May 18, 2019
#99 Nicole is a certified Women’s Health Coach and the creator of Fix Your Period, a series of programs that empower women to reclaim their hormone health using a method that combines simplicity and sass. Her incredible work has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of women around the world in effectively addressing a wide variety of period problems, including PMS, irregular periods, PCOS, painful periods, amenorrhea, and many more.
Nicole is also the co-host of The Period Party, a top-rated podcast on iTunes and she’s the creator of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s hormone health continuing education course. She’s been a keynote speaker for the highly acclaimed Cycles and Sex, a platform and event series devoted to building awareness and education around sexual, menstrual, hormonal, and reproductive health. And, finally, Nicole is the co-author of The Happy Balance, a gorgeous recipe book filled with over 80 hormone balancing recipes.
In this episode we cover
- What menorrhagia is and what drives it
- How thyroid health can contribute to heavy periods
- What a normal versus heavy period looks like
- What can potentially happen to the vaginal microbiome when we bleed for longer than 7 days
- What kind of testing we can do to further investigate a heavy period
- Natural treatments for heavy periods
- And much more