Luteal Phase (cycle day 15-28)

Temperatures should be consistently above 98.2 to sustain healthy progesterone levels.

Foods that support healthy Luteal Phase Temperatures:

Curry, Chicken, Chai Tea, Black Peppercorn, Ginger, Cinnamon Bark, Garlic, Chives, Scallions, Leak, Quinoa, Onion, Lamb, Trout, Salmon, Walnut, Oysters, Shrimp, Buckwheat.

All food should be cooked during the luteal phase, even fruit. Your body is trying to raise its temperature so that it can produce abundant progesterone. The body has a fixed amount of metabolic resources. In order to break foods down into usable nutrients, those foods must be digested, cooked, within the body. This process requires metabolic heat. If you eat cold or cooling foods, for example raw foods or
fruit, you are diverting some of the body’s precious metabolic resources toward digestion, and away from the metabolic priority of raising the body temperature!

It is very important to stay warm during the luteal phase especially during the winter months. Wear socks, keep your abdomen and low back warm, and don’t go outside with wet hair. Getting cold really steals energy from your basal temperatures.