Episode 284 | How to Get in the Flow of Your Infradian Rhythm with Alisa Vitti

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Flow Your Rhythm with Alisa

As women, we continuously want to be the best version of ourselves. We are always into the new trends in diet, fitness, and wellness plans so that we can achieve our best at every stage of our lives. More often than not, we get frustrated when we don’t achieve results in the time frame that we have set. And that’s okay. It’s not about us; it’s about how we have misperceived our infradian rhythm and ultradian rhythms all this time.

In today's episode, Alisa Vitti shares with us women’s second cycle, the infradian cycle. She gives us valuable insight into how we can pattern our biological clocks to achieve the goals that we want for ourselves through ultradian and infradian rhythms. 

This episode is for every woman whose fitness goals and biological clock are frustrated. Tune in to understand and embrace your rhythmic pattern to become a healthy women. 

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HERE ARE THREE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE:

  1. Find out how women are misinformed about how to do our diet and fitness plans. 

  2. You will learn why women's brains are constantly changing and complex.

  3. How does Alisa feel radically loved? 

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    EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

    On Her Book In the FLO

    • What prompted Alisa to write this book is to answer the question of why women are struggling so much. 

    • The book aims to help women battle out hormonal issues and understand why things are the way they are. 

    • Having the right information will help women navigate the struggles that they face. 

    Why Women Do Not Have the Right Information 

    • Women are being left out of medical, fitness, and nutrition research. These are critical information that supports diet and fitness. 

    • Diet cycle are not universally beneficial, particularly for women in their reproductive years. Most of the studies on these diets are tested on men and postmenopausal women; therefore, the results only apply to their cohort.

    • For reproductive women, Intermittent fasting, keto diet, more calories deficit and high-intensity interval training worsen insulin sensitivity. They also increase brain fog, decrease metabolic rate, and shrink the ovaries. 

    • Gender bias is still prevalent in the 21st century. 

    What Is Infradian Rhythm? 

    • Women in their reproductive years have a second biological clock that men do not have. It is called the infradian rhythm.

    • This biological rhythms are active for women between puberty and menopause. 

    • The infradian rhythm governs six systems in the body, namely, the brain, metabolism, microbiome, immune system, stress response system, and reproductive system. 

    • The infradian answers the question of why women experience such changes; stressed, overwhelmed, and prone to hormonal and autoimmune challenges at rates that men are not. 

    • It happens because we are living, eating, and exercising in a way that fundamentally disrupts the infradian rhythm and, consequently promotes seasonal changes to the body systems as well. 

    • The symptoms that women experience are not separate but are connected to each other. 

    The Cycle Syncing Method 

    • This method can help us organize our circadian clock from what we eat, how we exercise, and how we move around what is optimal with our biology. 

    • During the first half of your monthly menstrual cycle, the follicular and ovulatory phase, your metabolism is slower. Thus, you only need to eat fewer calories. 

    • The other half of menstrual cycles, the luteal phase and the menstrual phase, you need 237 more calories within 24 hour. You have to eat slow-burning calories because your metabolism speeds up. 

    • When your metabolism speeds up, the human body is at a higher risk for destabilized blood glucose levels, fruit flies and insulin patterns. Thus, you have to eat strategically to prevent irregular periods.

    • If you adjust your caloric intake to match your infradian rhythms, you will optimize your insulin, blood glucose levels, and weight without depriving yourself. 

    Fun Fact About Fitness 

    • During the first half of woman's menstrual cycle, your cortisol levels are naturally lower. You can do high-intensity interval training and cardio. As a result, you’re going to build lean muscles and use your fat stores and optimize your metabolic function. 

    • In the second half of your cycle, your resting cortisol levels are higher & hormone melatonin disrupts sleep patterns. Studies show that if you do high-intensity interval training, you are going to turn on fat storage and muscle wasting. Where gives more room to balance hormones.

    The Complexity of a Woman’s Brain 

    • In a 1996 study, Dr. Catherine Woolley discovered that the female brain changes by 25% in a month time period or one infradian rhythm.

    • Every month, you have different cognitive gifts that you can use to your advantage to do things more efficiently at different times of the month. 

    • Women do not wake up on constant conditions. Women have a more complex brain throughout the day; thus, the way we operate is also complex. 

    • You can find in the resources section of her book the four morning routines that you can follow based on what the infradian rhythm creates and see monthly changes.

    Managing Your Time 

    • In the sixth chapter of her book, you will find a time management system with environmental factors that incorporates both the circadian and infradian rhythms and the infradian biological rhythm. 

    • This system can help women plan their days and the whole month to optimize their biological reality and aim for good health.

    Doing Intermittent Fasting Right

    • You can do intermittent fasting once you are menopausal to live healthier.

    • Until then, the only safe intermittent fasting for you is from dinner to breakfast at a 12-hour maximum window. Anything longer disrupts a living organisms body systems. 

    The Future of Wellness

    • Biohacking will be based on biological rhythms, especially for men and women. 

    • The field of chronobiology under biological variation is more focused on the circadian rhythm and day cycle that affect women's hormone. Women need a lot more studies on the monthly infradian rhythm to understand their annual cycles better.

    5 POWERFUL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE

    “I'm just really frustrated by the fact that it's the 21st century, and we, as a female population, are basically still being given crumbs.”

    “Women have been keeping the fitness and nutrition industries going for decades—our dedication, and our motivation, and our willingness to try and show up and be good students and try something new. It's not you. It's that stuff that is not designed for your biology.”

    “Once you have the correct information, you can start doing the right things that yield the correct outcome or the desired outcome. This is biohacking.”

    “You just need to embrace the fact that you have these dynamic patterns in the body, and you have to stop trying to force yourself to be static and do the same thing and stick with the same thing each and every day.”

    “You are not being given the short end of the stick by nature. It’s quite the opposite. You have an extraordinary brain. You have an extraordinary metabolism. You have an extraordinary immune system.”

    ABOUT ALISA

    Alisa Vitti is known as the hormone whisperer. She is an expert on functional nutrition and women’s various hormones. She is also the founder of FLO, a modern hormone healthcare company.

    You can connect with Alisa on Instagram and Facebook or visit FLO’s website. 

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