How Your Mind, Mood, and Hormones Interact with Drugs and Alcohol

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Holy Hormones Journal Understanding Your Mind, Mood and Hormone Cycle | Interview with Leslie Carol Botha, WHE Leslie Carol Botha talks with Lisa Frederiksen about her new book, Mind, Mood and Hormone Cycle and how it interacts with drugs and alcohol. Breaking the Cycles May 10, 2013 Lisa Frederickson Understanding Your Mind, Mood and Hormone Continue Reading …

“Understanding Your Mind, Mood, and Hormone Cycle” is Now in Print!

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We were overwhelmed by the request for Understanding Your Mind, Mood, and Hormone Cycle as a printed book. Now here it is, hot off the press! It will also be coming soon in Kindle format.

Nigerian Pre-Teens Not Prepared for Menstruation

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Evidence-based and empowering menstruation education needs to be a part of every girl’s education. Everywhere. If this is not taught, that girl will be shamed and victimized by her body through the most delicate years of her life.

Taboo of Menstruation Undermines Quality of Life for Girls and Women

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Aid agencies and governments must tackle the taboos surrounding menstruation as sidelining the issue undermines the quality of life of women and girls, chiefly in poor nations, a UN body said Wednesday.

Infant Stress Linked to Anxiety in Teen Girls

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Four and a half years later, daughters whose moms reported higher levels of stress had more of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood. That observation suggests the girls had trouble shutting down a hyperactive stress response. The same effect wasn’t found in boys.

Educating African Girls About Puberty may Raise School Attendance

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A new study shows that simple, low-cost interventions can help teenage girls in Africa stay in school during their monthly periods.

Women Need More than SEX Education to Understand Hormonal Imbalance

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Rarely have I encountered a female patient who does not present with some sort of hormonal imbalance. Young women complain of PMS signs such as menstrual cramps, mood swings or breast tenderness. Middle-aged women complain of foggy brain, sluggishness, depression and weight gain around the middle. Fortunately, the majority of my patients are wonderfully observant regarding their symptoms, yet all seem to lack a basic gynecological/hormone education. I include myself in this observation, at least when I was a teenager.

Education on Menstrual Cycle Will Help Women Conceive

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Most couples who seek reproductive assistance are sub-fertile, rather than sterile, and may conceive naturally. But for this to to be optimised, they need to [womb statue] accurately time intercourse on the fertile days of the menstrual cycle.

Johnny Did You Notice Anything Different About Me Today? 1974 Film on Menstruation

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A 1974 film about menstruation financed by the Creative Artists Public Service Program of the New York State Council of the Arts(CAPS), a program that ran from 1970 to 1981. Fifteen year old Judy has just gotten her first period and tries to explain it to her befuddled boyfriend Johnny.

Walt Disney’s Story of Menstruation

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Old banned cartoon film on a woman’s menstruation. A Walt Disney production.

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