Irregular periods

This might be a shock to women born in the 80s, but a low fat-diet is absolutely terrible for female fertility, bcs our hormones are literally made from cholesterol so we need sufficient amounts of healthy fats. I am talking butter, ghee, bone marrow, raw milk, olive oil, nut butters... you name it. Integrating these fats into my diet was a gamechanger for my hormonal health and it actually made me slimmer, contrary to popular beliefs. Of course, introducing healthy foods and avoiding inflammatory items such as seed oils, sugar, wheat flour and ultra-processed ingredients is only one side of the coin. Excercising is another aspect, but we all know that, so I wamt to talk about something else:

Everytime you eat something, your pancreas secerets insulin, so people that constantly snack on something have raised levels of insulin, ehich can lead to an insulin resistance and further down the line diabetes type 2. Furthermore, when you have an overload of Insulin in your body, it can dock anywhere in your body and cause inflammation, including on your hormone receptors in the uterus. When Insulin docks on these receptors in your uterus, testosteron can't be converted to estrogen, and so the follicles cannot release (bcs of the lack of estrogen) and then you are not ovulating or rather you are not producing progesteron. Progesteron is basically our beauty hormone that makes women tranquil, happy, and radiant.

Btw, you won't know whether or not you properly ovulated simply by getting a period. You can bleed despite not producing progesteron. However, there are natural ways to investigate this: tracking your basal temperature and writing it down daily, can show you whether you produced progesteron bcs this horomone needs a certain temperature. But for more accuracy you should check your cervical fluid and cervix position, which is a bit trickier.

Anyways, to prevent this hormonal imbalance, you have to minimise your insulin spikes, so keeping a 2-4h window between meals.

Now, it's not only insulin that can dock to your hormone receptors and run havoc in your body. Xenoestrogens can do so too. They enter your body through synthetic fragrances, plastic, pesticides, tap water, pharmaceuticals and so on. So you want to

eliminate those as much as you can; from your clothes, tupperware, cosmetic products, parfume, detergent, cleaning products etc.

And please, please, please use only 100% cotton pads. No tampons, no menstrual cups!! Everything that touches you there, directly enters your bloodstream and lymphatic system.

Here are some other things you can do, if you have irregular periods:

• never sit on a cold floor and try to always wear wool socks in the house. Bcs there are merdians that run from your feet directly to your womb. Hence in TCM they say that cold feet equate to a cold womb, which causes the blood to become stagnant and thus clot.

• to treat a cold womb, you can do this: make a paste of fenugreekpowder and water. Apply it to the center of your feet and bind a cotton scrap around your foot, cotton socks over it and then sleep with it. This will warm your uterus and help to break up old clots. You basically want to improve your circulation and overall bloodflow to that area.

• castor oil pack and red light therapy on your womb

• acupuncture from a TCM practitioner

• hijamah specifically for treating infertility

• stretching and fertility "yoga"

• v-steaming

Drinking these teas can also help to improve period issues in general:

- rasperry leaf

- hibiscus

- rose

- dandelion

- nettle

- ginger

- jujubee

Then there are these three teas,

- monch's pepper

- lady's mantles

- yarrow

which should be used in a targeted manner for very specific issues, so I will leave it at that.

If you have irregular periods and issues like PCOS, PMS or other fertility issues, then lifestyle changes and herbal support are the things to focus on, not getting a steriod pill prescribed that disables your body from producing progesterone and thus robs you of your special tranquility hormone.