What is *Fast Like a Girl* by Dr. Mindy Pelz about?

*Fast Like a Girl* teaches women to optimize fasting based on their menstrual cycle phases, promoting weight loss, hormone balance, and metabolic health. Dr. Mindy Pelz offers a 30-day fasting reset, protocols for 13–72-hour fasts, and over 50 recipes tailored to support hormonal needs through ketobiotic and hormone-feasting diets.

Who should read *Fast Like a Girl*?

This book is ideal for women seeking hormone regulation, sustainable weight loss, or improved energy through fasting. It’s particularly valuable for those frustrated by one-size-fits-all diets or navigating menopause, PCOS, or thyroid issues.

Is *Fast Like a Girl* worth reading?

Yes—it combines science-backed fasting strategies with menstrual cycle alignment, offering a unique approach absent in most guides. Critics note its occasional self-promotional tone, but its actionable plans and recipes make it a standout resource.

What is the 30-day fasting reset in *Fast Like a Girl*?

The reset guides readers from intermittent fasting (13–15 hours) to extended fasts (up to 72 hours), synced with hormonal cycles. It includes meal plans to ease transitions and optimize autophagy, gut health, and metabolic switching.

How does *Fast Like a Girl* align fasting with menstrual cycles?

Dr. Pelz recommends shorter fasts (13–15 hours) during menstruation and ovulation, and longer fasts (15–72 hours) in follicular and luteal phases to match fluctuating energy and hormone levels. Post-menopausal women follow a 30-day simulated cycle.

What are ketobiotic and hormone-feasting diets in the book?

**Ketobiotic** combines keto and probiotic-rich foods to reduce inflammation. **Hormone feasting** uses carb cycling to support estrogen and progesterone. Both include recipes like Coconut Cacao Chia Pudding to break fasts safely.

What criticisms exist about *Fast Like a Girl*?

Some reviewers find the “gal pal” tone overly casual and note repetitive self-promotion. However, the cycle-centric approach and practical tools are widely praised for addressing gaps in women’s fasting guidance.

How does *Fast Like a Girl* differ from other fasting books?

Unlike generic guides, it tailors fasting to female biology, emphasizing hormone synchronization and metabolic flexibility. It also provides condition-specific protocols (e.g., for PCOS) and cyclical food plans.

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Capítulo 1

Unlocking the Power of Your Feminine Metabolism

Fast Like a Girl is revolutionizing women's health by challenging one-size-fits-all fasting approaches. While intermittent fasting has become a wellness phenomenon embraced by celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, and Hugh Jackman, Dr. Mindy Pelz reveals why women need a completely different approach than men. The book has struck a chord with women worldwide, becoming a bestseller and sparking a movement of "cycle syncing" that's been featured in publications from Women's Health to The New York Times. What makes this approach so groundbreaking is its recognition that women's complex hormonal cycles require personalized fasting protocols-a revelation that's helping thousands of women finally achieve the health breakthroughs that eluded them with traditional methods.

Capítulo 2

The Failed Five: Why Traditional Diets Don't Work for Women

Your body is an incredible machine of 30 trillion cells working in perfect harmony. These cells can produce energy, burn fat, metabolize glucose, and even manufacture antioxidants when properly nourished. They efficiently adapt to your needs, powering up or down as required, and can switch to alternative fuel sources when food isn't available. This cellular intelligence extends to temperature regulation, hormone production, and immune system function - all operating in a delicate balance that conventional diets often disrupt. Most trendy diets fail because they work against this magnificent cellular design, creating a cycle of temporary results followed by health problems. The "failed five" diet approaches that particularly harm women include calorie restriction, poor food quality, constant cortisol surges, increasing toxic loads, and one-size-fits-all approaches. Each of these approaches creates distinct physiological challenges that can take years to reverse. Calorie-restriction diets lower your metabolic set point, making weight regain inevitable once you return to normal eating. Your body perceives severe calorie cutting as starvation and responds by reducing your metabolic rate-sometimes permanently. This explains why many women find it increasingly difficult to lose weight despite eating less with each successive diet attempt. Research shows that after significant calorie restriction, metabolism can remain suppressed by up to 15% even years later, creating a frustrating cycle of weight loss and regain. The low-fat movement replaced healthy fats with sugar and chemicals, leading to widespread insulin resistance. When insulin remains chronically elevated, your cells become resistant to its signals, locking fat inside cells and preventing weight loss regardless of how little you eat. Studies indicate that women who followed low-fat diets in the 1980s and 1990s experienced a 25% higher rate of metabolic syndrome compared to those who maintained moderate fat consumption. Cortisol surges from stress and restrictive dieting spike insulin and halt fat burning. This stress hormone is designed for emergency situations but becomes problematic when chronically elevated, as it signals your body to store fat rather than burn it-particularly around your midsection. Women are especially susceptible to stress-related weight gain due to higher levels of cortisol receptors in abdominal fat tissue. "Obesogens"-toxic ingredients found in processed foods, plastics, and personal care products-block hormone receptors and get stored as fat. These environmental chemicals mimic hormones, disrupting your endocrine system and contributing to stubborn weight gain. Common sources include BPA in plastics, phthalates in cosmetics, and pesticides in conventional produce. Research suggests women are exposed to an average of 168 unique chemical compounds daily through personal care products alone. Perhaps most damaging is the one-size-fits-all approach that ignores women's unique hormonal needs throughout their cycles and lifespans. The statistics are alarming: 41% of women over 21 are obese, 45% have high blood pressure, and women face disproportionate rates of cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, thyroid issues, and autoimmune conditions. Female hormones fluctuate naturally throughout the month, affecting metabolism, hunger, and energy levels - factors that standard diet plans completely overlook. The solution isn't another restrictive diet but rather embracing a new health paradigm that works with your female body rather than against it-one that honors your hormonal fluctuations and natural rhythms. This means adapting nutrition and exercise to your menstrual cycle, supporting detoxification pathways, and prioritizing nutrient-dense whole foods that provide the raw materials for hormone production and cellular health.

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The Healing Power of Metabolic Switching

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors naturally cycled between fasting and feasting, creating a genetic adaptation called the "thrifty gene" that helps our bodies thrive during food scarcity. Throughout history, from Hippocrates to modern Ramadan practitioners, fasting has been recognized as a powerful healing tool. When we fast, our bodies switch from sugar-burning to fat-burning energy systems after about eight hours without food. This metabolic switch triggers numerous healing mechanisms: increased ketones (which repair nervous tissue, power mitochondria, and reduce hunger), enhanced autophagy (cellular self-cleaning that removes damaged components), decreased glycogen and insulin (releasing stored sugar from liver and fat cells), and increased growth hormone production (our "fountain of youth" that burns fat and builds muscle). Research shows that simply changing when we eat-not necessarily what we eat-by compressing our eating window to 8-10 hours can dramatically improve metabolic health, reducing body fat, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar. Unlike restrictive diets, fasting isn't deprivation but a healing gift that allows our bodies to repair and rejuvenate. The benefits extend far beyond weight loss. Fasting increases growth hormone production fivefold, helping counteract its natural decline after age 30. It resets dopamine receptors, making them more sensitive and creating new receptor sites-essentially rewiring your brain's reward system. For immune repair, a three-day water fast triggers stem cell release that replaces worn-down white blood cells. Fasting also significantly improves gut microbiome health by increasing bacterial diversity, improving microbial geography, enhancing fat-burning bacteria, and regenerating intestinal stem cells. Different fasting lengths offer unique benefits. Intermittent fasting (12-16 hours) activates ketones that fuel the brain and suppress hunger. Autophagy fasting (17+ hours) triggers cellular cleaning that prevents viral replication and balances sex hormones. The gut-reset fast (24+ hours) releases stem cells to repair intestinal lining damaged by inflammation. Fat-burner fasts (36+ hours) help those resistant to weight loss by triggering the release of stored sugar from liver and fat tissues. Dopamine-reset fasts (48+ hours) repair receptor sites and create new dopamine pathways, while immune-reset fasts (72+ hours) trigger stem cell regeneration that can help with conditions ranging from cancer to arthritis. Studies confirm these benefits aren't just theoretical-fasting can reduce cancer recurrence by 64% and lower blood pressure more effectively than diet alone. When we understand fasting as metabolic switching rather than deprivation, we unlock one of the body's most powerful healing mechanisms.

Capítulo 4

The Female Difference: Why Women Must Fast Differently

Women need to approach fasting differently than men by coordinating it with their monthly hormonal fluctuations. When women fail to fast "like a girl," they can experience adverse effects like heart palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, and hair loss-symptoms that resolve when fasting is properly aligned with hormonal cycles. The menstrual cycle represents a complex symphony of hormones that affect mood, productivity, sleep, and motivation. Days 1-10 begin with low sex hormone levels, followed by rising estrogen that enhances collagen production, mood, mental clarity, and emotional resilience. Days 11-15 mark ovulation, when estrogen peaks and testosterone surges, creating optimal conditions for productivity, strength, and confidence. Days 16-18 see all hormones dip as the body prepares to produce progesterone. From day 19 until bleeding, progesterone dominates, creating a calming effect that makes women less aggressive and more inclined to rest. Three uniquely female features affect our fasting experience: the hormonal hierarchy, fluctuations in sex hormones, and our toxic load responses. The hormonal hierarchy shows how oxytocin can calm cortisol, which affects insulin, which in turn impacts sex hormones. When cortisol signals crisis, sex hormone production gets suppressed. Fortunately, oxytocin sits at the top of this hierarchy and can break the stress cycle, making stress-reduction activities crucial for hormonal balance. Our sex hormones dramatically affect our fasting experience throughout the month. Estrogen thrives when insulin is low, making fasting feel effortless during the follicular phase. Testosterone appears during ovulation, when moderate fasting of no more than 15 hours works best. Progesterone, which dominates the week before menstruation, makes fasting particularly challenging because it's negatively affected by both cortisol spikes and low glucose levels. Less commonly discussed is how hormonal fluctuations can trigger the release of stored toxins from tissues-lead from bones, mercury from kidneys and liver, environmental pollutants from fat tissue. When estrogen and progesterone surge, these stored toxins can be released into the bloodstream. If we practice longer fasts during times of high estrogen or progesterone, we may experience a double dose of toxin release, causing detox symptoms like hair loss, fat accumulation, brain fog, or rashes. Understanding these female-specific mechanisms explains why women often have different fasting experiences than men, whose testosterone doesn't trigger toxin release in the same way. By synchronizing fasting with our hormonal cycles, we can harness the benefits while avoiding the pitfalls.

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Capítulo 5

Building Your Personal Fasting Lifestyle

Emerging from the frustration with one-size-fits-all healthcare, personalized medicine approaches health as Hippocrates did-treating each person individually. The "n of 1" concept empowers you to collaborate in your own healing journey, improving outcomes for chronic conditions. Fasting should follow this personalized approach, becoming a flexible lifestyle that adapts to your unique needs rather than forcing you to adapt to rigid rules. Four essential principles guide creating your personalized fasting practice: identifying your specific goals, varying fasting lengths, diversifying food choices, and building community support. Your fasting approach should align with what you're trying to achieve. Women typically fast for three main reasons: weight loss (which happens more gradually for women than men, sometimes requiring occasional longer fasts), hormone balancing (which may take up to 90 days of consistent practice), or addressing specific health conditions (each with unique protocols). Varying fasting lengths serves three crucial purposes: preventing plateaus (as your body adapts to consistent patterns), honoring hormonal fluctuations (shortening fasts during ovulation and pre-menstrually when hormones peak), and maintaining flexibility for real life. Most women start with an 8-hour eating window from 11am to 7pm, then adjust based on their cycle and circumstances. Most women repeatedly eat the same 30 foods, but our bodies thrive on diversity. Food variety feeds different gut microbes, which directly influence cravings. Microorganisms like Candida can actually signal your brain to crave foods they need to survive. By varying both fasting periods and food choices, you reshape your gut microbiome and eliminate unhelpful cravings. Success in fasting depends significantly on having supportive people around you. Community connection triggers oxytocin-the queen hormone that positively influences all other hormones, including insulin. Fasting with friends, exercising together, and sharing both successes and failures creates a healing environment where everyone benefits. For fasting to become sustainable, it must accommodate your real-life circumstances, including relationships, schedule demands, and activity levels. Maintaining positive relationships while fasting is crucial-the lifestyle should be flexible enough to allow meals with loved ones. Even challenging schedules can be accommodated, as demonstrated by an actress who needed to fast while filming overnight. The key is customization-like Susie, the 37-year-old marathon runner who built her fasting schedule around her varying run distances, resulting in improved stamina and performance times.

Capítulo 6

Nourishing Your Hormones: The Food-Fasting Connection

Food isn't our enemy but rather a potential ally for our hormonal health. Just as women need to fast differently, we also need to eat differently throughout our menstrual cycle. Building a hormonal eating foundation requires understanding four key principles: ingredients matter, glycemic load, diversity, and cycling with our hormones. The quality of ingredients profoundly impacts hormonal health. Rather than focusing on calories, women should examine ingredient lists, questioning their length and recognizability. Foods with fewer, natural ingredients support hormonal balance, while chemical-laden products disrupt it. The FDA's "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) designation has allowed over 50,000 ingredients into foods without rigorous testing-like partially hydrogenated oils that were later proven harmful after 60 years of use. The best approach: choose foods that come straight from nature rather than a chemistry lab. Sex hormones-estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone-each respond differently to dietary choices. Estrogen thrives on low glucose and insulin levels, preferring salads over sandwiches. A low-carb approach supports estrogen balance from menstruation through ovulation and can help menopausal women manage symptoms. Meanwhile, progesterone prefers slightly higher blood sugar levels, explaining carbohydrate cravings before menstruation. Muscle strength is crucial for women's metabolic health, bone strength, reduced depression, and longevity. Building muscle requires protein-rich foods that stimulate mTOR (while fasting stimulates autophagy). Women over 40 need to be especially mindful of protein intake (30g per meal) as amino acid sensors weaken with age. Our bodies contain 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells, with 90% residing in our gut. These beneficial bacteria break down estrogen, produce neurotransmitters, balance immunity, and provide melatonin. They thrive on three types of foods-the "three Ps": probiotic foods (fermented items like sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt) containing live microbes; prebiotic foods (fiber-rich items like chicory root, onions, garlic, legumes) that feed beneficial bacteria; and polyphenol foods (red wine, dark chocolate, herbs, spices) that create nurturing environments for microbes and provide antioxidant benefits. Blood sugar is a critical health indicator that doctors often overlook. When measuring carbohydrates, focus on net carbs (total carbs minus fiber) since fiber slows glucose absorption. Protein affects blood sugar positively by breaking down into glucose more slowly than carbs, slowing carbohydrate absorption, and killing hunger. Fat is the "glycemic hero" that stabilizes blood sugar and reduces hunger. Women should cycle their foods to match their hormonal patterns. During the estrogen-dominant first half of the menstrual cycle, a ketobiotic approach works well. This woman-friendly adaptation of the ketogenic diet limits net carbs to 50g daily (focusing on vegetables), protein to 75g daily, with over 60% of calories from good fats. In the progesterone-dominant week before menstruation, hormone feasting foods are ideal-allowing up to 150g of net carbs from root vegetables and fruits. Though counterintuitive, eating more carbs at the right time in your cycle won't cause weight gain-it's when we oppose our hormonal rhythms that weight sticks around.

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The Fasting Cycle: Synchronizing With Your Hormones

The Fasting Cycle is a sophisticated framework that helps women align their fasting practices with their menstrual cycles, acknowledging the fundamental differences between female and male physiology. This system divides the menstrual cycle into three distinct phases: Power Phase, Manifestation Phase, and Nurture Phase, each carefully named to reflect the dominant hormonal influences and their unique metabolic characteristics. Amy's transformative success story exemplifies the power of hormone-synchronized fasting. After three years of struggling with irregular periods, unexplained weight gain, and unsuccessful fertility treatments, she implemented cycle-synchronized fasting. Within four months, her menstrual cycle normalized, she lost 18 pounds, and achieved a natural pregnancy. Her case, along with hundreds of others, demonstrates how precise timing of fasting can either dramatically support or potentially disrupt hormonal balance depending on implementation. During Power Phases (days 1-10 and 16-19), women can safely engage in longer fasts ranging from 13-72 hours, combined with ketobiotic eating patterns. These periods optimize autophagy and ketosis, supporting healthy estrogen production and cellular repair. The body becomes particularly receptive to fat burning during these phases, while maintaining muscle mass through increased growth hormone production. Many women report enhanced mental clarity and sustained energy during Power Phase fasts. The Manifestation Phase (days 11-15) requires a more nuanced approach with shorter fasts under 15 hours, complemented by hormone-feasting foods rich in nutrients that support liver function and gut health. This phase coincides with ovulation when hormone levels naturally peak. Common hormone-feasting foods include cruciferous vegetables, grass-fed liver, and sea vegetables, which provide essential nutrients for hormone production and metabolism. The Nurture Phase (day 20 until menstruation) calls for complete abstention from fasting and emphasizes comfort foods rich in complex carbohydrates to support progesterone production. This phase requires particular attention as many women mistakenly continue fasting, which can trigger cortisol spikes and deplete crucial progesterone levels. Recommended foods during this phase include sweet potatoes, quinoa, and legumes, which provide steady energy without disrupting hormonal balance. This cycling approach carefully prevents the cortisol elevations that can deplete progesterone, especially during pre-menstrual days. While many women experience rapid initial results and feel tempted to extend fasting periods, it's crucial to resist this urge during inappropriate hormonal phases. The system's success lies in its alignment with the body's natural rhythms, creating an environment where healing and hormone optimization occur at the most advantageous times. The Fasting Cycle has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness across various age groups and hormonal conditions. Younger women with amenorrhea often report menstrual restoration within the first month of implementation. Postmenopausal women frequently experience significant relief from symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, and resistant weight gain within one to two months. Clinical observations show that 80% of women following this protocol see improvements in their hormonal symptoms within the first cycle, with continued benefits accumulating over three to six months of consistent practice.

Capítulo 8

The 30-Day Reset: Your Path to Hormonal Balance

The 30-Day Fasting Reset utilizes three different fasting lengths ranging from 13 to 20 hours, deliberately excluding the longest fasts to make the program approachable for beginners. The reset creates hormetic stress-just enough discomfort to trigger healing-while timing fasts according to a woman's menstrual cycle or hormonal needs. Women should track their cycles and start the reset on day one, following it through until bleeding begins again. Those without cycles can begin anytime and continue for 30 days. The reset addresses numerous conditions including weight-loss resistance, insulin resistance, diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, autoimmune disorders, memory problems, mood disorders, hormonal cancers, infertility, gut dysbiosis, menopause symptoms, brain fog, energy issues, missed cycles, post-birth control detoxing, and thyroid challenges. The two-week pre-reset helps beginners prepare their bodies by gradually adapting to fasting. It involves avoiding inflammatory foods (bad oils, refined sugars/flours, chemical additives), adding healthy fats and proteins to stabilize blood sugar, and compressing the eating window by gradually pushing breakfast back until achieving a 13-hour fast. Success strategies include removing tempting foods from your home, distancing yourself from negative influences, and finding supportive companions for your journey. The reset follows a structured approach aligned with hormonal phases: Power Phase 1 (days 1-10) uses ketobiotic foods with gradually increasing fasting windows from 13 to 17 hours; Manifestation Phase (days 11-15) uses hormone feasting foods with 13-hour fasts; Power Phase 2 (days 16-19) returns to ketobiotic foods with 15-hour fasts; and Nurture Phase (days 20-30) uses hormone feasting without fasting. Breaking a fast requires as much strategy as the fast itself. Based on research with thousands of women, there are four strategic approaches to breaking a fast, each designed to amplify specific health outcomes. Fasting creates optimal conditions for gut microbiome repair, so breaking a fast with probiotic foods (adding good bacteria), prebiotic foods (feeding good microbes), and polyphenol foods (repairing gut lining) can enhance these benefits. For building muscle, research shows 25-30 grams of protein every few hours optimally stimulates mTOR. For women over 40 fighting perimenopause-related muscle loss, exercising in a fasted state followed by protein-rich meals proves especially effective. When the goal is continued fat burning, breaking fasts with fat-rich foods like avocados, raw nuts, olives, bone broth, and MCT oil can extend fasting benefits without fully breaking the fast.

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Mastering the Art of Fasting: Practical Hacks and Solutions

While fasting hacks can accelerate healing, three principles should guide the process: healing takes time, practice is essential, and deepening knowledge about how your body works enhances success. Patience and self-compassion are crucial-there's "no such thing as a failed fast" as each attempt creates healing opportunities. When hunger strikes during fasting, first determine if you're truly hungry or just bored by trying mood-elevating activities like music, dancing, or calling a friend. If genuine hunger persists, try mineral packets containing sodium, potassium and magnesium-these can address mineral imbalances without spiking insulin. Another effective strategy is feeding your microbiome with prebiotic powder in water or tea, as hunger signals often come from gut bacteria rather than human cells. Coffee and tea can be helpful during fasting windows, with coffee potentially stimulating autophagy. However, quality matters significantly-many coffees contain pesticides and mold that can spike blood sugar and maintain insulin resistance. Choose organic, mold-free coffee and test your personal response with blood sugar measurements. Initial fasting attempts may trigger "keto flu" symptoms like rashes, fever, muscle aches, constipation, brain fog, and fatigue-signs the body is healing rather than cause for concern. Three strategies can help: vary fasting patterns to give the body recovery time between detox surges; open detox pathways through practices like dry brushing, sweating, lymph massage, rebounding on a trampoline, or Epsom salt baths; and use binders like zeolites or activated charcoal to help escort released toxins from the body. For those struggling to lower blood sugar and enter ketosis, two effective strategies include fasting longer (even trying a single 36-hour fast can sometimes trigger metabolic switching) and varying fasting patterns to prevent adaptation. The body responds best to varied hormetic stressors rather than predictable routines. Keeping detox pathways open during fasting is crucial for weight loss success. Paradoxically, weight gain while fasting often signals congested detox pathways-liver, gut, kidneys, lymph, or skin. To support this process, ensure daily bowel movements, sweat regularly, drink plenty of water, dry brush your skin, use castor oil packs over your liver at night, and get monthly lymphatic drainage massages. Hair loss during fasting is common but avoidable. Mineral depletion is often the culprit, so supplementation is the first recommendation. If that fails, vary your fasting lengths while keeping them under 17 hours to prevent excessive detoxification. For persistent hair loss, consider heavy metal testing-particularly for thallium, which has contaminated many ocean fish since the Fukushima disaster. Initial fatigue during fasting is normal as your mitochondria undergo repair. Allow yourself rest during this healing phase. For persistent low energy, consider biohacking tools like red light therapy (which fuels mitochondrial receptors) or hyperbaric oxygen chambers (which improve cellular oxygen uptake). Remember: there's no such thing as a failed fast. Release self-judgment and guilt when you slip, then simply begin again. Each fasting attempt builds strength for future success, like training for a marathon. Every attempt, even those that fall short of your goal, moves you closer to an effortless fasting lifestyle.

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Citações de Jejum para Mulheres

When you eat is just as important as what you eat.
Most trendy diets fail because they work against this magnificent cellular design.
Fasting isn't deprivation but a healing gift that allows our bodies to repair and rejuvenate.
The solution isn't another restrictive diet but rather embracing a new health paradigm.
Women need to approach fasting differently than men.

Personagens de Jejum para Mulheres

Dr. Mindy PelzAuthor and expert in women's hormonal health
Jennifer AnistonCelebrity mentioned as a practitioner of fasting
Halle BerryCelebrity mentioned as a practitioner of fasting
Hugh JackmanCelebrity mentioned as a practitioner of fasting

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Mindy Pelz, autora best-seller de Jejum Feminino (Fast Like a Girl) e uma voz de liderança na saúde holística feminina, combina sua experiência em quiropraxia, nutrição e jejum para capacitar as mulheres a retomarem o controle de seu bem-estar hormonal e metabólico.

Uma defensora de renome mundial da alfabetização hormonal, Pelz baseia-se em mais de uma década de prática clínica e em seu canal viral no YouTube (mais de 70 milhões de visualizações) para destilar estratégias baseadas na ciência para otimizar a saúde por meio do jejum cíclico e da nutrição consciente. Suas outras obras notáveis, incluindo The Menopause Reset e Eat Like a Girl, consolidam ainda mais sua autoridade no bem-estar centrado na mulher.

Apresentadora do podcast de alto escalão Resetter Podcast, ela recebe regularmente convidados de alto perfil como LeAnn Rimes e o Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, misturando pesquisas de ponta com conselhos práticos. Jejum Feminino tornou-se o lançamento mais vendido de 2023 da Hay House Publishing, ressoando globalmente com sua abordagem baseada em evidências para alinhar as práticas de jejum com as necessidades fisiológicas únicas das mulheres.

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