The essential guide to intermittent fasting for women : balance your hormones to lose weight, lower stress, and optimize health

Ramos, Megan, author.

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"Struggling with your metabolism and hormone health? Disappointed by diets that don't provide sustainable, long-term results? Sick of feeling tired and stressed all the time? Megan Ramos was in the same position when she discovered intermittent fasting at the clinic where she was a researcher. After suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, PCOS, and type 2 diabetes, she harnessed the power of fasting to reverse these conditions, lose ove...

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Diet therapy

Fasting Therapeutic use

Intermittent fasting

Intermittent fasting Health aspects

Weight loss

Women Health and hygiene

Women Nutrition

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ISBN:

9781778402364 (trade paperback)
9781778402364
9781771645416
1778402364
1771645415

Edition:

First paperback edition

Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Intermittent fasting for women

Notes:

Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
Originally published in hardcover: Vancouver : Greystone Books, 2023
Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-254) and index

Contents:

The benefits and myths of intermittent fasting for women
Calorie confusion : why conventional dieting advice fails
The role of insulin resistance in obesity and poor metabolic health
How a low-carb, high-fat diet and fasting can transform your health
Cortisol : how chronic stress and lack of sleep can derail weight and fat loss
Female sex hormones, part 1 : how estrogen dominance disrupts menstruation and metabolism
Female sex hormones, part 2 : how too much insulin can lead to elevated testosterone and polycycstic ovary syndrome
Prepare to fast : build a healing mindset and cut out snacks
How to begin and extend shorter fasts : use fat fasting and drop one meal a day
Longer fasting strategies : therapeutic fasts to reverse and prevent disease
Tips and tricks for troubleshooting fasts
Tips and tricks for building a healthy relationship with food
How to make fasting and healthy eating a lifelong habit

Control Number:

3365116

Other Authors:

Fung, Jason, writer of foreword

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