Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Ral. If you've been exploring the women's wellness online

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If you've been exploring the women's wellness online movement, you've been exploring the Women's Wellness Online Movement, you've likely come across articles

touting the miracles of seed cycling for regulating the menstrual cycle. In case you missed it,

seed cycling is a protocol where you consume specific seed combinations during distinct phases of the menstrual cycle in order to balance female hormones.

The excitement is understandable, The promise of a simple food-based

solution to heal your hormonal woes is certainly compelling. However, overall, the science on

seeds does not support the claims that are being made.

Eating this or that seed at a certain time in your cycle doesn't regulate your hormones.

Welcome to episode 109 of Natural MD radio. I'm your host Dr.

Aviva Ram and in this episode we're going to explore the seed cycling fad.

Seed cycling is without a doubt, a fad that showed up on the women's

wellness scene as it began to blossom on the internet less than 10 years ago.

A quick internet search will easily yield you a dozen articles

from online women's wellness experts extolling its benefits. It's a meme of sorts. One person made it up, then a whole lot of copycats just kept repeating the message over and over, until it seemed like there must be something real to it. Sorry to be snarky but that's how these things take hold. The logic of

seed cycling is as follows by eating certain seeds at different phases of your cycle, for example

certain seeds during the first half or

follicular phase and other seeds during the second half or ludial phase, the

varying lignin, phytoeestrogen, fatty acid, and micronutrient constituents of those seeds

will provide the optimal hormonal support at the right time.

The other rationale for seed cycling is that by consuming these plant-based phytoeestrogens, plant

estrogens, at the correct time, you are balancing ratios of estrogen and progesterone at key times in the cycle.

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