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What Women Need to Know About Fasting and How to Do It Correctly with Dr. Mindy Pelz

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The Demands of Progesterone

Women in their prime fertility years, a week before their period are naturally more insulin resistant. Progesterone needs you to raise glucose; that's why you crave carbs. You need magnesium to make progesterone, which is a large part of why a lot of women crave chocolate. So what progesterone does is try to get you to slow down and have less energy so that you can actually be in a place where you have all the right mixture of cortisol, insulin, glucose,. Everything's got its flow so that progesterone can make her appearance.

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