93 Five Ways Vitex Can Help Your Hormones

On Health for Women

Aviva Romm

Alternative Health, Arts, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Vitex earns a place in my Top 5 Favorite Herbs for Women and today, I want to tell you how this powerful herb can help with your hormones. Hormonal imbalances are one of the most common complaints I see in my practice, and include conditions like PMS (to which more than 150 symptoms have been attributed, and which affects millions of women, irregular menstrual cycles (menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, and amenorrhea, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS, fertility challenges, and menopausal symptoms. Robust scientific evidence now supports the traditional use of vitex for women's hormones - I'll walk you through what you need to know in this episode. "A lot of hormonal symptoms we chalk up as “normal” are actually signals that something is out of balance in the body – if you’re ready to regain your health, you might find a great ally in vitex!" Join Dr. Aviva Romm as she dishes up a weekly dose of the whole truth on health and medicine. To learn more about this episode of Natural MD Radio go to https://avivaromm.com/093

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0:15.7	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.
0:17.8	I'm Dr. Aviva here and welcome back to Natural MD radio.
0:31.6	You know I was getting ready to record the last episode for you in the
0:36.1	detoxification series and a patient of mine from a long long time ago came to my
0:42.0	mind because I was talking with a friend about
0:44.8	botanicals and miscarriage and I remember this woman who I had worked with who
0:50.3	this was like 25 years ago had had several miscarriages and she really
0:57.4	wanted to get pregnant we had done some blood work and we found out that she
1:01.2	truly had a low progesterone and she would get pregnant she
1:04.7	would start spotting and then have the miscarriage it was very of course just
1:09.3	so heart-wrenching for her each time and then she came to me after this series of miscarriages and asked if there was anything we can do with herbs. And I shared with her one of my favorite herbs. We did a few things together. She was a bit underweight, she worked
1:25.9	on gaining weight, but lo and behold, really we only did one herbal intervention, if you will. And that was one of my favorite probably top five
1:35.4	favorite herbs for women and it's called Vitex or Chasteberry. So it was so
1:40.0	inspired to share this with you share with you more about Vitex and want to just tell
1:45.8	you about this wonderful herb that is one of the classics for supporting women's
1:51.5	hormones. You know I'm really in a deep dive right now
1:54.6	in my next book, which is all about women's hormones.
1:57.1	So I'm dreaming hormones and breathing hormones
2:00.5	and often eating my dinner through working on my hormone book right now so
2:04.3	hormones are front and center for me as they are for all of us of course as women
2:08.3	but today we're not going to talk about hormones in general we're going to talk
2:11.6	about this really wonderful herb that can help so
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