A health expert has said employers should give women and men three days off a month to accommodate their menstrual cycle.
California-based Dr. Mindy Pelz, a world-renowned fasting and women’s health expert, appeared on Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast to talk about wellness in the workplace. job.
Steven asked the author of The Menopause Reset what would be the “optimal way” for an employer to set a work schedule for a woman to fit her cycle.
Dr. Mindy responded, ‘What if every employee had three days off every month and no questions asked? You take it whenever you want.
He said it would be “the fairest thing” to extend the same benefit to men and that it should be the employee’s choice when they want to take their days off.
Dr. Mindy Pelz of California said employers should give women and men three days off a month to adjust to the menstrual cycle.
She recommended that women take the days the week before their period to “support hormonal health.”
She said: ‘What we know is that if you take it off the week before your period, when you come back you will be an even better version of yourself.
‘Let your employee use his prerogative because you can’t tell him when to use with her period. I think it is the fairest thing because then men will also be able to do it.”
The health expert explained that women should be able to stay home and ‘nurture’ on day 25 of their cycle to support their hormonal health.
She said: ‘For women in the company, what you need to know is that, that day when everything is collapsing on you and the stress is coming from all different angles, and you have to get up and keep going that day, and it’s on day 25 of your menstrual cycle – if it is convenient to stay home then stay home and take care of yourself.
‘By the time a woman goes through that week before her period, she is destroying her hormonal system.
“I’m not talking about the moment when you wake up and say, ‘Yeah, it’s going to be a boring day,’ or there are some ‘difficult conversations I have to have today.'”
‘I’m talking about the time when your energy is low, you have brain fog, you may have some cramps, you may be very irritable and you think, “I can’t take one more thing. How about I just take care of him “Myself today and take care of myself, so I can present myself as a better person tomorrow.”
Elsewhere, the health expert revealed that women should not fast the week before their period.
Dr Mindy appeared on Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett’s (pictured) podcast The Diary of a CEO to discuss accommodations for women in the workplace and the benefits of fasting.
She said: ‘The estrogen that arrives in the first half of a woman’s cycle works very well with fasting because it likes to make you sensitive to insulin.
“In a woman’s 30-day period, there are times when estrogen peaks and there are times when progesterone peaks, so if you’re on the ketogenic diet, if you’re calorie restricted, if you’re By fasting all the time she does not respect the rhythms of these two hormones and that is a major problem.
“That’s why we say don’t fast the week before your period because you need your glucose to be higher and you don’t want your cortisol to be high, and just like exercise raises cortisol, so does fasting.”
Dr Mindy said the consequence of women fasting the week before their period could result in them “missing their cycles”.
He added: “Around day 20, progesterone is building up, She has to reach her peak and then, when it reaches its peak, the lining of the uterus sheds and you have your period.
“If you’re fasting during that time and you didn’t get your glucose level up enough, the progesterone may not peak and then you won’t have that bleeding. If you’re not bleeding, then you’re not detoxing.”