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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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Why Women Can't Fast Like Men

There was a popular book on the topic of one meal a day that was written by James Scammer and his wife. And I think they're very vocal about their advocacy is really from a place of they truly believe that plant-based is the best for the world. Men do so well with fasting because it has such an energizing experience to testosterone and you can really up-regulate testosterone. But women, we only get testosterone during ovulation. We don't get testosterone much the rest of our cycle. So when we look at the characteristics of these hormones, testosterone for both men and women does amazing with fasting.

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