Kelsey Hess is a certified Transformational Nutrition coach specialising in women’s health and thyroid disorders, she is currently the content and brand manager at Kion, a supplement and lifestyle company co-founded by Ben Greenfield and based in Colorado.
In this episode, she discusses intermittent fasting and the reasons why women need to approach it differently to men and how balancing hormones is key for any woman’s optimal health.
She also explains seed cycling as a natural way of regulating hormones and how women can effectively change their patterns and types of exercise through the menstrual cycle to achieve optimum results.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS

Women have to be viewed from an ancestral perspective. Women have to have enough stored nutrients to be able to both carry and nurture a baby.
Balanced hormones at optimum levels are key to women’s overall health.
For women in their 20s,30s and 40s there are benefits to fasting for 12 hours and this can easily be achieved by fasting from 6 pm to 6 am.
Not eating 3 to 4 hours before sleeping helps as you will not be expending energy digesting food when your body is undertaking a cellular clean up.
For losing weight you could use intermittent fasting with a 16-18 hour fasting window 5 days a week.
Fasting every day can de-regulate thyroid production impacting on brain fat, the metabolism and maintaining muscle.
The concept of changing your workouts around your menstrual cycle identifies the difference in hormones in the follicular phase and the luteal phase of the cycle.
In seed cycling, you take seeds to boost selected hormones at different times it’s about regulating the levels of hormones naturally at different points of the cycle.
Get out in the natural light, get grounded and get good sleep because health shouldn’t be complicated.

 
BEST MOMENTS
‘Everyone can benefit from a 12 hour fast’
‘Listen to your body, women often take advice based on studies undertaken with men’
‘Ask yourself what you want to get out of fasting?’
 
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ABOUT THE HOST
Angela Foster
Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:
To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
 
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