“I know for a fact that nature has designed you in your female body to be feeling fantastic. And not just feeling good, but also have all the possible gifts that can allow you to be an agent of change and do good in the world.” - Alisa
“Your brain is wired in a particular way. You’re here to create things out of this fertile void. If you take this medication, that gets really shut down and I’ve seen that over and over again in my practice over the years.” - Alisa
“We should be given the correct information from the beginning so we understand how our bodies work, how to work with them, and how to support them, so that we’re not really so confused and not getting out of our lives what we would like.” - Alisa
If you have ever visited our Essentials page on the website or read the blog, you know Lacy has been a huge advocate for Alisa Vitti’s book Woman Code. The female hormone & nutritional expert joins Lacy today on the Podcast to talk about her latest book, In The Flo, which is all about unlocking your hormonal advantage. Alisa speaks to using your 28-day cycle to bio-hack diet, fitness, work and relationship, and how various trendy diets affect women’s bodies specifically. Alisa shares some of the ways your system gets disrupted, how you can monitor this yourself, and the most effective tools & resources for hormone health. Additionally, Lacy reflects on some of the practices that were most useful for her, and the changes she saw from improving the health of her endocrine system.
In This Episode We Talk About:
- Overview of how Alisa discovered her work and some of the
fundamentals of getting your hormones in-sync again
- Some of the things that can disrupt your system as a female
- The universal nature of the ways we can bring the endocrine system
back to homeostasis
- The importance of the order in which you support your endocrine
system
- The color and texture of period blood as a biomarker of endocrine
health
- The difference between the number of men and women who are suffering
from hormonal imbalances
- Some of the dangers of using birth control/synthetic hormone
replacements as a solution to period problems
- Being in a compassionate and responsive relationship with your body
- Tracking your symptoms during any time of the month and the hormonal
implications
- Alisa’s MyFlo tracker
- The psychological effects of taking birth control or other synthetic
hormone replacements
- Some of the ways to track your fertility
- The four hormonal phases we have throughout the month in our period
cycle
- Functional nutrition and a gentle approach to healing
- Alisa’s do’s and don’ts for women who lean on the holistic side
- The transition to perimenopause and menopause
- Some of the nuances of puberty and menopause and how both processes
are meant to be gradual
- Her new book as a definitive guide to a woman’s operating system
- Architecting a peak flow state in your body, relationships, and life
from a biohacking point of view
- The new term “infradian rhythm,” that women experiences in the course
of their monthly cycle
- All the different effects of an infradian disruption
- The biological changes we experience throughout the course of our
infradian rhythm
- The dangers of some of the fad diets because they don’t take into
account the infradian rhythm
- The gender bias in fitness and nutrition
- Way we can support our infradian rhythm
- Time management that factors in the infradian rhythm as well as the
circadian rhythm
- Alisa’s cycle-syncing method
Resources:
Lacy’s Intro
In The Episode
Where to Find Alisa
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