“What is so lost in the conversation is that women are exquisitely sensitive to those environmental changes,” said Dr. Rahal. “Not woo woo, but biologically.”
“For hundreds of thousands of years, survival of the species depended on women being highly attuned to accurately interpret what was going on in the environment: food regularity, the temperature, the light, emotional safety.”
The body evolved a higher calibration to be able to detect these things, but again the environment can hijack these signals, causing symptoms, like feeling puffy, rundown, or just not like yourself, as a result.
“Our cycles are not chaos. They're dashboards…real-time environmental data rendered in hormones.”
It’s on a biological level, too. Dr. Rahal explained that women have more dense mitochondrial networks in key tissues like their brain, their heart, their skin. More mitochondria means higher sensitivity to the environment, like changes in morning light.
“Our cycles are not chaos. They're dashboards,” said Dr. Rahal. “They are real-time environmental data rendered in hormones.”
By reconnecting with nature, through ancestral inputs like sunlight, grounding, darkness, and colostrum, we clear the noise, allowing our bodies’ innate brilliance to reawaken.
