In the FLO

It’s common knowledge now that the blue light from all our devices is messing with our sleep. But many of us don’t know that blue light diminishes the pineal gland’s ability to make melatonin, which can disrupt ovulation and decrease fertility

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.
—AMY POEHLER

The facts that our bodies are 80 percent water and women observe a correlation between their infradian rhythm and their lunar cycle mean that there might be more connection there than we have research for currently

Your menstrual cycle is an infradian rhythm, a cycle longer than a day. There are also ultradian rhythms that refer to cycles shorter than a day, like REM cycles and growth hormone cycles. Lunar rhythms are actually a separate cycle, and, from a chronobiological standpoint, they typically refer to tidal activity.

In this chapter I’ll unpack a fundamental truth about female biology that most women are ignoring: while children, men, and postmenopausal women are operating on a single biological clock, women of reproductive age are blessed to have two powerful inner clocks that create an organic framework for optimizing our energy, nurturing our creativity, maintaining our health, and making sustainable our productivity. Just as we now appreciate taking serious care of our circadian clock, it is equally critical to take care of your monthly hormonal clock, as you’ll see in this chapter.

This form of biohacking is about aligning with your body’s biological rhythms, and it’s much more collaborative, grounding, anxiety-reducing, and embracing of your feminine energy

Biohacking, in the wellness community, is using devices, supplements, food, and lifestyle modifications to change the performance of an already normally functioning body system with the aim of enhancing physical performance and achievement in other areas of your life

The Cycle Syncing Method™ is about working with your body’s natural processes to both optimize your health and your life without adding anything to the body system

Biohacking, Functional Medicine, and the Cycle Syncing Method™—What’s the Difference

And that’s not taking into account the billions and billions of over-the-counter pills, tablets, caplets, gels, and other remedies we take to try to heal the side effects of neglecting our cycles—acne, headaches, exhaustion, weight gain, insomnia, bloating, and more