Is This Normal?: Answering Every Question You Have Ever Had About Your Body

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Featuring a twenty-eight-day plan to take back your cycle and dozens of charts, checklists, and diagrams that help keep it real while keeping you educated, Is This Normal? If you want to increase your energy, eliminate unwanted PMS symptoms, learn to optimize your life around your cycle, have a much better hormone balance and feel incredible - then Is This Normal is for you!

John Whyte, chief medical expert at the Discovery Channel, provides the essential tools for dealing with the common health issues that arise as we get older, proving that you can stay active and healthy at any age. Kristin Hung, instructor in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.As women enter perimenopause, menstrual cycles can change, with some women experiencing bleeding that's heavier than normal and irregular, and others noting a gradual lessening of flow and less frequent bleeding.

When discussing period pain or mood swings, hormonal imbalance or fertility issues, women everywhere consistently ask their doctors one thing: Is this normal? Girls who are very athletic might not get their periods until they stop exercising or competing so vigorously. Many people are embarrassed to bring their everyday health anxieties to their physicians or even to ask for advice from family and friends.As a physician I have found that many of my patients struggle with knowing what’s normal when it comes to their hormones, cycles, and love life. This is truly THE guide book you’ve been looking for to answer all those questions we SHOULD have been taught in school and instead, were left confused and embarrassed. She effortlessly weaves together the cold hard facts, humor and comfort while empowering us all to understand and honor ourselves. Finally all information you should have learned in health class in school but didn’t in one resource.

Condition: Brand NewFormat: Paperback - Publisher: Orion Spring - Publisher Date: 11/04/2023 - Pages: 480 - Dimensions: 23. The author breaks down the menstrual cycle to help you understand why you have symptoms and then tells you exactly how to correct them. Her advice was extremely queer-inclusive (she both acknowledged and validated asexuality, which I've hardly ever seen before! For example, we might think it is totally normal for us to eat cake for breakfast, but we understand that others think this is, frankly, pretty odd.I love that she highlighted the importance of certain self care techniques such as journaling, mindfulness, boundary setting, and gratitude when it comes to stress reduction. Plus, the back of the book features tips on how to talk to your parents about puberty and other touchy topics.