What You Need to Know About Your Cycle (with Dr. Sarah Hill)

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Do you feel crappy before getting your period? Christine chats with Dr. Sarah Hill about the biological explanation for feeling depleted in the second half of the menstrual cycle, how our cycle impacts everything from nutrition to exercise to relationships to sex, and practical tips for how to best care for yourself and support your body across the cycle. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.0	We're having a baby.
0:06.0	We're having a baby.
0:07.0	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.0	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.0	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.0	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.0	I think of it like a Tamagotchi.
0:17.0	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:35.3	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:42.3	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:56.8	Friends, I am very excited for you to listen to today's conversation with Dr. Sarah Hill.
1:03.1	She is the author of The Period Brain, the new science of why we PMS, and how to fix it,
1:09.2	a manifesto for women. So I am always on board with conversations
1:14.3	that are taboo-busting and female-oriented, and I will admit that I was wondering about how
1:20.4	moved I would be by the contents of this book, given that I don't feel like I experience
1:25.0	PMS symptoms in the way they are often described.
1:28.5	But wow, this book by Dr. Hill is so eye-opening.
1:33.0	Both generally, I had many moments thinking, how is it that I don't know this crucial
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