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

you can begin to replace the old script with a new one. Use plenty of positive assurances: I am healing. Change is possible. I am getting better. My body is capable of fixing itself. The more you bring positive statements to mind, the faster you’ll interrupt the negativity, until it’s no longer your first reaction—or any reaction—when

PHASE 1: Follicular Phase Duration: 7–10 Days • Hormone focus. The hypothalamus signals your pituitary gland to send follicle-stimulating hormone to your ovaries, telling them to get ready to release another egg. Several egg follicles start to swell in preparation. Estrogen increases to thicken your uterine lining so that it can host an egg. • Body

Four Days to Reset Your WomanCode Now that you’ve learned about the first three phases of the FLO protocol, have addressed blood sugar stability, and have been working on minimizing stressors, it would be excellent to take on this gentle food-based cleanse to help reset your pathways of elimination, stabilize your blood sugar, minimize internal str

Sneak caraway and dill seeds into as many meals as you can. Grind them in a spice grinder (a coffee grinder works, too) and rub them on chicken, fish, or other meats before baking, combine them with whole grains, or add them to homemade salad dressings.

Green drink and/or Chlorella tablets Lunch • Brown rice or buckwheat or quinoa with 1 tablespoon flax meal (up to 1/2 cup) • Protein: 4 ounces salmon or white fish (no tuna, please); or 1/3 cup beans if you are vegetarian • Liver cleansing medley (unlimited) Midafternoon Snack If you need a snack around 3 or 4 p.m., try any or all of the following:

Eat lunch within three and a half hours of breakfast. • Consume the majority of your daily calories at lunch. • Try to consume only one complex carbohydrate. For instance, have brown rice or black beans, but not both in the same meal. • Incorporate at least one good-fat food, such as avocado, olive oil, or sunflower seeds. They keep blood sugar mor

Reliance on coffee, soda, and energy drinks

After interpreting the signal from the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland communicates with the remaining glands and organs of your endocrine system—thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, adrenals, and ovaries—using a different hormone to converse with each.

I promise to pay attention to the signals my body gives me so that I can make small course corrections