Paleo and Amenorrhea: How Extremity Can Make even the Best Diet Fail
The volume of emails I receive from women who start having menstrual problems on a paleo diet is staggering. It is not an enormous volume, no. But it is enough to give a woman pause. What gives?...
View ArticleCarbohydrates for Fertility and Health
I spend a disproportionate amount of my time telling women to eat carbohydrates. In the paleosphere, it is incredibly common to eat a low carbohydrate diet. Plenty of people use low carbohydrate diets...
View ArticlePCOS and Hypothalamic Amenorrhea: what’s wrong with the contemporary...
PCOS and hypothalamic amenorrhea are two specific, different diagnoses. Most medical professionals would never dream of diagnosing a patient with both. Nevertheless, my research, personal experience,...
View ArticleHormonal Acne: Where It’s Coming From, and What to Do about It
Most people who work in natural health believe that acne is caused by irritants to the gut lining and inflammation. They think that food toxins rub the gut lining and create a permeable gut, which in...
View ArticlePsychological stress and female hormones: a recipe for fertility disaster
While the title of this post may sound hyperbolic, it nonetheless is grounded in truth. There are a wide variety of dietary and lifestyle factors that affect reproduction. Stress may be one of the...
View ArticleLow on Progesterone? Why Stress Reduction Might Be the Only Way to Hack It
One of the biggest hormone problems that plagues women is having low progesterone levels. In some cases, this is somewhat natural: it happens during menopause, perimenopause and in periods of hormonal...
View ArticleOvercoming hypothalamic amenorrhea
Far back in the very beginning weeks of this blog, I wrote a long series of articles on the sources of infertility. In terms of the kinds of infertility caused by diet and lifestyle, there are two...
View ArticleI Failed, Gained 15 Pounds and Saved my Life (Or Something)
The one thing that we talk about most in this community is how to be in hormone balance. How to be fertile. How to enjoy being a woman instead of constantly fighting the basic facts of natural...
View ArticleDo Mannequins Menstruate? Science says…
Mannequins do not menstruate, and this is not just because they are made out of plastic. Here are some images of mannequins in clothes and fully nude. I think this difference is important to pay...
View ArticleHypothalamic Amenorrhea Symptoms and Causes
There are many different problems that can cause women to stop menstruating. In rare cases amenorrhea comes from genetic defects and physical abnormalities. These cases usually require medical...
View ArticleHow to Eat for Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
One of the most common questions I get in emails, on social media and here on the blog is how to overcome hypothalamic amenorrhea. Most specifically, women want to know: how do you eat for hypothalamic...
View ArticleWhat No One Told You About Your Period
I was talking to a friend the other day about carb cycling for women, specifically regarding the luteal phase and the best workouts to do while in the luteal phase versus the remainder of the month....
View ArticlePCOS and Hypothalamic Amenorrhea: what’s wrong with the contemporary...
PCOS and hypothalamic amenorrhea are two specific, different diagnoses. Most medical professionals would never dream of diagnosing a patient with both. Nevertheless, my research, personal experience,...
View ArticlePsychological stress and female hormones: a recipe for fertility disaster
While the title of this post may sound hyperbolic, it nonetheless is grounded in truth. There are a wide variety of dietary and lifestyle factors that affect reproduction. Stress may be one of the...
View ArticleLow on Progesterone? Why Stress Reduction Might Be the Only Way to Hack It
One of the biggest hormone problems that plagues women is having low progesterone levels. In some cases, this is somewhat natural: it happens during menopause, perimenopause and in periods of hormonal...
View ArticleOvercoming hypothalamic amenorrhea
Far back in the very beginning weeks of this blog, I wrote a long series of articles on the sources of infertility. In terms of the kinds of infertility caused by diet and lifestyle, there are two...
View ArticleI Failed, Gained 15 Pounds and Saved my Life (Or Something)
The one thing that we talk about most in this community is how to be in hormone balance. How to be fertile. How to enjoy being a woman instead of constantly fighting the basic facts of natural...
View ArticleDo Mannequins Menstruate? Science says…
Mannequins do not menstruate, and this is not just because they are made out of plastic. Here are some images of mannequins in clothes and fully nude. I think this difference is important to pay...
View ArticleHypothalamic Amenorrhea Symptoms and Causes
There are many different problems that can cause women to stop menstruating. In rare cases amenorrhea comes from genetic defects and physical abnormalities. These cases usually require medical...
View ArticleHow to Eat for Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
One of the most common questions I get in emails, on social media and here on the blog is how to overcome hypothalamic amenorrhea. Most specifically, women want to know: how do you eat for hypothalamic...
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