Alisa Vitti - Menstrual Cycle as the 5th Vital Sign and Longevity Biohacking For Women
02/21/24 • 61 min
What if our menstrual cycle holds the answers to health and longevity?
Meet Alisa Vitti, the MOTHER of the #cycle-syncing movement.
While attending Johns Hopkins, Alisa was diagnosed with PCOS. Her doctor painted a grim picture of her future and offered birth control as the only solution. Not willing to accept this as the only option, Alisa went on a quest to find alternative ways to heal. Through this journey, she’s become a thought leader for women’s hormonal health, a pioneer in FemTech, a US patent holder for her tech, and an advocate for gender equality in nutrition research. As a researcher and author, Vitti has published 2 best-selling books—WomanCode and In the Flo. She uncovered the Infradian Rhythm and created The Cycle Syncing® Method which became a viral wellness movement on social with 5 million #cyclesyncing. She’s spoken on every stage from TED to SXSW and has been featured everywhere from the NYTimes to Forbes to Vogue, as well as hundreds of podcasts. In 2001, Alisa founded Flo Living (https://floliving.com/) - the next-gen hormone care platform helping women get to the root cause of their symptoms with its personalized programs, supplements, and a top-ranked hormone care app. Today, she is focused on shifting the cultural conversation around hormone care and gender inequality in research and biohacking—leading the way to a better future for women’s health.
(00:00) Intro
(01:29) The Infadian Rythm and why all women need to know about it
(08:34) How hormones influence overall health
(10:30) Long-term effect of PMS on health and longevity
(19:02) Why our menstrual cycle is the 5th vital sign of health
(23:00) Biomarkers of menstrual health and how to measure them
(26:10) Why menstrual blood is not a waste product
(31:31) Female lens on the current biohacking trends
(42:33) Continuous Glucose Monitoring ("CGM") and the importance of blood sugar levels
(44:46) How to perform an endocrine disruptor sweep
(45:57) Alisa's take on in potential of Artificial Intelligence in women's health
(50:43) What's next for Flo Living
(51:40) The bigger picture: What the Female Cycle can teach humanity beyond our health
Links:
Flo Living - https://floliving.com/
Woman Code (book) - https://shorturl.at/amJW9
In The Flo (book) - https://shorturl.at/aqMS6
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What if our menstrual cycle holds the answers to health and longevity?
Meet Alisa Vitti, the MOTHER of the #cycle-syncing movement.
While attending Johns Hopkins, Alisa was diagnosed with PCOS. Her doctor painted a grim picture of her future and offered birth control as the only solution. Not willing to accept this as the only option, Alisa went on a quest to find alternative ways to heal. Through this journey, she’s become a thought leader for women’s hormonal health, a pioneer in FemTech, a US patent holder for her tech, and an advocate for gender equality in nutrition research. As a researcher and author, Vitti has published 2 best-selling books—WomanCode and In the Flo. She uncovered the Infradian Rhythm and created The Cycle Syncing® Method which became a viral wellness movement on social with 5 million #cyclesyncing. She’s spoken on every stage from TED to SXSW and has been featured everywhere from the NYTimes to Forbes to Vogue, as well as hundreds of podcasts. In 2001, Alisa founded Flo Living (https://floliving.com/) - the next-gen hormone care platform helping women get to the root cause of their symptoms with its personalized programs, supplements, and a top-ranked hormone care app. Today, she is focused on shifting the cultural conversation around hormone care and gender inequality in research and biohacking—leading the way to a better future for women’s health.
(00:00) Intro
(01:29) The Infadian Rythm and why all women need to know about it
(08:34) How hormones influence overall health
(10:30) Long-term effect of PMS on health and longevity
(19:02) Why our menstrual cycle is the 5th vital sign of health
(23:00) Biomarkers of menstrual health and how to measure them
(26:10) Why menstrual blood is not a waste product
(31:31) Female lens on the current biohacking trends
(42:33) Continuous Glucose Monitoring ("CGM") and the importance of blood sugar levels
(44:46) How to perform an endocrine disruptor sweep
(45:57) Alisa's take on in potential of Artificial Intelligence in women's health
(50:43) What's next for Flo Living
(51:40) The bigger picture: What the Female Cycle can teach humanity beyond our health
Links:
Flo Living - https://floliving.com/
Woman Code (book) - https://shorturl.at/amJW9
In The Flo (book) - https://shorturl.at/aqMS6
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Güneş Taylor, PhD - Ovaries, Sex Determination, Longevity and The Future of Reproductive Technology
What secrets do our ovaries hold?
Dr Güneş Taylor is a postdoctoral research scientist at The Francis Crick Institute (https://www.crick.ac.uk/). As a molecular biologist, she uses many cutting-edge technologies to understand how reproductive systems are built. She is now leading an independent research program, unravelling details of ovarian function, with the goal of developing solutions for women’s health and fertility.
Güneş is a public speaker, regularly appearing at public venues discussing future technologies and sex differences with household names such as Richard Dawkins, Yuval Harari, Slavoj Zizek, Robert Plomin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Lord Robert Winston. Over the last ten years, she has been interviewed for numerous articles and podcasts such as New Scientist, Beyond Today and The Guardian Science Weekly, and recently consulted on BBC documentary Dolly: The Sheep that Changed the World (2022). In 2019, Güneş was a finalist for the NESTA Tipping Point Prize with an essay on the potential environmental benefits of genome editing. Güneş speaks and writes about fertility research, academia, future technologies and philosophy across multiple social media platforms. Her open style of communication and personal life experiences as a refugee and member of the LBGTQ+ community who has moved many times across different European countries make her relatable to diverse audiences. Reflecting this passion for making biology accessible to everyone, Güneş was awarded the Inaugural Francis Crick Award for Science Communication in 2018.
(00:00) Intro
(01:25) How does nature decide the sex of an embryo?
(05:12) What drives sex determination?
(07:12) Mechanisms of sex determination, organ development, and genetic modification of sex after birth
(13:48) Synthetic embryos and the recent discoveries in reproductive technology
(19:21) Population growth
(20:34) Zooming into the ovaries and the ovarian reserve
(24:06) The link between ovarian reserve and menopause
(27:14) Is it possible to genetically modify the ovarian reserve?
(30:01) Egg quality and ageing
(32:06) Egg freezing
(33:52) Is there such a thing as a "sperm reserve?"
(41:16) What can our understanding of our reproductive biology help us understand about life, nature, and the universe?
(43:30) Are male and female brains different?
(50:47) What is the future of reproductive technology?
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