Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why your body needs dietary fat to make sex hormones. Low-fat diets from the 80s and 90s coincided with rises in diabetes, breast cancer, and heart disease. Ultra-processed foods stress your adrenals and tank hormone production.
Like, if you're eating Oreos, it's going to tell your body to be inflamed and angry, and that is going to spill over into stressing out your adrenals and affecting your sex hormones. So it's really important to understand that fat is good and necessary for life. You know, I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and it was the low fat, no fat diet was the way to be healthy and skinny. And it turns out that was a complete lie and it destroyed a lot of women and caused a ton of hormone imbalance. We've seen diabetes skyrocket, breast cancer skyrocket, heart disease skyrocket since then, because cholesterol is the main ingredient to make our sex hormones.
