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Hormone Hell Exposed: The Shocking Truth About Women's Health | Alisa Vitti (Replay)

Aug 20, 2024

Alisa Vitti, a functional nutritionist and expert in women's hormonal health, highlights the often-ignored aspects of women's health. She discusses the critical role of the infradian rhythm and its impact on well-being, suggesting tailored dietary and exercise strategies. Vitti debunks the myth that PMS is inevitable and shares insights on enhancing sexual pleasure. She emphasizes the need for women to align their self-care routines with hormonal cycles, advocating for a shift in how health advice is generated and personalized for women.

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Alisa Vitti

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Quick takeaways

Women's health advice often neglects the infradian rhythm, which is vital for understanding hormonal cycles and overall wellbeing.

PMS and related menstrual issues are not inevitable and should be seen as signals for deeper health concerns requiring attention.

Cycle syncing can optimize physical and mental health by aligning activities with hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle.

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Intro

3min

Understanding Women's Health Rhythms

12min

Bridging the Health Data Gap: Women's Health and Hormonal Balance

4min

Understanding the Female Infradian Rhythm

15min

Navigating Productivity Through the Menstrual Cycle

5min

Harnessing Energy: Aligning Activities with the Infradian Rhythm

3min

Syncing Wellness with the Infradian Cycle

11min

Too much of the advice in the fitness, diet and self-help field is based on research that ignores reproductive-age women, their hormonal cycles and their natural rhythms. Functional nutritionist and women’s hormonal health expert Alisa Vitti intends to end that imbalance by promoting concepts, practices and bio-hacking methods developed by and for women.

[Original air date: 2-26-20].

On this episode of Women of Impact with Lisa Bilyeu, Alisa Vitti explains exactly how women can get in tune with and benefit from their hormonal cycles. She also talks about why much of the health advice aimed at men is actually damaging to women, discusses in detail the unappreciated but critically important infradian rhythm, explains why PMS is absolutely not inevitable, and even suggests some ideas that could significantly increase your sexual pleasure.

SHOW NOTES:

Why are women getting sicker? Why are women left out of so much research? [3:49]

Women in their reproductive years have a second biological rhythm, the infradian rhythm [5:48]

Your infradian rhythm impacts six key systems in your body [6:56]

Men organize their lives around the circadian rhythm, which matters to women too, but... [8:00]

Lisa and Alisa discuss the need for women to organize around the infradian rhythm [10:08]

PMS is not inevitable. Alisa explains how to avoid it. [13:35]

Alisa explains what happens if you disrupt your infradian rhythm too much [16:41]

Women should not necessarily follow the same schedule every day [20:31]

Alisa discusses the negative internal dialogue that women often struggle with [22:24]

Alisa explains how it’s counterproductive for women to train the same way every day [23:56]

Intermittent fasting and keto diets are harmful for many women [26:42]

You should listen to your body, when health experts disagree [27:52]

Women’s brain chemistry changes by 25% over the course of the month [28:55]

Alisa explains how the infradian rhythm balances out a woman’s life [34:34]

You may need extra self-care during different phases of your infradian rhythm [35:13]

How to listen to your body and respond to it [37:47]

You don’t need to be perfect in order to get started [40:00]

Sexual pleasure is different throughout the different infradian phases [41:05]

Lisa and Alisa discuss owning your own sexuality and its effect on confidence [43:24]

Alisa shares her superpower [46:35]

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