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The health and fitness industry tends to focus a lot on men, and women are very different than men, so what do we need to know?
According to nutritionist Dawn Thalheimer, what we need to know, and this is going into Dr. Stacy Sims, is that women are not small men. Women are biologically and psychologically different.
When it comes to eating, you want to be eating breakfast. This might be going against what some people have been taught about intermittent fasting and that being a real trend. It’s not really good for women.
What you want to do is maybe split up breakfast. Have something small when you wake up, and maybe before you work out or whatever you are doing in the morning, then get the rest of your breakfast in within the next couple of hours.
When you wake up in the morning, your cortisol levels are high. So, between 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., your cortisol levels spike to wake you up. If you don’t eat, then that cortisol level is going to stay higher for longer.
Cortisol is your stress hormone. You don’t want to be living high stress.
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