Healing through Fasting: Why Women Need to Take Back Control

As women move through life - from childbearing years to midlife and beyond - many find themselves struggling with metabolic health in ways that feel confusing and frustrating. Metabolic health is the reason behind all the symptoms, the root cause. Good metabolic health provides the foundation for excellent health.

Fasting for Women

The work of Dr Mindy Pelz, a pioneer in women's health and wellness, has shown the astounding benefits of fasting on women's health when done in accordance with their fluctuating hormones. For far too long, women have been given no option but to try to fit into health and wellness models designed by and for men, or relying on doctor's and a broken health system that prioritize pharmaceuticals, and it’s taken a toll.

Fasting Supports

During the child bearing years, fertility challenges are increasingly common, with up to 1 in 6 couples facing conception difficulties, often linked to metabolic imbalances like PCOS or insulin resistance.

By midlife, many women experience stubborn weight gain, fatigue, and inflammation, despite eating well and exercising - signs of a metabolism under stress. The picture becomes more concerning post-menopause: over 60% of women over 50 are overweight or obese, and metabolic cancers such as breast and endometrial are on the rise. A large porportion of menopausal women report disruptive symptoms, and many rely on hormone replacement therapy. These numbers reflect not just individual struggles, but a widespread crisis in how women's metabolic health is understood and supported. When women learn about fasting and begin to adopt the principals of a fasting lifestyle, and honor their cyclical nature, healing occurs and the results can be nothing short of miraculous.

How Does This Work?

Fasting “like a girl,” isn’t about skipping meals or starving yourself, it’s a lifestyle choice, one that focuses on a fasting window (fat burner mode) and feasting window (sugar burner mode). Our powerful and ever-shifting (sex) hormonal cocktail - primarily estrogen, progesterone, testosterone - plays such a vital role in our energy, mood, immunity, metabolism, brain function, and overall vitality. These hormones rise and fall throughout the month (and throughout the phases of life) and seeing as every women has individual unique challenges, a rigid or one-size-fits-all fasting approach can actually do more harm than good.

General benefits

When we fast and feast according to our hormones instead of despite them, we tap into a deep well of resilience and healing.

Some of the incredible benefits of hormone-aware fasting include:

• Balanced moods and energy

• Weight loss, especially that stubborn belly fat

• Improved metabolic health (prevent/fight cancer)

• Reduced inflammation

• Clearer skin and improved digestion

• Enhanced brain function and focus (prevents alzhiemers)

• Support for perimenopause, menopause, and PMS

You will see with time that a fasting lifestyle becomes less of a restriction and more of a ritual with a rhythm - a way to clear space, reset, and come back home to yourself.