Dr. Stacy Sims

So utilizing time-restricted eating, meaning I'm going to eat within my circadian rhythm, the hours that there is sun outside, back how your body's made to function, is working with your biology.

If you're saying I'm going to not eat for three days because I'm doing this fasting period,

For women, that's going to induce a stressful state where you're going to start to store more as visceral fat and cause more inflammation.

Easiest way to say it.

I don't know.

You have higher rates of infertility, higher rates of pregnancy loss.

You're more metabolically unhealthy.

Of course, we're generalizing a group of people.

And I think we've all had moments of life where shift work was part of what we had to do.

But night shift work, most people are not getting enough sleep during the day.

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.