Expanded x Ep. 80: In The Flo with Alisa Vitti, Female Hormone and Functional Nutrition Expert
“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.”
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 biohack 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.
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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
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