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let’s talk about your menstrual cycle did you  know that you can use the ketogenic diet to get  

your period back on track or back to normal women  who have missed three menstrual cycles in a row  

have a condition called amenorrhea and this  could stem from many different things it  

could be a nutritional deficiency it could be  that they’re losing weight in an unhealthy way  

it could be weight gain because too much  fat can actually make too much estrogen  

it could be some hormonal disruption or some  endocrine disruption chemicals in the environment  

it could be stress where you have  a higher amount of the sympathetic  

nervous system and low parasympathetic or it could  be that you have diabetes or pre-diabetes now  

here’s what you need to know insulin resistance is  a huge cause of amenorrhea now what happens when  

you have insulin resistance you have too much  insulin okay now what’s the connection between  

high insulin and amenorrhea well high  insulin suppresses something in your liver  

called shbg it stands for sex hormone binding  globulin that is a compound that helps carry  

protein to sex organs when you have high insulin  you’re going to have low shvg and that’s going  

to suppress your sex hormones causing you not  to have a menstrual cycle all right what’s the  

relationship between the ketogenic diet well the  ketogenic diet lowers insulin it helps fix insulin  

resistance and you do it through two ways you  lower your carbohydrates and you do intermittent  

fasting there’s quite a few other benefits of  running your body on ketones in relationship to  

your menstrual cycle okay number one ketones  lower inflammation and directly increase fertility  

all right number two ketones improve the hpa axis  hypothalamus pituitary adrenal what does that mean  

it means that ketones help take you out of the  flight or fight mechanism they help you lower  

stress all right next one number three ketones  help balance your neurotransmitters especially  

gaba and gaba calms you down it helps lower the  flight or fight mechanism and you probably realize  

now stress is not good for female hormones or  your menstrual cycle or fertility when your body  

is in stress mode and being chased by the tiger  and trying to survive it doesn’t have time to be  

fertile or go through a menstrual cycle all right  and lastly ketones support your brain it just so  

happens your hypothalamus is located in your brain  and by getting on ketones you can directly improve  

the hypothalamus and that’s where it all starts  as far as the control of your ovaries you have a  

certain hormone called the gonadotropin releasing  hormone that’s released by the hypothalamus and  

then it tells the pituitary to release two other  additional hormones called luteinizing hormone  

and follicular stimulating hormone and those two  hormones go down to the ovary to help you regulate  

your menstrual period so if you’re new to  my channel and you don’t know about keto  

i put a link down below of exactly  how to do it in a healthy way  

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