So for example,

actually, if we're looking at like fertility awareness method, which is a way of tracking your cycle to prevent pregnancy or to achieve pregnancy, they say if you're exclusively breastfeeding and your baby is not fully sleeping through the night up to six months, like you're very unlikely to ovulate.

Now, it can still happen.

But for like my sister-in-law just had a baby.

She just turned four months old and she just got her period back.

But her baby's been sleeping through the night for like a month.

And so it very much does have to do with that hormone signaling based on prolactin and how much breast milk you're making and things like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so whether that's now or that's later, we, I mean, of course we want it to be both, we, we do have to consider that neurotransmitters are gonna play a role in mood as well.

There's never just one thing that we're looking at when we want to improve function for someone overall.

And so one of the questions I get so often, I'm sure you do too, Heather, is like, "Okay, I'm doing these things for my clients.

I'm doing these things to help-" Myself with my hormones, how many of these apply to my husband? And this is where I think women as a, as a whole, we have kind of this baseline knowledge that if he is going to feel good, he needs to be taking care of himself, right? So there's just this basic human need for consistency with your f- with whole foods, blood sugar balance, getting enough nutrients and minerals in so that your iron and copper can be balanced, so that your sodium potassium can be balanced, so that you can have adequate insulin regulation.

Just baseline metabolic function, baseline health.

You have to be sleeping.

Mm-hmm

Yeah.

And so what I usually see is not enough breakfast or not a solid breakfast, and then lunch could be a little bit sketchy, too.

Whether it's on purpose, not on purpose sketchy, but, like, maybe it is, like, I'm trying to eat chicken and salad and, like, trying to, like, eat healthy but also have it be, you know, like, lower calorie or, like, that kind of thing.

This is where over time, going back to your actual question, over time our bodies are getting a lot of signals that there's really not quite enough there.

Whether it's not enough nutrients or not enough calories or not a good balance of macronutrients, this over time absolutely causes blood sugar issues in the moment.

That's huge.

Blood sugar is huge because when you're not getting enough breakfast, you're drinking some coffee, your body gives yourself a cortisol spike, which feels great sometimes in the moment, sometimes it feels terrible in the moment depending on what you're used to and the, the moment that you're in.

Mm-hmm

Mm-hmm

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BFF has it, even if your sister has it, even if it's always run in your family, you do not have to be stuck with hormone symptoms.

So I'm gonna come from a place of talking about just a normal menstrual cycle that does not include a ton of PMS or PMDD or those changes.

I am gonna mention that toward the end when they show up and how that does affect your habits and your spending.

But I'm gonna be talking about a menstrual cycle that is not a rollercoaster ride that's like whipping you around like crazy, because that is not normal, and that is something I can help you fix.

But I'm coming from a place of more of these gentle waves, because we are different throughout the phases of our cycle, but it's not bad, and it's just how our bodies work.

Yeah.