WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source

Eat a protein-rich food with breakfast, such as eggs, a vegan protein shake, or smoked salmon.

what symptoms they’re able to observe, what triggered the slide, and how it made them feel.

Don’t consume caffeine of any kind before eating breakfast.

Women who partner with their hormones live more efficiently and strategically. These women end up becoming the fullest expression of themselves and live as leaders and change-agents in their own lives and communities.

Fill your diet with plenty of vegetables from the brassica family: cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and all kinds of kale. Try to sneak at least one brassica-type vegetable into every meal throughout the day. Add them to smoothies and juices that you make, too. • Reach for lemons and oranges. Add fresh lemon to your water. However,

Eat lunch within three and a half hours of breakfast.

for instance, if I eat a little too much brown rice, sweet potatoes, or pasta, I lace up my sneakers and head outside for a brisk walk around my neighborhood. Why? Glucose is energy. If I were to plop down on the couch instead, leaving my newly ingested glucose unused, my body would rush to churn out enough insulin to tuck that sugar into my liver

Eat breakfast within ninety minutes of waking.

What often happens, though, is that your pancreas miscalculates the amount of insulin needed and releases too much; so instead of bringing your blood sugar to baseline, it gobbles up too much glucose and leaves you with extremely low blood sugar—despite the fact that you just stuffed yourself. This is where you get frustrated, berate yourself for h