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

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Thanks for bringing this up. I test my patients for serum copper and zinc levels, and I have not yet seen elevated copper with a copper IUD. I have seen elevated copper in many other women, particularly women on the Pill and women with estrogen excess. That’s because estrogen causes the body to retain copper. That’s probably one of the reasons the Pill causes zinc deficiency. 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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Thanks, Dr. Briden, for your clear statement that teens need real periods and not artificial Pill cycles. I totally agree with you.

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Grinevitch, L.; Holroyd, S. L.; Barclay, R. M. R. (1995). "Sex differences in the use of daily torpor and foraging time by big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) during the reproductive season". Journal of Zoology. 235 (2): 301–309. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1995.tb05146.x. ISSN 1469-7998. One of the core concepts of this book is that menstruation is a legitimate VITAL SIGN. It provides clues about your general health and whether your body and hormones are functioning properly. Yet, doctors generally opt to shut off this vital sign (with The Pill) when it starts telling us that something is wrong instead of trying to find out the cause and correct it. HOLY SHIT Y’ALL!!!! HOW IS THIS A THING!!!!???? Please let this sink in for a minute. We are essentially lobotomizing our reproductive systems, usually temporarily but someti Need more progesterone? You can supplement natural progesterone as a cream or a capsule. Or you can make progesterone yourself. How to make more progesterone One of the core concepts of this book is that menstruation is a legitimate VITAL SIGN. It provides clues about your general health and whether your body and hormones are functioning properly. Yet, doctors generally opt to shut off this vital sign (with The Pill) when it starts telling us that something is wrong instead of trying to find out the cause and correct it. HOLY SHIT Y’ALL!!!! HOW IS THIS A THING!!!!???? Please let this sink in for a minute. We are essentially lobotomizing our reproductive systems, usually temporarily but sometimes permanently, because the medical establishment is unwilling to do any research into this topic because hormones are “too complicated.” How is this “do no harm”? Women commit suicide over severe PMS and it is well-known that hormonal birth control is linked to depression. I can’t say I’ve met anyone who has truly been happy with their experience on hormonal birth control – it is treated as a necessary evil, but apparently it doesn’t have to be that way. The best way to assess magnesium deficiency is to try a magnesium supplement and see how you feel. The best type of magnesium supplement

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Full Book Name: Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods, 2nd edition 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? Heavy periods: Teens will usually outgrow heavy periods after a couple of years. In the meantime, they can use natural treatments such as a dairy-free diet and the herbal medicine turmeric. Short term use of ibuprofen can also be helpful. I discuss these strategies in this article on Natural Treatment of Very Heavy Periods. There’s no progesterone before ovulation, so you need to test about a week before your period actually comes. Read The right way to test progesterone.

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The onset of menstruation (menarche) is an important time for girls. It heralds their future fertility, of course, but it’s much more than that. Menarche is also when girls start to make female hormones for the first time.

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Generally, I find teen period pain one of the easiest things to treat. It responds well to magnesium and zinc supplements. In fact, there is a brand new clinic trial using zinc to treat period pain. You can read the study here → https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26132140. A dairy-free diet can also be helpful, which it sounds like she’s partly doing, but it might be worth trying a few months of no dairy, not even lactose-free products. I was given the pill as a young teen. I had horrible side effects from 3 separate kinds I was prescribed to find the right fit. I bleed heavy everyday with each, vomited, felt surges of anger. When I stopped taking them I only had my period once a year for the next 11 years, until I had my child. It is true that the pill often has extreme side effects about which no one warns you and that it's prescribed too easily as a way to ignore people when they justifiably complain about having irregular periods, menstrual cramps, bad PMS, or acne. That's all good and well and we should definitely have a open discussion about what the pill is and what it does and what possible consequences it might have to our health, both physical and mental. Editorial board CAND Journal, [29] the official journal of the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors.

There are too many false and uncited claims mixed in with some good information. Here are some troublesome statements I came across:

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Magnesium fuels healthy mitochondria, which are important for hormonal health because steroid hormones are made in the mitochondria. Acne: Teen acne responds extremely well to a dairy-free, sugar-free diet and to the nutritional supplement zinc. Natural acne treatments work more slowly than the Pill, but they’re a better choice in the long term because they’re a permanent cure. In contrast, the Pill’s synthetic estrogen will only mask acne for the duration that it’s used. As soon as the Pill is stopped, acne will typically return even worse than it was before. Better Birth Control Sleep is another priority strategy for period health. Getting seven or eight hours of quality sleep each night will do more for you than almost any supplement or herb we discuss in this book. Why is sleep so important for hormones? For one thing, it stabilizes your HPA axis and cortisol. It also improves insulin sensitivity and regulates the release of luteinizing hormone (LH), estrogen, and progesterone. Sleep is more important than exercise. Hopefully, you have time in your day for both. If you have to choose between sleep and exercise, choose sleep! Aim for at least seven hours each and every night. If you have trouble sleeping, then please take a minute to consider the underlying reason. Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research, Scientific Advisory Council". 5 July 2007 . Retrieved 2020-01-18.

I am not strongly pro-IUD, and I’m alert to any new evidence against it. My first choice is Fertility Awareness Method, but I do think copper IUD is a far better option than hormonal birth control. We are living in a time where we are over engineering the feminine, taking nature out of the equation….from scheduled periods, conception, and birth while overlooking the long term effects of this dislocation as we’re caught up in the promise of an immediate fix by modern medicine driven by the desires of our culture. (we all play a part, not just big pharma. they simply respond to our collective fears & pain) Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods, 2nd edition by Lara Briden – eBook Details Topics include how to come off hormonal birth control; what your period should be like; what can go wrong; how to talk to your doctor; treatment protocols for all common period problems, including PCOS and endometriosis.