I have a new variation
for the post 40 year old.
And it is called a 4-2-1 variation.
It is a weekly variation because most
women, as they move through their forties,
our monthly cycle is so wackadoodle.
Dr.
Mindy here.
And on this video, I am speaking directly
to those women that are over 40 years old.
If you've been following me here on
my channel, you know, that I strongly
believe women should be fasting different
than men and each stage of our life.
Actually you require some
different variations.
So on this video, I'm going to go through
a brand new variation that I've never
shared on YouTube here that will help
women over 40 use the principles of
fasting to not only help her lose weight.
Not only get you thinking mentally clear
again, not only give you amazing energy,
but will not tank your sex hormones.
So after 40, where our hormones
are already going crazy.
So we need some modifications to our fast.
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Okay.
Women over 40, who we have a
lot that we need to talk about.
So let's start with this.
I have this vision because when I hit 40, I
felt like I was in the best shape of my life.
And I was eating six meals a day.
I loved breakfast.
I was the person that carried my snacks
around with me everywhere I went.
I was eating really healthy.
I thought that, that eating
healthy food, as often as you can
equate equated to a healthy body.
And what I learned is that as I
moved into my forties, that strategy
around health no longer worked.
And let me tell you why at 40 what's
happening is your ovaries are like, I'm done.
I'm out.
Like I have given you eggs
month after month after month.
And I'm going to make a slow exit now.
So as your ovaries start to wind
down, it's not like it happens of
course of a month or even a year.
It takes for most of us, about
10, 15 years for our ovaries to
start to undo this miraculous job
they've been doing for so long.
And so in that process, what is
happening is they have to hand over
the job of making stress hormones.
Specifically estrogen, progesterone
and testosterone have to hand that
job over to your adrenal gland.
Now think about this for a moment.
If you are a rushing woman, if you
are type a stressed out, if you are an
over exerciser, if you're already not
getting sleep, if stress is already at
its max, and now you decide to take it.
On fasting, which produces a cortisol
reaction temporarily, you are likely to
tank your estrogen, your progesterone
and your testosterone, because your
adrenals cannot handle the extra stress.
So we've got to do this differently.
So the first thing I want you to
understand, and I know, you know,
I'm 51 and I still am in disbelief
that, you know, I'm in the middle.
I'm almost at the other end of menopause.
It's like, I still feel like a 25 year old in
my brain and I'm in disbelief that I have to
adapt my lifestyle for menopause in my brain.
I was like, Well, menopause is what my
mother went through not what I'm going
through, but what I realize is that at
40, we have to change our lifestyle and
fasting is a key part of changing that.
So I want to make sure you
guys do it really effectively.
Okay.
So the first thing I want you to understand
is your physiology know these hormones
are, the Everglades are kicking out, but
I also want you to realize that you're
going to be more susceptible to stress.
Now than ever before, what you used to get
away with at 35, you can't get away with
at 45, you are going to have more adverse
reactions to stress than ever before.
The second thing that I want to talk
about before I go into the, what I
consider one of the best variations
for women over 40 is that it's really
important that you know, your hormones.
And there's a couple ways that you can
understand where your hormones are at
first is if you are peri-menopausal and
you still have a cycle the minute day
one hits, I want you tracking your cycle.
So even if your cycle is every 60 days,
every 90 days, I want you to track
that cycle so that, you know, when your
body's trying to make progesterone,
progesterone is our anti-anxiety hormone.
It is what calms us.
It is also what will allow
the uterine lining to shed.
So we can have a cycle.
And what I'm hearing from a lot of
women, as they start to fast in their
forties is they lose their cycle,
but they're just losing progesterone.
So you need to know when you're
supposed to get progesterone and it's
usually around day 20 of your cycle.
So make sure you're tracking your
cycle on something like a clue app.
The second thing, and this is for 50, 67
year old women that are watching this video.
I highly recommend that all
women get a hormone test and my
favorite is called the Dutch test.
The Dutch test will allow you to
see which hormones are in jeopardy.
So if we get a Dutch test back and you're,
you're toxic, estrogen is really high.
There's certain fast.
I'm going to recommend that you lean
into to manage that toxic estrogen.
You might need to do more Autophagy fasting,
if your progesterone levels are really low.
Then we need to modify your fasting schedule
according to how low that progesterone is.
So this is why it's something like a Dutch
hormone test is so incredibly helpful.
If you want to know more about the Dutch
test, just put Dutch tests in the comments
and my team will send you a link to that.
So first thing is know your physiology.
Second is know your, your hormones
and where your hormonal profile is.
And then the third one is really
the meat of this video and something
you can step into immediately.
I have a new variation for the post 40 year
old, and it's called a 4-2-1 variation.
It is a weekly variation because most women,
as they move through their forties, our
monthly cycle is so wackadoodle that we don't
know how to time it to the fasting circle.
So I want to give you a weekly one.
Four days a week.
You're not going to intermittent fast.
If you thought I was going to say that
your going to do Autophagy fasting,
autophagy fasting is 17 hours of fasting
and you break your fast with fat.
I did a ton of videos on this and
you want to make sure you keep your
protein under 20 grams and your
carbohydrates under 50 net carbs.
When you do eat.
This style of fasting and eating
is considered a detox, like a
light detox toxins, rear their ugly
head as we move into menopause.
So we need to lean into
more autophagy fasting.
So in my post 40 year old variation,
four days a week, you're going to do
a tautology fasting two days a week.
You're going to do a very
minimal about a fasting.
You're going to do 13 hours of fasting
and you're going to hormone build.
So on these two days a week, you're
trying to raise progesterone.
So the four days a week, you're trying
to detoxify so that we can help with
estrogen, sensitivity, leptin, sensitivity.
Many of the things I've taught here.
Two days a week, we're going to work on
building progesterone, and you do that by 13
hours of fasting and then hormone building.
We do not count macros on this day.
We look at things like adding
more of the squashes and the
beans and the tropical fruits.
Citrus fruits, grass fed beef is
great potatoes, sweet potatoes.
These are projesterone building foods.
I put, I lists of them
in the Menopause Reset.
So if you have a copy of the
Menopause Reset, pull it out.
Look under the chapter that
I say, dear progesterone.
I'm sorry.
I took you for granted.
It's my favorite chapter book.
So if you don't have a copy of the Menopause
Reset, It is out for pre-order right now.
Just put Menopause Reset in the
comments and we'll send you a
link on how you can order it.
So, two days a week, we're
going after progesterone.
We're keeping our fast under 13 hours and
we're leaning into hormone building fits.
And then the last day,
last day, the four to one.
So the one you're going
to go do a 24 hour fast.
Why is this important to the peri menopausal
and post-menopausal woman is because we
have to take exceptional care of our gut.
We actually have bacteria in our gut
that help us break estrogen down so that
estrogen can get into our cells and can
start to make, allow ourselves to use
it for energy and for functionality.
So if you're having hot flashes, if
your mucosal membranes are really
dry, if you have brain fog, you're
not sleeping well, these can all be
signs that your estrogen is too low.
So we've got to take amazing care
of what we call our estrobolome,
which is the bacteria that break
estrogen down and the 24 hour fast.
Does that really well?
So let me summarize that for you
four days a week, autophagy fasting.
Two days a week of hormone building
with 13 hours of fasting and one
day a week of a 24 hour fast.
And the meal I would put with that
one is a keto biotic meal where you're
keeping carbs under 50 grams and you're
leaning into as many veggies as possible.
Again, if you're new to these
principles, go back and watch some
of the videos I've done on women and
fasting because we believe strongly.
I'm trying to teach this to so many people
that we need that fasting variation so
that we don't get stuck with our results.
We don't tank our sex hormones
and over 40 it's crazy.
We have to do a lot of things
different and a fasting lifestyle
is absolutely one of them as always.
You guys let me know, is that helpful?
What more information do you need to know?
My heart goes out to the post 40
year old woman because our hormones
going ARIDE just really mess up so
much about our health and our moods.
And I really want to reach out and help you.
So if you're stuck with these
teachings, just put in the comments
where you're getting stuck so I can
make sure I do further videos for this.
And as always the new book, I
would love for you to go order it.
Not only so you can get all
the information in here.
This is meant to be a book.
You pick up, you devour it in two
days and you can put it into action.
I have steps after every chapter,
just like I do here on YouTube.
So if you want the menopause reset,
just put Menopause Reset in the
comments and don't give up on yourself.
You're a miracle and you're
even more of a miracle after 40.
I promise.