8. Optimizing Women's Health Through Menstrual Cycle Phases: Expert Insights with Kylah Smook

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Welcome back to the Healthy AF podcast, it's Zane Griggs, joined by Kylah Mook, a fitness performance and nutrition coach who specializes in helping women optimize their health around their menstrual cycle.

Kylah explains that many women are unaware of the different phases of their menstrual cycle and how it affects their hormones and body. She breaks down the four phases of the cycle - menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal - and explains how hormone levels change during each phase.

Kylah emphasizes the importance of nutrition and lifestyle habits in supporting hormone levels at each phase. For example, during the follicular phase, when estrogen levels are high, she recommends a high-fat, low-carb diet and intermittent fasting to support the rise of estrogen.

Conversely, during the luteal phase, when progesterone levels are high, she suggests increasing carbohydrate intake and minimizing fasting to support insulin levels and build up the uterus lining.

Kylah's insights offer a new perspective on women's health and encourage women to pay more attention to their menstrual cycle in order to optimize their health and transform their life in the best ways possible.

If you want to learn more about Kylah's approach to menstrual cycle optimization and how it can benefit your health and fitness goals, be sure to hit play and listen to the full episode and check out the links below!

Episode Minute-by-Minute Recap:

• 0:04 What’s inside today’s show
• 1:04 How Zane and Kylah met
• 3:47 What most people don’t know about cycles
• 7:51 Adjusting your nutrition based on your cycle
• 14:00 Body temperatures change throughout a cycle
• 17:29 A book all women should read on this topic
• 22:00 The industry and business of birth control
• 23:14 How birth control disrupts the gut
• 39:19 How animal foods help you thrive
• 47:15 Negative periods don’t have to be the normal
• 53:35 What a healthy period cycle should be like

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Links For This Episode:

• IG @cyclewithkylah
• Host of The Intentional Health Podcast
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