{"podcast":{"title":"Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz","slug":"the-resetter-podcast-with-dr-mindy-462628","podcast_index_feed_id":462628,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/live-like-a-girl-with-dr-mindy","website_url":"https://drmindypelz.com/live-like-a-girl-podcast/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2-F_TtiagM944k0w89EEl2Xjixw_61zGFMr2F_qM7UM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ODRl/OTdhN2I4M2QyNTZk/OWE5ZTI5NmFkMTlm/N2E2My5wbmc.jpg","author":"Dr. Mindy Pelz","episode_count":346,"summary":"We were taught that doing anything \"like a girl\" was a weakness. Dr. Mindy Pelz is here to prove it's your greatest strength. A renowned advocate for women's health, Dr. Mindy is passionately committed to helping women embrace and trust their body's natural healing processes. Drawing on an extensive background in women's health, she's developed groundbreaking, science-backed approaches that help women work with their hormones, not against them, through every stage of life, from cycling to perimenopause to the wisdom of the years beyond. On Live Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy helps you come home to your own body. Every Monday, she sits down with some of the brightest minds in health and wellness for honest, meaningful conversations that hand you the knowledge, tools, and science to do health your way. No more pushing through, gaslighting yourself, or shrinking to fit. Just permission to live in rhythm with the body you were designed to have and to finally feel at home in it. Press play, and let's live like a girl.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T04:18:21.853940+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-resetter-podcast-with-dr-mindy-462628"},"episode":{"title":"I Stopped Fasting for a Year - Here's What It Taught Me (& Other Habits I'm Giving Up)","slug":"i-stopped-fasting-for-a-year-here-s-what-it-taught-me-other-habits-i-m-giving-up","published_at":"2026-06-10T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-resetter-podcast-with-dr-mindy-462628/i-stopped-fasting-for-a-year-here-s-what-it-taught-me-other-habits-i-m-giving-up","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-resetter-podcast-with-dr-mindy-462628","url":"https://www.drmindypelz.com/ep343","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/a7e4a708/ae32521c.mp3","summary":"After 30 years in health, Dr. Mindy is calling time on the rules. This solo episode is one of the most personal things she's shared on this podcast. It covers two big ideas: the science and story behind why she stopped fasting for most of the past year and the five health habits she's deliberately walking away from in 2026. First, flex fasting. When cortisol is high from grief, trauma, illness, perimenopause, or chronic stress rigidly pushing through long fasting windows doesn't support the body. It depletes it. Dr. Mindy shares what happened when she lost a close friend and found herself in an acute stress state, what the research says about prolonged fasting and the HPA axis, and how she developed a new approach she's calling flex fasting: a more intuitive, body-led way to use fasting as a tool without turning it into a rule. Then the five things she's giving up: counting (macros, biometrics, followers, all of it), the gym, other people's urgency, productivity over health, and information overconsumption. Each one is a direct response to what the wellness industry has quietly done to us — turned health into a full-time job with a performance review. RESOURCES MENTIONED: Fast Like a Girl: https://www.drmindypelz.com/books Age Like a Girl: https://www.drmindypelz.com/books Substack Article \"I Stopped Fasting for a Year\": https://substack.com/@drmindypelz/ Carb Manager App carbmanager.com, available on iOS, Android, and web The Movement Diet: Redefining Fitness at Every Age with Katy Bowman Study: Prolonged Fasting, HPA Axis & Cortisol - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12736288/ Study: Estrogen & Cortisol Regulation - https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/12/4457/4587523 Midlife Women Fasting Trial - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65678-…","meta_description":"After 30 years in health, Dr. Mindy is calling time on the rules. This solo episode is one of the most personal things she's shared on this podcast. 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