Are You Menstrual?

Fertility Awareness Method with Nina Boyce

Are You Menstrual? – In this episode, we are focusing on my favorite method of birth control: The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) with a certified fertility awareness coach, Nina Boyce. Nina is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Reiki Practitioner based in Columbus, OH. Her coaching programs focus on FAM for optimized conception, and/or non-hormonal birth control, and she passionately believes that all women deserve to understand how their body functions. Nina takes a holistic approac...

The Impact & Side Effects of Hormonal Birth Control

Are You Menstrual? – So far on the podcast, we have discussed a wide variety of topics spanning women’s health and hormones, from mineral balance and metabolic health to PCOS and menopause. One area that we have yet to cover is birth control—which we realize is hugely important to most women in their childbearing years. A whopping 80% of women will take the pill at some point in their lifetime, and for that reason, we didn’t want to go any longer without speaking on it. In this episode, we’ll be...

Light & Your Circadian Rhythm

Are You Menstrual? In this episode, we are covering another foundational topic for hormone health: light exposure and circadian rhythm. We can’t talk about one without mentioning the other, and many women don’t realize that both things have a significant impact on hormone health. Our bodies take in everything in our environment as information, and light is a big part of that. The focus is often on reducing blue light exposure, but increasing sunlight is just as important, if not even more critic...

Menopause with Wise and Well

Are You Menstrual? – We have a very special episode focusing on midlife women and peri/post menopause with Maria and Kristin from Wise and Well. Maria, an FDN practitioner, and Kristin, a Board-certified nutritionist, are plain spoken friends and practitioners who share a passion for women's health, especially women's health at midlife. As both are themselves menopausal, they've refined the art and science of thriving as a midlife woman based on both clinical and personal experience. They combin...

Liver: Hormone Superhero

Are You Menstrual ? – This episode is a tribute to one of our most hard-working organs: the LIVER. The liver is best known for detoxification, but most people forget that your liver has to be healthy and functioning optimally to detox. We will talk about exactly what that means and how popular detox programs and supplements are missing the mark. ~ Links/Resources: Vitamin A Blog : https://www.hormonehealingrd.com/blog/vitamin-A Castor Oil Pack Blog: https://www.hormonehealingrd.com/blog/castor-o...

PCOS Part 2

Are You Menstrual? This is part 2 of our PCOS series. In our previous episode we broke down exactly what PCOS is and how it is diagnosed as well as the different root causes. We recommend listening to that episode first if you haven’t already. In this episode, we are digging into the biggest mistakes we see women with PCOS make when trying to heal and what to do instead. ~ Links/Resources: Free Training: Optimizing Hormone Health with Mineral Balance : https://bit.ly/3iwRDMk Mineral Imbalance Qu...

PCOS Part 1

Are You Menstrual? Today we’re covering a women’s health topic that is near and dear to my heart...and that is PCOS (or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). PCOS is the leading cause of infertility in the U.S., and it’s a problem that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. That’s A LOT of us. But the worst part is that there is still so much confusion surrounding this modern syndrome and what causes it—even down to its name, which IMO is a complete misnomer (but we’ll get into that later). Amanda a...

Period Pain Tool Kit

Are You Menstrual? In this episode, we are diving into a topic that many women can relate to--period pain. Period pain used to be considered purely psychological and a reason for women to get out of their responsibilities. Since it couldn’t be identified by a physical or gynecological exam or tested for, those who suffered were mislabeled and told to deal with it. No one could see it, so it didn’t seem real. Now we know that period pain is very real and can present itself in many ways ranging fr...

Replenishing Minerals

Are You Menstrual? Today we’re diving into the nutrient-dense foods that will help you to replenish the minerals that stress depletes. Whether you’ve had the chance to test your minerals or not, the mineral-rich foods and beverages we’re going to cover in this episode are beneficial for everyone, regardless of mineral status. But remember, if you are interested in learning how to test and interpret your body’s mineral balance, our new online course Master Your Minerals is available now! Sign up ...

Understanding Metabolic Type on an HTMA

Are You Menstrual? We are continuing our minerals series and expanding on one particular part of the Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)--metabolic type. Our metabolic type gives us insight into nervous system balance and the stage of stress our bodies are in. This is helpful information to know on a healing journey to better understand what nutrients you need more of and what stress management activities may be best for you. In this episode, we discuss where metabolic typing came from, the diff...

Minerals 101

Are You Menstrual? When it comes to nutrition for hormone health we absolutely need to focus on eating enough and balancing our meals, but one often overlooked area of nutrition is mineral content. In this episode, we are going to give you a crash course in minerals and explain the benefits of hair testing and how it differs from blood work and hormone testing. Our minerals are like spark plugs--they kick off essential reactions in the body and get things moving. One example of this is an essent...

Top 5 Nutrition Myths

Are You Menstrual? In this episode, we dive a little deeper into the nuances of good nutrition—and more specifically, the most common nutrition myths being perpetuated by the wellness industry. It seems as though there is an increasing number of foods being demonized by health coaches and doctors alike as of late, which makes us wonder what the heck we are supposed to be eating. Well, what we have to say about a few of those “problematic” foods might just surprise and excite you. Five Foods Cove...

Nourishing Nutrition Foundation

Are You Menstrual? In this episode, we expand on metabolism and dive into the specifics of what your metabolism needs to properly function and support every other system in the body. But before we dive in, we have a challenge for you. We’re going to ask you to let go of everything you’ve learned in the past about how to eat—including how much you should eat, what foods you should (or should not ) eat, and when you should eat. Throw out all of your rules on nutrition and listen to this episode (a...

Metabolism 101 & Unlearning Dieting Dogma

Are You Menstrual? The first step we take with the women we work with to improve their hormones and overall health is unlearning. So many of us have been dieting from a young age and constantly hopping from one restrictive diet to the next. Leaving our bodies in a constant state of stress and depleting essential minerals that allow us to thrive. This leads to a slowing down of our metabolism. Most people hear the word metabolism and think of weight loss, but it’s actually so much more than that....

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