ANOTHER PCOS book?! Yuuup. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing. For one thing, PCOS is very common. In fact it’s one of, if not the, most common hormonal issue in women of childbearing age, so I think it’s a good thing to discuss. Not only that, but in general a lot of the… Read More
Book review: Natural solutions to PCOS
I get questions from people frequently who have polycystic ovarian syndrome or who think they may based on what’s going on with their charts and symptoms. That’s not surprising, considering polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a condition thought to affect about 10% of US women. BUT, even though PCOS is prevalent, it’s actually often very… Read More
Book review: Slow death by rubber duck
When I first started using fertility awareness (and subsequently studying to become a teacher) I got really obsessed with reading everything even tangentially related to fertility awareness, meaning I did a lot of reading on women’s health and hormonal health. One of my favorite subjects ended up being endocrine disrupting chemicals. I remember the first… Read More
What is the BEST book to learn fertility awareness?
I’ve covered a bit about the different ways to learn the fertility awareness method on this blog before. Of course, one of those ways is through books, many of which I have listed on my recommended reading page. But just saying you can learn from books doesn’t mean much, right? What’s the best book you could… Read More
Book review: Herbal Healing for Women
I have had the book Herbal Healing for Women by Rosemary Gladstar for probably at least two years and I had started and stopped reading it a couple of different times. I finally decided to finish the darn thing. This is becoming one of my new reference books. I think with a combination of this… Read More
Book Review: Period Repair Manual
Have you ever read a book and you just can’t stop recommending it to people? Maybe even start to feel like everyone is going to think you are paid to recommend it to them? Yeah, that. That’s how I’ve been feeling about Period Repair Manual by Dr. Lara Briden. I bought the book basically the… Read More
Book Review: Fertility Cycles and Nutrition
As I’ve mentioned before, I used to be (and still am in a lot of respects) a nutrition geek. I got my degree in nutrition and spent a lot of time doing different “diets” (of course I never considered it a diet, it was a lifestyle change, you know). I have some different new… Read More
Why can’t we question the pill? An interview with Holly Grigg-Spall
Questioning the safety and, currently extensive, use of hormonal contraceptives (especially the pill) is not well accepted. I think that I only truly grasped that fact after seeing the backlash from Sweetening the Pill: or how we got hooked on hormonal birth control by Holly Grigg-Spall. I followed her facebook page before the book was… Read More
Living Well With Hypothyroidism by Mary Shomon
Because body temperature can be a really good indicator of low thyroid function (or high thyroid function), many people who begin taking their basal body temperature daily notice that they may have a bit of a thyroid issue, which many people do have, undiagnosed. Shomon’s book is intended to disseminate information that she researched for… Read More