Losing weight won’t fix your hormones, and the impact of fasting on women’s health with Amanda Montalvo

Amanda Montalvo is a women’s health dietitian that helps women get to the root cause of hormone imbalances and have healthy menstrual cycles using a non-diet, functional medicine approach. In today’s episode we’re chatting about the most common hormonal imbalances women experience and the common mistakes they make while trying to fix them with food and supplements. Amanda talks about why most people would do well to unlearn everything they have been taught for nutrition for hormone health in order to truly heal, and how using ‘food as medicine’ can be a bandaid-type approach that doesn’t get to the root cause of your hormonal issues. Amanda is also giving some great practical tools that you can use to assess your hormone health at home!

We’re also digging into:

* why weight loss is not going to fix your hormone health

* the impact of fasting on women’s health

* the connection between cortisol, your thyroid, and sex hormones

* how stress about food and your body can be enough to throw your hormones off

* why so many people who do crossfit or other types of high intensity training end up with severe hormonal and gut issues. 

HANG OUT WITH AMANDA!

* Instagram: @hormonehealingrd or @healthyperiodprotocol 

* Website: https://www.hormonehealingrd.com/ 

* Nutrition Myth Busters – Hormone Health 

* Course: Nutrition Strategies for Better Periods

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