Secondary Dysmenorrhea Has Multiple Causes
Let's recap: Dysmenorrhea is defined as pain associated with menstruation due to severe cramps. To read an overview about primary and secondary dysmenorrhea, check out our article on period pain here. ...
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How To Ditch The Diets And Eat Based On Your Cycle
When it comes to weight loss, most programs were designed, developed, and tested on men. How do they then come up with parameters for women? They base them off of...
3 Natural Tips For Addressing Amenorrhea
Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation for one or more months for any number of reasons, including pregnancy, menopause, hormonal birth control or the ever-elusive troublemaker, stress. The road to...
How To Harness The Energy Of Your 4 Menstrual Cycle Seasons
The menstrual cycle can be broken down into distinct seasons, each with its own unique energy that you can use to your advantage. Winter AKA Your Period The winter season...
7 Ways to Naturally Address Dysmenorrhea
We asked leading practitioners from around the world for their best tips on how to alleviate the pain associated with dysmenorrhea and guess what? We put them all in one...
Here's How You Can Reduce Inflammation to Curb Hormonal Acne
Hormonal acne typically flares up during menstruation. Often manifesting on the jawline, this kind of acne can be extremely painful and all-around frustrating to deal with. So, how can we...
5 Realistic Ways to Help Your Gut
Nausea, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea are common period problems that overlap with common digestive issues. At times, this overlap can be unbelievably frustrating as the only options seem to be anti-inflammatory...
How To Tell The Difference Between Emotional and Psychological Hunger
People use food for a variety of reasons. Food can be used to combat stress, to celebrate a milestone, to qualm emotions and even boredom. Unfortunately, this is one of...
Main Sources Of Hormone-Disrupting Toxins In Your Everyday Life
Switching to less toxic products is getting more and more popular but non-toxic living shouldn’t be all or nothing. Toxic load— how many toxins are in your body at any...
The Clean 15 And Dirty 13 Of Produce
When "hormone-disrupting chemicals" come to mind, food is one of the more obvious culprits. Luckily, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has made our lives a little bit easier by putting together a...
Filtering Your Water To Minimize Your Exposure To Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals
In the United States, water utilities are legally required to produce a water quality report by July 1st of each year. These reports aren’t perfect. There are quite a few...
Cleaning Products To Minimize Your Exposure To Hormone Disrupting Chemicals
One of the cool things about cleaning products is that the majority of them have similar ingredients. This means that if you get a few products that you purchase to...
Menstrual Products To Minimize Your Exposure To Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals
Menstrual products like tampons and pads can contain harmful chemicals like dioxin, which is a known, and banned, hormone disruptor. The issue is, dioxin residue is still found in these...
3 Reasons Why Ovulation Is The Most Important Part of Your Menstrual Cycle
Don’t get me wrong, periods are amazing. As a women’s health coach specializing in hormonal health, I’m a huge fan. But sometimes, we get so caught up with our monthly...
Hormonal Birth Control's Relationship With Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals
Hormonal birth control contains synthetic hormones that are designed to disrupt our normal hormone function to avoid pregnancy. Even though they are known hormone disruptors, they typically are not mentioned...