Episode 94| Rad FLO with Alisa Vitti the ‘Hormone Whisperer’

Alisa Vitti is functional nutritionist, women’s hormone expert, best-selling author, and founder of FloLiving.com. She’s also known as the hormone whisperer. Alisa has opened up the conversation about menstruation while helping and inspiring women to tap into their inner wisdom and thrive all month long.

 

I’m so excited to share this conversation with you. This is something that we as women don’t talk about enough. I learned so much from Alisa about myself and my body. Yes, we talked about periods. I never realized how much information there is out there to help us understand our bodies more until this conversation.

 

Alisa has so many tips for us on using the tools around us to feel our best. She shares her journey of working through hormone issues herself, how our food screws our endocrine function, and how we can live our optimal health by understanding our hormones.

 

Radically FLO Alisa

 

• Seeing a major gap in healthcare for hormone issues and searching for answers
• Getting diagnosed with PCOS at a young age and healing herself
• Making TV history by simulating menstrual blood on Dr. Oz

 

Radically Inspired Clarity

 

• Your food has to change each week of your cycle because your hormones are changing.
• Understand what’s going on in your hormones is the fastest way for you to be free.

 

Alisa Vitti Answers…

 

• What kind of tests can we ask our doctor for to understand our bodies better?
• What can we do to start owning our female health?
• What are your thoughts on IUD and similar birth control methods?

 

Radically Loved Quotes

 

“If you’re walking around with the belief that you should be eating the ‘perfect diet’ every single day, you are greatly misled. All dietary theory is predicated on the male hormonal pattern.”

 

“If you want to stifle the creative power of half the population, you do that by not giving them the roadmap to optimizing their health.”

 

“There is no destination with health. There is a constant evolution. You need to be in a dynamic, compassionate relationship with your body throughout your life.”

 

“None of those diets or exercise programs are predicated on female biology. You must sync with your cycle to be your healthiest self”

 

A Little More About Our Guest

 

Alisa built FLO Living as a virtual online health center to help women solve their hormonal symptoms from anywhere in the world. She published a book called WomanCode, which has been in the Top 50 best selling women’s health books of all time since it was published. Alisa is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She has a web series on Lifetime, and has been a regular contributor to CBS, Fox, Shape, Women’s Health, MindBodyGreen, and The Huffington Post. She also writes Yahoo Health’s Hormone Whisperer column. www.floliving.com