Hormone Repair Manual: Every Woman's Guide to Healthy Hormones After 40

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I have no judgements towards individuals who seek alternative treatments after the traditional medical system has failed them.

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I don’t like the snarky tone of this book or the I-know-better attitude of the author. Naturopathic medicine has so much to offer and I would hate for someone who could benefit from it to be put off by the attitude of it. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar! While the book has valid concerns about hormonal birth control, I’m not convinced that it has been as detrimental to women and women’s health as portrayed in the book. I could see this argument be used as a method of controlling women and reinforcing patriarchy and paternalism. Women should be informed about the risks and benefits of all types of birth control and then be supported to make the choice that is right for them without bias or judgement. Absolutely we should be advocating for better, healthier birth control options that have less side effects - but we still need to recognize that many birth control pills work well for many women.Estrogen, etc and there’s significant clinical and observational research that says soy could help hormonal issues assuming the woman doesn’t have thyroid problems 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Even if you aren't currently experiencing period problems, I would still recommend this book to all women. Whether you're a teenager who just started menstruating, you're approaching menopause, or you're somewhere in between. Chances are, you'll experience period problems at some point in your life. I would have loved to have this book available to me when I started experiencing period problems myself at the age of 15. It's never too early or too late to take a good hard look at your period health and try to understand what your body is telling you. Essential reading for all women over 40, and their doctors!' Dr Natasha Andreadis, fertility specialist and host of the Fanny Mechanic podcast The UL for vitamin B6 is 100 mg, but the book recommends supplementing up to 150 mg ( https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vit...). The book states the EWG is a good source for further reading on environmental toxins. However, the EWG is a terrible source of information. They have financial ties to the cosmetics and foods they rate well ( www.ewg.org/about-us/funding). When analyzing pesticide data from the USDA, the EWG uses unscientific methodology (PMID: 21776262). When testing pesticide levels themselves, they create their own random benchmarks ( www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2018/08...). 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.As for the information on how to enhance natural cycles, I feel like some changes could be made in terms of the book’s organization. As other reviewers have noted, the book encourages the reader to read the whole book, but then also is repetitive in repeating information and will redirect the reader to other chapters. Much of the information in this book is general how to be healthy information. I would have preferred an overview that gives this advice once at the beginning instead of repeating it for each section. Of course diet/exercise/reducing stress will be beneficial to all period problems. In this book we are also shown that the monthly cycle is a report card of our health, and how to understand what the problems in our cycle can tell us about our overall health, and what to do with that information.

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I do highly appreciate the information and overview of the different types of available birth control options. They were informative and piqued my interest to do some more researching. What does natural treatment entail? Sleep, Diet, Exercise, and Supplements. A side note about sleep...The way Briden talks about periods while on the pill (what she calls "pill bleeds") not being real periods, reminded me of the way Matthew Walker talks about sleeping pill induced sedation not being real sleep in his book Why We Sleep, which I highly recommend. Period Repair Manual and Why We Sleep were both eye-opening for me. I was happy when Briden mentions the importance of sleep in this book: Sabiendo algo de la autora, no me extrañó ver cómo demonizaba los fármacos, entre ellos la píldora anticonceptiva. Pero siendo totalmente justa, es cierto que es un libro que explica absolutamente todo con un millar de referencias a bases de datos científicas. Por fin, un libro donde se examina el ciclo menstrual al completo: fases, hormonas, ovulación... Y también todos los problemas que pueden surgir como períodos abundantes, dolorosos, endometriosis, etc. This book states that omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids found in vegetable oils promote inflammatory prostaglandins. This claim is not cited. In fact, omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids have not been shown to cause inflammation in humans (PMID:22889633) or even to increase arachidonic acid (PMID: 21663641). What’s more, a science advisory noted that in human studies, higher levels of omega-6 PUFAs were associated with decreased levels of proinflammatory markers and increased levels of antiinflammatory markers (PMID: 19171857). 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.There are too many false and uncited claims mixed in with some good information. Here are some troublesome statements I came across: 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.