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In answer to the question: "Are there any notable insights into fasting during these holy days depending on where females are in the menstrual cycle? I have been fasting several times a year for 3-4 days at a time for several years now and have almost always felt great. Others say fasting is not always great for women’s hormones and recently I’ve wondered if I should take heed of these cautions or only fast during certain times according to menstruation timing. And what about menopause?" The answer simple and is found in the question. You’ve done something “for years and it almost always felt great.” I don’t know what type of fasts you’ve done before, don’t know what the fast included or excluded. This journey we’re embarking on here is not about suffering. It’s about ending suffering. I have never advocated any type of fasting that causes the body to suffer in any way. It’s fascinating that to this day, every single person I have personally told about this process, chooses to attempt their first cycle by only drinking water. Their initial plan is to not eat and just do a water fast. Yet I always encourage them to eat some food. This journey is about feeling good. It’s not a physical marathon to see how much we can endure. Life has been that way long enough. This is a time for healing. Healing is to become whole. This is a time to cleanse ourselves and become healthy in body, mind, spirit, soul, energy, frequency, vibration… There are countless other fasts that are done in their way, at various levels of difficulty and extremity. When we talk about fasting for this particular process of following the Lunar cycle, the type of fasting that I do and advocate, we can begin by thinking of it as fasting from chemicals, toxic metals, poisons, harmful frequencies, and anything artificial. Let’s start with that and approach it in this way… No matter the current status of our health, the age/phase of the body, I think we can all agree it would be healthier for our bodies to be cleansed regularly of toxic chemicals, metals, poisons, harmful frequencies, and anything artificial.