Dr. Amy Shah is a double board-certified MD with an undergraduate degree with honors from Cornell in Nutrition, medical training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, then further research and residency training at the Harvard Hospitals, and advanced training at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Immunology/Allergy. She is the author of I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life.

What you'll learn from this episode:

  • Stressors have a compounding effect—why it’s so important to take an inventory of all your stressors and determine the amount of positive stress your body can handle from exercise and fasting.

  • What is the late-luteal phase, and why is it so important for women to rest, go inward, and extend their eating window during this phase?

  • Getting off that insulin rollercoaster—why you should avoid late-night eating and break your fast with fiber, protein, and fat first.

  • How to gain metabolic flexibility step by step through intermittent fasting, exercise, and cold and hot therapies.

  • The importance of feeding your gut microbiome, types of fermented foods, and which foods you should be minimizing to avoid compromising your microbiome.

  • And so much more!

Resources from this episode:

I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life by Dr. Amy Shah MD | Amazon

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How to Fix Fatigue, Plus What Women Need to Know About Fasting | Amy Shah, MD | The Genius Life 170

Get to Know Your Infradian Rhythm to Optimize Your Body's Cycles | Healthline

Ultradian Rhythm | Wikipedia

Luteal Phase Defect (LPD): Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment | WebMD

Follicular Phase: What It Means If It’s Short or Long and More | Healthline

How Gut Bacteria Tell Their Hosts What to Eat | Scientific American

Suck Baby Pacifier to Clean it | Healthline

Analysis of the Correlation between Meal Frequency and Obesity among Chinese Adults Aged 18–59 Years in 2015 | PMC

Metabolic Flexibility in Health and Disease | PMC

Hormesis | Wikipedia

The Stressed Hippocampus, Synaptic Plasticity and Lost Memories | Nature Reviews Neuroscience

NIH Study Finds Heavily Processed Foods Cause Overeating and Weight Gain | National Institutes of Health

Fermented-Food Diet Increases Microbiome Diversity, Decreases Inflammatory Proteins, Study Finds | News Center | Stanford Medicine

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ASHWAGANDHA: Overview, Uses, Side Effects, Precautions, Interactions, Dosing, and Reviews | WebMD

Endothelial Function–An Overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Study Finds Turmeric Juice Is Equivalent to 60 Minutes of Exercise | 1mhealthtips.com

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