If you’ve been told that painful cramps, heavy bleeding, mood swings, or PMS are “just part of being a woman,” this episode is for you. Your period isn’t supposed to be miserable, it’s supposed to be painless, balanced, and predictable. In fact, your cycle is your monthly report card for overall health, giving you valuable clues about your hormones, thyroid, and metabolism.

In this episode I’m sharing:

• Why period cramps aren’t normal and what excess prostaglandins have to do with it
• The difference between primary and secondary dysmenorrhea (and when to suspect fibroids, endometriosis, or low progesterone)
• What your period’s color, length, and flow reveal about your estrogen and thyroid function
• How to spot the red flags: light pink flow, brown spotting, large clots, or super heavy bleeding
• Why your period headaches and low iron may point to gut issues or parasites
• A simple breakdown of your full menstrual cycle, from follicular phase to luteal phase and what each hormone is doing
• Why ovulation is the main event, not your period, and the key to strong progesterone and stable moods
• How birth control, stress, and endocrine disruptors interfere with your brain-ovary communication
• The hidden reason you feel worse before your period: low progesterone and inflammation
• How to naturally support hormone balance with nutrition, stress regulation, and gut healing

Your hormones aren’t out to get you, they’re your body’s messengers. This episode will help you understand what your cycle is really telling you, why your period is a vital sign, and how to finally create the painless, balanced cycle you deserve.

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

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