Alisa Vitti is a women’s hormone and functional nutrition expert and pioneer in female biohacking. She is the bestselling author of WomanCode, and her new book, IntheFLO. She is the creator of the Cycle Syncing MethodTM— 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 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.
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Alisa has been featured in the New York Times, on The Dr. Oz Show, Lifetime, and has been a regular contributor for Cosmo, Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Health. She has served on the wellness council for Yahoo Health, MindBodyGreen and Well & Good. She was selected as PureWow 100 Women to Watch in 2018 and Thrive Global 12 Women Entrepreneur’s Changing the World in 2019. She is also an advisor to several health tech startups. She has presented at SXSW, TEDx, Talks@Google, Summit Series Outside, Cycles&Sex, WIE Symposium, and SHE Summit and regularly trains women in the workplace on how to use her Cycle Syncing MethodTM for greater creativity, productivity, and wellbeing at work.
In this episode we talk abouT
- learning about menstration in 6th grade and being completely in awe and starting a period club
- how we are taught early on how our periods are a burden and she never felt that
- curating the period narrative better for the next generation
- her personal hormonal struggle and journey
- Going to John Hopkins to study to become an OBGYN which led her to researching her own issues, diagnosing herself, and bringing her diagnosis to her doctor whom told her she couldn’t do anything about it but could take medications to try to help her
- not accepting that there was nothing that could be done and taking her healing path into her hands
- the dismissal we get with undiagnosed issues and invisible diseases
- promising herself that she would find a way to serve women struggling with hormone issues and doing just that
- how the discovery of epigenitics and how diet and lifestyle can shift gene expression sites in the body
- creating the FLO protical to heal the body and how detox is the last step you want to take, not the first
- following her own program and how it resulted in dropping 60 pounds, skin clearing up and her cycle returning within 6 months
- little boys being taught from a young age differently from young girls
- turning her major into her own research work and going on to build one of the first online programs in order to support women with hormonal issues
- physicians seeing their patients being healed through her protocol and starting to send her more and more patients
- making history on TV
- asking herself why 50% of the women are sick when we have so much information and access to heal ourselves
- discovering that women are left out of all medical research and how intermittent fasting and HIIT don’t serve women in reproductive years
- The revolutionary solution Alisa created to support the Infradian rhythm is called ‘The Cycle Syncing Method(TM)‘ and it’s outlined in her groundbreaking new book, In the FLO.
- how learning about this rhythm we will become more nurturing and compassionate with ourselves and get a time and energy management resource
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Find her @alisa.vitti and @floliving
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