Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones

and teach you how to have healthy periods. Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's

health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your

healing journey. We hope you enjoy it.

In this episode, we are covering a topic that we get endless questions and DMs about, and that's the ups and downs of the healing journey. And the symptoms that tend to pop up for people, and specifically, like, what is causing this?

Why are you dealing with acne?

Why is your period worse?

Why are you gaining weight?

And a lot of this has to do with shifts in a hormone called estrogen. And we call them estrogen

waves. So healing is not linear. I know we kind of all have a picture in our minds of what

healing is going to look like when we embark on making nutrition and lifestyle and supplement

changes. But oftentimes we can feel making nutrition and lifestyle and supplement changes.

But oftentimes we can feel worse before we start to feel better. And I think this is totally

normal. There's definitely those few unicorns that feel better immediately and then they have no

issues. But I think that's definitely the minority. So being mindful of what's actually happening,

what's causing this, I think it can

really help. It's definitely helped in the group coaching programs that we do. And women just, we always

give them a sense of what to expect, like kind of mentally prepare yourself for this. Because it's all

just a result of your body adjusting to its environment and rebalancing hormones and minerals.

So a lot of the times those

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