Episode #82: Alisa Vitti
Alisa Vitti is a women's hormone and functional nutrition expert and pioneer in female biohacking. She is the best selling author of WomanCode, and creator of the Cycle Syncing Method® – a female centric diet and lifestyle program that leverages hormonal patterns for optimal health, fitness and productivity.
As the founder of FLOLiving.com, she has built the world's first menstrual healthcare platform that helps women around the world put their period issues like PCOS, Fibroids, Endometriosis, and PMS into remission naturally using her highly effective FLO Protocol and the FLO Balance Supplements.
Finally, Alisa is also the creator of the MyFLO period app - the first and only functional medicine period tracker designed to help users eliminate symptoms and schedule their lives according to their cycles. It is consistently ranked in the top 10 of paid apps in the health and fitness category on iTunes.
Alisa Vitti wrote the book on women’s hormonal health--literally. WomanCode, her first book, was published in 2013, and it provides the education many women never knew they needed. A women’s hormone and functional nutrition expert, Alisa is the founder of FLOLiving.com, a modern hormonal healthcare company. On today’s episode, Alisa and I talk about how her experience with PCOS led her to research how to manage her hormones through food and lifestyle, and why she doesn’t buy into the narrative that women are supposed to accept pain and suffer in silence. We also talk about the FLO Protocol, which, rather than trying to fix a symptom, aims to support endocrine function--which is why it’s helpful for so many women. Finally, we talk about what biological rhythms are, why it’s important for women to be aware of them, and why education is critical around topics relating to our hormonal health.
“We are such elegant and complex creatures as females, and there’s so much that starts to happen at puberty...and we are completely unprepared for it.”
Here are some of the things Alisa and I chatted about:
Her sense of pride that FLO Living takes care of women globally, not just the “wellness 1%”
The “gynecological castaway conditions” women experience, and how they’re treated (or not)
The symptoms that severely impacted her day-to-day life, both physically and emotionally
Doing her own research, and discovering a reference to PCOS that made all the bells go off
Talking to her doctor about what her PCOS diagnosis meant, and why it’s so clear in her mind
The year-and-a-half of trial and error that created the basis for the FLO Living protocol
Breaking free from traditional narratives of womanhood, including “the curse” of puberty
The thoughtful way she engages with her daughter, instilling lessons about relating to her body
Her first book, WomanCode, and why it was a book that she needed to write in that moment
Writing WomanCode and starting FLO Living before the wellness/period revolutions happened
What women frequently tell her, and why she considers it a gift to be in service to women
In the FLO, her new book focusing on infradian rhythm--a biological rhythm unique to women
Why the FLO Protocol works for many women, and how it supports the endocrine system
How, in her view, the way the world is organized is disruptive to women’s biological rhythm
What’s unique about the My FLO App, and how it educates and informs women in real time
“I want a future where girls are raised with a completely different narrative about what their bodies are capable of.”
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