Understand & Solve Your Period Problems
Rachel Dutton
As someone who works with women with period problems and who spent thousands of hours learning to become a Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness Educator, I am always keen to research and discover different charting methods. I love the different things that they tell you about your cycle and …
Do you ever get tired shortly after eating? Maybe you need elevenses (mid morning snack for the non British reader) or a pre tea time 3.30pm pick me up to get through the day? Perhaps you have been diagnosed with PCOS, Insulin resistance, pre-diabetes or even type 2 diabetes (or …
Do you have period problems or thyroid issues? Maybe your have PMS or fibroids? You may have gotten your Vitamin D tested as part of the lab tests I recommend people get as part of their full hormone panel and for good reason; it affects both our pituitary development and can have …
I don’t know about your but I love essential oils and as someone who has been practising aromatherapy for nearly 20 years, I love to take an essential oil first aid kit with me wherever I go. However, if like me you are choosing between oils and your holiday first …
One of the things many fertility clients come to me with is “why am I not getting pregnant when I am trying around/after I have ovulated?”. They are so upset and frustrated and feel that their body has let them down. Assuming these women have no underlying conditions or hormonal …
One question I’m regularly asked by my private clients is “my period is 22 days/56 days what can I do?”. You can pretty much insert any number of days into that question, it still won’t change my response which is: are you ovulating and when? Ovulation is pretty awesome. Not only …
Your period has been AWOL for a while and you really just feel that you want a period but it isn’t coming. You know you don’t have an underlying reason for this such as pregnancy, post partum, menopause, the pill, medications or illness. So what is a girl to do? …
You come off the pill and are told it can take a while for your period to come back. OK, cool, you can handle that. But what if it hasn’t come back after 3 months, 6 months or even, after a year? If you are wondering what has happened and …
So many women come to me feeling that they are hypothyroid, they will have read up on the symptoms, but they don’t actually know how the thyroid works so even if they get a doctor willing to do all the tests, they won’t understand the results and what the tests …
Painful or heavy periods is the bane of most of my clients, and many of them are quite period literate: they have managed their stress, they are off the pill, they are eating healthy foods, lowering their inflammation and working on their oestrogen dominance, and yet they are still having …