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.
Several factors contribute to menstrual or hormonal migraines including estrogen-induced high histamine and the change to neurotransmitters when both estrogen and progesterone drop at the end of the cycle.
The best natural treatments for hormonal migraines include natural progesterone and magnesium. Hormonal birth control is usually not a good idea.
Natural methods of birth control include fertility awareness-based methods, diaphragm, condoms, and the copper IUD or Paragard.
The copper IUD or coil (ParaGard) is a non-hormonal method of birth control. Its main advantage over hormonal methods is that it contains no contraceptive drugs and therefore permits natural, ovulatory cycles.
The hormonal IUD is different from all types of hormonal birth control in that it does not suppress ovulation and therefore can permit natural cycling.
Other benefits of the hormonal IUD are that it dramatically decreases menstrual flow and can relieve symptoms of endometriosis.