Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Menopause, and Science for Women 35+ BONUS: Women & Intermittent Fasting: Enhancing Metabolic Health with Megan Ramos
Feb 2, 2026
Megan Ramos, Canadian clinical educator and therapeutic fasting expert who co-founded The Fasting Method, shares her work on fasting, PCOS, and metabolic health. She talks about thin-phenotype PCOS and missed diagnoses. She explains fasting versus calorie restriction, macronutrients and insulin, and how stress, sleep, and fasting intersect. Practical tips for safe fasting and special concerns like gout and the dawn phenomenon are discussed.
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Thin Doesn’t Mean Healthy
- Megan Ramos described being underweight as a child yet having poor body composition, fatigue, fractures, and early fatty liver disease.
- She used those experiences to explain how thin people can still have serious metabolic issues that get overlooked.
Body Composition > Scale Weight
- Body composition (lean mass, bone strength, body fat) matters more than scale weight for long-term health.
- Clinicians should assess bone density and lean mass, not only BMI, to identify metabolic risk.
From Nephrology To Metabolic Prevention
- Megan recounted leaving nephrology work because it felt like only managing decline and not reversing disease.
- That motivated her to join Jason Fung and focus on reversing metabolic disease through fasting.
