FFP 368 | Why Your Doctor Isn't Helping You With Your Period Problems | Aviva Romm, MD
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🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Aviva Romm is both a midwife and a Yale trained MD and Board Certified Family Physician with specialties in Integrative Gynecology, Obstetric and Pediatrics, with a focus on women's endocrinology. She's also a world renown herbalist, and author of the textbook, Botanical Medicines for Women's Health, as well as 7 other books, including The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution and her new book, Hormone Intelligence. A practitioner, teacher, activist and advocate of both environmental health and women's reproductive rights and health, she has been bridging the best of traditional medicine, total health ecology, and good science for over three decades. Her podcast, articles, books, and online programs are wildly popular and successful, helping women take back their health. Dr. Romm practices medicine in both NY and MA, and lives in the Berkshires of Western MA.
Today we take a deep dive into why women often have such a difficult time getting support for their reproductive health issues.
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- Who is Aviva and experience in the medical industry
- What is Hormone Intelligence about and why Aviva wanted to write that book now
- Why women have a hard time getting help
- Different stereotypes of how women are perceived
- Cultural myths that doctors have internalized
- The barriers women face seeking help from medical professionals
- What is actually helping in medical school
- Should women be going to her doctor for her first protocol when she has issues with her cycle
- How women need to know where doctors are coming from
- Why women should be prepped for their doctors appoints
Connect with Aviva:
You can connect with Aviva on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and on her website.
Resources mentioned:
- FFP 259 | Thyroid, Adrenals, and Fertility | Dr. Aviva Romm, MD
- Botanical Medicines for Women's Health
- The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution
- Hormone Intelligence
- The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility (Book) | Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook
- Fertility Awareness Mastery Online Self-Study Program
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by my fertility awareness mastery online self-study program. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn fertility awareness from the comfort of your own home at your own pace for a fraction of the cost. |
| 0:11.2 | Head over to fertility friday.com slash mastery for details. |
| 0:15.1 | That's fertility friday.com slash mastery. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the fertility Friday podcast, episode number 368. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility |
| 0:32.7 | awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson Jack. I'm the author of the fifth vital |
| 0:38.8 | sign and the fertility awareness mastery charting journal. I'm a certified fertility awareness educator |
| 0:44.0 | and holistic reproductive health practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience teaching women |
| 0:48.9 | to connect to their fifth vital sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormonal |
| 0:53.7 | health, and optimizing the menstrual |
| 0:55.5 | cycle without hormones. I'm outspoken about hormonal birth control and its impact on fertility |
| 1:01.6 | and overall health because you have the right to know how your body works and how artificial |
| 1:06.3 | hormones disrupt that natural process. I host live coaching programs to help you achieve optimal fertility |
| 1:12.4 | and health because it's important to have healthy menstrual cycles regardless of whether or not |
| 1:17.5 | you want to have babies. I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys. I know, I know, |
| 1:23.5 | I'm a busy girl, but I managed to fit it all in. This podcast is designed to empower you to |
| 1:28.8 | take full control of your cycles, your fertility, and your overall health. And I'm so excited that |
| 1:34.0 | you're here with us today. Today I'm sharing a brand new interview with Dr. Abiva Rahm. |
| 1:45.6 | We are getting into what I feel is one of the most important questions and challenges that women face when they seek health care support, when they seek medical support. |
| 1:55.4 | And that is those interactions with your doctor. |
| 1:59.5 | Why is it that so many women have such a hard time |
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