Michael Easter

Mark this on the calendar.

We need certain things to happen.

Your body doesn't care.

Right.

Body doesn't care.

No, essentially from that ovulation, middle of the cycle, our bodies consider us pregnant.

And here's another thing is I always was following a strict calorie plan and it did not include the luteal phase for a woman.

So women every single day in the luteal phase burn one to 300 more calories per day

Doing nothing.

Doing nothing else.

Yeah.

Just metabolically because the body is doing all these things and changing and progesterone is increasing tenfold.

So we hear estrogen as like a woman's hormone, right?

But I would argue progesterone is even more prominent than estrogen because estrogen raises like 8%.

eight to 10 times.

And then it's like 10 times that for the progesterone part.

So it's massive increase in what progesterone is doing.

And there's just two different hormones.

And we can experience like our smooth muscle tissue slows down in the luteal phase, which is really interesting.

So even the way we digest things and bloat, you know, you hear women complain about that.