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PCOS and

EndometriosisCan it really be this simple?

Heather Bruce 2014 WFAS Endo and PCOS 1

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Normal mensesDefinition:

Optimal Qi and Blood production, and circulation

From age of puberty (7x2 ideally) – when the Chong and Ren are replete of Blood, and she is biologically ready to reproduce -

4 – 5 days of clean red liquid blood flow from the vagina, as the release of an unused ‘baby nest’.

(No S&S past blood loss, with cervical mucous discharge alerting her to fertile window mid cycle)

Repeat over several decades, unless pregnant/lactating.

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Ingredients for a normal

menstrual cycle Blood energy strong

Good Jing expression

TH - the digestive system are all working well

Peaceful Shen

Orderly stable life

Free from pollutants of all descriptions

(Menstrual cycle is a report card of the events of the last month/year/her life/family inheritance on all levels)

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Spirit/energy/physical beings

We are more

than that

which the

scientific

world

(physical

dimension

only) may

seek to

define us

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Normal women’s physiology

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Home of the Shen

and its connection

to her womb

dictate the free

flowing of all life

essence for the

potential

generations to

follow

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HEART – UTERUS/PROSTATE

Anything that

“breaks” her

heart can

sever the

connection &

thus the flow

of Qi/Blood/

Thus – all

nourishment

on all levels

to the pelvis

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Is she ‘stressed’?

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Concurrent presence of cold?

(Initial presentation)

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Look to restoring Yang Qi

No micro managing.

Yang Qi – we are no use to

ourselves without an

ample supply in circulation

Cold causes the Yang to

be in storage holding it at

bay.

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Ingredients needed- hormonal

‘mud-map’

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What tends to block nutrient

assimilation/life

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Liver Meridian

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All the potential places the obstructed

Liver Qi and Blood flow can directly

deposit reminders

What causes flow to congest?

All aspects of life not allowed to be

expressed in women – often due to the

dislocation – Heart to body, self

expression and self awareness and self

respect – as mirrored by culture and

through interpersonal relationships.

Sexual expression without

release/orgasming.

Multiple chemical interventions that block

normal messengers (hormones)

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Blood and Qi flow disruptions Cycle changes, she changes, life on every front is disrupted – not

just a menstrual issue.

Liver Qi (emotions) even if they were previously stable, will now become involved

TCM - Stuck Liver Qi/Blood with Heat & often Damp

Various meridian therapies – congestion/lack of flow/normal movement of Qi and Blood

Five phase acupuncture – undo CF/free emotional blockages

ALL see the need to

Restore the circulation - reduce what is blocking the body’s natural ability to heal itself – on all levels.

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Endometriosis WM version – extra endometrial tissue in places it was not designed

to be. (Including within alimentary tract and onto spinal cord – not just local pelvic structures)

This responds to normal monthly changes, creating pockets of inflammation, obvious black spots of stuck blood, and local bleeding/pain and bloating as the cycles relentlessly roll on.

Why?

‘We suspect that the high estrogen levels in American women and increasing number of women with auto immune disorders are a contributing factor. It also often runs in families. And we know from clinical experience that emotional issues are often involved. But in all these causes we find the theme of hormonal imbalance’. Off the net –general information for womenhttp://www.womentowomen.com/sex-fertility/endometriosis-start-with-a-natural-approach/

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What is endometriosis? Endometriosis can appear on the Fallopian tubes, the ovaries, the

outside of the uterus, the peritoneum, or the intestines. Each month this displaced tissue responds to the hormonal changes that regulate your menstrual cycle, engorging itself through the first half of the cycle, and often releasing a small amount of blood in the second half, which causes repeated irritation to the surrounding tissue.

Over time this can cause scarring or adhesions inside the reproductive organs, pelvis, and intestines. Adhesions are like spider webs inside the abdomen. It has been speculated that when the scarring occurs on reproductive organs it can contribute to fertility issues and increased menstrual pain. Some 3 to 10 per cent of all women have endometriosis, while 9 to 50 per cent of infertility is caused by this condition. A much newer understanding is that significant amounts of evidence associates endometriosis and high levels of dioxins, a type of environmental toxin.

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Worst hormonal disruptors

Bisphenol A (BPA)

Dioxin

Atrazine

Perchlorate

Phthalates

Fire retardants

Lead

Perfluorinated chemicals

(PFCs)

Arsenic

Mercury

Organophosphate

pesticides

Glycol ethers

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Who gets endometriosis? 2002 - Advances in understanding the epidemiology of endometriosis

have lagged behind other diseases because of methodologicproblems related to disease definition and control selection. Nevertheless, a better picture of the epidemiology of endometriosis has emerged over the past few decades. Prevalence estimates of the disease in clinic populations vary from about a 4% occurrence of largely asymptomatic endometriosis found in women undergoing tubal ligation to 50% of teenagers with intractable dysmenorrhea.

General population incidence during the 1970s in this country has been suggested to be 1.6 per 1000 white females aged 15-49, while a more current study based upon hospital discharges finds endometriosis as a first listed diagnosis in 1.3 per 1000 discharges in women aged 15-44. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Mar;955: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11949940

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‘Best Practice’ current WM

treatment Laser/surgical removal

Place her on chemical castration for the duration she does not want to be fertile.

Aim to control the fertility when trying to get pregnant

Management of secondary distressing S&S

BUT . . .

No regard of homeostasis, or a reduction of causative factors (‘We don’t know how this happens’).

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EndometriosisTCM

Stuck Blood and Qi

Damp and phlegm

Hot Blood

Why?

Myriad pathways – look to what causes heat of all forms

to interfere with the Jing template

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PCO

S

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What is PCOS? Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome or actually can see the poly

cystic ovaries.

Lacking normal hormonal messages to release egg from follicles – over time – a build up of fluid and swelling and hormones in chaos.

Shows up as fluid protecting tissues where heat is held.

Energetically – clear the source of the heat and the fluid will naturally not need to be there/resolve itself.

More than what is happening in /to the ovaries – it is a total body experience

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What is PCOS? “Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most commonly

encountered endocrinopathy in women of reproductive age.

‘Because 16% to 25% of the normal population has polycystic-appearing ovaries on ultrasound,3 the presence of polycystic ovaries was considered to be suggestive but not diagnostic of PCOS.

‘However, the Rotterdam European Society of Human Reproduction/American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ESHRE/ASRM)-Sponsored PCOS Consensus Workshop Group that convened in 2003 now requires the existence of two of the following three criteria to make the diagnosis of PCOS4: oligo-ovulation or anovulation, clinical or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism, and polycystic ovaries”. http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/medicalpubs/diseasemanagement/womens-health/polycystic-ovary-syndrome/

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Who gets it? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10352918

Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 1999 Jun;28(2):247-63 –

USA - 5% of women of reproductive age.

http://ijem.in/article.asp?issn=2230-

8210;year=2012;volume=16;issue=8;spage=389;epage=392

;aulast=Gill (2012 – 1052 girls)

Calculated prevalence of PCOS in women between the ages

of 18-25 years from Lucknow, north India, is 3.7%. Majority

of these girls were lean but have abdominal obesity.

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Liver Meridian

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All the potential places the obstructed

Liver Qi and Blood flow can directly

deposit reminders

What causes flow to congest?

All aspects of life not allowed to be

expressed in women – often due to the

dislocation – Heart to body, self

expression and self awareness and self

respect – as mirrored by culture and

through interpersonal relationships.

Sexual expression without

release/orgasming.

Multiple chemical interventions that block

normal messengers (hormones)

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Why worry? Excellent resource

http://www.breastcancerfund.org/assets/pdfs/publicatio

ns/falling-age-of-puberty-adv-guide.pdf

Early puberty is a precursor to lifelong metabolic/

cardiovascular/digestive/chronic pelvic pain/infertility,

and later on breast and reproductive cancers

What does this look like to TCM?

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Damp – to Phlegm eventually

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Heather Bruce Copyright 2007

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To ‘fix’ this - add in more .. . Pure ingredients – water, food, sunshine, rest, loving

touch, safety, life enjoyment

Vit D – the foundation of all life – DNA/RNA expression,

immune responses, formation of all hormones

Vits C, B – water soluble - needed all throughout the day

Dietary fat – for neuronal/hormonal health

Magnesium – in all forms, especially topical

Iodine – topical and eating daily seaweeds

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Usual naturopathic advice Reduce high calorie/carbohydrate loading

Reduce all chemical exposure

Detox where possible against heavy metals (thus allowing

increased absorption of appropriate nutrients)

Increase cruciferous veggies, fibre, fats

Increase pure water, reduce all alcohol, caffeines

More Vit D, Iodine, magnesium (topical is best)

Vit C and other liver detoxifiers

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Plus - Self care

Prioritise self – life balance

Nightly organic castor oil packs

Vaginal herbal steaming/mother roasting – cultures differ

Mayan abdominal massage/Arvigo therapy (to increase homeostasis in circulation of arterial and venous blood supply, lymph, qi and normalisation of ligament tension to allow return of optimal uterine and other pelvic organ placement.

Undoing any trauma stored within

Awareness of the role of emotional stability in health – exercises, relationships and life balance

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What is causing this

epidemic? (PCOS and endo)Heat - what to attribute the causes to?

Emotional and dietary foundations/interactions plus

Environmental

Heavy metal contamination

Lack of Iodine (vaginal BBT will highlight the thyroid)

Imbalance progesterone/estrogen

Presence of myco estrogens

Low Iodine, Vit D, magnesium

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Where Iodine binds in the

body Iodine Iodide

Breast Thyroid, breast

Prostate Salivary glands

Stomach Skin

Four thyroid hormones:

T1 & T2 – not well understood what they do physiologically

T4 – made in the thyroid gland in high amounts if there is sufficient iodine available.

T3 – some made in thyroid gland, but most is made in the cells by conversion of T4 into T3, which is 10x more metabolically active than t4. Body requires iodine and Selenium to make this conversion

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What other organ makes

thyroid hormones? Answer: the ovaries

Specifically, the ovaries can make “T2” which can be converted into T3 or T4 throughout the body.

(Weight gain at the time of menopause/ovary removal/hysterectomy when the ovaries begin to fail may be caused by loss of T2 production)

T2 is “diidothyronine”. Also made in ovaries and can be converted through T4 to T3

What is happening when there is not enough Iodine and cycles are happening? Potential PCOS/endo leading into cancer in later years?

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Iodine is harder to absorb

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Why we need Iodine Metabolism – absorption of food, sleep cycles, and the transformation of food into

usable energy, protein synthesis all run by the presence of Iodine – converted from T4 to T3 (with Selenium).

Maintains the BMR (Basic Metabolic Rate), Influences heart rate, blood pressure, body weight and temperature.

Maintains optimal energy levels of the body by ensuring the efficient utilization of calories, without allowing them to be deposited as excess fats.

Formation of healthy and shiny skin, teeth and hair. Iodine is an important element for hair care, as a lack of this mineral can result in hair loss.

Iodine helps in the normal growth and maturity of reproductive organs/cycle and growth of breasts/normal expressions of puberty.

Iodine is a scavenger of free hydroxyl radicals, and that, like vitamin-C, it also stimulates and increases the activity of antioxidants throughout the body to provide a strong defensive measure against various diseases, including heart disease and cancer.

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Iodine from our beginnings Iodine helps in the normal growth and maturity of reproductive organs. A

sufficient quantity of iodine in pregnant women is essential to prevent stillbirths or neurocognitive conditions like cretinism in the newborn babies.

Iodine deficiency can also lead to gestational hypertension, which can result in a number of complications during infancy. Iodine also ensures proper movement and growth, along with speech and hearing abilities. Furthermore, besides affecting the health of the baby once it is conceived, a deficiency in iodine can actually make a woman infertile!

One problem that many pregnant women face is not realizing that they must consume iodine for herself and her child, because iodine passes into breast milk and a great deal is lost every day.

Studies show that a pregnant or nursing woman can actually lose more than her entire required dose of iodine every day, which can result in serious iodine deficiency for her, even after pregnancy and breastfeeding is over, due to the changes in activity of her hormonal glands.

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How can we test for Iodine? Very easily – have a bottle of Lugol’s on hand – and

pop it on the skin.Initially just a bit – as sometimes the skin reacts ..

WHERE?Belly is best.

Arms and legs are not so quick/useful – although if very deficient – it will go within a minute (Taigan -precocious puberty case).

If it does magically disappear – (as it often does) you have an easy case ahead.

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Iodine absorption - 6 ½

months pregnant

A telling three minutes. .

Top two – See brown spot in middle- Iodine

gone in the time it took to take another

picture.

On right – colour it started at

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Iodine deficiency Frustration (brain fog/brain slowness AKA

‘aging/’baby brain’)

Depression, (of all systems) abnormal weight gain, constipation and fatigue

Coarse skin, hair loss and slow hair growth, mental slowness/retardation, poor perception levels

Digestive, immunological and thus allergies/auto immunity rising

Ringing in ears

Goiter, growths, swellings/cysts/generalised fluid retention

Lack of cell death (aptoptosis) more cancers

Looks like DAMP/Phlegm obstructing

Sleep apnoea

Carpel tunnel, plantar fascilitis

Decreased fertility, chances of still birth in expectant mothers

In severe cases, mental retardation associated with diseases such as cretinism, characterized by serious physical malformations, can be the result.

Decreased ability to detox poisons –resulting in ‘mitochondrial’ malfunction and the growth of ASD with increase vaccinations – along with lack of maternally available magnesium, Vit D etc.

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According to WHO reports, iodine deficiency is one of the leading causes of

mental retardation all over the world.

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What does this mean?Very real problems in all Halide overdosing

Is being actively ignored with Fluoride ‘debates’ and retail opportunities, not health revival as state priorities

To use extra Iodine – due to the presence of all the wrong halogens, and various toxins - may need to fill up with Selenium first

May need to start your own research on this as the texts, and the medical profession that seems to be calling the shots is way behind

Warning!!! – you may need to start ask awkward questions/’redefining ‘authority’

Why are we fluoridating water?

Bromelating all fabrics/foods – and to the exclusion of iodine?

Hence the increase in all obstructive/damp and cancerous conditions.

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For women this means . . . Early menarche (possibility due to early family traumas/dislocation/plus introduction of

foreign males – we are primates - hence early likelihood of possible matings)

Horrendous hormonal, weight, metabolism and cystic, and cancerous growths/disturbances, all without reference to what would easily ‘fix’ them/return to body to homeostasis.

Aided by the presence of estrogenic substances – mimicking natural – may be phyto, xeno and myco – estrogenic in origin

Chemicals added to prevent various ‘health ‘ problems – heavy metals (dental amalgam) and all the adjunctives in vaccines

Lack of choice in finding organic, whole and nutritious food, all now leaning towards high carbohydrate/high sugar resulting in less mineral/proteins and fats to provide hormones /normal cycle.

Self medicating – comfort eating, sugar, chocolate, caffeine, alcohol, recreational and prescription drugs – all of which do not restore homeostasis

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Heather Bruce Copyright 2007

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Magnesium Wholefoods – in an ancient diet – was replete in this.

Is missing in the modern diet due to farming practices, an increased need to toxic life byproducts – and to neutralisesugars/caffeine, all preservatives, chemicals.

Milled out for ‘refined’ products

Is cancelled out by calcium – often chosen erroneously

Dark greens are not eaten sufficiently/ extensively

Mag is needed for detoxing through out the body.

Easily absorbed through the skin – transdermal/topical application

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Magnesium deficiency headaches and migraines,

all aches & pains,

‘growing pains’,

leg cramps,

jumpy/restless legs,

tremors, epilepsy, stroke,

muscle twitches,

ongoing structural spasms

Inability to clear toxins

fatigue or low energy,

restless sleep,

chronic constipation,

insulin resistance,

PMS, cranky, restless

hypertension, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis,

high blood pressure,

heart disease, cardiac &

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Mg depletion looks identicalTo Stuck Liver Qi

Musculo skeletal, spasms, tension, tremours,

Digestive of all types,

Emotional, cyclic problems

All S & S worse with ‘stress’ )

To Stuck Liver Blood

Pain, congestion, vascularities,

Cardiac and neurological complications

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Magnesium - turquoise

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Effects of past rape/sexual

abuse thus self medication ‘Stuck Liver Qi’, ‘Stuck Liver Blood and ‘Hot Blood’ may

be observed through the lens of TCM

Often are family ‘secrets’ adding to the stress.

Maybe unconsciously held altering all Qi

flow/corrupting normal self expression and of course

Liver Qi/normal menstruation

Historically – initial periods awful – red flag for eventual

disclosure of sexual abuse - something ‘broke’ her and

her self awareness.

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Extra considerations Exposure to hormonal contraceptive devices – either

pre natally or during own reproductive life

Evolutionary Psychology

www.epjournal.net – 2013. 11(3): 718-742

‘Psychobehavioral Effects of Hormonal Contraceptive

Use’

Lisa L. M. Welling,

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All cases I do not only add one thing /change as life is a mixture of all things missing.

BUT in older, long standing patients when I was working this out – could add just this in the missing piece of the puzzle added in changed their worlds.

Painful, just pregnant breasts relieved on the couch – one application of topical Iodine.

Fibrocystic beast gone within a month of topical daily treatment

Ovarian pain and cysts reduced with topical application over the ovary region. All with return towards normal of their vaginal BBT.

Endometriosis gone (well the pain first time in life – with liberal application across the lower belly daily.

In all – the colour of the iodine – starts a lot darker than normal – and instantly disappears.

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Sample case 4 children – horrendous pain in belly, over three months so hospitalised – in the past 3

months- no periods, getting emotionally distressed, fatter and belly extended. Told early MP – and massive PCOS cysts all through her ovaries.

Told she was too cystic to continue – get all organs removed.But she wanted a lot more children.

Nightly castor oil packs/red clover tea simmered and drink daily 2 cups.

No gluten/sugar/fruit

All fat increased and Vit D and iodine used.

Take vaginal BBT daily (desperate for more children)

Chinese herbs to clear out Stuck Blood.

When vaginal BBT dipped, and mucous seen, she stopped all but the dietary changes and iodine – and waited for a few weeks – pregnant!!

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Treatment regieme Vit D , mag and Iodine are the beginning of all supplements

now – as are topical and miss the gut not working well

All women in the community in NZ are well now as this was the key – before dietary changes - replacing in therapeutic amounts what was missing.

Younger women – breast development – not one sided or smaller than needs to breastfeed later - Iodine.

Period normalisation – increase minerals (and fat and Vit D to absorb) and less interventions needed as the wilted pot plant just got watered . .

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Recap Hot Blood and inner heat = fluid to protect tissues

Multiple and concurrent causes of the heat

Chemical toxicity

Environmental poisoning

Emotional beginnings and sequelae

Mineral and other nutritional deficiencies – Jing disruptions

Becomes a perfect storm

Are all easily undone if we recognise the above and work back to homeostasis

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‘The World Until Yesterday’

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

Latest book by Jared Diamond - He uses the acronym W.E.I.R.D.

Westernised

Educated

Industralised

Rich

Democracy

60,00 years ago – no one lived as we take as being ‘normal’ now – and for most – they still don’t – yet this is what academics and science use as ‘evidence’ – studying those who are living very unnatural to most humans – lives.

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What is ‘normal’? Likely not what we are experiencing now.

In times of ‘just enough’ – women would mature when

biologically able to reproduce. They would bleed when

there was enough left over having filled Chong Mai.

Varied in context.

Possibly nothing like as much menses as menstrual

blood is that which is ‘left over’

Chinese writings say 7x2 - women and 8x2 - men.

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Likely ‘normal’ now Periods likely start at 11/12 in W.E.I.R.D. countries

Food and fluids not as they were 30 years ago – nutritionally suspect/loaded with sugars to taste and no fat and chemicals galore . .plus caffeine –

Plus HPV and MMR and other contaminants through excessive vaccination, and no rational look at what a growing girl needs to become a woman.

Parents less likely to be together – hence many internalisation of trauma, and many step dads and domestic upheavals.

All expect more of themselves than is biologically possible, or personally sustainable

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Can it be this simple?

Return body to homeostasis

Including the missing ingredients to run the body and thus the cycle

Iodine

Vit D

Magnesium

Let our inner sun shine through

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Thank you

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www.HeatherSays.com Informational site for patients/interested people

Includes many links to other sites to learn more, a series of

glossaries outlining self care (esp the Mayan/vaginal

steaming)

Also explanations of all TCM categories

Apps – periods, fertility, pregnancy

www.sharpen-up-your-results.com acupuncturists resource

centre – esp on all removal of cold with navel cupping &

recent Heather’s international presentations -

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