Q & A on Food Sensitivities, Anti-Nutrients, Migraines, Sugar Alcohols and Grounding

Fasting Benefits

Intermittent fasting can be particularly beneficial for postmenopausal women, offering advantages such as reduced inflammation and improved fat burning. David Jockers recommends a six to eight-hour eating window, ideally from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with two to three meals containing 30 to 50 grams of protein each 1. This approach helps stabilize blood sugar and supports cellular healing, which can slow down the aging process.

I'm a huge, huge advocate of it. I think it really helps with reducing inflammation, improving perhaps, you know, any kind of menopausal symptoms, and, um, supporting fat burning, supporting cellular healing, and reducing overall inflammation.

--- David Jockers

Incorporating healthy fats, ranging from 15 to 30 grams per meal, is also crucial, as it aids digestion and prevents unwanted symptoms like nausea or constipation 2.

   

Fasting Guidelines

For women who are menstruating, intermittent fasting requires a more nuanced approach. David Jockers suggests avoiding intensive fasting during the last week before menstruation and around ovulation, as these periods demand higher caloric intake and carbohydrates 1. Instead, fasting is more suitable during the early days of the menstrual cycle when the body can better handle the stress of not eating.

There's a way that we go about intermittent fasting for women that are menstruating. Women that are menstruating. I've done many other podcasts on this where I've gone through this in Q and A's, typically for menstruating females last week before their cycle, we do not do intermittent fasting, at least not intensive intermittent fasting.

--- David Jockers

Hydration outside of meal times is emphasized, and stress levels should be monitored, as they can affect the body's response to fasting 2.