okay you guys Dr. Mindy here and on this video I've got brand new information
about hormones and you guys are so focused on insulin you want to bring insulin down but what
I want to show you is that if you do fasting, keto , microbiome repair, detox all the things I teach on
here properly you can also impact the sex hormones you can impact cortisol and you can impact
oxytocin so stay tuned brand new info excited to share it with you okay you guys I'm really excited
to share with you over the next several videos how you can use keto and fasting, microbiome
repair and detox to manipulate and I mean that in a positive way to make some changes to these
six hormones. There are six hormones that are influencing your moods, your sleep, your memory
even things like your skin, your hair and these six hormones are basically oxytocin, cortisol, insulin,
estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. They are influenced in a very specific order we call
it the hormonal hierarchy and I want to share with you over the next several videos how you
can use these different hormones to your advantage to get your brain working right to help you lose
weight to get your hair from to stop falling out to help you build muscle and this is not just for
women this is for men as well so sit tight as I take you through what we call the hormonal
hierarchy because not all hormones are made equal and so many of you are doing an incredible job of
affecting insulin and I want to show you some ways outside of fasting even that you can use to bring
your insulin levels down so that you can have an impact or have an effect on things like estrogen,
progesterone, and testosterone, and I first want to point make a point that a lot of this
hormonal hierarchy I learned for Dr. Anna Cabeca so go read her book the hormone fix she's also on
Facebook and Instagram you can find some of her stuff, we have a Resetter TV where
I interviewed her and we talked about this last year I'm gonna bring her back on to Resetter
TV so she's a really smart woman who's passionate about hormones and using the keto life to help
us all balance them. Let's start here the first and the most master hormone that we have in our
body the one that affects every other hormone is oxytocin so stop and think about that for a moment
how flippin cool is it that oxytocin can affect all of these hormones because oxytocin is super
fun to get oxytocin is what happens when you look at your baby for the first time and you feel that
warm fuzzy feeling, oxytocin is what you get when you fall in love for the first time you get
oxytocin from hugging people, you get oxytocin from just touch, from laughter, from connection.
We spend so much time in this community talking about insulin and how do we bring insulin down
and one of my points to this video today is that I really want to help you all see that there are
other hormones that are controlling insulin more than just what you eat or how long you fast and
oxytocin is one of those so oxytocin would be the equivalent to if you were at a university
this would be like the president of the university the one that's in charge of all the hormones
in charge of all the professors, in charge of all the students this is the master hormone that
we all need to be focusing on and I'm gonna do a whole separate video just on oxytocin itself so
oxytocin has a direct effect on cortisol now you guys all know cortisol because cortisol is what
gets secreted when you're stressed and cortisol is really damaging to the body a little bit
of cortisol is fine but a lot of cortisol is gonna make you have that belly fat cortisol is going to
start to it's like I always look at it like it's sludge in the bloodstream and it's going to
affect how organs function cortisol can start to damage your brain you do not want massive amounts
of cortisol so the good news and one thing to think about is that if you're living a really
high-stress life right now you're gonna want to make sure you're getting a lot of oxytocin so that
you can bring those cortisol levels down this is why if you're having a bad day a hug is something
as simple as a hug can have an incredible impact on bringing cortisol down petting your dog go home
at the end of the day you had a really stressful day start to pet your animal to bring
those cortisol levels down now here's where for those of you that are trying to lose weight and
you're fasting more this is where this information becomes crucially important is that if cortisol is
really high it's gonna make managing insulin very difficult so we see this in our resetter
community when we're fasting a lot people get very frustrated because there are some people because
their blood sugar won't come down and they're like I am doing all the right things well the
one thing you got to stop and ask yourself is are you secreting too much cortisol is life so
stressful that all of your fasting efforts are not going to bring that insulin down because
your cortisol levels have become so high other places that you're getting real huge increases
in cortisol are over exercisers so those of you that like to exercise all the time and
then you're trying to fast all the time you're trying to get lose more weight
is it possible that you're over exercising and causing that cortisol levels to go up and then
when it goes up you cannot stimulate or regulate insulin this piece right here for those
of you that are fasting this is so important for you to realize because you are trying so hard and
I know you guys you comment in the community page many of you are in our
Resetters group some of you find me on Instagram and you're all working so hard on this one hormone
but I want you to not lose sight of how impactful cortisol can be at either helping or hindering
your insulin efforts and you're regulating insulin efforts okay second thing now that you understand
cortisol controls insulin now we can try to have an impact on insulin and that's what this whole
station has been about to me there are two ways that you bring insulin down you
fast longer and you eat less carbohydrates now I'm also going to throw some
protein in that because a lot of you are eating less carbohydrates but you're really eating oh
you're moving into eating more protein and that's protein still spikes insulin so you want to make
sure in order to keep insulin down that you are fasting using the fasting variations that I teach
here on the station and that you're living what I call a keto biotic life which is where you're
in doing less than 50 grams of net carbs and you're keeping your protein under 50
grams that's a really good pattern for making sure that you don't spike insulin too much so
now for those of you especially those of you that are either in menopause or going through
menopause or your post menopause or maybe you're a man who's trying to build more testosterone
so you can get more muscle the next step becomes critical when you come into fasting and you start
to manage insulin better what ends up happening is now you have a fighting chance at regulating
estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone so you if these three hormones are out of control it's gonna
make these three hormones very difficult to manage you can take all the mad what I always call it the
magic mushroom you can take all the magic mushroom you want you could rub all the creams on your body
you can take all the greatest supplements to try to balance these three hormones but if these three
hormones are out of control your efforts are going to be wasted so I wanted to bring the
hormonal hierarchy to you so you can understand because I watched so many of you start to try to
an effect on these three especially those of you that are going through the menopause process or
men if you're trying to build muscle and you're trying to raise testosterone so a couple of ideas
for you, once you've got your fasting lifestyle in place you're bringing those quarters that cortisol
level down I'm sorry your insulin level down once you're making sure that you're
regulating cortisol you're not over exercising you're keeping your stress at a good place and
you're looking at how do you get some more oxytocin going out and getting some daily
hugs and petting your animal and hanging out with people that make you laugh when you've got these
three things firmly in place now you're ready to start to work on these three things now I'm gonna
put this in terms of fasting testosterone this is for the men or for women who have low testosterone
intermittent fasting is one of the best ways to raise testosterone so we are seeing like close
to a 1300% increase in growth hormone, growth hormone when it goes up stimulates
testosterone so if you want to build more muscle make sure your intermittent fasting every single
day so and I know a lot of you already know that other ways to raise testosterone that I've talked
about on this channel are things like the Joovv or red light therapy that's also been proven to bring
testosterone up for the women if you're trying to change estrogen and progesterone what you're gonna
need to do is follow more of a cycle what I call my 28-day Hormone Reset where you're not fasting
all the time where you're doing spurts of fasting and then you're pulling yourself out of keto and
you're leaning into some higher carb foods this is one of the major problems that we're seeing with
the women especially women going through menopause is that what we're seeing is that when you guys
come into the keto and fasting lifestyle you get so excited about ketones you get so excited about
weight loss and regulating your insulin that you forget that you've got still the job of trying to
manage estrogen and progesterone so go back and watch the video that I did on why women should
fast differently than men I explained I outlined when you can go into the longer fasts and when
you shouldn't so just bringing insulin down doesn't always mean that you're
gonna bring up estrogen and progesterone there's a pattern and a style to it that we want
you to follow okay so I hope that helps give me feedback I'm gonna dive into hormones for
you all we've done a ton of video here on my channel about fasting and hormonal issues are
at an all-time high a large reason is because we live in this toxic world we also live in a
very stressed-out world so I just adore you guys and I love how you're so focused on insulin but I
want to make sure that we're giving you tools to focus on the other pieces menopausal women
if you're post-menopause you're peri if you're in the middle you don't even know where you
are I have spent the last 12 weeks writing a book specifically for you, it's called the Menopause
Reset and I am giving the digital copy away so it will be out in beginning of April if you want
a copy of the digital copy just put the menopause reset and we'll send you a link and make sure you
get a copy in that book I map out all of these different hormones and what you can do one of
the challenges were seen right now for menopausal women is that as you move through your menopause
experience what ends up happening is your ovaries shut down and your adrenals start to take over
and if your adrenals have been regulating massive amounts of cortisol for a really long time they're
burnt and they don't want to help you make estrogen progesterone and
testosterone that puts you in a very bad hormonal place so the menopause reset is all about giving
you guys the tools to change your lifestyle as you go through that experience so you not only
thrive you drop weight you sleep your hair stops falling out but that you prevent disease because
like 70% of diseases hormonal cancers, heart disease, osteoporosis happen to women after
a pause so this is critically important that you adjust your lifestyle and I want to make
sure you have those tools okay so no matter where you are on your journey of balancing hormones men
women menopausal postmenopausal you got to keep these six in mind and stay tuned because as I do
more with these videos I'm going to dive into each one and we're gonna talk about lifestyle
changes that you can make so that you can maximize these hormones so as always you guys are awesome
let's keep the oxytocin going on this community by giving you know us comments giving us feedback is
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more empowerment we can give people the healthier their they will be so as always I hope that helps