Episode 10: Alisa Vitti shares how to biohack your hormones and cycle sync your life for optimal wellness
Are you struggling with painful periods or hormonal acne? Do you want to know how to align your habits with your hormones and make your cycle work for you? On this week’s episode, women’s hormone expert Alisa Vitti sits down with Alaina and Josie to set the record straight on the viral trend on cycle syncing. Alisa is the founder of the hormonal healthcare company FLO Living and the author of two books on female hormones, Woman Code and In the FLO. In this episode we discuss the impact our hormones have on our daily lives and how cycle syncing can help people with female hormones reach their full potential.
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SHOW NOTES:
This week on The Everygirl Podcast, we’re talking all about hormones. Functional nutritionist, women’s hormone expert, and founder of Flo Living Alisa Vitti kicks off this episode by explaining a bit about her own hormonal health journey. She tells the story of her struggle with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) during undergrad and her relentless search for an alternative route to healing her painful period symptoms. From there, Alaina and Josie ask Alisa to explain the basics: what are hormones, and how to they influence our day-to-day lives? Alisa launches into a discussion of an often-unrecognized hormonal pattern called the infradian rhythm that influences the mood, energy, and sex drive of anyone with female hormones. She reveals how to sync your diet, workouts, and even work life to your infradian clock, and gets into the minute details of her own cycle syncing routine. Alisa takes a deep-dive into each phase of the menstrual cycle, explaining how to best live your life during your follicular, ovulatory, luteal, and menstrual phases. The conversation then pivots to sex: Alisa explains the health benefits of expanding your orgasmic plateau, and reveals the best time during your cycle to have morning sex. This episode closes with a discussion of the value of our infradian rhythms in helping us achieve our best lives, and Alisa answers a few audience questions about cycle syncing.
Must-Listen Moments:
[3:25] Alisa’s hormonal health journey and how she discovered cycle syncing
[13:53] What are hormones and how do they work in our bodies?
[21:35] All the details on the infradian rhythm
[54:20] How to reach your full orgasmic potential
[1:07:20] Audience questions all about cycle syncing
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