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Recently, in my travels across the Internet, I discovered Alisa Vitti?s website, Flo Living, and was instantly fascinated by her story. This woman suffered from polycystic ovarian syndrome?I was once hospitalized for a ruptured ovarian cyst, and it isn’t fun?and says she cured all of her symptoms simply by changing the way she eats. She published a book about it called WomanCode, which has been in the top 50 best-selling women’s health books of all time since it was published (NBD!); has a Web series about her work on Lifetime; and has been featured in everything from “The Dr. Oz Show” and shows on CBS and Fox to Shape and Women?s Health.
Vitti’s known for teaching women to “cycle sync,” (her trademarked term) which basically is when you eat foods at certain times of the month to avoid symptoms such as bloating, acne, mood swings, fatigue, and insomnia. “The concept involves specifically eating foods that balance the estrogen fluctuation each week of your cycle, because some weeks you have higher concentration of estrogen than others, and you want to eat to help offset that.” Within four days of following her program, women can lose anywhere from four to 10 pounds, and while weight loss isn’t the goal here, that’s a pretty convincing sign that her system’s working. When it comes to your period, you can see results in the first cycle simply by adjusting what you e...