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had another question related to intermittent  fasting and pregnancy is it safe to do  

well there’s some questions you need to ask first  because there is a way to do it healthily but  

first let’s go through these questions number one  will your pattern of doing intermittent fasting  

and eating create nutrient deficiencies if it does  then you don’t want to do it because this is the  

most important time to get nutrients in your body  because that growing baby is developing and if  

you’re deficient in even one micronutrient iodine  the iq of that child will be severely suppressed  

so above all else the most important thing  is to make sure you’re getting the nutrients  

from the food i mean you could still do  six meals a day not intermittent fasting  

and be nutrient deprived right that’s not good so  let’s say for example you had two meals were very  

very sufficient in nutrients and calories  and you didn’t snack and you were adapted  

to keto i don’t see any problem with that but  let’s go down the list number two will it worsen  

your blood sugars so if you’re pregnant and then  all of a sudden you quickly jump into keto and  

intermittent fasting maybe you want to gradually  get into it because if you do it too fast  

and you don’t know what you’re doing you can end  up with low blood sugars and that’s not healthy  

but doing it gradually and letting your body tell  you when you’re hungry and when you should eat um  

that might make more sense all right next question  is will it affect your sex hormones like estrogen  

androgens progesterone things like that well not  necessarily intermittent fasting does not affect  

those hormones in a negative way but other things  do like food if you’re consuming too much soy for  

example or you’re consuming a lot of commercial  dairy which has a lot of estrogen in it that  

can throw off your estrogen and that probably is  not the best thing to do all right now androgens  

in a female body one way to trigger androgens  is to increase insulin and that’s the next  

point right here will your intermittent fasting  pattern of fasting and eating affect insulin well  

it’s going to normalize insulin if you’re doing  fasting in low carb but if you’re doing a high  

carb diet you are going to spike insulin  and high insulin leads to high androgens  

which can cause pcos polycystic ovarian syndrome  which one symptom is infertility and you lose your  

cycle if high insulin causes pcos infertility  why would you want to do something to raise  

insulin when you’re pregnant we’re trying  to provide the environment for that baby to  

thrive in so anything that increases insulin  when you’re pregnant is not a healthy thing  

and i’m also talking about a lot of different  snacks especially if they’re carbohydrates  

all right last point will it affect cortisol and  the answer is i did a whole video on this no it’ll  

actually improve your cortisol levels because it  will help lower stress especially if you do this  

correct i’m going to put a link down below for  that and during ramadan fasting is contraindicated  

for pregnancy but think about this ramadan you’re  fasting for a longer period of time during the day  

and also it’s for 29 to 30 days so that’s a little  bit different than what we’re talking about with  

intermittent fasting where you’re eating two  meals maybe spaced out through the day in summary  

the answer is not as simple as a yes or no you  have to factor in these other points but the  

most important thing is to get enough nutrients  to keep that fertility very high hey before you  

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