FFP 576 | Using The Menstrual Cycle As A Vital Sign In Adolescent Girls | FAMM Research Series

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

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

Hormones, Menstrualcycle, Birthcontrol, Health & Fitness, Fertility, Infertility, Fertilityawareness, Thepill, Pregnancy, Fertilityfriday, Alternative Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The menstrual cycle is a vital sign. So why isn’t it treated like one? 10 years after ACOG said we should be assessing every teen girl’s cycle… most clinicians still aren’t doing it. We need to change that.

Follow this link to view the full show notes page!

This episode is sponsored by Lisa’s new book Real Food for Fertility, co-authored with Lily Nichols! Grab your copy here!

Would you prefer to listen to the audiobook version of Real Food for Fertility instead? 🎧 Listen here!

This episode is also sponsored by FAMM, the Fertility Awareness Mastery MentorshipTM program! Apply now to join the waiting list for our next class!

Have you grabbed your copy of the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook? It is the first fully customizable paper charting workbook of its kind, available in both Fahrenheit and Celsius editions. Click here to grab your copy today!

📚 If you haven’t grabbed your copy of The Fifth Vital Sign, grab it here!

Would you rather listen to the audiobook version of The Fifth Vital Sign? 🎧 Listen here!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Save the date, ladies. The next round of FAM starts in July, and this is the last time we're offering FAM in 2025.
0:07.5	If you are waiting for the perfect time to join, it's now. Head over to fertility friday.com
0:12.4	slash FAMWL to join the waiting list today. That's FertilityFraday.com slash FAMM-WL, and you'll be the first to know when registration opens up again again that's
0:23.7	fertility friday dot com slash f a mw l this is the fertility friday podcast episode number
0:30.7	576 in today's episode, I am revisiting one of my favorite topics, which is the menstrual cycle as a vital sign.
0:46.9	Why that we should look at the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. And I think it's also useful.
0:51.4	When I first came out with the book, The Fifth Vital Sign, I think a lot of people hadn't heard that concept before. So I know that that has been really
0:59.2	the center of a lot of my work, I think, from the very start, because this has always been my
1:03.9	understanding and this is where how I always framed fertility awareness as part of the way that we
1:08.8	are able to learn and understand that our cycle is
1:13.7	part of us and it's a reflection of health and all of that. So it's always been a part of my own
1:19.2	personal journey. It was part of my entrance into the world of fertility awareness. And so it was
1:25.2	the natural title for my book, The Fifth Vital Sign to really draw
1:28.1	attention to that. And through the course of many interviews and all of the years of talking
1:33.2	about it, a lot of people have asked me if I came up with this idea. And ironically, I didn't
1:37.9	come up with the idea. It was definitely presented to me at a young age. And so certainly that
1:42.8	has shaped my understanding of it.
1:44.6	And one of the examples of that is, are some of the, some of the research that I shared in the
1:50.5	fifth vital sign.
1:56.9	In the very first chapter of the fifth vital sign, I share that both the American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, ACOG, report that menstruation should be monitored as a vital sign in adolescent girls.
2:13.1	So in today's episode, we are actually going to, I'm going to take you through this committee
2:18.1	opinion piece that was released in 2015 that really outlines that.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Fertility Friday Radio | Fertility Awareness for Pregnancy and Hormone-free birth control, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Fertility Friday Radio | Fertility Awareness for Pregnancy and Hormone-free birth control and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.