How Do I Know if My Period is Normal?

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that periods are a vital sign? They tell us so much about what is happening in the body and can be used as an indicator for underlying conditions like endometriosis or fibroids. Today we’re diving deep into menstrual cycles with fertility physician Dr. Obehi Asemota. Dr. Asemota will be covering what happens during a normal menstrual cycle, the long term effects of birth control, what is considered normal for PMS and more.

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

How the menstrual cycle works
Signs that your menstrual cycle is not normal
The myths surrounding birth control and fertility
How the body changes as we approach menopause
PMS & more!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:21.2	Welcome back to another episode.
0:24.4	We are thrilled to bring on one of our most recent guests, Dr. Obehi Asimoda.
0:32.3	She did an episode with us on fertility.
0:35.0	And you all sent us so many questions about the menstrual cycle that we thought we would dedicate a Q&A
0:42.4	just for that.
0:43.5	And for those of you who didn't listen to our fertility episode, you got to run it back and play it
0:48.1	because it is super informative.
0:50.2	I learned so much. And for those of you not familiar with Dr. Asimoda, she is the mommy of the cutest
0:56.9	twin boys as per her bio. She's also a wife, fertility doctor, practice owner. Her practice is
1:04.2	based in Atlanta, Georgia. It's called hope fertility. And she told us that she also does
1:09.8	virtual visits, which Jess and I are like, oh my gosh, sign us up because she's incredible.
1:15.2	Yeah, this episode was great because even us being healthcare providers, we didn't really learn
1:21.5	that much about the menstrual cycle. Like I don't really know anything about the phases,
1:25.1	the gluteal, like, and it was helpful to just have a breakdown of what's going on in the
1:29.7	different phases when somebody is most fertile when they're least fertile. Also, we talk about just
1:36.0	what is a normal menstrual cycle? How do you identify when it's abnormal? What do you do when
1:40.9	it's abnormal? At what point you're going through menopause? Like when you're parry menopausal?
1:46.0	I mean, we really talked about everything, even people who may be going through early menopause,
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