Health expert claims that employers should give female AND male workers three days off every month to accommodate women’s periods
A health expert has claimed that employers should give both women and men three days off a month to accommodate the menstrual cycle.
Dr. California-based Mindy Pelz, a world-renowned expert on fasting and women’s health, appeared on Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a CEO podcast to discuss workplace wellness.
Steven asked the author of The Menopause Reset what would be the “optimal way” for an employer to set up a work schedule so that a woman can take her cycle into account.
Dr. Mindy responded, “What if every employee had three days off every month, no questions asked? You take it whenever you want.”
She said it would be “fairest” to offer men the same benefit and that it should be the employee’s choice when he or she wants to take time off.
Dr. Mindy Pelz from California claimed that employers should give both women and men three days off a month to accommodate menstrual cycles
She recommended that women take their days off 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, you will be an even better version of yourself when you come back.’
“Let your employee exercise his privilege because you can’t tell him when to use with their period. I think that’s the fairest thing, because then the men can do it too.’
The health expert explained that women should stay home and take care of themselves on day 25 of their cycle to support their hormonal health.
She said: ‘What the women in the business need to know is that, that day when everything comes crashing down on you and your stress comes from all kinds of different places, and on that day you have to get up and push through, and it’s day 25 of your menstrual cycle – if it is appropriate to stay at home then stay home and take care of yourself.
‘The moment a woman gets through the week before her period, she destroys her hormonal system.
“I’m not talking about that moment when you wake up and you think, ‘Yeah, it’s going to be a boring day,’ or there are some ‘tough conversations I need to have today.’
“I’m talking about that moment when you’re out of energy, you’ve got brain fog, maybe you’re having some cramps, you’re really irritable, and you say, ‘I can’t take one more thing. How about this?’ I just cherish Taking care of myself and myself today so that I can show up 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) The Diary of a CEO podcast to discuss adjustments for women in the workplace and the benefits of fasting
She said, “Estrogen, which comes in the front half of a woman’s cycle, does really well with fasting because it wants you to be insulin sensitive.
‘In a woman’s 30-day period, you have times when estrogen is peaking and you have times when progesterone is peaking, so if she’s on the keto diet, if she’s calorie restricted, if she’s fasting all the time, she’s not respecting the rhythms of those two hormones and that’s a huge problem.
“So we say don’t fast the week before your period because your glucose levels need to be higher and you don’t want cortisol to be high, and just like exercise increases cortisol, so does fasting.”
Dr. Mindy said the consequence of women fasting the week before their period could cause them to “lose their cycle.”
She added: ‘Around day 20, progesterone builds up, she has to peak and Then when she reaches climax, the uterine lining sheds and you have a period.
‘If you’re fasting during that time and haven’t gotten your glucose high enough, progesterone may not peak and then you won’t have any blood loss. If she’s not bleeding, she’s not detoxing.”