Your period is not just your period. It is an expression of your underlying health. When you are healthy, your menstrual cycle will arrive smoothly, regularly, and without symptoms. When you are unhealthy in some way, your cycle will tell the story. This book will not mention when a study is done in mice or in vitro. Even if this book is for the layperson, it is still important information. To give one example, the book states, “endometriosis has been linked to dioxin exposure in the womb.” Yet the reference is an article about mice (which do not menstruate).

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She also quips that vegans must eat beans with rice for a complete protein and this is so old/outdated/misinformed it made me question everything else she’d said 😞 And of course I have to disclaim that maybe not everything in this book should be taken at face value, as it is really just based on one ND’s experience and her interpretation of the scientific evidence where it it exists (which is often scarce for any kind of women’s health issues, see Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez for an infuriating primer). But like… it makes so much sense. It make more sense than anything I have ever heard or read before. I am unwilling to believe it is some sort of conspiracy by the anti-sugar lobby or something. As well the majority of treatments discussed are very non-invasive and can’t hurt to try. I can’t imagine one getting LESS healthy from cutting sugar and alcohol from their diet, for example. (As mentioned above though, there’s an element of having the resources to do so involved, which is outside the scope of this book and a symptom of larger societal issues.) In this book we are also shown that the monthly cycle is a report card of our health, and how to understand what the problems in our cycle can tell us about our overall health, and what to do with that information. After working on Body in Balance with DR Neal Barnard I’ve become interested in hormones (and have sought out other professional opinions re: treatment)Alright so now that my soap box is out of the way, let’s talk about this book. I’ll just jump right to the bad: there’s a lot of hormonal birth control fear-mongering in here. Concerns that simply are not supported by the literature or the vast majority of gynecologists. The main argument is that BC suppresses ovulation, and is therefore bad because it covers up potentially serious conditions. Granted, it sounds like I may have to permanently give up (Holstein) cow’s dairy, gluten, sugar, and alcohol to eliminate my migraines and other PMS and sleep issues. But at 36 I am starting to seriously consider what I am willing to sacrifice for my health instead of just being like “but I love cheese too much, the migraines are worth it!”. I love pizza but is it worth it if it is giving me insomnia and migraines and making me super tired? (And if I can still have delicious delicious buffalo mozzarella and pecorino romano, who even cares?) You can read an essay about body literacy and learn about alternatives to hormonal birth control including the pros and cons of the copper IUD (Paragard). The book states the EWG is a good source for further reading on environmental toxins. However, the EWG is a terrible source of information. They have financial ties to the cosmetics and foods they rate well ( www.ewg.org/about-us/funding). When analyzing pesticide data from the USDA, the EWG uses unscientific methodology (PMID: 21776262). When testing pesticide levels themselves, they create their own random benchmarks ( www.ewg.org/news-and-analysis/2018/08...).

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I do wish the dietary recommendations were a bit more realistic. Majority of people, myself included, don't have the time or money for lamb shanks and salmon steaks as regular dinners (same for the breakfast and lunch suggestions), just saying. I felt that I had to disregard most of the diet suggestions and will have to figure out my own system for that. It seems geared toward people who have a good chunk of money and time, which I doubt is the majority of readers. She has more than 20 years’ experience in women’s health and currently has consulting rooms in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she treats women with PCOS, PMS, endometriosis, perimenopause, and many other hormone- and period-related health problems. Briden hardly touches on PMDD. She possibly gives out a three line paragraph at the very beginning of the book, and a wrong description of what it actually is, at the very end of the book. She describes PMDD as a condition that just causes anxiety and depression. PMDD actually causes up to 40 psychological and physical symptoms, and I personally, suffer with around 37 of those, each month. I would love to know why something that woman have taken their own lives over, isn't recognised, and taken seriously enough. This book states that omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids found in vegetable oils promote inflammatory prostaglandins. This claim is not cited. In fact, omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids have not been shown to cause inflammation in humans (PMID:22889633) or even to increase arachidonic acid (PMID: 21663641). What’s more, a science advisory noted that in human studies, higher levels of omega-6 PUFAs were associated with decreased levels of proinflammatory markers and increased levels of antiinflammatory markers (PMID: 19171857).I do highly appreciate the information and overview of the different types of available birth control options. They were informative and piqued my interest to do some more researching. What does natural treatment entail? Sleep, Diet, Exercise, and Supplements. A side note about sleep...The way Briden talks about periods while on the pill (what she calls "pill bleeds") not being real periods, reminded me of the way Matthew Walker talks about sleeping pill induced sedation not being real sleep in his book Why We Sleep, which I highly recommend. Period Repair Manual and Why We Sleep were both eye-opening for me. I was happy when Briden mentions the importance of sleep in this book:

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I truly believe as a society we have been gaslit into thinking that hormonal birth control is a feminist concept, but what would ACTUALLY be feminist is learning about the female body and teaching folks with a female reproductive system how to properly take care of it, and maybe, just maybe, doing some research into male birth control (as I understand the technology very much exists but funding for clinical trials and approval does not). I appreciate the author’s sentiment that she’s not 100% against using hormonal birth control, but it should be prescribed only if the person using it is fully aware of what it actually does to their body (it doesn’t “regulate your hormones” - it shuts them off) and/or other less invasive options have been carefully considered and ruled out if the birth control is being used for a medical condition. Which is typically never the case.This book states too much insulin causes weight gain. This has been disproven (PMID: 27385608). You may also consider the fact that GLP-1 receptor agonist medications increase insulin secretion and are associated with weight loss (PMID: 22236411). Sabiendo algo de la autora, no me extrañó ver cómo demonizaba los fármacos, entre ellos la píldora anticonceptiva. Pero siendo totalmente justa, es cierto que es un libro que explica absolutamente todo con un millar de referencias a bases de datos científicas. Por fin, un libro donde se examina el ciclo menstrual al completo: fases, hormonas, ovulación... Y también todos los problemas que pueden surgir como períodos abundantes, dolorosos, endometriosis, etc. Containing invaluable advice for women of every age and circumstance, and detailing natural treatments from nutritional supplements to a healthy diet, this book promises to help women change their relationship with their menstrual cycle. The book states to aim for about 150 to 200 grams of carbs per day. You can’t give that recommendation when you don’t know anything about the reader besides maybe their sex.

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As for the information on how to enhance natural cycles, I feel like some changes could be made in terms of the book’s organization. As other reviewers have noted, the book encourages the reader to read the whole book, but then also is repetitive in repeating information and will redirect the reader to other chapters. Much of the information in this book is general how to be healthy information. I would have preferred an overview that gives this advice once at the beginning instead of repeating it for each section. Of course diet/exercise/reducing stress will be beneficial to all period problems. I wish I had read this a decade ago. I would have saved myself from years and years of sub-optimal health. Unfortunately, this book wasn't even published 10 years ago, and instead I listened to my gynecologist who suggested I continue taking the pill to "regulate my hormones and period." Now, after reading this book, I know that the pill was just masking underlying health issues, that a period on the pill isn't a real period, that the pill was suppressing ovulation and preventing my body from producing extremely beneficial hormones. Me decanté por buscar libros en inglés y encontré este. La autora, si no me equivoco, no es médico. Sino que trabaja bajo la llamada naturopatía (medicina alternativa). Quiero aclarar esto porque la medicina alternativa NO está basada en la evidencia científica. La naturopatía se fundamenta sobre todo en cambios en el estilo de vida y la nutrición. No me disgusta, pero habiendo estudiado medicina lo mínimo que puedo hacer es dejar muy claro este punto. The Hormone Repair Manual is a must-have guide to understanding and overcoming the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.The UL for vitamin B6 is 100 mg, but the book recommends supplementing up to 150 mg ( https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vit...). The book my patients have been waiting for.' Dr Peta Wright, gynaecologist and women's health advocate Treatment protocols for all common perimenopause symptoms including night sweats, insomnia, migraines, and heavy periods. But the way Briden keeps talking about hormonal contraception throughout the book makes it seem like she believes it's a thing from the depths of hell. I had a bad experience with the pill and I know lots of people who went through the same things. But I also know a bunch of people for whom the pill works and that's marvelous for them and I hope it keeps helping them and I don't like how Briden insists that everyone should stop using it. Period Repair Manual is published by Pan Macmillan and is your guide to better periods. It explains how to use natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and bioidentical hormones and provides advice and tips for women of every age and situation. If you have a period (or want a period), then this book is for you.