Lara Briden - The Period Revolutionary
Leading the change to better periods and hormones
How hormonal factors such as PMDD, perimenopause, and hormonal birth control influence mood and sleep. Articles explore the role of mast cell activation, histamine, and body-identical progesterone.
Eight hours of continuous sleep is a modern and artificial rest pattern. Some people are fortunate to have adapted to it fairly well, but for many of us, our bodies remember a different time.
Night used to be longer. Before electric light and Facebook, people went to bed earlier. Our ancestors didn’t need to condense sleep into an efficient eight hour bundle, so they enjoyed segmented sleep, or divided sleep.
We must not fear estrogen—our own queen of hormones. With all the current talk of estrogen dominance, plus the 2002 HRT scare, estrogen has acquired a bad reputation it does not deserve.
Those of us who treat young women know that some women need to eat carbs or what I call gentle carbs.
A keto diet is great in theory and great for many people. But it does not work for everyone.