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The Down-Side of Fasting | Dr. Mindy Pelz

29 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief interview, Dr. Mindy Pelz and a co‑speaker discuss the negative side effects of fasting, especially when practiced excessively by women. They note that the rapid rise in fasting’s popularity over the past four‑to‑five years has outpaced conversations about safety, leading many women to experience hormonal disturbances, hair loss, disrupted menstrual cycles, and thyroid dysfunction. The speakers attribute these outcomes to a lack of proper guidance or a “formula” for safe fasting, and they report that hundreds of thousands of women have come forward with these concerns.

What's the downside to fasting?
If you do it too much for women, it's changes to our hormones. The problem was, is that we didn't have this conversation when fasting took over the world. So all these people started to lose weight and women started to lose hair. They started to lose cycles. Their thyroids crashed because they weren't given the formula.
It's kind of scary, right? When fasting- Crazy. Fasting kind of took over really in the last four to five years, I would say it's got more popularized, right? And how many women were coming to you saying that this doesn't work?
Hundreds of thousands.
Really?
So this is actually really interesting. So I was the first one.