Top Diet & Lifestyle Hacks To Naturally Balance Hormones For Women ~ Dr. Mindy Pelz

that lens it's like well yeah maybe i need to change my diet maybe for example a lower carb diet may be brilliant in my 40s maybe i didn't need it in my 30s but i now need it in my 40s

That's right, that's right.

And I just, I love your heart because this is the burden we need to take off of women.

There's so much guilt and shame around our relationship with food.

And what we're seeing in the 40s is there's these dramatic body shifts and I've experienced it myself.

I'm 53 and I've just gone through that whole process.

and you don't understand yourself.

You're like, I've been, you know, for me, it was, I love to work out.

I was doing a lot of paleo.

I was, you know, really, and then I'd moved into the ketogenic diet.

I had found fasting.

I was like trying to play with all these tools because I felt like somebody hijacked my body.

Like I was not able to use those old tools anymore.

I needed a new set of tools and I need to learn how to cycle them like I teach in the book.

But what happens, you know, I don't know if you've seen this statistic, 45 to 55 is the most common decade for women to commit suicide.

Now, why is that? There is a hormonal decline that is changing our brains and our bodies, and we are not understanding each ourselves.

And we as a society are not talking about this hormonal shift.

So the 45-year-old woman is depressed.

She's not sleeping.

She's gaining weight.

She's having all these new health challenges, but she's throwing the old strategies at them that are no longer working, not realizing that something in her lifestyle has to shift.

Yeah.

And not only that, the medical profession and I've been part of it for over two decades now, we're just not trained that well on the things that you're talking about.

So if a woman does go, you know what, I need some help here, often they'll end up with a healthcare professional, maybe a doctor, maybe someone else.

And maybe, I'm not trying to throw anyone under the bus here, right? I do think medical professionals are trying their best, but I just imagine 20 years ago, I wouldn't have known what to do for that woman.