Allie

“Did I just say that hormonal birth control works by shutting down your ovaries and switching off your hormones? Yes. On the pill, you have no sex hormones of your own. Instead, you have steroid drugs given to you as a kind of “hormone replacement”—not unlike the hormone replacement that is given to women in menopause.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“A real period is a finale in a series of hormonal events which includes ovulation and the making of progesterone, as I’ll discuss below. A real period happens approximately every 28 days because that’s how long it takes your ovaries to complete the process. A real period is about the healthy functioning of your ovaries.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“A pill bleed does not proceed from ovulation. Instead, it is a withdrawal bleed from the drugs that stimulate your uterine lining but shut down your ovaries. A pill bleed is about the dosing of a drug.”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods

“before ovulation, your waking temperature is between 97.0°F (36.1°C) and 97.7°F (36.5°C). After ovulation, progesterone increases your waking temperature by about 0.5°F (0.3°C), and maintains it at that higher level until your period. A few consecutive days of a small but significant increase in temperature is enough to know that you ovulated and cannot become pregnant for the rest of that cycle. Your temperature goes up after ovulation,”
― Lara Briden, Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods