kateandlisaWhy Decode Your Period Blood?
Your period gives you clues about suspect hormone imbalances. Let’s take a look. Are you experiencing any of these?
- Debilitating period pain can indicate estrogen and progesterone imbalances
- Luteal phase spotting can mean low progesterone
- Irregular cycles can indicate cortisol imbalances, high androgens, low progesterone
- Short cycles can be responsible for low estrogen and/or progesterone
- Long cycles can indicate cortisol imbalances, high androgens, low progesterone
- Short luteal phase (less than 10 days) can mean low progesterone
- Heavy or clotty periods generally indicate estrogen issues
- Light pink, minimal bleed can indicate low estrogen
You can see that by looking at these you can start to put your hormone picture together. This can help determine your next steps.
You may have a few or a lot of these. Most are struggling with a combination of symptoms and overwhelm like:
- PMS, cramps, breakouts, mood swings
- Irregular, heavy, painful periods
- Missing periods, no ovulation
- Newly diagnosed PCOS or endo
- Symptoms returning (or new ones) after stopping birth control
- Period and cycle issues and want to get pregnant
- Want to know fertility is in a good place in the future
- Been put on a strict diet or elimination protocol and relationship with food got weird
- Lost in conflicting health information
- Taking supplements but don’t know if they are helping
- Feel like doctor isn’t listening, won’t run labs or take them seriously
- Sick of being offered birth control or antidepressants as the only option
So, What Would I Do?
- An option that I like to start with is testing. Functional lab tests and others are
now easily available for us to use. Here we can start to get at the root causes of your imbalances. - Address these root causes through personalized nutrition, lifestyle and targeted supplementation. You would be guided to use charting and other ways of gathering your unique and personal information that will give us on-going information so your plan can be personalized to you.
This will all be done without strict protocols, foods that you can’t eat or bunches of supplements. When we can understand and heal your root causes, we can use targeted approach that will work for you. You can start feeling better quickly!
One-on-one programs and testing spots are open! Book an introductory call so we can get started! Want to know my #1 go-to for reducing oxidative stress (the number one issue for hormone imbalances)? Let’s chat!
