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“Breastfeeding suppresses periods because it stimulates your pituitary gland to make a hormone called prolactin, which prevents ovulation. Your prolactin should drop within three months after you stop breastfeeding, but it can sometimes stay high. Prolactin can also be mildly elevated from thyroid disease and stress.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Fertility is an expression of health, not a disease to be treated with a drug.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Many things can impair ovulation and promote excess androgens. They include: Thyroid disease, because hypothyroidism impedes ovulation and worsens insulin resistance. [212] Vitamin D deficiency, because your ovaries need vitamin D. Zinc deficiency, because your ovaries need zinc. Iodine deficiency, because your ovaries need iodine. Elevated prolactin, because it increases DHEA. Too little food or too few carbs, because you need carbs to ovulate. If you’re undereating, then you’ve slipped into HA.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“but it’s not the only diagnosis. Other diagnoses include: hormonal birth control with a “high androgen index” some types of psychiatric medications high prolactin hypothyroidism rare pituitary or adrenal diseases congenital adrenal hyperplasia.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“The technology exists for a male contraceptive pill. We have the drugs to switch off testosterone and prevent sperm production. These drugs have never gone to market because developers know that men would never take something like that. Men would never agree to switch off their hormones. They would never put up with the side effects such as depression and low libido. And, honestly, why should they put up with it? Why should women?”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“The pill does not regulate hormones. It switches them off entirely.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Together, estrogen and progesterone are the perfect yin and yang for mood. Estradiol lifts you up by boosting serotonin, oxytocin, and dopamine. Progesterone calms you down by acting like GABA in your brain.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“your fertile days are the five days before ovulation (because that’s how long sperm survive), and the one day after ovulation (because that’s how long the egg survives). After ovulation, you have a short 24-hour window to ovulate once more, and maybe conceive twins. Your egg(s) survive for another 24 hours, and then you cannot ovulate again for the rest of that cycle.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Polycystic ovaries can occur with PCOS, but they’re not specific to PCOS. Polycystic ovaries occur in other situations such as being on the pill, or even in normal, healthy women. For example, one study found that healthy women have polycystic ovaries about 25 percent of the time.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Alpha-lipoic acid is a naturally occurring molecule involved in energy production. It’s made by the body and can also be obtained from foods such as liver, spinach, and broccoli. As a supplement, alpha-lipoic acid is beneficial for PCOS.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Alpha-lipoic acid is safe, but more than 1000 mg per day may decrease thyroid hormone. I recommend 300 to 600 mg per day with food. It combines well with the next supplement, myo-inositol.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“With metabolic inflexibility, on the other hand, you will more quickly tip into burning glucose — even with light activity and maybe even at rest. Once that happens, you could feel fatigued and experience drops in blood sugar (hypoglycemia).”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“After your egg is released, it’s swept up into one of your Fallopian tubes, where it can be fertilized if sperm is present. The other follicles that lost the race to ovulation are reabsorbed by your ovary.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“I know just how strongly women's hormones are affected by insulin sensitivity.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“You need at least one gram of protein for every kilogram of ideal body weight. For example, if you are 65 kilograms (140 pounds), then you need at least 65 grams of protein per day. That equates to at least three servings of an animal protein (meat, fish, eggs, dairy) or six servings of a plant protein (lentils, nuts, tofu).”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“irregular periods or polycystic ovaries on ultrasound high androgens on a blood test or symptoms of high androgens such as hirsutism other reasons for high androgens have been ruled out.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“A heavy period is blood loss greater than 80 mL or lasting for more than seven days. That 80 mL equates to sixteen fully soaked regular tampons or eight fully soaked super-tampons, spread over all the days of your period.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“The corpus luteum is a temporary endocrine gland that forms from the emptied ovarian follicle after ovulation.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“PCOS is a common diagnosis that affects up to 10 percent of women. It’s best defined as a group of symptoms related to anovulation (lack of ovulation) and a high level of androgens or male hormones. The main symptom of PCOS is irregular periods, specifically late periods or too many days of bleeding. Irregular periods are typical of anovulatory cycles.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Progesterone is one of several steroid hormones made by the ovary. It’s essential for pregnancy but has many other beneficial functions.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Signs of metabolic inflexibility include fatigue and a tendency to low blood sugar or intense hunger, especially with exercise or fasting.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“In the US, a standard drink contains 0.6 ounces (18 mL) of alcohol which equates to a 12 ounce (350 mL) glass of beer or a 5 ounce (150 mL) glass of wine.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“A light or scanty period does not necessarily mean that something is wrong. You can lose as little as 25 mL of menstrual fluid, and that is still normal. That equates to five regular tampons, spread over all the days of your period.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Checklist for inflammatory PCOS Avoid wheat and cow’s dairy. Identify and avoid other food sensitivities. Fix any digestive problems. Consider taking a zinc supplement. Consider an additional anti-androgen supplement, as discussed later in the chapter.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“Magnesium is the key nutrient for calming your nervous system and regulating your HPA Axis.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“you track your cervical fluid because it’s the sign of ovulation that occurs before ovulation. Cervical fluid, also called cervical mucus or fertile mucus, is a unique type of vaginal discharge that looks and feels just like raw egg white. It is clear, stretchy, and slippery. You will see it on the toilet paper after you wipe or feel it at your vaginal opening.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“you can also restrict your eating to an eight- or ten-hour eating window. You will, of course, be hungry during your eating window, so eat what you need in the form of full, satisfying meals. An eating window is a gentle type of intermittent fasting which has been found to improve insulin resistance.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“To access fat for energy, you need metabolic flexibility, which is the ability to easily switch between burning glucose and fat.”
― Lara Briden, Metabolism Repair for Women: A Compassionate, Science-Based Guide to Balancing Insulin, Losing Weight, and Improving Health

“insulin-resistant PCOS, post-pill PCOS, inflammatory PCOS, and adrenal PCOS.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“período ligero o escaso no significa necesariamente que algo vaya mal.”
― Lara Briden, Cómo mejorar tu ciclo menstrual (edición para América Latina): Tratamiento natural para mejorar las hormonas y la menstruación