Speaker_06
But actually, is it possible that the female body is meant to have more fat on it? And trying to be the skinniest version of you is actually making you sick and destroying your hormones.
01:27:31 Speaker_06
And I think it would be really interesting if we had better conversations around that.
01:27:36 Speaker_02
So what do they do in that scenario when they've ended up creating that situation for themselves?
01:27:41 Speaker_06
Well, the first thing is, we're back at the calories, is let's make sure you're eating enough calories. For the thyroid, you have to have 1,200 calories a day consistently. So if you're eating 900, 800 calories a day, you're causing thyroid challenges.
01:27:58 Speaker_06
And that could be a hyperactive thyroid, that could be... I mean, you could end up with a faster metabolism, which would eventually lead to a hypothyroid situation. So, let's get the calorie in that person who's in deprivation.
01:28:12 Speaker_06
That would be the one spot I would say, let's make sure we're above 1200. So, that would be the first thing. The second thing is, I think it's really interesting, even for you and men in general,
01:28:25 Speaker_06
When we eat and we're hungry, do we ask ourselves, like, am I hungry or am I bored? Am I hungry or am I sad? Am I hungry or do I need energy? Like, make sure we're seeing that the food and the emotional response, like we're pulling those apart.
01:28:48 Speaker_06
So I think that's a really important one because people eat and don't eat for a lot of different reasons. And then that leads to the last thing with this person who might be a little bit thin, is I think for a lot of women it's control.
01:29:02 Speaker_06
Like, if I can control my body a certain way, then, you know, my life will be in control. And as you know, control is an illusion and maybe there's something else you can control. This is why I like the continuous glucose monitor.
01:29:16 Speaker_06
Control your blood sugar and that will lead you down the path of health. Control your symptoms after you eat. Control the amount of sleep you get.
01:29:25 Speaker_06
Like there's other things to control, but if you're trying to control your weight, you're raising cortisol and you're leading yourself into this dysfunctional relationship with your body.
01:29:36 Speaker_02
So well said. How do you manage fasting and working out? Like how do you fit it in and when should you be fasting and working out? Do they happen at the same time or do they need to be stacked?
01:29:48 Speaker_06
Yeah, again I'm going to go back to what's your intention. Do you remember the book Body for Life?
01:29:54 Speaker_02
I don't, no.
01:29:55 Speaker_06
Okay, that book came out when I was, again, when I was in college. So it must have come in like the late 90s, early 2000s.
01:30:02 Speaker_06
And it was a fitness trainer, and he offered up a million dollars to the person who could lose the quickest weight, the most weight in the quickest period of time. And he had a whole formula.
01:30:14 Speaker_06
And the number one formula that he said is you never work out after you've eaten because his whole theory was when you eat, you've brought glucose up and then you go to work out, the body uses that glucose.
01:30:28 Speaker_06
Whereas if you work out when the glucose is not spiked, your body has to go find the glucose it stored years ago in fat. So it's actually going to burn fat more quickly. This was how we worked out for years.
01:30:43 Speaker_06
I taught women and men both in my clinic all the time this strategy. It is an incredible way to lose weight. Here's the challenge, is that it can break down muscle. And muscle right now, like we said, is in vogue. It's the thing we're talking about.
01:31:01 Speaker_06
So when we are looking at do you fast and exercise in a fasted state, I think you have to ask yourself what your objective is.
01:31:11 Speaker_06
If you're trying to lose weight, yeah, I think it's a great idea, especially on the days, not your weightlifting days, but the days you're doing cardio, yeah, and yoga, and yoga, and we don't eat two hours before a yoga session.
01:31:25 Speaker_06
Those are great times to go in in a fasted state. But when you're trying to build muscle on the days you're strength training, let's have a little protein before and let's have some protein afterwards.
01:31:36 Speaker_06
So just different days, different workouts, different things you're trying to accomplish.
01:31:42 Speaker_02
Great. Dr. Mindy Pelz, it's been such a joy talking to you today. You've given so much valuable insight. This is one of those episodes that I feel I'm going to recommend to all my friends. Thank you.
01:31:54 Speaker_02
I'm going to be encouraging a lot of people to listen to it together. And I think everyone who's been listening and watching, I hope you pass it on to a friend. I hope you listen to it with a friend because
01:32:04 Speaker_02
I just think it's at the heart of so many of our issues today is how we eat, how we think about our bodies, how connected we are to our bodies. And I just love how structured, thoughtful, and methodical all your advice is.
01:32:16 Speaker_02
So thank you so much for writing this incredible book and bringing so much value to our community. We end every On Purpose episode with a final five or a fast five. And no pun included.
01:32:30 Speaker_02
And we'd love you to answer each of these questions in one word to one sentence maximum.
01:32:36 Speaker_07
Okay.
01:32:36 Speaker_02
Okay. So Dr. Mindy Pals, these are your fast five. The first question is what is the best health advice you've ever heard or received or given?
01:32:47 Speaker_06
Don't eat in the dark. I love that one. Only eat in the light. It balances almost every hormone.
01:32:56 Speaker_02
I love that. Second question, what is the worst health advice you've ever heard or received or given?
01:33:02 Speaker_06
Low-fat, low-calorie foods are going to help you lose weight.
01:33:06 Speaker_02
Wait, let's dive into that a tiny bit. I think we covered it, but I just want to make sure. For anyone who's choosing low-fat, low-calorie food, thinking they're going to lose weight, what are they getting wrong?
01:33:17 Speaker_06
Let's use a diet drink, it has aspartame in it. Aspartame is an obesogen and it stimulates appetite.
01:33:24 Speaker_06
So you chose the low sugar, I don't want to use brand names, but the diet soda, you chose that thinking it's going to help you lose weight, but actually what it did is it's an obesogen that is making you gain weight and spiking your appetite.
01:33:43 Speaker_06
Crazy, right?
01:33:44 Speaker_02
It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy.
01:33:46 Speaker_06
This is why conversations like this need to be had, because there's people out there thinking they're doing it all wrong.
01:33:53 Speaker_02
Totally. Totally. And you're doing all of that, and you're going, why? And you're looking in the mirror, and you're so mad at yourself.
01:33:58 Speaker_06
Yeah. Yeah, then you turn on yourself. Meanwhile, Big Food is doing it to you.
01:34:03 Speaker_02
Yeah. Why are we not being protected? Like why is it, why are we allowed to put obesogens into our body and why are we allowed to put all these toxins, plastics into our body?
01:34:14 Speaker_06
I think it's a really good question and it starts with the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration. And I have some quotes in there in the Eat Like a Girl that are really important.
01:34:25 Speaker_06
And for starters, why do we have food and drugs in the same administration? We should have a food administration and we should have a drug. And then within the FDA, there's a category of food called GRAS, generally recognized as safe.
01:34:41 Speaker_06
And what that means is that if they're going to put a new food product, a synthetic food product into the food system, they're going to assume it's innocent until proven guilty.
01:34:54 Speaker_06
It takes a lot of money to prove that these ingredients are harmful and carcinogenic. One of the ones that I love to point out is partially hydrogenated oils.
01:35:04 Speaker_06
About 20 years ago, they identified that partially hydrogenated oils fell into this gross category, that it was generally recognized it's safe, but they hadn't really seen research telling them it wasn't safe. And then the research showed up.
01:35:19 Speaker_06
And the research said that these partially hydrogenated oils were actually contributing a major contributor to heart disease and should be taken out of our food system.
01:35:30 Speaker_06
So what the FDA did is they say, okay, food industry or food companies, you have 20 years. It was like 20 to 25 years to get this carcinogenic heart disease challenged food out of our food system.
01:35:46 Speaker_06
And it was by 2025, which is next year, that will be out of our system. But why did they give them 20 years? How many people died in those 20 years that when they discovered that this food was causing cardiovascular problems?
01:36:03 Speaker_06
That kind of bullshit goes on in the FDA all the time. They care about profits. They do not care about our health. End of story.
01:36:14 Speaker_02
so worrying and so sad, and that's why we have to do it from the bottom up.
01:36:18 Speaker_06
That's why you have to be responsible.
01:36:22 Speaker_06
I always say, and I really want people to take this to heart, where you sit with your health, if it's not what you like today, and you're hearing this podcast and you're like, whoa, nobody told me all this, yes, your poor health, your trouble losing weight is not your fault.
01:36:41 Speaker_06
But now that you've heard this, it is your responsibility. Your health is your responsibility.
01:36:47 Speaker_06
And in this day and age, if you're doing nothing, you're not reading ingredient labels, you're not waking up to conversations like this, you are choosing chronic disease.
01:36:58 Speaker_06
I promise you, the statistics are showing that if you're just eating with a blind eye, you are choosing chronic disease because the FDA cares more about making profits than your well-being.
01:37:12 Speaker_02
Thank you for sharing that. Question number three, how would you define your current purpose?
01:37:18 Speaker_06
It's been the purpose I've had for a while, and it's to reconnect women to their bodies and fall in love with their bodies again. I'll share a story on that one.
01:37:28 Speaker_06
I was running around my neighborhood a few years ago, and this little old lady, like 70-year-old lady with this cute little hat, and she was walking her dog, and she had a cane. I kept running past her.
01:37:41 Speaker_06
And the third time I ran past her, she waved me down. And she said to me, I bet it's amazing to live in your body.
01:37:51 Speaker_06
And it was like to have a 70-year-old woman reflect that back to me made me realize that there's only one goal with health specifically for both men and women, but especially for women is I want women to love living in their bodies.
01:38:06 Speaker_06
I want women to have a really positive relationship with food. I want women to feel empowered when they go into their doctor's office so that they're not gas lit and told that their BMI is so high they better go get on some low calorie foods.
01:38:22 Speaker_06
I want women to understand the gift they're living in and love it. That's my purpose.
01:38:27 Speaker_02
I love that. Question number four, you say in the book, when women heal, the world heals. Why?
01:38:35 Speaker_06
Thank you for pointing that out. We are the nurturers. We're the community builders. We are the leaders of our family and their health.
01:38:44 Speaker_06
I mean, it's very, even though we have a lot of men staying at home now, women in general are the ones that make the health decisions. And we are also the over-givers. When you take amazing care of us, we can turn around and take amazing care of you.
01:39:01 Speaker_06
So when women heal, then all of a sudden the family heals. And when the family heals, now the community heals. And when the community heals, then the state heals. And it just keeps going out. But if that woman is sick, now it's a house of cards.
01:39:18 Speaker_06
And actually, Marianne Williamson's a dear friend of mine. And she sent me a message with that quote. And she said, this is what you're doing. And I was so grateful for that. And that's why I put it in the book. It's like, we need to heal women now.
01:39:32 Speaker_06
We're half of the planet. And we are sick, and we are struggling, and we are reaching out. And we need to heal women so that we can turn around and heal everyone else.
01:39:44 Speaker_02
Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. Fifth and final question. If you could create one law that everyone in the world had to follow, what would it be?
01:39:52 Speaker_06
Oh, eat real food. Eat real food, nature's food. Food without chemicals, that would solve everything.
01:40:00 Speaker_02
Without packaging.
01:40:00 Speaker_06
Without packaging. If everybody was forced to eat a potato versus a potato chip, things like that would be so much better, but eat real food. End of story.
01:40:11 Speaker_02
I love it. The book is called Eat Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz. If you don't follow Dr. Mindy already, please subscribe to our podcast, follow her across social media, and of course, grab a copy of Eat Like a Girl.
01:40:23 Speaker_02
I could not recommend this book more. I promise you there are so many great insights, tactics, tips inside of the book. And I really, really hope that you take charge and accountability of your own health after listening to this.
01:40:37 Speaker_02
Please send this episode to a friend. I know there's someone in your life who will benefit massively from listening to Dr. Mindy Pelz's advice. And Dr. Mindy, thank you again, honestly, for coming on the show.
01:40:48 Speaker_02
I hope you'll become a friend of the show and come back soon.
01:40:51 Speaker_05
I would love to, thank you.
01:40:51 Speaker_02
Because I just feel there's so much value that you're giving to the world and I'm grateful to have you be a part of our platform. So, thank you so much.
01:40:59 Speaker_06
Yeah, and thank you. I mean, I should have probably started off and tell you, like, I listened to your podcast for years.
01:41:05 Speaker_06
And I love the way you show up and the guests you bring and the authentic voice you give us all an opportunity to live in that authenticity. And it's just really enjoyable. So thank you.
01:41:17 Speaker_02
Thank you. Thank you so much.
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