toxins and high insulin clog the cells in your brain and on your ovaries, challenging hormonal

Choosing macros that keep your blood sugar from spiking high will help you switch over to the fat-burner energy system quicker.

Good fats nourish your cells; bad fats inflame them.

When a carbohydrate has fiber in it, the glucose spike is much more gradual, giving your body time to properly assimilate that sugar into your cells.

When your mitochondria are damaged, you will be low in glutathione, not methylating properly and therefore allowing toxins to stay stuck inside, leading to inflammation, damaged cell parts, and in some cases allowing disease genes to be triggered.

Autophagy improves cellular resilience in three ways: detox, repair, and the removal of diseased cells.

Here’s how it works: The hormone oxytocin can calm cortisol. Cortisol spikes will cause increases in insulin, and surges in insulin have a direct effect over your sex hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. When we fast, we have to pay close attention to how these hormones all impact each other.

The second thing to keep in mind when you go to fast as a woman is that you may need to lean in to longer fasts every once in a while.

Bacteria thrive on three types of foods: probiotic, prebiotic, and polyphenol foods.