In this episode, your host, Melissa talks about the different fasting and time restricted eating protocols. She busts some myths about fasting and highlights the benefits. She focuses in particular on fasting for women and listening to your body, taking it slow to start and fasting intuitively.

Get an explanation of what is happening in the body on a hormonal level when we eat at specific times of the day and learn more about the anti-ageing science of autophagy.

She talks about metabollic flexibility and offers up some of the main studies completed on low calorie diets and compares with fasting, so you can see the difference between the two as to what is happening on a metabollic level in the body.

Your host, Melissa Whitty, naturopathic nutritionist, yoga teacher and HIIT teacher talks to you in this episode about the increase of hormone dysregulation issues in society today and the reasons for this.

She talks about 6 key hormones that matter as well as some of the key hormone disruptors in our environment.

She explains how diet and natural protocols like seeds cycling has helped her regulate her own cycle and hormonal issues.

There will be another full episode on seed cycling and exercising according to our cycles later so in this episode, they are just mentioned and the focus is more on diet and environmental toxins, as well as an exploration of these key hormones in the body.

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In this episode, we speak with naturopath and kids nutrition specialist, Jessica Donovan from Adelaide, Australia.

Jessica runs her clinic in South Australia but also has an online business called natural super kids.

Jessica shares her journey with us, suffering with mood issues and acne as a teenager, when she worked with a naturopath to heal.

We talk about top nutrients for kids, supplementation, fussy eaters and tips to get your kids to eat more veg.

Jessica has offered some free resources to download:

Links below:

Free Kids gut health Ebook

Free Ebook: 8 essential wholefoods for kids