Building Successful Lifestyle Fixes for Menopause

Dr Mindy Pelz, a women’s fasting expert specialising in fasting for women over forty talks to Angela about her own journey and the five key principles that she has created to support a successful fasting lifestyle. She explains how she made the lifestyle shifts that have taken her from a chaotic time in her forties to the smooth and easy experience of her early fifties. This episode has informative lifestyle fixes for menopause and great content that can be acted on immediately to change your life positively starting now.   KEY TAKEAWAYS You have to stop eating all day – we operate with two energy systems, one where we burn energy from what we eat and one where we burn energy from fat. You cannot get to the energy system burning fat without fasting You need to be sensitive to the fact you become more insulin resistant in your forties and beyond 5:1:1 variation works with 5 days of intermittent fasting, 1 day of extended fasting and 1 day of eating Vary your foods through keto variations There are specific bacteria in the gut that break down oestrogen You have to become insulin sensitive to make oestrogen but you also need a healthy liver and the right bacteria in the gut to break oestrogen down so that it can enter the body Detoxing makes the biggest difference to your hormones. You need to stop toxifying yourself, review what you put on your skin, what’s in your environment and what you are putting into your body You can stimulate autophagy so the cells are detoxing themselves Infertility, challenging menopause and compromised immune systems are all toxic issues A toxic-free environment must be a priority Exercise variation is the key to successful training over forty. The goal is to build a fasting lifestyle that can successfully make a difference and be maintained.   BEST MOMENTS ‘When you are operating from a ketogenic system all these healing switches get turned on’ ‘Going back to local can help you to know about where your food has come from’ ‘There is benefit in having high protein and low protein days’   VALUABLE RESOURCES High Performance Health podcast series\ Transform your sleep DNA optimization High Performance website  Dr Mindy Pelz website   ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster   Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance. After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind: To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life. Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.   CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn High Performance Health FB Group