The Sacred Science of Women’s Cycle: The 4 Phases of Feminine Power (Dr. Kayla Osterhoff)

Did you know that almost every medical study ignores female biology, and that’s why most women’s health advice doesn’t actually work?

Josh Trent welcomes Kayla Osterhoff, Neuropsychophysiologist and Women's Health Expert, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 777, to reveal why women's cycles make them a different person every single day, how hormones influence mood, energy, and creativity, and why syncing your life with your biological rhythm is the key to balance, vitality, and freedom.

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In This Episode, Kayla Osterhoff Uncovers:

[01:10] Women's Daily and Monthly Hormonal Changes

• Why women are a different person every single day.
• How hormones create physiological changes.
• Why women's hormonal cycles change across their life.

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• Kayla Osterhoff
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[03:50] How Mental Health Affects Women's Health

• How our childhood experiences shape our general opinion of men and women.
• Why Kayla's mother struggles with mental illness.
• How women are affected more by mental illness than men.

[07:00] Discovering A New Path for Women

• How Kayla found out her mother was addicted to pain medication.
• Why it was very difficult to find help for her mother to recover from addiction.
• How her mother's addiction led Kayla to change her major.

Resources:

• link study (oxycotin)??

[10:50] Why There's Not Enough Research on Women

• Why women represent the largest gap in research.
• How women's constant physiological changes make it harder to get reliable research data.
• Why men's biological system works on a 24-hour system that repeats every day.
• How women's studies are more expensive because their data needs to be collected during 90 days.

[15:45] Is All Research Inaccurate?

• Why we need to change how new studies are run.
• How most studies are not done properly and can't be applied to women.
• Why Kayla is reforming the research system to collect women's data correctly.

[19:45] Why History Revolves Around Men

• Why the female physiology is the most complex biological system on the planet.
• How male naming rights started.
• The role of women in the age of enlightenment and the industrial age.
• How women first entered male-dominated industries during the First World War.
• Why the age of information is skewed to male bias.

[28:55] The System Works Better for Men

• Why we don't need to remove the old system but rather create a more flexible system.
• How we bypass the gifts of our biological systems.
• Why we need to start co-creating together and support everyone based on their biological needs.
• How the current system works better for the male biological rhythm.
• Why the gift of women's biology is creativity.

[36:15] Are Sex and Gender Not The Same Thing?

• Why society needs understanding, compassion, acceptance, and acknowledgment.
• What is creating gender dysphoria.
• Why Kayla believes sex and gender are two separate things.
• How gender and sex used to have one meaning, but they have different meanings in today's society.
• Why Josh believes that gender dysphoria is rooted in perversion.

[45:50] Men and Women Are Created to Work Together

• Why the war between men and women is a product of societal conditioning.
• How the male and female gifts complement each other.
• Why we need both male and female leadership.
• How all of us come from the same source.

[49:50] What's Blocking Human Evolution?

• How we're trying to make everyone across society the same.
• Why women are not biologically inconsistent.
• What's preventing us from evolution.

[52:25] What Men Need to Know About Women

• How hormones create a complex biology in women.
• Why women's biology is changed based on the concentration of certain hormones.
• The importance of getting comfortable with constant changes as a woman.
• How the four phases of the menstrual cycle affect women.

Resources:

• 748 If Talk Therapy Worked, You’d Feel Better: New MDMA Therapy Breakthrough | Mike Zeller

[56:40] Updating The Educational System

• How Kayla teaches others about women's physiology.
• Why children should learn the phases of female biology at school.
• How the educational system needs to be udpated.

[59:30] The Four Phases of the Menstrual Cycle

• The reason why both men and women like the ovulation phase.
• Why women feel their best and most productive when they're ovulating.
• How the first week of the menstrual cycle is a process of shedding.
• Why craving food and sugar in the menstrual phase is a sign of dysregulation.
• How women's intuition is heightened during their period.

[01:07:10] The Follicular Phase

• How estrogen impacts the follicular phase.
• Why women have higher mental energy and better mood when their estrogen is higher.
• How women can get into estrogen dominance, which causes dysregulation.
• Why women reach their peak estrogen at the time of ovulation.
• How women can leverage the follicular phase for leadership and networking.

[01:12:00] Why Women Burn Out More Than Men

• How the ovulatory phase sets the bar for women's standard.
• Why women experience burnout 200% more often than men.
• How Kayla's burnout helped her understand the cycle better.
• What led to her burning out her adrenals and sex hormones.
• Why she competed to prove herself and be the best in her subject matter.
• How her body rejected the lifestyle she was living.

[01:17:40] Allow Women to Be Inconsistent

• Why Kayla is more effective and loved now that she's embraced her femininity.
• What makes people become grumpy when they get old.
• The importance of allowing women to be inconsistent based on their hormonal phase.

[01:22:30] Understanding Luteal Phase Can Change The World

• Why the first week of the luteal phase is different than the second week.
• How progesterone changes women's physiology during the luteal phase.
• Why the female brain grows in the luteal phase.
• How women get greater resilience first, but the nervous system becomes more sensitive during luteal phase.

[01:29:05] Mental Health Is Gender Specific

• Why most rat lab tests are done on male rats.
• How mental health and related drugs need to be addressed differently in women.
• Why the capacity to withstand traumatic situations is affected by the hormonal cycle.

Resources:

• 345 Zach Bush MD: Humanity, Consciousness & COVID19
• Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations

[01:35:30] How to Make Healing Fun

• Why nothing is really as serious as we think.
• How we can make healing fun.
• Why our childhood wounds impact our behavior.
• There is beauty in every phase of a woman's cycle.

"Women are essentially four different people across the span of a month due to hormonal changes. But women are also different people every single day because of the physiological, neurological, and hormonal shifts that are happening little by little every day and constantly shifting physiological processes across the global biological systems." — Kayla Osterhoff

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All Resources From This Episode

• Kayla Osterhoff
• Her Biorhythm Courses - 10% off with code JOSH
• 748 If Talk Therapy Worked, You’d Feel Better: New MDMA Therapy Breakthrough | Mike Zeller
• 345 Zach Bush MD: Humanity, Consciousness & COVID19
• Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations

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About Kayla Osterhoff

Dr. Kayla Osterhoff is an internationally recognized neuropsychophysiologist and expert in women’s health science with over a decade of experience advancing health policy and systems reform at the highest levels of government and global health.

As a former health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she led large-scale public health initiatives, including Global Hearts, and emergency response efforts during global crises such as Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19, shaping national policy through the integration of behavioral science, systems design, and data-driven strategy.

Her career is defined by a commitment to improving scientific standards and health outcomes for women through closing critical data gaps and ensuring that research, care, and policy reflect the full complexity of female biology.

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