Dr. Stacy Sims

And they're what we call flipping back and forth, right?

because you want to be on a daytime schedule on your off days and live your life, that you're constantly sacrificing what your body needs.

And what I tell people is you may, if you can get off of that, it will be a healthier life pattern.

But in moments where it's not, you need to really prioritize trying to get enough sleep, making sure that you're taking care of yourself in the other time periods because sometimes

you're set up for a place that is going to cause hormone dysfunction and impact your metabolic health.

So it's very defendable.

It's trying to protect you.

It really is looking at how, what is it going to do to keep your functions happening?

In balance.

In balance.

But because women can get pregnant and pregnancy is not a health neutral state, it's a huge strain on the body.

Mm-hmm.

That is an extra layer of one of the things that sometimes decides I'm going to put this to the side because I'm going to keep you functioning.

I want to work on all of our other body functions.

We're going to shut off that side that's not sending out FSH and LH and making reproductive hormones.

But you don't need to clean out.

That's not how you clean out your system.

Taking the fiber out of those fruits and vegetables.

Taking away all the things that you need.

It feels more attainable to say I'm doing this crazy thing for three days than I'm going to make a life switch to just live a more preventive, anti-inflammatory lifestyle.