
Dr. Benjamin Bikman
Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast
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The Role of Carbohydrates in Amenorrhea
The only thing that doesn't raise blood sugar, which inevitably then activates your insulin response is fat. Not enough leptin means that the brain shuts all of puberty and fertility down. With fat, you could live longer probably eating pure fat than any other single macronutrient. You would live longer eating nothing but fat. But that explains why amenorrhea is you lose your cycle because you don't have enough fat to carry a baby.
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