Does your period come without rhyme or reason? Are you taking the pill for long or irregular cycles? You may be surprised to know there are natural alternatives that can help regulate your cycle.
The hormones progesterone, estrogen, FSH (follicle stimulating hormone), and LH (luteinizing hormone) are the main hormones of the menstrual cycle. Hormone levels influence the length of your cycle.
Dr. Marina Rose has helped women with perimenopause symptoms and people with other challenging, chronic health conditions in and around the city of Palo Alto, CA.
When your cycle is irregular, taking the pill will provide synthetic hormones that prevent ovulation, as well as sugar pills for part of the month that create a hormone withdrawal and lead to bleeding that mimics your regular periods, but isn’t the same as your body’s own natural periods.
This situation is ideal for women using the pill to avoid pregnancy. But practitioners of holistic health care recognize that more and more women on the pill for other conditions want alternatives.
Holistic health care looks at lifestyle factors and diet that may be behind symptoms of hormone imbalance like irregular periods. There are often alternatives to the pill that will help regulate your cycle, like:
- Diet can support hormone balance.
- Carefully chosen herbal supplements.
- A method called Lunaception involves controlling the level of light that you sleep with.
Dr. Christiane Northrup agrees that natural approaches can help to regulate the cycle.
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