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#135 - Cynthia Thurlow: Intermittent Fasting Transformation, The Clean Fast, The Monthly Hormonal Cycle, Hormonal Dysregulation, Extended Fasting, PCOS & Thyroid Dysregulation, Getting Enough Oxytocin, And More!

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Intermittent Fasting and Hormonal Issues

Sally Kohn: One of my favorite things about your book is that in the book, Cynthia goes through all of these different hormones, how they affect the body. And then she actually talks about how fasting affects those hormones, which was just so incredible. So a question about fasting and affecting hormonal issues. She says it's generally accepted that intermittent fasting helps PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome but might hurt it. But also has an undirective thyroid issue called Hashimoto' Thyroidism; women are much more common as menopause approaches.

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