Adapting Your Food to Your Menstrual Cycle: Guidelines, Not Rules.

Cycle Syncing Your Diet: How to Eat During Each Phase of Your Menstrual Cycle.

It’s an incredible strategy for regulating your periods, optimizing fertility, and reducing negative symptoms typically associated with your period, such as PMS/PMDD, cramping, and fatigue. Ultimately, cycle syncing can help improve how you feel, look, and perform long-term. Not only does your infradian rhythm impact how you feel each month, it also impacts how your body responds to certain inputs.Ĭycle syncing is adapting your life inputs, such as food, exercise, and skin care to your menstrual cycle to support your health and proper hormone function. The truth is, there are actually four distinct phases of your monthly cycle, and each one has specific effects on your physiology. Most women just think of their cycle as bleeding and non-bleeding days-and if you’re trying to get pregnant, maybe you think about ovulation as well.

Every month, women go through very consistent and predictable hormonal fluctuations as part of our infradian rhythm. Your menstrual cycle isn’t just when you have your period.

For a complete overview of cycle syncing, check out my Beginner’s Guide to Cycle Syncing. In this article, I’m specifically going to unpack exactly what to eat in each phase of your menstrual cycle.

Is it possible to cycle sync your diet to your menstrual cycle to optimize fertility, balance hormones, and improve overall health? The short answer is YES, and I’m excited to share everything I know about how you can start cycle syncing your diet!

The cycle beginners guide download