HAPPILY HORMONAL | hormone balance for moms, PMS, painful periods, natural birth control, low energy, pro-metabolic - E140: TBT - The WHY Behind Irregular, Short, or Long Menstrual Cycles and How to Know if Yours is Normal

E140: TBT - The WHY Behind Irregular, Short, or Long Menstrual Cycles and How to Know if Yours is Normal

05/30/24 • 21 min

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HAPPILY HORMONAL | hormone balance for moms, PMS, painful periods, natural birth control, low energy, pro-metabolic

Welcome back to the Happily Hormonal Podcast. In this throwback Thursday episode, Dr. Heather Rhodes is my co-host, and we’re talking about irregular cycles.
We’ll start on how you can track your menstrual cycle, then discuss what a regular cycle should look like, and finally go deeper into irregular cycles - why they happen and how you can balance your hormones for a better cycle.
In this episode:

[00:10] How to track your menstrual cycle by looking at your temperature
[03:14] How to track your menstrual cycle by looking at your cervical fluid
[07:18] What a regular cycle looks like
[12:10] Short cycles: why you might be experiencing this
[16:29] How to know if your cycle is shorter than normal
[18:21] Ovulation symptoms and ovulation pain
[19:42] Long cycles: why they happen and what you can do about it
[22:30] Something to consider if you’re over 40

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This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.
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[00:10] How to track your menstrual cycle by looking at your temperature
[03:14] How to track your menstrual cycle by looking at your cervical fluid
[07:18] What a regular cycle looks like
[12:10] Short cycles: why you might be experiencing this
[16:29] How to know if your cycle is shorter than normal
[18:21] Ovulation symptoms and ovulation pain
[19:42] Long cycles: why they happen and what you can do about it
[22:30] Something to consider if you’re over 40

Other Episodes You Might Like

Episode 2: How I Started to LOVE My Period & Made My Cycle My Superpower
Episode 7: Struggling with bad periods and PMS? Simple steps to boost progesterone naturally
Episode 66: How I Support My Hormones in Follicular Week

Send us a text with episode feedback or ideas! (We can't respond to texts unless you include contact info but always read them)

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Today we're talking all things ADHD - What is ADHD, how is it different in boys and girls, and why more women in their 20s and 30s are being diagnosed with ADHD then EVER before.
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In this episode:

[00:58] Intro to Leisha's co-host Heather Rhodes and her background
[03:07] Holistic view of depression, looking at the gut
[07:50] How your "gut brain" affect your neurotransmitters
[11:70] How depression medicine actually works
[15:33] My experience & observations in psych facilities
[17:55] Genetics & Depression
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