Are you someone who has been on birth control for years yet doesn’t really understand its long term effects? How familiar are you with your cycle? Did you know that having horrible PMS symptoms is NOT normal and due to hormone imbalances that we can fix through lifestyle adjustments in each phase of our cycle? Unfortunately, women haven’t been well-informed about our own bodies, but it’s time to take our power back and equip ourselves with knowledge of how our bodies can function their best. And we have the best guest to lay it all out for us “hormone virgins” in this episode! Alisa Vitti is busting female wellness myths and teaching us how to get to know our bodies and cycles better. Alisa Vitti is a women’s hormone and functional nutrition expert and pioneer in female biohacking. She is the best selling author of WomanCode, and her new book, In the FLO. She is the creator of the Cycle Syncing Method™— a female centric diet and lifestyle program that leverages hormonal patterns for optimal health, fitness and productivity. As the founder of FLOLiving.com, she has built the world’s first menstrual healthcare platform that helps women around the world put their period issues like PCOS, Fibroids, Endometriosis, and PMS into remission naturally using her highly effective FLO Protocol and the FLO Balance Supplements.  Get out your notebooks, because this episode is full of information you need to know to optimize your life through hormone balancing with the Cycle Syncing Method. We talk about why so many women struggle with hormone imbalances, how to cycle sync your workouts, what to eat in the different phases of your cycle, and so much more. We know you’re going to learn so much in this episode, just like we did. Make sure to share this episode with a friend because all women deserve to know what’s going on with their bodies. “That whole relationship that women historically have had with exercise, with fitness, with dieting, with their bodies, with weight has been made unnecessarily toxic because they’ve been given a blueprint that belongs to the self optimization for a man’s metabolism. I created the cycle synching method because the form of our self care must follow the function of our hormones.” - Alisa Vitti What we talk about: Alisa’s journey with PCOS that led her to this work Why we haven’t learned about hormone balancing until now What is cycle syncing? The effects of women being left out of medical fitness and nutrition research Food and fitness you should incorporate in each phase of your cycle Why women shouldn’t follow a static routine The root of women’s toxic relationship with food and exercise Why you have brain fog Where to start with cycle syncing What happens to your cycle on birth control The disadvantages to not ovulating during your reproductive years  The contraceptive gel you should ask your doctor for Ask Away: my mom is constantly bringing up my weight. What can I do? “The cycle syncing method is the method I created to help women really understand what to do to take care of themselves correctly in each phase of their cycle. Doing this reduces stress, protects your delicate reproductive hormone balance, protects ovulation, reduces PMS, keeps blood sugar; does all the things you need it to do which is the direct opposite of how you’ve been told to care for yourself.” - Alisa Vitti New podcast episodes of Confident Collective drop every Tuesday.   Thank you to our sponsors: Go to zocdoc.com/CONFIDENT  and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then find and book a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours. Get $20 off your fertility test when you go to ModernFertility.com/TCC. Learn more and save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/confidentcollective or use code "confidentcollective" at checkout.   Resources: Download the app: MyFlo - myflotracker.com Go to Floliving.com for supplements Read In the Flo and Woman Code by Alisa Vitti Follo