[AbiDrew85]

Stephanie Nicole- I don't because during this time your hormones are reducing and balancing out and I don't like messing with my body during this time. Some women do, and they're fine, but my body is super sensitive and it's more uncomfortable for me, especially maca root blah, bad cramps! Lol but I don't take much to begin with, I take royal jelly every day though. This has given me amazing fast results. And same for other women too.

I don't stop things completely during my first week of a cycle, but I do take VERY reduced amounts of anything designed to increase anything... of course I don't even use maca.

If you take a look at a cyclic hormone chart for a female cycle, it makes a lot of sense, because as Kelsi said, this is the point where your hormones really ought to be at their lowest and just rebalancing back before you start to have your estrogen ramp up to its first peak the following weekend, on ovulation day. Not necessarily literally, it is for me, because genetically I'm male and that's the way I set it up, but it's actually just the end of your second week of your cycle, depending on where in the week your cycle starts, and the length of your cycles, that could be at any time during the week. My day 14 is a Sunday.

And yeah. This totally feels right to me, much more so than taking the same thing all month had been like. Kelsi uses different things and doesn't change doses quite as frequently as I do, but it's the same concepts being applied.