Vida: Fasting for Women

Most fasting research was run on men. So most fasting apps hand you a plan built for a body that isn’t yours, then let you blame your willpower when it stops working.

Vida is different. It shapes every fast around your cycle, your hormones, and the season of life you’re in, so your effort lands on the days your body can actually use it.

BUILT FOR A WOMAN’S BODY
The same fast can feel easy in the first half of your cycle and rough in the second. That’s estrogen and progesterone shifting, not your willpower giving out. Vida reads that rhythm and eases off on the days your body will thank you for.

ONE APP FOR EVERY SEASON
Whether you’re still cycling, in perimenopause, or past it, Vida meets your body where it is and moves as it changes.
- Cycling: your fasts mapped to your strong days and your gentler ones.
- Perimenopause: gentle when your hormones swing, steady when they settle. Almost no app accounts for this.
- After menopause: the steadier, shorter windows that tend to serve your body now.

A KINDER KIND OF DISCIPLINE
Rest is part of the plan, never a failure. Some days Vida will suggest you rest, and that’s the plan working, not you falling behind. There are no streaks to lose, no punishment for stopping early, and no numbers about your body anywhere in the app. Hunger is information, not an emergency.

HONEST BY DESIGN
Vida’s guides are written in plain language and backed by cited research you can open and read yourself. Where the science is thin, Vida says so. You won’t find the confident myths other apps repeat.

WHAT YOU GET
- A daily fast tuned to your phase and your stage, with an honest reason.
- A gentle timer that shows what’s happening in your body, labelled by how strong the evidence really is.
- Cycle and period tracking, with predictions that stay honest when your rhythm is changing.
- Patterns drawn only from your own check-ins, like when hunger is hormonal rather than willpower.
- Weekly, monthly, and yearly reflections that get richer the lo…