It is called Cyclicity Diet , and it is a diet developed by biologists and nutritionists  Ennio Avolio and Claudio Pecorella that has the advantage of being an all-female diet, that is a 28-day program (like the cycle) that changes according to hormonal fluctuations. of the female hormones of the woman (estrogen, progesterone, luteinizing hormone and hormone Fsh) to allow you to lose weight simply by adopting different dietary rules depending on her follicular or luteal phase.

Developed with the collaboration of the Universities of Calabria, Tor Vergata and California of San Diego, the Cyclicity Diet is therefore a phase diet , the result of the analysis of hundreds of studies on female physiology, but above all to fill a big void: most of the studies on proper nutrition and weight loss in fact take a sample of men. But women work differently, thanks to their hormonal peculiarities, and even weight loss and health follow slightly different rules.

In reality, the Cyclicity Diet is a diet that should only be followed for 28 days (at most two months in a row), and then repeated occasionally. And despite revolving around the idea of ​​the female cycle, the authors have developed a personalized approach for women in premenopausal or menopause as well .

We eat differently depending on whether, for example, we are in the follicular phase or in the luteal phase, this as regards fertile women. The advantages of the Cyclicity diet are : weight loss, appetite control, control of symptoms such as swelling, irritability, and above all reduction of the inflammatory state of the body. As I said, the diet changes according to the hormonal fluctuations of the woman: it will be different if it is in the early follicular phase (first 4 days), in the follicular-late phase (from the fifth to the eleventh day), in the periovulatory phase (from the twelfth to the fifteenth day) and in the luteal phase (from the sixteenth to the twenty-eighth). For example in the early follicular phase, that is, from the first to the fourth day of the cycle, more carbohydrates are eaten than fats, because the woman is more sensitive to insulin: light breakfast, snacks, lunch with carbohydrates and light dinner. Proteins include red meat, beans, fish such as salmon or tuna. Breakfast is skipped from the fifth day to the eleventh day , having a snack directly before lunch, but making sure not to eat for sixteen consecutive hours and to fill up on antioxidant and anti-inflammatory foods. In the periovulatory phase, with a reduced carbohydrate diet similar to ketogenic. In the last phase, the luteal (which precedes menstruation) increases the number of snacks, indulging in dark chocolate to keep the sense of hunger at bay.
In the book there are diet programs for each phase of the cycle, but also programs for those in menopause or premenopause with advice on how to stay fit or lose weight.
There is also a list of foods recommended for women’s health : from walnuts to dark chocolate to blue fish.