Period Health

The average person with periods goes through more than four hundred menstrual cycles in their lifetime–over four hundred cycles of changing hormones that impact mood, energy levels, productivity, appetite, metabolism, sleep, connection, and more. Yet we don’t learn enough about periods. The Period Literacy Handbook is a comprehensive guide to menstrual health that weaves together menstrual biology, naturopathic and conventional medicine, the world's socio-political landscape, advocacy tools, and practical strategies for more peaceful periods.

Period Queen takes the worst thing about being a woman and turns it into the best thing. Author and period preacher Lucy Peach urges us to stop treating periods like nature's consolation prize for being a woman, banishing the notion that hormones reduce us to being random emotional rollercoasters. Become an expert in recognizing what you need at different times of the month and learn how every cycle gives you a chance to cultivate the most important relationship of your life: the one with your precious self. It's pretty bloody amazing.

In this modern, accessible resource by a board-certified OB/GYN, you’ll find everything you need to know about having a hysterectomy. An upwards of 500,000 hysterectomies are performed every year in the U.S. alone, and approximately 20 million women ranging in ages from 18-70 have had this...

Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual’s period as useless and some doctors still believe it’s unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ocean wearing a tampon. Period counters the false theories that have long defined the study of the uterus, exposing the eugenic history of gynecology while providing an intersectional feminist perspective on menstruation science.

Navigate your health care future with confidence and learn the ins and outs of the Medicare system with Medicare 101, an essential guide that transforms complex health care jargon into easily digestible knowledge. Medicare 101 simplifies the complex Medicare regulations and policies, guiding you...

Periods. Every person who menstruates has a different relationship with their Aunt Flow: some good, and some...not so good. This guide embraces all the icky, all the sticky, and all the confusing aspects of the monthly cycle, acknowledging that there's no cookie cutter way to manage the physical and emotional mayhem.

You Can Have A Better Period is a straight-talking resource to help women understand their menstrual cycles and finally get answers to questions such as: "why am I so moody right before my period?", "are periods supposed to be so painful?", "why is my period so heavy?", "is it normal to get headaches right before my period?" Le'Nise Brothers takes us through each phase of our cycle, including a clear program of nutrition and lifestyle changes. The book explains which supplements work and the key stress management habits we can implement.

From two leading physicians and perimenopause experts, a comprehensive guide to a critically misunderstood and under-researched phase of women’s lives After years of being overlooked by mainstream medicine and culture, menopause is finally receiving the attention it’s due. But one major...

Having your period is messy, makes you sore (like being hit by a train), and is emotionally draining and irritating, not to mention highly inconvenient! Many women and young girls are embarrassed by the process of menstruation, but everybody goes through it.

The book that every woman in the world should be listening to. The Period Protocol offers a natural solution that will help you balance your periods, and live a pain free life by reducing your blood flow and the number of days that you spend on your period. Every person that has tried this protocol has experienced the most amazing results within days, and weeks of starting the protocol.

Menstruation is a normal and healthy part of life for most women. However, three out of every four women suffer miserably month after month due to various symptoms they experience around the days of their period. Although there have been medications suggested to cure PMS, most women are unaware that this can be treated naturally. More than half of menstruating women experience pain around their period but 90 percent say they experience other various symptoms.

How to live happily and well with endometriosis, from someone who has tried everything and lived to tell (and laugh at) the tale. Part memoir, part guide book and part survival guide, Private Parts retraces Eleanor's own journey with endometriosis, offering listeners practical, down-to-earth and friendly advice covering everything from what actually happens in an internal exam, to finding the right specialist for you, the perfect post-op wardrobe and to why you should look to Frida Kahlo for inspiration in your darkest moments.

Let's talk about periods, your menstrual cycle - whatever you call yours, and however you feel about it, you know that you're stuck with it for around 40 years! So you want to make the best of those years, right? This book will help you by showing you how conventional feminine sanitary products are not always the best choices for your health and the environment. Did you know that each sanitary pad uses the equivalent of four plastic bags? There are many sustainable alternatives....

It's that time of the month. And whether your periods are consistent or keep you guessing this book is all about making that time just a little bit easier. We go over some simple easy to follow poses that help with cramps and some of the other not so nice side effects that come along with aunt flow.

Ending Period Pain the Easy Way by Christine Marie Quigless is based on the white paper that sets out to define the causes of Menstrual Suffering and the means to treat the causes and thus highly diminish period pain, PMS, inconsistent menstrual cycles, and the symptoms of graduated disorders through the risk-free and physical-intervention-free process supported by the Fierce Gentleness™ framework.

50 Things to Know About Your Menstrual Cycle: The Period Book by Jane Muthoni offers an approach to different views that people have on this important process in the woman’s body and thus people should be aware of them. Most books on menstrual cycle tell you about the process itself; this book will too. Although there's nothing wrong with that, there should be an in-depth explanation of the basic facts, beliefs, misconceptions and some simple things that people take for granted that can cost us dearly in relation to the menstrual cycle; for example, menstrual blood disposal.