146 Heavy Periods: Common Causes and What You Can Do

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Arts

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Heavy periods. At least 50% of women struggle with them enough to, well, absolutely skip wearing white pants during that time of the month, and for 1 in 6 women, they’re severe enough to significant impact quality of life – from disruptive, frequent trips to the bathroom to change pads or tampons, to serious at-work period accidents, to staying home from work social engagements, and basically living life for fear of public period accidents. Maybe this is something you’ve heard is “just a normal” part of having a menstrual cycle. (Nope!) Perhaps, like so many women, you’ve even heard this from your doctor! (Wrong!) Blowing through pads or tampons each cycle, stressing about ‘period accidents,’ arranging your life around your period, or feeling dang tired each month – or all the time – is anything but normal – and it’s certainly not something you should just have to ‘deal with, ’ever! In this episode, I’ll share the causes of heavy periods – along with what you can do to identify your underlying causes, lighten your flow, and take back your life if heavy periods have been getting your down. For a companion article, go to avivaromm.com/146

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0:00.0	Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine
0:11.4	for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally
0:16.6	starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Wrong.
0:28.4	Holy moly you guys, I just discovered something. This is episode 146. As always I have your back
0:35.6	and I create a corresponding article so you don't have to keep all this stuff in mind that I'm
0:40.8	talking about. You can go about your life and your business and then go back to the episode by
0:45.3	finding the episode by number. But since I thought this was 145 every time I mentioned it in the
0:50.9	article where there's a place to go back to and find a dose or a detail, I say go to episode 145.
0:57.2	Scratch that or reverse it. You want to go to AvivaRom.com forward slash 146 for the corresponding
1:06.3	article to this episode. Thanks for your understanding. It was either this quick public service
1:11.0	announcement or rerecord the entire podcast and I decided to take the easy smart way and keep
1:16.7	the pod and trust you to remember to switch that in your mind. So it's AvivaRom.com forward slash
1:23.2	episode 146. Enjoy. Hey everybody, Aviva wrong here with you and I will tell you the state that
1:33.2	I am in today. I am doing something I really never do which is I'm sitting here in my sweatpants,
1:40.0	my favorite slippers and my running top, my running bra because I just hopped off my bicycle. I have
1:47.2	an outdoor bike but it's on an indoor trainer and I took a meeting on my bike and I am so behind
1:55.2	on everything I'm doing right now. Do you ever feel that way? You're just like, okay, I don't know
2:01.3	how I'm going to catch up and get ahead on this but that's where I am. So I am in this moment of
2:08.1	the only thing I can do is surrender to the chaos and breathe into it and you know what,
2:17.9	it really works actually. I find that when I just remember that it's just feelings and I can step
2:23.6	out of the feelings. I'm like, okay, I can reset how I think about this, slow down, pick and choose
2:29.3	a little bit more. It helps a little bit but I'm just here empathizing with those of you who are
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