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

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Remember - if you're concerned about something in particular, always chat to your GP or chosen medical professional. Magnesium deficiency is common because modern soils are depleted, and your body dumps magnesium during stress. So, if you’re under stress, you probably need magnesium. The book states to aim for about 150 to 200 grams of carbs per day. You can’t give that recommendation when you don’t know anything about the reader besides maybe their sex.

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Bri–sounds like you’re having an awful time. Here’s a place to start to get some help https://www.cemcor.ubc.ca/resources/very-heavy-menstrual-flow. No one wants you to suffer the loss of blood, embarrassment, cost and misery of bleeding all the time. That’s not at all what this post is about. It is asking all of us to consider other choices, not just using the Pill for treatment when it is designed to prevent pregnancy. 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. Lara Briden is a board certified naturopathic doctor who qualified from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1997. She currently runs a busy hormone clinic in Sydney, Australia, and posts regularly at Lara Briden’s Healthy Hormone Blog. Early in 2015, Lara released her book Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods.If her pain does not improve with dairy-free, magnesium, and zinc, then there’s something more going on than just standard period pain. Please see my post “When pain isn’t normal”. https://blog.kindara.com/blog/when-period-pain-isnt-normal Correctunderlying inflammatory issues such as dairy sensitivity, gluten sensitivity, mast cells and histamine issues, leaky gut, thyroid disease, or insulin resistance. Alright so now that my soap box is out of the way, let’s talk about this book. I’ll just jump right to the bad: there’s a lot of hormonal birth control fear-mongering in here. Concerns that simply are not supported by the literature or the vast majority of gynecologists. The main argument is that BC suppresses ovulation, and is therefore bad because it covers up potentially serious conditions.

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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. 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.

Magnesium reduces blood sugar and normalizes insulin. It’s so effective at improving insulin sensitivity that I refer to magnesium as “natural metformin.” Healthy insulin sensitivity means fewer sugar cravings and a good chance of reversing PCOS. 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 The UL for vitamin B6 is 100 mg, but the book recommends supplementing up to 150 mg ( https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vit...).

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Can you please post links to clinical studies (not case reports) regarding the efficacy of your suggested dairy and sugar free diet and supplements on reducing cramps and eliminating endometriosis? The pill is not a treatment for menstrual cramps, it can hide those symptoms but it will not treat the underlying health condition. Even with conditions like PCOS and Endometriosis the use of the pill to manage symptoms is somewhat controversial, especially for teens due to issues above and ethics of influencing choice. Panzer C et al. Impact of oral contraceptives on sex hormone-binding globulin and androgen levels: a retrospective study in women with sexual dysfunction. J Sex Med. 2006 Jan;3(1):104-13. PMID: 16409223For Endometriosis the pill does take the pain away because it stops the production of hormones. However this does not treat the root issue, often times endometriosis is due to high levels of cortisol which is stress hormone combined with a diet that’s usually filled with dairy usually causes this. If not this case, I would have to inquire more information, however in my practice I see cases like this often times. There are a lot of things you can do for your daughter while she is taking birth control for her endometriosis, but I really encourage you an exit strategy from birth control to something more manageable. 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. Beyond the Label: A Patient-Centred Approach to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome”, [25] Vol. 29 No. 2 (2022), CAND Journal.