“Estrogen dominance” is not a term typically used by the research or professional medical community. If the condition were described to them, however, they would be able to identify it. It is a real and common thing for women to have excessive estrogen...
Do you have a pair of special “fat pants” (I know, a terrible, terrible term) that you have to wear when you PMS every month? You’re not alone. I am most certainly a co-sufferer. As are millions of other women. It’s challenging to link...
Ladies! My apologies. I have been writing a blog on womanhood and the paleo diet for years now, and I have yet to write a post on PMS. Better late than never, I say! What follows is the low down on Pre-Menstrual Syndome (for cramps specifically, which is...
Starting this upcoming week, Paleo for Women is going to be embarking on Birth Control Week! Which will likely in fact last more than one week. Or one month. Did you know there are nearly two dozen different types of birth control?! And we shall be talking about...
Endometriosis is a widely encountered but poorly understood condition (as is the case with most hormonal disorders, such as PCOS.) It affects, by some estimates, up to 20 percent of women of reproductive age, and by more modest estimates, around 5-10 percent. In...
Soy contains a certain kind of molecule called a “phytoestrogen” that acts like estrogen in the body.Health professionals disagree strongly about whether phytoestrogens are healthy for women to eat. Is soy (and flax, another potent phytoestrogen-containing food) the...
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