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Healthful Pursuit Podcast

Missing Period - Hypothalamic Amenorrhea & Your Hormones

Healthful Pursuit Podcast

Leanne Vogel

Moldillness, Health & Fitness, Functionalmedicine, Parasites, Holistichealth, Symptoms, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I open up about my personal experience with amenorrhea—losing my period and navigating the confusion, frustration, and fear that came with it. I share what triggered it, what I tried (and what didn’t work), and how I eventually supported my body to bring my cycle back. Whether you're going through something similar or want to understand your body better, this is a vulnerable and empowering conversation on hormones, healing, and learning to trust your body again.

 

Hosted by Leanne Vogel.

 

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0:00.0

Today on the Healthful Pursuit podcast.

0:03.6

I'm not ovulating and I would really like to because it's a sign of health, no.

0:08.7

And I met a lot of doctors like that and a lot of endocrinologists that told me to just go back on the pill.

0:13.9

And then I met one endocrinologist that convinced me that going on hormone replacement therapy was a good idea.

0:19.7

I would like to say that I perfectly planned today's episode, but I truly didn't.

0:24.3

I was going through old episodes and found an episode that I did in 2015, that I then

0:32.5

replayed in 2020, that I want to replay again in 2025 because this year marks 10 years that I have had a cycle

0:43.2

after being diagnosed with hypothalamic amenorrhea where every specialist said that I would

0:49.5

never have a cycle again and there was no way to get my cycle back. So I've now had a period for 10 solid

0:56.9

years. My period has been, you know, ups and downs as I started to regulate. But wow, what a

1:03.4

journey it has been. Now, when I, when I got my period after having hypothalamic amenorrhea,

1:09.2

I had been without a period for eight years,

1:12.7

eight long years. The first couple of years, I could have cared less. I just loved that I could

1:17.1

not think about it. But come year, like five, six, seven, I really started caring a lot. I went

1:24.5

to a ton of doctors and nobody really had true answers for me.

1:28.6

Their question was always, well, do you want to get pregnant? And at the time, Kevin and I weren't

1:33.0

in a position to do that. And I said, well, no, but I should want to have a period, right?

1:39.1

They're like, well, it's not really necessary for overall function. Gosh, was that wrong? If you have experienced a lack of period,

1:47.1

you know that over time, it just feels like something essential is missing. It just doesn't

1:54.6

feel right. And a period is such a sign of health in your menstruating years that you have

2:00.4

that period.

2:01.2

And it was really important for me to get it back.

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