Menopause

Where’s all my perimenopausal/ menopausal friends at??

Menopause is one of those things where the conversation has only just started…

But the allopathic way women with menses are treated quite frankly appalls me!! There is not a F*cking pill for every ill 🙄

There’s a school of thought that actually says that menses are a vital sign and a vital part of womanhood. Not just a monthly annoyance. 

One of the WORST things we can do is mess around with this cycle.

Every month women have a way of excreting toxins that men don’t have- via the menses. This is acts as a way of clearing, and a way of filtering and blood letting. It helps to support our liver- the great detoxifier. So when this ceases it actually means the liver needs to work harder, but if it’s already overloaded with toxicity then we will see lots of symptoms manifest.

Lads, unfortunately you don’t have this option, and so your prostate takes a battering… be mindful of that when they start giving you exams and testing PSA 🙄

Just give your liver some love 💜

When menses stops this detox route is no more… 

Did you know that the body increases its temperature to create sweating- a detox pathway!! This is the hot flushes you’re experiencing and indicates an overloaded liver… so gotta give it some love 💜

Other ways to help support you… mineral imbalances are a huge contributor to how we feel and our symptoms- after all it’s the trace elements that govern our energy production 😉 So get yourself some fulvic acid (ask me!!).

A big factor- ensure you are eating adequate calories and healthy fats!! You can’t make hormones without fat!

Get into an infrared sauna, have an Epsom salt bath, increase your fruit and vegetable intake, cut out alcohol, drink good quality water- not tap water (ask me for recommendations).

ANF therapy to support your body systems and organs, reduce inflammation and get your body back online!

Your liver is called the liver cos it literally means LIVE! It controls your reproductive system amongst many other things!

So give your liver some much needed love 💜

#liver

#liverlover

#menopause

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Hormone health

Women’s hormone health is key.
What I have found affects this more than anything else is lifestyle and environmental factors, that are mostly modifiable.

Chronic stress literally affects us at a cellular level, this affects all of our body systems- everything is connected.

Your endocrine system works in multiple areas of the body and depending on the info it receives, it dictates what hormones and the quantities that are released. This can screw with your hormone levels that affect everything from your mood to your weight!
Once the hormones get screwed up it’s often a perpetual cycle of shitty symptoms and poor medical care!

I’ve been in this cycle, I couldn’t see it at the time, but in retrospect all the signs were there. If I hadn’t found ANF I’d be really ill right now!

Like anything, treatment is a process, I have had chronic stress for decades- from being bullied as a child, to being an athlete that was hospitalised, crappy relationships, to a long career in a toxic environment... but to me this was normal, because it was my life!

I’m a pure example of what 25+ years worth of pain and symptoms becoming ‘normal’ life were! Yes I know hard to believe I’m that old 😂

I knew nothing about poor lighting- blue light from the tech I was using affecting my health.
I knew nothing about how stress is stress and the body doesn’t recognise the source just that there is stress and deals with it the same.
I thought hammering myself in the gym was helping me, not adding to my dysfunction.
I thought that climbing the career ladder, that stress and lack of sleep and working harder was necessary.
All of this was BS!

I am not mostly recovered- I had chronic CNS stress and inflammation for years, it’s a process and healing is happening.

What I can say is this...
After having ‘hormonal trouble’ since age 14 and being prescribed the pill for my symptoms!!!! Since my PCOS diagnosis in my 20’s, I’ve had zero conventional treatment as doctors go to is the combined pill or progesterone only pill for symptom relief, they don’t have a clue about causality! And neither did I.. until my late 30’s!!!!

I’ve had no pain medication in a long while- almost 2 years, and I used to chew naproxen like sweets.

Know there is a better way.

Just because pain is common, doesn’t mean it’s normal 💜