It is so common that if a person wants to get pregnant, their gynae will tell them to start taking Folic Acid. In recent years, there is more awareness of the fact that Folate Acid is better to consume. Vitamin B9 is an essential nutrient and if it is low [...]
The more I do this work, the more I am convinced that there is something wrong in the medical field when it comes to understanding a woman’s body. Over so many years, decades, in fact, people who menstruate have been complaining of having a certain amount of pain during the [...]
Part of our culture is to drink a glass of wine here and there or here and here. I won’t lie, I feel like having a glass of wine once in a while and when we meet friends it will probably include a drink or two. We know that too [...]
Regulating Cycles with Seeds From the day we get our first period, menarche, we are somewhere in a menstrual cycle unless we suppress it with artificial hormones. These days, we sit more, are exposed to more lights and blue lights from screens, more toxins in our food as well as [...]
It is so common to hear that period pain is normal. Although it is very common, it is not normal. Many women suffer from moderate to severe period pain, the kind of pain that you have to use pain killers for, that might make you throw up, that is so [...]
The role of the liver with estrogen: One of the most important organs in our body is the liver. It plays a role in our hormonal health and if your hormones are a bit wrecked, it is most likely due to the liver not functioning well. Our liver detoxifies our [...]
IUD stands for Intrauterine Device and it is a small device with a T shape made of plastic that is inserted into our uterus as one of the available contraceptives. There are 2 types of IUD: copper which is non-hormonal and Mirena or similar which are hormonal. They have a [...]
The contraceptive called Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate or in short Depo Provera is given as an injection every three months and contains Progestin which is similar to the hormone progesterone which is produced in our ovaries. While Progesterone is a beneficial hormone, Progestin is exactly the opposite. Progesterone has a calming [...]
There are some aspects to using this method for pre-conception. The first and the most obvious is to know how to time your intercourse. You need to have sex on ovulation day, right? What’s the big deal? Well, it is only partly true and it is actually more stressful to [...]
These hormones that are produced naturally by our ovaries have a huge significance to our health and shutting off the ovaries can cause or mask serious issues. These two hormones are in a complementary relationship. When one is high the other one is low during the cycle. They are both [...]
