People with female biochemistry having shifting hormones and shifting needs all month long. Men follow the same predictable pattern everyday: the 24-hour circadian clock and only the 24-hour circadian clock. But this insistence on doing the same thing day-in and day-out caters to the male hormonal biological rhythm. There is a widespread cultural belief that we are supposed to repeat the same rituals every 24 hours - have the same morning routine, for example, or exercise the same way each week. If you’ve been living in a ‘same-thing-everyday’ way, you’re not alone. Our bodies and brains are different during each phase of our cycle, so our food, exercise, and self-care should be different each week, too. Why doing the same thing everyday disrupts your infradian rhythm and hurts your hormones This makes practicing The Cycle Syncing Method™ even more powerful in promoting hormone health and overall health. In this way, using phase-based self-care not only supports your month-long hormone cycle but also your 24-hour sleep-wake cycle. What’s more, your 28-day cycle (infradian rhythm) works in close concert with your 24-hour cycle: a dysregulated infradian rhythm will mess with your circadian cycle-and a wonky circadian cycle will negatively influence your infradian cycle.
THEBRAIN NOT SYNCING SKIN
Phase 4: Menstrual (the 3 to 7 days of your period)ĭuring each of these four phases, you experience normal hormonal fluctuations that influence your body temperature, skin elasticity, sleep cycle, energy, emotions, and cognitive function.Phase 3: Luteal (the 10 to 14 days between ovulation and your period).Phase 2: Ovulatory (the to 4 days in the middle of your cycle).Phase 1: Follicular (the 7 to 10 days after your period).Specifically, we move through four distinct phases within the course of 28-days.
People with female physiology tend to need less in the way of extreme self-care practices because we have more efficient biology.Īs this list shows, your body and brain change significantly throughout the course of a month.People with female biochemistry need more sleep than men because we have a more complex brain and it needs 20 minutes longer to clean itself and reset for the cognitive day?.Your cortisol levels are higher in one part of your infradian cycle, so pushing yourself through an intense workout bumps up cortisol levels even further, adding to your stress and inflammation, disrupting your hormones, and making you feel anxious and unfocused?.Your metabolism speeds up and slows down predictably across the month and that you need to change what you eat and the intensity of your workouts each week in order to optimize your metabolism?.The infradian rhythm creates a 25% change in your brain chemistry over the course of the month?.How does your Cycle affect your body and brain? Your hormones will stay balanced and you can live symptom-free. And when you understand your infradian rhythm and how it informs your unique female biochemistry, you can become calmer, happier, and healthier, as well as more productive at work and more satisfied in your relationships.
Men’s testosterone production is organized around the circadian rhythm (and so is the vast majority of fitness and nutrition research and advice more on that below)īut people who menstruate have also follow the infradian rhythm, which is linked to the menstrual cycle.
The circadian clock also helps regulate our body temperature and metabolism. This internal timekeeper directs many of the body’s internal processes, from when we get our get our deepest sleep (around 2:00am) and when we’re at our most alert (around 10:00am) to when we’re the most coordinated (2:30pm) and when we have the fastest reaction time (3:30pm). You’ve probably heard of the circadian clock, or the 24-hour biological rhythm that is inherent to all of us, men and women, old and young. It’s precisely because so many women try to follow the ‘same-thing-everyday’ plans that work for men that 50% of women are suffering with hormonal imbalances, while men don’t suffer them at the same rate. The infradian rhythm powerfully affects six different systems of the body - brain, metabolism, immune system, microbiome, stress response system and reproductive system - and women benefit when they eat, exercise, and work in ways that support their infradian rhythm, as opposed to following diet, fitness, and work trends that disrupt it. In my new book In the FLO, I’m introducing the wellness world to the infradian rhythm, which is one of two internal timekeepers experienced by people with female biochemistry. Meet Your Infradian Rhythm (your secondary clock!)
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