158 Menstrual Cycle Tracking: The Best “Me-Search” You Can Do

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Arts, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I started tracking my menstrual cycles 40 years ago. It was 1981, I was 15 years old, not yet sexually active, but curious about my body and already on the path to studying midwifery. Tracking my cycles taught me how my innate hormonal blueprint shows up in my life – my moods, food preferences, energy, sleep, creativity, and so much more – month in and month out, so much so that its patterns allowed much more predictability in my life. I hope it's something you'll start doing as a daily practice, because it also gives you a few minutes each day to ‘drop in' on yourself – to see how you're doing – and use this moment of awareness to ask yourself what you really need right now for hormone health and balance. And I hope, if you have daughters or nieces, you'll let them in on the secrets of cycle self-awareness and the beauty of their hormonal blueprint with this episode. For a companion article go to avivaromm.com/158

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0:00.0	Welcome to NaturalMD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for
0:11.5	women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting
0:17.0	now.
0:18.0	I'm Dr. Aviva Wrong.
0:29.0	I'm Dr. Aviva Rahm and welcome to episode 158 of NaturalMD Radio, menstrual cycle tracking
0:36.0	the best research you can do.
0:39.8	Your menstrual cycle is a sixth vital sign, an important monthly reflection and scorecard
0:46.1	if you will of your overall health.
0:49.5	Intentionally tracking your cycle can help you learn whether and when you're ovulating,
0:53.7	determine whether symptoms like pelvic pain, low sex drive, acne sleep problems, migraines,
0:59.3	digestive or other symptoms are cyclic and therefore likely hormonally related and can
1:05.2	help you have more control over your reproductive and gynecologic health in general.
1:09.9	It can also help you to know when the best time it is to conceive or avoid pregnancy depending
1:15.1	on your goals right now and help you recognize when you're entering parimenopause or menopause.
1:20.0	So it's a lifelong guide throughout our menstrual cycle years and beyond.
1:25.2	It's a guide to where you are in your cycles and life cycles at any stage and a perfect
1:30.4	way to assess your hormone health and balance because your cycle health is dependent on
1:35.2	healthy hormone levels and also in turn determines your hormone levels.
1:39.5	For example, if you're not ovulating, you can't produce adequate progesterone.
1:44.6	As every woman's cycle is a little different, tracking your cycle can help you identify your
1:49.3	own unique rhythms and if you're having trouble with your cycles, tracking can help
1:53.7	you get a picture of what might be going on.
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