so as you're fasting and the cells are repairing fastonic will bring hydrogen
into the cell and mobilize the toxins and and make that cell reboot it give it a
little more energy and move the healing process accelerate the healing process
Dr. Mindy here and on this video I'm going to go through my 5 favorite hacks to make your
fasting efforts more effective and this one is specifically for women because as if you've
been following me here hopefully you know that women have to do fasting a little different than
men and so we actually have to lean into some hacks a little bit more to get the most out of
our fasting lifestyle so welcome if you're new to my channel super happy you're here if you're not
familiar with my work or what my channel stands for I am on a mission to teach a million people
how to build a fasting lifestyle I feel very strongly that women and men need to fast different
both women and men can benefit from fasting the different ages that you're at you need to fast
a little different and on this video I'm going to show you the five hacks that I love and as
always you guys if you love this video send it out into the world we are all tied together through
health so let's get healthy together so we can get happy together so welcome and let's dive right in
okay ready five strategies so let's start with this concept
I just mentioned it in the intro women and men need to fast differently I want you to know that
when we're talking about women there's three categories of women that i'm talking about and
I'll bring this in as I go through these five hacks so the first category is women under 40.
the second category is women 40 to 55 in her perimenopause, menopause years and then over 55
women that are postmenopausal so you'll see that there's some nuances here depending on
what time of life you are so the first thing that I would say the key for a woman regardless of her
age to succeed at fasting and get the most out of it is you want to stabilize your blood sugar
even well before you start to fast now what does that look like so that looks like you want to
make sure you are upping your good fats that is the most important part of stabilizing blood
sugar is how much fat are you eating how much fat is going into your diet and is it the good fat
bad fats make you insulin resistance a good fats will stabilize your blood sugar so a
couple of my favorite hacks for good fats is you guys have heard me talk about Andreas seed oils
I literally these come in like really nice little glass containers I will take
a seed oil and drizzle it over an avocado I'll drizzle it over salad so whenever I'm eating i
look at my plate and i ask myself how can i improve the oil content how do i bring this
up so you can do tablespoons of this oil but you want to first dive into increasing oils
second thing this is my new favorite these are called keto cups and there's a lot of different
fat bombs like this but I often will break my fast with something like a keto cup which is just pure
fat and the reason that I like to lean into these keto cups or something like that throughout the
day is I find that it'll just stabilize my blood sugar so the next day of fasting will
be so much easier so if you are trying to fast and struggling to go for longer period times or
maybe you can't even you're struggling to even get into intermittent fasting i want you to
think before you think about taking carbs out before you modify protein I want you to think
about your good fat, how can you up your good fat and bring your bad fat down the other one that I
use is the MCT oil and where we'll talk about that in a moment okay hack number two you want to know
what your hormonal needs are at all times now if you're under 40 I'm going to encourage you
to fast for your cycle and we are coming out with a with a circle that will show you how to do that
so stay tuned follow me on Instagram because that will be the first place that I put out the fasting
circle for women but we've talked about this on my platform before and so go back and look at the
women in fasting videos you want to make sure that you're fasting at the right time of your
cycle and that you're not fasting at other at the wrong times the most simple way to say this is in
a 30-day cycle for women under 40. day one till about day 15 you can pretty much fast but then on
the back half of your cycle especially as you get closer to your period you're gonna have a
harder time of fasting so you're going to want to do we have a couple other tricks we recommend so
go watch those videos but know your hormonal setup now perimenopausal women it is more important than
ever that if you go anywhere from 15 days for your cycle and then 60 days at another time
that you are tracking your cycle and you are clear when progesterone levels are low and
when cortisol is high so the perimenopausal woman is really sensitive to cortisol levels more than
any other woman so 40 to 55 so if you were under a tremendous amount of stress
that day you're not going to want to try to do a longer fast you may not want to fast that day
but the hack for you is that on the day that you are not stressed then man you should lean
into longer fasts but a lot of stress and fasting don't go hand in hand so look for the days
that you are not under a tremendous amount of stress and make those your longer days of fasting
and then women over 55 I highly recommend a dutch test know your hormonal levels and
make sure that you're minding progesterone make sure one day a week you're stepping
out of a fasted lifestyle and you're leaning into hormone building foods so postmenopausal women
can really fast at almost any time but you still have to be mindful that you can tank progesterone
and it'll make fasting more difficult so you want to have some variation so number two is know your
hormones know where you're at okay number three this is one of my favorite power up your coffee so
check this out there are some really cool hacks around coffee and you can do a couple of cups
in the morning if if that works for your adrenals so mct oil i like Dave Asprey's Bulletproof MCT
oil putting a couple of teaspoons of that in your morning coffee is going to help to get you
into the ketogenic energy pathways get you more ketones when ketones go up your hunger will
go down so add some oil in the morning then there's a second cup of coffee you can have a
couple of hours later maybe it's decaf but in this second cup of coffee I want you to try something
and this is a little hack I learned from Dave Asprey you can go see his podcast interview that
he did on the resetter podcast and he blends that second cup of coffee up he puts it with
mct oil and inulin so this is huge i've never spoken of this on any video here on youtube
inulin is a fiber in the gut that will help to to manage blood sugar and will help with hunger
so the inulin that I like is called FBR and if you wanted the link for that just put FBR
in the comments and we'll send you the link but get a blender put a cup of coffee put your MCT
oil maybe you do a tablespoon this is maybe like your lunch snack and then add in
a teaspoon of this inulin blend it all up and drink it like a smoothie like a frothy smoothie
and now that acts like lunch so you can use that you've had your fat in the morning you've
now leaned into this fat bomb at lunch maybe the day before you added all your good fats in and
now we're really stabilizing blood sugar and we're making it easier for you to fast longer
and longer okay my fourth tip is to drink your nutrients so remember when we're fasting we're
not eating now we have that cool smoothie shake coffee smoothie hack I just gave you
but what else you know a lot of fasting is just mental so I really like a couple of tricks um i
lmnt is my one of my new favorite uh minerals uh packets you just open this up
I put it in a container of water in the morning and I'm just drinking it all day long it won't
spike your blood sugar it adds the minerals back in I find it helps with the boredom in the brain
and it will move me past that little hunger spot that I get at 10 in the morning sometimes when I'm
fasting so try leaning into some of the added minerals the other thing is thank you
to Pique Tea they've come up with a whole fasting line so go check out their teas and again really
important for boredom I had a great interview with Simon Cheng who on the resetter podcast
and he talked about they created this whole fasting line so that people could have something
to help them over the mental hurdle so if you want to know what you can put in your water just put
drink nutrients in the comments and my team will show you these links as well the other really cool
drink hack that we haven't really talked about much on here is a product called fast tonic
and fast tonic is neat because it's hydrogen water so as your fasting and the cells are repairing
fast tonic will bring hydrogen into the cell and mobilize the toxins and make that cell
reboot it give it a little more energy and move the healing process accelerates the healing process
so in my academy people love the fast tonic as this little snack as they call it in the afternoon
to get you over the hurdle if you're trying a 24 or a 36 hour fast so check out Fastonic
my last thing that i want to point out is that if you are really diving into this fasting lifestyle
a couple of good tricks are to monitor what you how you're measuring your health Keto-Mojo
make sure you're looking at your blood sugar make sure you're looking at your ketones that can help
you understand where you are in this process of fasting NutriSense you guys saw me I wore
for a month I wore a continuous glucose monitor love those it also gives you motivation because
it's feedback as to how you're doing and then the other trick we've been using in our reset academy
is the Whoop Band looking at the whoop to see if your HRV is really bad one day
then don't try to go into a longer fast the next day that might be too difficult on your nervous
system and your fasting efforts may be really challenging so but then maybe you recover you
look at your whoop or you look at your aura ring and you recover really well the next day you're
like yeah I don't have a stressful day I'm gonna fast all day and you can lean into some of these
other hacks as you're going along but these are this is a dense video and I wanted you guys to
have some like checklist strategies so let me know if that helps if you want anything that i
talked about in here anywhere from the keto mojo links to the nutrisense just put put it in the
comments and my team will come on April 6th the Menopause Reset this is your lifestyle book
on what you need to do over 40 so that you don't build disease you get yourself out of weight loss
resistance you start sleeping better you avoid the hot flashes and you get out of irritability
the Menopause Reset was the five things that I implemented in my life as I moved through
my 40s to make sure that I managed my menopause symptoms with grace so as always hope that helps