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Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

FFP 371 | Hypothalamic Amenorrhea & The Menstrual Cycle | Cynthia Donovan

Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

Fertility Friday Radio | Fertility Awareness for Pregnancy and Hormone-free birth control

Alternative Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Cynthia is a Registered Dietitian in the US with a Master's of  science in Nutrition and has been a Registered Dietitian for over 10  years. Cynthia is a non-diet dietitian and believes in Health at Every Size. Helping women recover from Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (no period)  & find food & exercise freedom is a speciality area of hers. Due  to her own struggles with HA, disordered eating & infertility,  Cynthia was driven to specialize in HA. Throughout the years, Cynthia has worked in various areas in the field of nutrition which has led her  to where she is today operating her own virtual practice & working  with women across the world helping them recover their period and find  balance with food and exercise.

Today Cynthia shares her experience with HA and how it changed her practice (to focus on HA with her clients).

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Topics discussed in today's episode:
  • Cynthia's HA misdiagnosis and her experience

  • How old Cynthia was when she got her first period and if she ever used birth control

  • The common misdiagnosis of PCOS and HA

  • The difference between HA and PCOS
  • The similarities in symptoms of HA and PCOS
  • How the diagnosis for PCOS and HA differ

  • The challenges women face getting the correct diagnosis

  • Cynthia's, body size, eating habits and workout routine that contributed to her late menstrual cycle start

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Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by J-Gantic

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies, we need to talk about temp drop.

0:02.7

Tempdrop gives you everything you need to effortlessly track your fertility.

0:06.4

Wear the tempterop sensor while you sleep for accurate temperature readings without the stress of early morning wakeups.

0:12.1

Temtrop's accompanying app enables you to chart an array of symptoms alongside your temperature, including cervical mucus and OPEKs.

0:20.1

Combine these fertility signs all in one place to identify

0:22.8

your fertile window and confirm ovulation. Whether you're trying to conceive, avoiding pregnancy,

0:28.5

or want to chart for health reasons, tempterop makes fertility awareness accessible to all women,

0:33.5

even if you don't have regular cycles or sleeping patterns. Head over to fertility friday.com slash tempterop and use coupon code fertility Friday at checkout

0:43.7

for 10% off your order.

0:45.9

That's fertility friday.com slash temp drop.

0:49.3

This is the fertility Friday podcast episode episode number 3701. Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for

1:02.8

information about the fertility awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson

1:08.0

Jack. I'm the author of the Fifth Vital Sign and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Journal. I'm a host, Lisa Hendrickson Jack. I'm the author of the fifth vital sign and the

1:11.0

fertility awareness mastery charting journal. I'm a certified fertility awareness educator and

1:15.8

holistic reproductive health practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience teaching women to connect

1:20.9

to their fifth vital sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing hormonal health,

1:25.5

and optimizing the menstrual cycle without hormones.

1:29.4

I'm outspoken about hormonal birth control and its impact on fertility and overall health

1:33.9

because you have the right to know how your body works and how artificial hormones disrupt that

1:39.0

natural process. I host live coaching programs to help you achieve optimal fertility and health because it's important to have healthy menstrual cycles regardless of whether or not you want to have babies.

1:50.7

I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys. I know, I know, I'm a busy girl, but I managed to fit it all in.

1:58.0

This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control of your cycles,

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