Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

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Newly menstruating girls often have irregular or heavy periods. That can make it tempting for doctors to suggest and for mothers to agree to give them hormonal birth control to mask the problem. But irregular and heavy periods are normal at that age. They occur because girls have not yet established regular ovulation. Hormonal birth control further suppresses ovulation, and that’s why it’s exactly the wrong thing to do. Hormonal birth control won’t promote future ovulation or menstrual regularity, and will probably make it even harder to ovulate in the future. Better Treatment for Menstrual Problems Remember - if you're concerned about something in particular, always chat to your GP or chosen medical professional. It is true there are non-contraceptive benefits and we should support all women’s decisions to choose their own health path. That said, it is equally true that it remains critical to diagnose and definitively treat the underlying source of pain/symptoms which prompted non-contraceptive use in the first place. Simply masking a condition is not a treatment; it is a stop-gap measure. It is also true that many providers are only all too happy to medically suppress patients without offering further investigation, leading to continued delay in diagnosis/effective treatment. In particular, endometriosis is fraught with such pitfalls of underdiagnosis/undertreatment. I look forward to Cycling’s focus on the disease this coming March during awareness month and being part of the dialogue.

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I wonder what are the effects if these pills are taken in late adolescent stage. Like 18 or 19 years old. I had my period and I bleed heavily each month. My period is regular but extremely heavy. It became very difficult to handle, and I went through 10-12 pads a day, for at least 8 days. When I started university it became absolute hell. So, my question is, how about a girl who has had her period for about 4 years before taking the pills regularly? Am I also messing up my hormonal cycle? Lara Briden (née Grinevitch, born 1969) is a naturopathic doctor, women’s health speaker, and author of the books Period Repair Manual [1] and Hormone Repair Manual, [2] published by Pan Macmillan. [3] She has consulting rooms in Christchurch, New Zealand, and travels widely to speak on women’s health. I truly believe as a society we have been gaslit into thinking that hormonal birth control is a feminist concept, but what would ACTUALLY be feminist is learning about the female body and teaching folks with a female reproductive system how to properly take care of it, and maybe, just maybe, doing some research into male birth control (as I understand the technology very much exists but funding for clinical trials and approval does not). I appreciate the author’s sentiment that she’s not 100% against using hormonal birth control, but it should be prescribed only if the person using it is fully aware of what it actually does to their body (it doesn’t “regulate your hormones” - it shuts them off) and/or other less invasive options have been carefully considered and ruled out if the birth control is being used for a medical condition. Which is typically never the case. This book will not mention when a study is done in mice or in vitro. Even if this book is for the layperson, it is still important information. To give one example, the book states, “endometriosis has been linked to dioxin exposure in the womb.” Yet the reference is an article about mice (which do not menstruate).I think it is amazing that are body learns to coordinate the complicated system in which the brain (hypothalamus) gets messages from the rest of the body, talks to the pituitary that sends two signals (both luteinizing hormone [LH] and follicle stimulating hormone [FSH] to the ovary and eventually produces the cyclic normal levels of estrogen and release of an egg (ovulation)and then progesterone levels. It is no wonder that it takes a year or two to get regular cycles sorted. And also not surprising that it may take 10 years before ovulation is secure and mostly predictable. The book states the EWG is a good source for further reading on environmental toxins. However, the EWG is a terrible source of information. They have financial ties to the cosmetics and foods they rate well ( www.ewg.org/about-us/funding). When analyzing pesticide data from the USDA, the EWG uses unscientific methodology (PMID: 21776262). When testing pesticide levels themselves, they create their own random benchmarks ( www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2018/08...). I had hoped that this book would be “here are some alternatives you could try instead or in conjunction with hormonal BC” but it was really more “your bc is bad, stop it.”

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In this book we are also shown that the monthly cycle is a report card of our health, and how to understand what the problems in our cycle can tell us about our overall health, and what to do with that information. The road to progesterone is long. It takes one hundred days for ovarian follicles (eggs) to journey all the way to maturity and cross the finish line to ovulation. In other words, it takes one hundred days of being healthy and fully nourished to finally achieve ovulation and progesterone. Hi Hannah, Short term use of the Pill can give relief from symptoms, so of course the decision will be between you and your gynecologist. I expect she will do some testing to try to determine why you were having short 2 week cycles. A short cycle is an anovulatory cycle, which means you had not been ovulating. Your doctor can do further investigation, including blood tests, to figure out WHY you hadn’t been ovulating (for example: insulin resistance, thyroid, or gluten problem). How to avoid binge-eating chocolate cake during your periods". nine.com.au. Channel Nine Australia. 2018-06-12 . Retrieved 2019-04-18.

Is Your IUD Disrupting Your Vaginal Microbiome?". mindbodygreen.com. Mind Body Green. 2018-07-28 . Retrieved 2019-04-18. That is so important that I want nothing to interfere with that “growing up” of our reproductive system in teenagers. And of course I have to disclaim that maybe not everything in this book should be taken at face value, as it is really just based on one ND’s experience and her interpretation of the scientific evidence where it it exists (which is often scarce for any kind of women’s health issues, see Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez for an infuriating primer). But like… it makes so much sense. It make more sense than anything I have ever heard or read before. I am unwilling to believe it is some sort of conspiracy by the anti-sugar lobby or something. As well the majority of treatments discussed are very non-invasive and can’t hurt to try. I can’t imagine one getting LESS healthy from cutting sugar and alcohol from their diet, for example. (As mentioned above though, there’s an element of having the resources to do so involved, which is outside the scope of this book and a symptom of larger societal issues.) Magnesium calms the nervous system and regulates the HPA axis. Your stress control system (HPA) axis is your central hormonal system, so when it functions well, it supports your other hormones. A luteal phase is the approximately 10-14 days between ovulation and the period. It’s named after the corpus luteum, which is the temporary ovarian gland that forms after an egg is released. Having a healthy corpus luteum is the only way to make progesterone.