For hormonal headache, what I
would recommend is seed cycling.
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So seed cycling is a
wonderful, food-based,
really strong therapy you can
do where essentially seeds
have different types of substances,
like lignans that help interact
and help the organs create better
hormone patterns or remove excess
hormone from the system. Essentially,
what you do is you let
your cycle into two parts.
Starting from day one of your cycle
is always the first day that you are
bleeding until the end of the
cycle from when you started
bleeding. But in general,
you're thinking about this,
like usually in Chinese medicine, we
say, give your period a couple of days,
like while you're bleeding,
the energy is going down.
Don't do things that you don't
really need to do kind of a thing.
So we split it in general
from first day to day 14,
which is approximately ovulation.
This is the part where
your body is building up
more lining.
So this is the follicular phase because
it's building up the egg in preparation.
So it's building up cozy little house.
Estrogen is like the ooshy
gushy kind of hormone.
And so what you do during this
phase is you use the seeds
of Flaxseed and Pumpkin seed.
Because of their combination,
they support more estrogen production.
Because they've got some lignans,
they've got some zinc and they also
can help clear out excess estrogen,
which usually makes us
feel crappy. So in general,
you're going to just take one
to two tablespoons per day.
I just kind of like sprinkle it over food.
And what you can do is you
can grind up a bunch of it,
because you're gonna use it for 14 days.
And I would say keep it in the freezer
because seeds- because they have oils in
them, especially Flax tends
to go rancid really quickly.
So then from day 14 to
until you're bleeding.
So generally 28, 30, 32,
however long your cycle is,
is the luteal phase of your cycle.
This is when probably pregnancy hasn't
happened. So the body is like, "Hey,
don't need all this lining.
Let's move it out with the progesterone"
kind of a thing. From that day,
you're going to switch and you'll start
doing the two S's-Sunflower and Sesame.
So Sesame has a lot of zinc in it.
Sunflower seeds have some vitamin E in it.
So they're helping with the
progesterone production. And same thing.
You're going to grind a bunch up.
You're going to put on your food.
So in general,
this practice alone of
seed cycling can be super,
super helpful. All of those things can
really be helped by helping the body,
just give it a little boost and a little
bit of just a little signal by doing
these seeds before, after, start the
cycle again. And it's not hard to do.
I just recently had someone who was
having headaches and sleep issues
and she just started this and was like,
Oh wow. I feel really much better.
So I would say for headaches that
are happening with hormonal changes,
seed cycling is one of the
number one best things to do.
Thanks so much for all the ways our
paths come together and we are complete!
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