Lara Briden - The Period Revolutionary
Leading the change to better periods
Hormonal birth control has several side effects including an increased risk of anxiety and depression. Alternatives to birth control include condoms, fertility awareness method, and natural treatment for women’s health problems such as endometriosis and PCOS.
Menstrual or hormonal migraines are caused by the drop from high to low estrogen and by the mast cell activation that occurs during the premenstrual phase.
Natural treatment for hormonal migraines includes reducing histamine and maybe avoiding gluten and also taking magnesium and natural progesterone.
Read moreNatural Treatment of Menstrual or Hormonal Migraines
A menstrual cycle is, by definition, an ovulatory cycle in which ovulation is the main event and progesterone is made.
Any other kind of bleed is either the breakthrough bleed of an anovulatory cycle or a pill-bleed, which are not real menstrual cycles.
An ovulatory cycle has two phases.
If you suffer hair loss, facial hair (hirsutism), or acne, then you know all about androgen excess or high male hormones.
You may have been given the diagnosis of PCOS but there are actually several different reasons for androgen excess in women including androgen hypersensitivity, adrenal androgen excess, and hormonal birth control with a high androgen index.
The next time your doctor orders a progesterone test, ask yourself: “When is the right day to do this test?”
Forget “day 21 progesterone.” There’s no reason to test progesterone until you are approximately one week before your period. That will change depending on how long your cycle actually is.
Here’s what need to know about progesterone testing.