Fasting & Hormones

Women should fast regularly.

The only difference when you are ovulating or in search of a child, prolonged fasts like 72-120 hours can slightly affect progesterone levels.

This is where the narrative about fasting following your cycle came from.

It is fear marketing often pushed by;

• Processed food industry
• Snack culture
• Some influencers selling “hormone diets”
• Carb-dependent nutrition narratives

If frequent eating was required for hormones, humans would have gone extinct during famine seasons.

Nature has all solutions, simply pay attention.

Women have fasted across history; religious fasts, scarcity seasons, traditional cultures
and still reproduced.

You want to tell me hormones came the other day?

The real issue is not fasting, it’s starving + stress.

What breaks hormones is:

• Fasting + low animal protein
• Fasting + low fats (cholesterol is hormone raw material)
• Fasting + intense exercise
• Fasting + poor sleep
• Fasting + chronic stress
• Fasting with micronutrient deficiencies

So the problem isn’t the fast. The problem is starving the body while stressing it. Do you get it?

• Eat enough on feeding windows.
• Prioritize protein & animal fats.
• Avoid sugar spikes and inflammatory foods.
• Don’t perform dry fasts daily.
• Pay attention to the body, listen to symptoms. Slow down when the cycle changes.
• Sleep early.
• Enjoy the sun.
• Hydrate adequately with salt and water.
• Reconnect with nature.
• Embrace commonsense. Intellect can be dangerous if you can’t seive information with commonsense.

We move.