Period Fix: Using Herbal Remedies and Natural Medicine to Optimize Your Periods and to Reduce Symptoms of PMS, Heavy Periods, Painful Periods, PCOS, ... and More (Gut and Hormone Health Series) - Softcover

Moretti, Heidi

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798988469841

Publisher: Healthy RD, The, 2024

Synopsis

Women’s period health is often relegated when it comes to research dollars and attention by doctors. Even worse, conventional medicine can end up making women feel worse instead of better! But there are many more options for optimizing your menstrual health than you may know and many of these start with food, nutrients, and safe herbal supplements as natural medicine.

Gain freedom from your period issues by using natural approaches by reading this all-encompassing hormone and uterine health book.

Topics in this period book include:

• PMS, PCOS, heavy periods, painful periods, uterine fibroids
• Natural options for special conditions like Mittelschmerz, endometriosis, and menstrual migraines
• Hormone balance diet for women’s health, and when and how to seek help
• Perimenopause and menopausal strategies
• 400+ National Library of Medicine references
• 30+ hormone-healing recipes and numerous herbal uses for women

This book is my life’s passion because like many of you, I have struggled with my periods and their consequences for most of my life. I will share with you what has worked for me, how I had to find the answers the hard way, the science to back these solutions up, and how the current Medical-Industrial complex doesn’t always acknowledge these safe and natural options.

Heidi Moretti, MS, RD has a 25-year career as a tenacious nutritionist, researcher, and bestselling author that fights the ongoing dogmatic practices that exclude natural medicines. Her goal in life as an author is to disseminate nutrition and natural medicine research that is rarely seen and discussed by mainstream media or conventional medicine practitioners.

About this title

About the Author

Heidi Moretti, MS, RD, is a Registered Dietitian and Bestselling Author in Medical Nutrition for the book Gut Fix.  She also works at Fresenius Medical Care and owns The Healthy RD LLC, a blog and resource for people looking for natural and scientifically proven remedies for health issues. She received post-graduate school training through the Institute for Functional Medicine and is constantly using the National Library of Medicine to uncover natural medicines research. She is also the author of The Whole Body Guide to Gut Health and The Elimination Diet Journal. She has published numerous clinical research studies as the principal investigator for these studies, including:

"Vitamin D3 repletion versus placebo as adjunctive treatment of heart failure patient quality of life and hormonal indices: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial."
"Biotin Deficiency as a target for treating restless legs syndrome in chronic dialysis patients."
"Effects of protein supplementation in chronic hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients."
"Prevalence of low albumin, suboptimal energy, and muscle stores in Asian dialysis patients."
 
Additionally, she worked for over twenty years at Providence Saint Patrick Hospital in Missoula, where she honed her clinical skills and continued to find ways to add functional medicine into a conventional world.

From the Inside Flap

I have one mission in writing this book.


It is to make women aware that they have more options than they thought possible when it comes to their abnormal periods. By knowing this one fact that there are options, women don't have to be trapped into the world of synthetic pharmaceuticals-if they don't want to. I know firsthand that these pharmaceutical options can do more harm than good in some cases.

Nature often has everything people need to help their bodies have a normal period. This simple fact is life-changing if you know how to harness the power of what the earth gives us.


While I don't claim to be an expert in hormones, I also know that no one is truly an expert in women's hormones and our organs. How do I know this? Research related to women's health largely didn't start until 1993, when women's inclusion in research became law by the National Institutes of health1. That was a wee 30 years ago.


You may know that birth control was invented in the 1950s, but it was invented by men2. And as such, the testing on it was more for their benefit and not ours. For example, those women who were first tested on "the pill" who reported side effects were considered "unreliable participants." Many of these women were tested on without their informed consent, which is also a major human rights violation2-3. Some of them even died from these experiments. Today's birth control is a bit more refined than it was in the 1950s, but many women like me don't want the side effects that these hormones bring. They want a natural, healthy period that isn't masked by the pill.


On a related note, did you know that when you take the pill, you don't ovulate? How can that be the main solution to birth control and period health? While I truly support women who are on the pill because it provides freedom from pregnancy, it isn't tolerable for some and miserable to take for many.


Natural Medicine Silenced By Big Pharma


What I do claim to be an expert in is research, but you should know that research in natural medicine is systematically silenced by powerful forces, including Big Pharma. For over three decades during graduate school and afterward, I have immersed myself in the National Library of Medicine because early on, I learned that preventive medicine and herbal research are rarely, if ever, disseminated to doctors. I have a deep desire to do better for myself and my patients. Because of this, I have uncovered research gems about natural medicine that can help people which is what I'm here to do for you. I've had help from my wonderful naturopath along the way, but a lot of what I know is by tirelessly looking for answers.


As a registered dietitian for over 25 years, I know there is a better way for women's health. By studying herbs, natural medicines, and food-related strategies to overcome hormonal issues, I have much to share with the world. This comes full circle with my mission in writing this book: to share the vast array of options that get little mention in this world otherwise. And I know that you can, like me, learn not only to embrace being a woman but to enjoy the ebbs and flows that give us our strength.


These research gems I have discovered about natural healing aren't shared in medical schools because of a long-standing separation of natural medicine from medical schools. This separation was single-highhandedly established by the cunning actions of one man named Abraham Flexner who shut down any medical school if they were teaching natural medicines back in the early 1900s4. He was hired by the coffers of Rockefeller and Carnegie who were capitalists that happened to be cashing in on pharmaceuticals made from their petrochemicals which are chemicals derived from oil. I'm serious: they were wielding their power because of their monopolies and turning these oil chemicals into drugs. It still stands this way today, the shunning of natural medicines, whether there is research behind these natural medicines or not.

Edition details

• Publisher: Healthy RD, The
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798988469841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Moretti Josephina