The All In Podcast

No Period Now What & Beyond Body Image

A straight-shooting, science based podcast about periods, period recovery, fertility, and nurturing health, outside of unrealistic beauty expectations. Every fortnight, Dr Nicola Sykes (formerly Rinaldi), scientist and lead author of the book ‘No Period. Now What?’ and Florence Gillet, Certified Eating Psychology coach and founder of www.beyondbodyimage.com, share real recovery stories, expert insights and new research on hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA) recovery, hormonal health and fertility, with an unmissable touch of body respect and women’s empowerment.

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Episode 36 - Which supplements can help in HA recovery?

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07/23/24 • 21 min

In this episode, Nicola and Florence talk about evidence-based supplements to support your recovery...and those who are not at all helpful.
To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
Get the French version "Je n'ai plus mes regles" book at noperiod.info/livre
To join the NPNW English support group, please visit noperiod.info/support
To join the French support group, please visit noperiod.info/communaute
To make an appointment with Dr Sykes and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media
No Period, Now What? on Instagram in English
No Period, Now What? on Instagram in French
Beyond Body Image on Facebook
Beyond Body Image on Instagram
Email us via [email protected]
If you enjoyed this podcast and found it helpful, please drop us a rating and a review to help more people find it.
Original Music by the Andy Shulman Band "Lost & Found" available on Spotify.

To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
Get the French version "Je n'ai plus mes regles" book at noperiod.info/livre.
Get the German version "Keine periode - was jetzt?" at noperiod.info/buch.
To join our support groups, please visit noperiod.info/support
for English, noperiod.info/communaute for French, and noperiod.info/community for German.
To make an appointment with Dr Sykes and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media:
Instagram:
@noperiodnowwhat in English
@jenaiplusmesregles_livre in French
@keineperiodewasjetzt in German
...

Episode 21 - Catching up with professional runner Mary Cain

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12/14/21 • 76 min

In this episode, Nicola and Florence meet Mary Cain, professional runner and founder of the nonprofit running team, Atalanta NYC. Atalanta NYC employs professional female runners to serve as mentors for young girls while building both their career skills and training full-time. Along with focusing on her training, Mary works at Tracksmith, as the NYC Community Manager, New York Road Runners.
After sharing the story of why she quit running with the Nike team with the world in a 2019 NY Times Op-Ed, Mary has dedicated herself to driving change in the sport, with an emphasis on athlete well-being and gender equity. Atalanta NYC is just one way she's trying to give back to the sport of running.
Mary describes her history of mental and physical abuse as one of Nike's professional runners, what she did to recover from amenorrhea and get regular cycles again, and what she learned along the way about herself and running professionally. On the flip side - what she wishes to change in the running world, through her non profit Atalanta NYC.
Find Mary Cain via @runmarycain @atalantany or www.atalantanyc.org
To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
To join the NPNW Support group, please visit noperiod.info/support
To make an appointment with Dr Rinaldi and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media
No Period, Now What? on Instagram
Beyond Body Image on Facebook
Beyond Body Image on Instagram
Amenorrhee_fr (HA recovery 100% in French) on Instagram
Email us via

Episode 28 - Amenorrhea and heart health

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03/22/22 • 55 min

In this episode, Nicola speaks with Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt to discuss:

How Dr. Shulfelt came to be interested in amenorrhea and heart health. Ways in which it's reasonable to make comparisons between people who are post-menopausal versus amenorrheic. Low estrogen affects the stretchiness of blood vessels, changes in cholesterol, and can be associated with insulin resistance.
Dr. Shufelt's next study is looking at which factor underlying amenorrhea might have the biggest effects on heart health. She tells us about some of the results from the study she and colleagues just completed.
We discuss risk factors for heart disease, traditional and "non-traditional" (i.e. things that mostly affect women). The impact of cholesterol, and how quickly changes in cholesterol and bone health are seen.
Dr. Shufelt tells us about her recently completed study of vascular function in people with amenorrhea versus menopause versus normal menstrual cycles and shares some of the results, including some interesting notes on inflammatory factors.
We chat about hormone replacement versus birth control pills and which is preferable and when, what the effects of the placebo week might be...
Factors that biological females should be aware of with regards to heart attacks, risk factors, and conversations with your doctors around your personal risk.
Dr. Shulfelt is active on twitter, find her @cshufeltmd
For information about the heart study, http://noperiod.info/heartstudy, 310-423-9666
To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
To join the NPNW Support group, please visit noperiod.info/support
To make an appointment with Dr Rinaldi and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media

Episode 10 - Gut health in HA recovery with RD Erin Kenney

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04/06/21 • 60 min

In this episode, Nicola and Florence interview Erin Kenney, a former HA patient who is also a Registered Dietitian, specializing in gut health and sports nutrition.
Erin starts by explaining why she became a RD and what the difference is between RDs and nutritionists (who may have very little training). She explains how her recovery informed her work, and why she doesn't believe that elimination diets should be the first point of call when people complain of digestive issues.
Erin also explained the immediate effect of dieting on one's microbiome's diversity and health. Short term, dieting can cause slow motility: constipation and bloating, as well as acid reflux, low appetite, gut dysbiosis. Within 24 hours, dieting can affect the composition of gut bacteria. Long term (1 to 2 months), dieting can cause atrophy of the GI muscles. When people are under fueling, that muscle needs energy to be repaired. When people don’t have robust, healthy muscles in their GI tract, they can experience constipation, gastroparesis (slow movement in GI tract), food sensitivities.

Find more research, shared by Erin, backing this up:
- Weight gain in anorexia nervosa does not ameliorate the faecal microbiota, branched chain fatty acid profiles and gastrointestinal complaints
- The Intestinal Microbiota in Acute Anorexia Nervosa and During Renourishment: Relationship to Depression, Anxiety, and Eating Disorder Psychopathology
- Gut microbiota and body composition in anorexia nervosa inpatients in comparison to athletes, overweight, obese, and normal weight controls
- Gut Dysbiosis in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa
Erin also helps us understand how to distinguish real food intolerances from sensitivities caused by chronic under fueling, as well as how to test and treat SIBO without restrictive dieting behaviors.

Erin shares simple advice to enhance digestion while being all in, including the fact that relaxation techniques like yoga and meditation or therapy, which have be proven to be even more e

Episode 8 - Sick enough to deserve size-inclusive care with Dr Jennifer Gaudiani

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03/09/21 • 61 min

In this episode, Nicola and Florence have a conversation with Dr Jennifer Gaudiani, known as Dr G, one of the few Internal Medicine Physicians who is also certified as an eating disorder expert, and the founder and Medical Director of the Gaudiani Clinic. The Gaudiani Clinic is a HAES (Health At Every Size)®-informed provider and embraces treating people of all shapes and sizes.
Together, they talked about Dr G's unique approach to support ED patients with good science and social justice, instead of condescension and assumptiveness. Dr G talked about the "cave person brain" survival mechanisms our bodies put in place to save them from starvation, and the epidemic of false health information out there. She also clarified why extreme dieting can lead to low resting heart rates and how to recognize the difference between an athlete's heart and a starved heart.
Dr G also reminded us that our bodies are not the problem, diet culture and thin privilege are. None of us should feel the need to change our bodies to fit a system rooted in privilege. And that, as such, we need to work to disrupt the system that identifies that only some bodies have privilege. Every body deserves abundant, satisfying, balanced foods according to taste and satisfaction, as well as treatment, self-compassion, self-care and body trust.
"If someone is eating restrictively in the name of health, and realizes their periods are missing and bone density is low, they now have proof that what they’re doing is not healthy for them. That whatever they’re doing is not done in the name of health, but that they’re in fact trapped into fear." - Dr Jennifer Gaudiani

Dr. Gaudiani’s first book, Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders, was released by Routledge in October 2018 and is available on Amazon.
To work with Dr Gaudiani and her team, reach out to the Gaudiani Clinic.
At the end, Florence mentioned a podcast about the Burnout book, please find it here.
To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
To make an appointment wit

Episode 14 - Letting go of body comparison

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06/01/21 • 51 min

Ahead of the summer season in the Northern hemisphere, Nicola and Florence talk about the toxicity of body comparison in recovery.
They evoke body dissatisfaction being a public health issue and how the Covid-19 pandemic heightened body anxiety in many of us. They go through simple ways to deal with the tendency to compare our bodies with other people's and also discuss why all No Period, Now What? support groups are monitored to avoid sharing numbers related to weight, size, calories consumption, as they genuinely do not help in recovery.
Also mentioned in this episode:
More than a body - Lexie and Lindsay Kite
This Girl Can UK

To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
To make an appointment with Dr Rinaldi and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media
No Period, Now What? on Instagram
No Period, Now What? Recovery Support Group
Beyond Body Image on Facebook
Beyond Body Image on Instagram
Amenorrhee_fr (HA recovery 100% in French) on Instagram
Email us via [email protected]
If you enjoyed this podcast and found it helpful, please drop us a rating and a review to help more people find it.
Editing by Steven Worlow
Original Music by the Andy Shulman Band "Lost & Found" available on Spotify.

Episode 16 - Body Image resilience with Dr Lindsay Kite

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10/05/21 • 70 min

To start season 2, Nicola and Florence meet with Dr Lindsay Kite. Dr. Lindsay Kite is co-author of the book More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament (2020, HarperCollins) and co-director of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, alongside her identical twin sister Lexie Kite. Both received PhDs from the University of Utah in the study of female body image and have become leading experts in body image resilience and media literacy.
Lindsay and Lexie help girls and women recognize and reject the harmful effects of objectification in their lives through their social media activism (on Instagram @beauty_redefined), online course and facilitator program for dieticians and therapists (at morethanabody.org), and regular speaking engagements for people of all ages.
Together, Nicola, Florence and Lindsay talked about:
- body dissatisfaction and self-objectification in women and their implications on health
- why changing our bodies NOT the answer to a more positive body image
- how do we get out of the need to compare ourselves to others?
- health and fitness being disembodied from real life experiences for many
- how to cultivate body image resilience in recovery from HA

To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
To make an appointment with Dr Rinaldi and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media
No Period, Now What? on Instagram
No Period, Now What? Recovery Support Groups (use the code NPNW_NEW for 50% off for the first month)
Beyond Body Image on Facebook
Beyond Body Image on In

Episode 17 - What's really in the book "No Period, Now What?"

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10/19/21 • 53 min

In this episode, Florence and Nicola go over Nicola's book "No Period, Now What?"
- How the book came about: where did the idea come from, what surveys were collected, who are the co-authors, designers, editors, etc
- How long did the processing, researching, writing and editing take
- How is the book structured and what each part covers
- What you wouldn't think is in there
- The book re-edit in 2019, and what the future holds in terms of translations
Nicola also announces a brand new support group is now live, and offering:
- More freedom to post (still within group guidelines!)
- More personalized support from Nicola
- Lots of specialized spaces (e.g. understanding HA, regaining cycles while breastfeeding, primary HA, type 1 diabetes and HA, life after recovery, getting pregnant, pregnancy) all available in one place.
- More support from recovery guides/mentors
- New research - bone density, supplements, uterine lining, effects of alcohol on recovery
- Coming soon - easily find people located near you
- Coming soon - weekly live Q&A with HA recovery experts

There is a small monthly charge for the group (you select your level of support). If you would like to check it out, use discount code NPNW_NEW for 50% off for the first month.
Find the new support group at http://noperiod.info/support
To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
To make an appointment with Dr Rinaldi and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media
No Period, Now What? on Instagram
Beyond Body Image on Facebook
Beyond Body Image on Instagram
Amenorrhee_fr (HA recovery 100% in French) on Instagram

Episode 11 - Nurturing a recovery mindset with Megsyrecovery

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04/20/21 • 73 min

TW: talk of anorexia and pregnancy/infant loss
In this episode, Nicola and Florence have a conversation with Meg, former anorexia patient and owner of the Megsyrecovery Youtube account. Together they talked about Meg's anorexia treatment as a teen in the UK, about her accidental relapse as a young adult and finally getting access to CBT-E. Meg evoked the hard steps to take in recovery to eat, even though it felt really scary, and how she managed to rewire her brain along the way, zooming out to invest in the life she truly wanted to live.
Meg also explains some of the tips and tricks she used in recovery, to help shift her focus, deal with the guilt of eating more, accept her body and weight gain, and stay on track with her life goals.
You can find Meg's youtube channel here.

The moment of lift - Melinda Gates
To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
To make an appointment with Dr Rinaldi and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media
No Period, Now What? on Instagram
No Period, Now What? Recovery Support Group
Beyond Body Image on Facebook
Beyond Body Image on Instagram
Amenorrhee_fr (HA recovery 100% in French) on Instagram
Email us via [email protected]
If you enjoyed this podcast and found it helpful, please drop us a rating and a review to help more people fin

Episode 33 - Mindful Self-Compassion with Helle Laursen

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06/11/24 • 50 min

In this episode, Nicola and Florence explore Mindful Self-compassion as a useful recovery tool, against perfectionism and the harsh inner critic most of us have to deal with Helle Laursen, MA.
Helle is a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and has over 20 years of experience supporting people on sick leave due to mental health issues. She teaches open MSC courses online and in-person, in Denmark as well as internationally. She also teaches at the Center for MSC in the US, where she is a Teacher Trainer and Supervisor of the MSC program, as well as teaching the live online MSC program regularly.

Previously, she held the position of Leading Mentor Coach in the largest Coach Training Institute in Denmark for 10 + years, as well as holding a position of Head of Project for a regional based 12-week program for those on sick leave from jobs due to mental health issues like stress, depression and or anxiety. Helle works with varied groups, primarily with social workers, teachers, psychologists, therapists, nurses, and doctors.

To find out more about Helle's work, visit www.nordic-compassion.com or email [email protected]
Free MSC tools are also available via Kristin Neff's website www.self-compassion.org
To find support in your HA recovery:
Get the "No Period. Now What?" book at noperiod.info/book.
Get the French version "Je n'ai plus mes regles" book at noperiod.info/livre
To join the NPNW English support group, please visit noperiod.info/support
To join the French support group, please visit noperiod.info/communaute
To make an appointment with Dr Sykes and get individual support to get your period back or improve your fertility, please go to noperiod.info/appointments
To make an appointment with Florence Gillet and get help with the body and mind changes happening in recovery please visit www.beyondbodyimage.com
You can find us on social media
No Period, Now What? on Instagram

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