WARNING: Any man who listens to this show will have one up on all other men, this is HOW you become “woke”.... We promise this episode will be just as enlightening for you fellas as it will for you ladies.

Mercedes here!: I’m so excited to be checking this one off my dream guest list! The woman we’re talking to today is one of the reasons I’m now living in more harmony with my body, and I’d even credit her work for helping get my relationship with my husband to better place because of his openness to explore the wisdom she’s bringing to the world!

Today’s guest, Alisa Vitti, is a functional nutritionalist and women’s hormone expert who has spent the last 15 years studying, researching, personally applying, and globally teaching both men and women how to stop hormonal chaos and get into flow.

Her brand “FLO” houses an online health center, an incredible app, and multiple books- all focused on changing the landscape of what it means to be a woman! Empowering both women and men everywhere to view our intricate hormonal bodies as the miracles they are, reducing the stigma around menstrual periods and all that they come with them; steering us all toward a more harmonious tomorrow.

-her journey

-PCOS

-blood sugar stabilization

-WHY Menstruation is one of the last taboo topics

-what the monthly hormonal cycle consists of

-menstrual phases, moon cycles

-the infradian rhythm

-What a healthy/normal menstrual cycle should look and feel like

-what menstrual blood should look/smell like

-how to track your cycle

-often overlooked red flags that are likely signaling our hormones may be off

-BLOATING

-CONSTIPATION

-IRON DEFICIENCY/ANEMIA

-headaches

-mood swings

-panic/ANXIETY

-NIGHT SWEATS

-fatigue

-how woman should be eating for optimal hormonal health

-how to repair our hormone imbalances

-how much water should women be drinking -how we should be supplementing

-the effects of diet trends on female hormones: intermittent fasting, keto diet

-what happens when we work out on an empty stomach

-caffeine intake

-why birth control might be causing problems for some women

-how to transition off the birth control pill

-common imbalances in women TRYING TO GET PREGNANT, and how to resolve them

-how can men better support their woman in her hormonal journey

MAJic Tricks:

•PMS = Prioritizing. My. Self.

•Crying as a Cortisol Cleanse

Book recommendations:

•Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD

•Cirsei by Madelyn Miller

•In The FLO by Alisa Vitti

•Women Code by Alisa Vitti

•The Body Keeps The Score By Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD

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