September 17, 2024 • 28 mins
Periods can be a pain—literally—but what if we could turn that pain into power?
On this episode of A Really Good Cry, we’re getting cozy and chatting about something we don’t talk about enough—our periods! It’s time to embrace this beautiful, natural process and learn how to love and honor our bodies every step of the way. I’ll be sharing my personal journey from seeing my period as a hassle to viewing it as a time for deep connection and self-care.
We’ll explore how aligning with our cycles can help us live more harmoniously with our bodies, how we can manage discomfort naturally, and why understanding what a healthy period looks like is so important. I’ll also be dropping some Ayurvedic gems on balancing hormones and soothing cramps, plus a few of my favorite self-care rituals (like the magical ovary massage) that’ll leave you feeling supported and nourished.
Whether you experience irregular cycles, or painful periods, or just want to deepen your connection with your body, this episode is filled with loving guidance, practical tips, and a whole lot of compassion for your amazing female body. I promise you’ll walk away seeing your period in a whole new light!
What We Discuss:
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:34 How my relationship with my period changed
- 05:32 Why I stopped complaining about my period
- 07:04 Breaking the taboo around periods
- 08:05 How do you know if your period is healthy?
- 10:22 Sync your workouts with your menstrual cycle
- 12:52 Why your period heightens emotions and what it means
- 15:44 Foods to eat during your period
- 20:10 Ovary massage
- 22:09 How holistic health can help you
- 24:17 Period acne
- 26:10 Finding the right period products for you
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you are someone who is struggling with your period,
whether it's irregular, or it's painful, or it's just not
as healthy as it could be. I really hope that
this does help.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Radi Wukiah and on my podcast A Really Good Cry,
we embrace the messy and the beautiful, providing a space
for raw, unfiltered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow you
to tune in to learn, connect and find comfort together.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about this a beautiful
thing that we call a period. You know, till I
hit my late twenties, I used to dread my period
every single month. It wasn't something I welcomed. It was
this annoying thing that gets in the way of life.
Or I would think about it when I was going
on holiday and try and plan the holiday around it,
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and that was really the only times I would think
about it, so it was never really in a positive way.
My hope is that by the end of this podcast,
you don't just learn more about your beautiful female body,
but you actually love your period. Yeah, I said it.
I honestly mean that, deeply mean that that I want
you to love every single thing about your period, from
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the cramps to the desire to strangle someone. You have
to love it all because it is part of you
and it is such a gift. It is a gift
that will keep on giving whether you like it or not.
On't flow will keep flowing. So we either have a
choice right when things come in our life that feel
like a disturbance, we can either embrace them or we
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can hate them. And the fact is it's way easier
to just embrace them. And also, I feel like I've
been through such a journey to really understand my body
a lot more lately, especially as you get older, when
you notice your body changing and things shifting, and certain
things become more important than they were when they were younger.
I have noticed, especially since being in my thirties, that
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I want to appreciate more about my body and really
have noticed how much my body has to go through
to either allow me to live every single day. And
you know what, Unfortunately, as women from a young age,
we've either been taught ways that we can stop our periods,
whether it's just jumping on the pill, or we're told
that we should just deal with our feminine biology get
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on with life. And not let it get in the way.
At school, we're taught the biology of a womb and
the reproductive cycle, the names of all the parts, or
the technical ways that things happen in our body, but
we're not taught how beautiful and magnificent is. We're not
taught in a way that shows us that the body
is just so magical. What it does, especially the female body,
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is magnificent. We're taught how to adapt our bodies and
conform to live according to a male's twenty four hour
hormone cycle, rather than living according to our twenty eight
day female cycle. And I didn't know this, but our
bodies are not meant to live on a twenty four
hour cycle. I don't know whether this is news to
you guys, but it definitely was to me. We're so
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used to living on a twenty four hour period, but
we don't think how we should adapt things or change
our life according to our period or our twenty eight
day cycle. A man's cycle is twenty four hours. Their
hormones change on a twenty four hour basis, but for
females it's completely different. And you know what, Culturally, we're
taught how to hide our period rather than celebrate it.
Men innately see women as baby carriers, but they don't
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get taught the appreciation for the process that actually gets
them their babies. You date a guy in high school
and they want to know everything about you except for
two things. That you have a period and that you
poop and a few things. Actually started changing my view
of periods over the years as I started connecting to
my body more again, this deeper appreciation for the incredible
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things that it does for me. So instead of condemning
my body or sending hate towards it, I started trying
to appreciate every single body part. And as I understood
the process is more and the reason that it happens,
it made me realize just how magical the female body
really is. I also got really tired of the way
periods have been perceived in culture. I thought it was
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just my own Indian culture, but I spoke to women
on my team and so many of my friends from
different cultures, and they had the same feelings. Growing up,
being ashamed to go to a store to get pads
or tampons even when being adults, feeling awkward saying that
you're even on your period to any man, whether it's
your friend, our brother, your personal trainer, sometimes even your
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own dad. And the religious restrictions that are that are
all man made, not actually from a religious background, but
have somehow filtered into these religious institutions where something so
beautiful has been misconstrued as something dirty. You know, my
dad had three men in the family, me, my sister,
and my mum, and from a young age I always
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felt held and supported, whether it was my period or
in anything else related to me being a woman. He
really knew what was up, and he would go buy
pads for us. He would be more compassionate and loving
when we were in our period and it was like
the little things like tell us not to do the
dishes at that time. He'd be like, go inside, go
sit on the sofa, just relax. Or he'd have a
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sympathetic look when we're curled up on the sofa holding
our stomachs, and he'd say, can I make your hot
water bottle? And even then, even though he was so
welcoming of it, I was still shy of even declaring
I was on my period because of how others spoke
about it or how other people shared it with me.
Another big thing that really changed My view was seeing friends, family,
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and other people struggle with conceiving women who were praying
for the day for their periods to return, women with
polycystico through syndrome or hormonal imbalances, and it made me
realize how selfish I'd been to be complaining about something
that someone else is dreaming about having. And it made
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me realize just how lucky we are to even have
a regular menstrual cycle, because for more and more women
these days is becoming rarer and rarer. Irregular periods don't
mean much to us when we're younger, because we're not
really fed by it. It doesn't affect much, But as
you get older it becomes more relevant, especially for some people,
because it determines whether you can even have children, and
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even if you don't want children. It's a bodily mechanism
that indicates health in our body, just like breathing, just
like our lymphatic system, just like our digestive system, the
menstrual cycle is a sign of a healthy body for
a female. In Irada, the menstrual cycle is treated and
considered a monthly cleanse, and back in the day, getting
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a period was actually seen as being sacred. It was
a time for women to rest and rejuvenate physically and mentally.
You know, most women actually back in the day when
they lived in villages, there was usually sinc cycles, or
the women would actually be on their period together and
it would be a time where they'd all gather. They
wouldn't work, no cleaning, no cooking. They'd gather together, they'd
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share stories, they'd rest, they'd look after each other to
really allow the body to go through the process. But
feel like you've also gone through the process and healed
every single month and completed the cycle the way that
it's supposed to. I actually don't know where the narrative
of a period changed to being something so gross, especially
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in religious institutes and in so many places, especially in
my culture. I remember when I was younger, you couldn't
go to temples without if you were on your period,
and there were restrictions on being able to do worship
based on being on your period. And I always used
to wonder, is it really that bad? I remember thinking
that as a girl. I was like, is it really
that bad? Am I that disgusting that I can't like
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have a connection with God during this time? And if anything,
back in the day, it was a time where women
had the most opportunity to connect with God because they
had the time and the opportunity to because they were
not doing anything else. And so I really think that
was a man made construct that came into religion that
actually has nothing to do with what scriptures or what
God instructed in any kind of way. Because it is
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a magical thing that gets people babies. We have the
ability to have babies purely because of our periods, So
there's no way God wanted that, Let's be honest. And
if you think about it, these days, we really power
through our days not even acknowledging our periods or changing
anything during those times. And maybe that's the problem. For
a good few years now, along with appreciating my cycle,
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I've been working out how to have a healthy cycle
and what does that even mean? A healthy menstrual cycle.
During my abate of training, I learned that there are
some clear indicators of a healthy period, and the one
that surprised me the most is knowing that a healthy
period should not hurt. I said it. It may be
so shocking to you as it was to me, because
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all I saw was people around me with cramps, and
I grew up having really bad cramps, but a healthy
period should not hurt, it should not be painful. I
know it's shocking. I definitely took me a second to
digest that information. But as I've worked to be in
better health, eating and living to balance my hormones and
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adjusting my lifestyle, I can honestly say that I don't
really get crams that are painful anymore. I may get
a few body aches here and there, a bit of bloating,
I feel a bit more tired during that time, definitely
get a craving for that something sweet, and yeah, here
and there, I'll get those mood swings. I'm sure many
people in my life can vouch for that. They've definitely
had the They've definitely had to experience the other side
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of that, but not to a point where it stops
me from living life as I usually do. Another indicator
is that your blood should be bright red in color,
no cloths and smooth, inconsistency. It doesn't stay in your clothing,
And actually it says that if it does stain your
clothing or it's not bright red in color, it's usually
a sign or a symptom of having armor in your body.
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Arma means toxins in our Veda. It says that when
your body has any unprocessed substances or just toxin build
up in our body, it can end up plugging our
channels and creating dysfunction, and that can come through during
our period time as our bodies detoxing. And so sometimes
your period may be darker in colorist says that that
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can be a sign of toxin build up. It's regular
between twenty seven to thirty days, it lasts between three
to five days, it has a mild to no odor,
and your mood doesn't actually get too drastically affected. Now
you may hear that and think, damn, I have all
of the above and then some and that's okay. Honestly,
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most women don't even know that's what a healthy cycle involves,
because the norm is hearing how terrible it feels to
have a period and how we all dread it. So
now that you do know, let's talk about how you
can create a better relationship with your period and how
we can help you get to a healthy period if
you're struggling with it. So I actually read this book
recently called in the Flow by Elissaviti. In the book
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She speaks about cycle sinking, a method of aligning daily activities, diet, exercise,
and even work task with the four different phases of
your menstrual cycle to enhance your productivity, health and well being. So,
for example, the first phase is your menstrual phase, which
is when your period is in full flow. This is
the time for rest and reflection, she says, physically or mentally,
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I know when I'm on my period. If I push
myself in my workouts or over exert myself, it really
messes me up. I actually remember one time I was
on the first day of my period and I decided
to do heavy squats, and my back is just always
weaker during that time, and I didn't listen to my body,
and for a good three weeks after that, I actually
couldn't get out of bed. On a normal day, when
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I would have done that, I would have been fine,
but my back, my joints, every part of my body
is more sensitive during that time. So since then, I've
started noticing whenever I do intense workouts during my period,
it actually, instead of energizing me, which it does on
a normal day, it will end up feeling like it's
depleted me. My energy levels are just lower during that time,
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and so I don't feel like exerting or pushing myself
and actually a hormone, our hormones are already out of
whack during that time that when you end up doing
strenuous exercise or high intensity training, it actually messes with
your hormone levels too, and your quartersole levels, which is
your stress and anxiety hormone. And we all know we
get anxious during this time too. So essentially, what I'm
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trying to say is take a day off when it's
the first day of your period, or at least just
go for a gentle stroll, maybe do some yoga, because
you have to remember that during this time your body
is managing the shedding of your uterine lining and then
you're trying to do a barriers boot pump workout on
top of that, it's just not working. You know. The
bodies also in more of an inflamed state. Add in
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a long intense workout that increases inflammation further, and it
just puts you at higher risk of injury, more soreness,
and longer recovery time. So use this as a sign
to take a day off. Also, emotionally, hormones be hormoning.
But why do we get so emotional and feel like
the entire world is ending When someone says high in
the wrong tone, your husband's chewing suddenly makes you want
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to strangle him, or just the way someone looks at
you makes you want to cry. Well, there is a
reason for this. Our estrogen and progesterone levels, which are
hormones in the body. They fluctuate throughout our cycle, and
in the days leading up to our period, both estrogen
and progesteron levels drop. Estrogen effects our mood because it
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influences the production of our happy hormone, serotonin, and as
estrogen declines, so does serotonin, leading to sadness and feeling
real mad. Progesterone also drops at this time, and that
drop can lead to feeling anxious and sad too. I
actually get so anxious, as I mentioned before, But I
get so anxious before my period. I'm overthinking everything, getting
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weird dreams of things that I'm worried about. Everything's mixing
into this like one nightmare. All the problems that I
have in my life, all the fears I have in
my life, everything comes into like one dream and it
is horrific. I'm like sweating, waking up, sweating, or crying.
By the end of it, it's pretty rough. So when
you are on your period, take time to just sit
with your feelings. I remember this one podcast episode I
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heard from Dr Gabamarte. I absolutely love him. He's eighty
years old and he has some really great insights just
from life and observing people, and also is just a
very intelligent human And he said that actually, most people
think during your period you're just over dramatic and everything
is irrational, and it's just like, you know, you should
disregard everything you feel during it. But actually, he says,
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during your period, your body is just heightening what you're
actually feeling, so don't ignore it and push it aside.
Actually hear your emotions. So yeah, we may have some
irrational thoughts, but actually, if the same thing is coming
up more intensely over and over again when you're having
your period, it may be a sign of your body.
Because you think about it, our body is detoxing during
this time, so much is a detoxing face physically, so
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emotionally and mentally. It also becomes a detox phase something
that keeps coming up and maybe a sign that you
need to acknowledge it and just you know, have a
really really good cry, get those emotions out so your
body's able to let go physically and emotionally. I'm not
going to go through all the phases here, but if
you do want to know more about them, then definitely
read this book. It was so insightful. It takes you
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through all the phases after your period and the activities
and things that are best to do during those times,
even things like what kind of work you should be doing,
what kind of workouts you should be doing in each phase,
when is good for creativity on the phases of your
period cycle Like, it really goes into so much depth,
and I learned so much about my body that I
didn't know and implementing even just a few of the recommendations,
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the small changes made a difference to how I felt
through my cycle. Now, let's talk about what you should
eat on your period. Now, Eating the right foods before
and during your period can help manage symptoms like bloating, cramps,
smooth swings, and fatigue, all the general ones that we
tend to get. And like with most things, it's not
only about what you do when you are on your period,
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but what you do before to prep for it, which
is just as important, if not more so so, what
you eat leading up to your period. In the luteal phase,
that's the phase just before your period. It helps to
prepare your body for what's to come. We're going to
start off with whole grains, so whether it's things like
brown rice, quinoa, oats, just whole grains with a good
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amount of fiber. It can help stabilize your blood sugar
levels and reduce your cravings. Foods that are rich in magnesium,
like leafy greens, spinach, and kale can help to reduce
cramps by relaxing your muscles. You can also just make
sure you take your magnesium supplements or sprays. I find
they're really effective too. Cooked foods over raw foods. In Ourveda,
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it recommends that on a day to day basis, but
especially when you're on your period. If you get more
gassy and bloated on your period, raw foods are actually
much harder for your gut to digest and can cause
gas and bloating, so sticking to warm, moist foods that
are well cooked. Soups are so great during this time.
I love a good soup. Healthy fats like coconut and avocado,
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and your amigas from nuts and seeds. I love to
just sprinkled mix seeds over things, whether it's my smoothies
or onto my salads, or I'll just make up an
avocado smoothie and throw everything inside. Amigas have been found
to help reduce your painful crumps Calcium rich foods. Estrogen
actually helps with calcium absorption, so when estrogen production decreases
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during your menstruation, less calcium is then absorbed. And also
it's said that small amounts of calcium leaches out of
the body during this time too, so it's good to
double up on the calcium, whether it's through dark leafy greens, broccoli,
fortified milks, tofu tempe, just all the good stuff now.
During your menstrual phase, which is during your period, it's
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recommended to have foods rich in iron. Makes sense, right,
just to replenish the ion that's lost while you're bleeding,
whether it's bet fruits, lentils and beans, dark leafy greens,
nuts and seeds. Anti inflammatory foods are also recommended. Foods
which are rich in antioxidants like blueberries, seeds, nuts, leafy greens,
olive oil, and are you ready for this one? Chocolate
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If you're craving chocolate during this time, there's a reason. Definitely, definitely,
it has magnesium in it too. I think so double whammy.
Moist water rich foods and veggies. If you think about it,
your body temperature actually rises. There's a bit more heat
in the body can increase dryness in the body. So
having things like cucumbers, zucchini, fruits like peaches and plums, celery,
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just nice juicy hydrating things, herbal teas and hot water
to soothe your digestion. And you know, I talk about
this a lot. Hot water does everything from relaxing your
nerves to cleanse your digestive system. It's just makes your
body just feel so good. And there are nice herbal
teas that can help to soothe your belly, like hammer Mile.
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Spices like tumeric and fenogreek and cinnamon all help with
purid symptoms. So you can always throw in some cinnamon
into your tea, adding some turmeric in your curry. Oh yeah,
And I want to touch on this adaptagen called shatavari.
It's really well known. It's an aravadic hub that plays
a really important role in women's health, whether it's supporting
your reproductive health through regulating blood sugar levels. It's a
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natural remedy that's been trusted for centuries, whether it's menopause
periods or fertility. Chatavar is definitely a go to and
aravader for any female health support. Now, let's talk about
the foods that you should avoid even though you really
really want them. And it's usually the foods that you
really really want that are the ones that you should
be avoiding at this time. I know it's so sad.
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Saltium fried foods increase bloating and water retention. Caffeine obviously
increases your anxiety. Sugar causes the blood sugar spikes, It
can cause your mood swings and your cravings. Really, it's
just choosing nutrient dense foods that give your body the
extra vitamins and minerals that it usually loses during this time.
Just a little extra love and support and look if
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you are craving a little salty food here and there,
look your joy is more important at this time than
you know restricting yourself. But just know your limits. That's
about it. Next, I actually want to talk about the cramping.
If that happens every time my friends tell me they
have crambs. I say, oh my god, can I give
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you an ovary massage? And then they usually look at
me funny and they're like, hmmm, I'm not sure about that.
What does that entail? I'm like, trust me, it is magical.
I then proceed to stand up behind them, put my
hands on their hips and give them this ovary massage.
And suddenly you hear a sigh and I see relief
on their face. When I say it's magical, I truly
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mean it. Every man should definitely learn this for their women.
Foot massage is great by an ovary massage, oh, it
is a game changer. So basically, give me done laying down,
standing or sitting. Essentially you're pushing in just above your
pelvis the crevice of your hip bone. I like to
do it standing on the person I'm doing on because
then you can wrap around the side and also do
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a lower back massage at the same time, so you
kind of are massaging at the front and the back
at the same time with your thumbs. Your hands at
the front and your thumbs at the back. I'd actually
share a diagram on this or an example video on
Instagram because I think it is so useful. It really
does relieve the pressure that you're feeling there. It's so
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good You could do it on yourself, but so much
better if you call in a favor from a friend
or if someone else can do it for you. Those
areas also have pressure points that relieve congestion and energy
blockages in the body. So an acupuncture it says that
it helps it improve the flow of chia or life energy.
The massage targets lymphos as well, helping to drain and detoxify. Also,
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especially for women, we hold emotions in our hips, and
so don't be surprised if five minutes into the massage
you are also shedding some tears. I remember learning that
in my yoga teacher training where we did a whole
day of hip open it exercises and most of us
were crying throughout and then for long for at least me,
I was walking home crime eyes out. It really does
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help to release a lot of emotions that we store.
I just want to a little note at the end
of this. If your period pain affects your everyday life
in a drastic way, it is a good idea to
get everything checked out. You should be able to still
function through your day and it should not debilitate you.
And if it does, then I really do recommend going
to see a holistic doctor because you know, there's one
thing I don't know, you know what, people get mad
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when I say stuff like this, and I really do
see the place for western doctors. Of course I do.
If I break a bone, I'm definitely going to go see,
you know, a medical doctor. But a GP doesn't necessarily
know how to treat all of this from the root.
Cause you know, a lot of women unfortunately get told
to go on the pill when they have painful periods.
So what does that do? Just takes away your period,
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takes away a function that you really really need in
your life, that your body requires to detox to get
things out of your body as a natural system that happens.
So that really upsets me because amount of people that
have got messed up because they decided to be because
the doctor decided that they should go on the pill,
not thinking of the repercussions of what that's going to
be for them. I also think holistic doctors really consider
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so many other things than just oh, this is what's
going on. Let me give you a pill for this. No,
let's try and figure out the root. Cause let's try
having herbs and natural remedies before we put you on
some you know, something that was created in a lab, Like,
does that not sound so much better than going to
a doctor and being put on a pill that's going
to affect so much more in your life. I get
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really passionate about this because I think sometimes we blindly
follow things because it's the norm, versus really thinking what
our body needs and also what we're putting into our body,
Like would you rather put something in your body that
it's been created by in a scientific lab or something
that nature has provided. I really believe nature gives everything
that we need to heal our body. We just need
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to know how to use it. And so whether it's
acupuncturist by the way it meant to be amazing for cramps,
whether it's an ibadic doctor, whether it is honestly, I
try anything before I start to popping some pills, So
definitely try out. It's such a good investment to invest
in your health, and I never think you regress spending
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money when it's to do with your well being. Enough
of that, I wanted to talk about the dreaded period
acne next or in my case, the token peaky blinder
that shows up on my chin or cheek every single month.
It's humbling, to be honest. It's also uncontrollable to a
certain extent, because our hormones do shift and sometimes our
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skin just wants to have a little tantrum. But at
the same time, if we do make these little changes
that we spoke about earlier, it's less likely that we
have such a drastic hormonal shift, and that all the
good food and the nutrients that we're eating support our
skin to fight back when the spot comes the knockin.
But keeping your skin clean, double cleansing, exfoliating gently every
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day to the lead up to your period, that can
be really useful because there's actually more sebam that's produced
on our skin during your period, so when you're keeping
it clean and a little bit drier to avoid bacteria
build up, then that can definitely help. And oh my god,
do not do any kind of hair removal or skin
treatments during this time. I once made the mistake of
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going to get like a bikini wax or something, and
it was the first day of my period and I
didn't realize. No, I think it was a day before
my period. I hadn't actually started, but oh my gosh,
I was so much more sensitive and I literally was
like crying my eyes out, and I was like, it
doesn't normally hurt like this, and she said, are you
going to be on your period? I was like, oh
my gosh, yes, it's coming tomorrow. She was like, never
come here when you're about to be on your period.
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It will hurt ten times more. And then also when
I would do face hair removal, because let's be honest,
Indian girls are hairy sometimes and we need to remove
that hair. We don't need to, we want to. But
when I would wax my skin or I would do
any kind of facials that are a bit intense, my
skin would react in a way that would never normally react.
So I usually and it would break out and do
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all sorts of things. So avoid doing anything too drastic
to your body during that time too, because everything's just
a lot more sensitive. Lastly, I want to touch on
period products. Now. There's so many bits and bobs out there,
the cups, the pads, the tampons, the period panties, and honestly,
I'm not opposed to any of it. I would just
say they're great for different reasons, just depends what suits
you best. They all also have their pros and cons,
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as everything in life does. But I will say, when
it comes to paths and tampons, and make sure they
are organic, unscented, made with cottsin, not with a plastic insert.
You don't want to put any fragrances or plastic up
there is just not right. I'm actually obsessed with period
pants right now. It's probably my favorite. I wear them
mainly at night because I just find pads so uncomfortable
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to sleep in, and it kind of takes us back
to how they used to do it back in the day.
You would have cloths that you wash and reuse better
for the environment, and also pretty comfortable, like you do
have to wash them, and there's a little extra care
I needed compared to the one use pads or tampons.
But honestly just feels like growing really comfy grinning pants,
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which is usually what you want to wear during this time.
I haven't actually tried cups, but I'm not sure how
I feel about them. I know they're made from silicon,
I still don't quite have an opinion on it, but
I know friends who use them and swear by them.
They absolutely love them. I really hope that this episode
help you to understand your body a little bit better,
which in turn will help you to love your body
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a little bit more and realize just how I've said
this many times in this episode, but how magical your
body really is and how blessed we truly are to
have a working, consistent menstrual cycle. And if you are
someone who is struggling with your period, whether it's irregular,
or it's painful, or it's just not as healthy as
it could be, I really hope that this does help.
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And if anybody who's not had a period for a
while or has peacos, I'm definitely going to have an
expert on to share guidance and wisdom on how to
get your period back if you've lost it, because I
know it can be so scary, and I really want
to help because I know it's possible and I've seen
it through holistic ways. Getting your period back is possible,
no matter what a doctor tells you. It is possible,
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whether you've got pecos or not, just know you can
get your period back. I have seen it and I
truly believe it, and so I will definitely try and
get someone on to talk about that. Also, share this
episode with some men I think they could really do
with some insight and getting over their fear of the period.
Let's be honest, the world needs to be a whole
lot more period friendly. Sending you all so much love,
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Thank you so much for listening, and let me know
if there's any other topics you'd like to hear about,
DM me send me a comment. We love hearing from
you at a really good cry. It makes my day
and yeah, I have a really, really wonderful day.
If you are someone who is struggling with your period,
whether it's irregular, or it's painful, or it's just not
as healthy as it could be. I really hope that
this does help.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm Radi Wukiah and on my podcast A Really Good Cry,
we embrace the messy and the beautiful, providing a space
for raw, unfiltered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow you
to tune in to learn, connect and find comfort together.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about this a beautiful
thing that we call a period. You know, till I
hit my late twenties, I used to dread my period
every single month. It wasn't something I welcomed. It was
this annoying thing that gets in the way of life.
Or I would think about it when I was going
on holiday and try and plan the holiday around it,
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and that was really the only times I would think
about it, so it was never really in a positive way.
My hope is that by the end of this podcast,
you don't just learn more about your beautiful female body,
but you actually love your period. Yeah, I said it.
I honestly mean that, deeply mean that that I want
you to love every single thing about your period, from
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the cramps to the desire to strangle someone. You have
to love it all because it is part of you
and it is such a gift. It is a gift
that will keep on giving whether you like it or not.
On't flow will keep flowing. So we either have a
choice right when things come in our life that feel
like a disturbance, we can either embrace them or we
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can hate them. And the fact is it's way easier
to just embrace them. And also, I feel like I've
been through such a journey to really understand my body
a lot more lately, especially as you get older, when
you notice your body changing and things shifting, and certain
things become more important than they were when they were younger.
I have noticed, especially since being in my thirties, that
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I want to appreciate more about my body and really
have noticed how much my body has to go through
to either allow me to live every single day. And
you know what, Unfortunately, as women from a young age,
we've either been taught ways that we can stop our periods,
whether it's just jumping on the pill, or we're told
that we should just deal with our feminine biology get
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on with life. And not let it get in the way.
At school, we're taught the biology of a womb and
the reproductive cycle, the names of all the parts, or
the technical ways that things happen in our body, but
we're not taught how beautiful and magnificent is. We're not
taught in a way that shows us that the body
is just so magical. What it does, especially the female body,
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is magnificent. We're taught how to adapt our bodies and
conform to live according to a male's twenty four hour
hormone cycle, rather than living according to our twenty eight
day female cycle. And I didn't know this, but our
bodies are not meant to live on a twenty four
hour cycle. I don't know whether this is news to
you guys, but it definitely was to me. We're so
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used to living on a twenty four hour period, but
we don't think how we should adapt things or change
our life according to our period or our twenty eight
day cycle. A man's cycle is twenty four hours. Their
hormones change on a twenty four hour basis, but for
females it's completely different. And you know what, Culturally, we're
taught how to hide our period rather than celebrate it.
Men innately see women as baby carriers, but they don't
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get taught the appreciation for the process that actually gets
them their babies. You date a guy in high school
and they want to know everything about you except for
two things. That you have a period and that you
poop and a few things. Actually started changing my view
of periods over the years as I started connecting to
my body more again, this deeper appreciation for the incredible
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things that it does for me. So instead of condemning
my body or sending hate towards it, I started trying
to appreciate every single body part. And as I understood
the process is more and the reason that it happens,
it made me realize just how magical the female body
really is. I also got really tired of the way
periods have been perceived in culture. I thought it was
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just my own Indian culture, but I spoke to women
on my team and so many of my friends from
different cultures, and they had the same feelings. Growing up,
being ashamed to go to a store to get pads
or tampons even when being adults, feeling awkward saying that
you're even on your period to any man, whether it's
your friend, our brother, your personal trainer, sometimes even your
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own dad. And the religious restrictions that are that are
all man made, not actually from a religious background, but
have somehow filtered into these religious institutions where something so
beautiful has been misconstrued as something dirty. You know, my
dad had three men in the family, me, my sister,
and my mum, and from a young age I always
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felt held and supported, whether it was my period or
in anything else related to me being a woman. He
really knew what was up, and he would go buy
pads for us. He would be more compassionate and loving
when we were in our period and it was like
the little things like tell us not to do the
dishes at that time. He'd be like, go inside, go
sit on the sofa, just relax. Or he'd have a
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sympathetic look when we're curled up on the sofa holding
our stomachs, and he'd say, can I make your hot
water bottle? And even then, even though he was so
welcoming of it, I was still shy of even declaring
I was on my period because of how others spoke
about it or how other people shared it with me.
Another big thing that really changed My view was seeing friends, family,
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and other people struggle with conceiving women who were praying
for the day for their periods to return, women with
polycystico through syndrome or hormonal imbalances, and it made me
realize how selfish I'd been to be complaining about something
that someone else is dreaming about having. And it made
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me realize just how lucky we are to even have
a regular menstrual cycle, because for more and more women
these days is becoming rarer and rarer. Irregular periods don't
mean much to us when we're younger, because we're not
really fed by it. It doesn't affect much, But as
you get older it becomes more relevant, especially for some people,
because it determines whether you can even have children, and
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even if you don't want children. It's a bodily mechanism
that indicates health in our body, just like breathing, just
like our lymphatic system, just like our digestive system, the
menstrual cycle is a sign of a healthy body for
a female. In Irada, the menstrual cycle is treated and
considered a monthly cleanse, and back in the day, getting
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a period was actually seen as being sacred. It was
a time for women to rest and rejuvenate physically and mentally.
You know, most women actually back in the day when
they lived in villages, there was usually sinc cycles, or
the women would actually be on their period together and
it would be a time where they'd all gather. They
wouldn't work, no cleaning, no cooking. They'd gather together, they'd
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share stories, they'd rest, they'd look after each other to
really allow the body to go through the process. But
feel like you've also gone through the process and healed
every single month and completed the cycle the way that
it's supposed to. I actually don't know where the narrative
of a period changed to being something so gross, especially
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in religious institutes and in so many places, especially in
my culture. I remember when I was younger, you couldn't
go to temples without if you were on your period,
and there were restrictions on being able to do worship
based on being on your period. And I always used
to wonder, is it really that bad? I remember thinking
that as a girl. I was like, is it really
that bad? Am I that disgusting that I can't like
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have a connection with God during this time? And if anything,
back in the day, it was a time where women
had the most opportunity to connect with God because they
had the time and the opportunity to because they were
not doing anything else. And so I really think that
was a man made construct that came into religion that
actually has nothing to do with what scriptures or what
God instructed in any kind of way. Because it is
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a magical thing that gets people babies. We have the
ability to have babies purely because of our periods, So
there's no way God wanted that, Let's be honest. And
if you think about it, these days, we really power
through our days not even acknowledging our periods or changing
anything during those times. And maybe that's the problem. For
a good few years now, along with appreciating my cycle,
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I've been working out how to have a healthy cycle
and what does that even mean? A healthy menstrual cycle.
During my abate of training, I learned that there are
some clear indicators of a healthy period, and the one
that surprised me the most is knowing that a healthy
period should not hurt. I said it. It may be
so shocking to you as it was to me, because
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all I saw was people around me with cramps, and
I grew up having really bad cramps, but a healthy
period should not hurt, it should not be painful. I
know it's shocking. I definitely took me a second to
digest that information. But as I've worked to be in
better health, eating and living to balance my hormones and
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adjusting my lifestyle, I can honestly say that I don't
really get crams that are painful anymore. I may get
a few body aches here and there, a bit of bloating,
I feel a bit more tired during that time, definitely
get a craving for that something sweet, and yeah, here
and there, I'll get those mood swings. I'm sure many
people in my life can vouch for that. They've definitely
had the They've definitely had to experience the other side
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of that, but not to a point where it stops
me from living life as I usually do. Another indicator
is that your blood should be bright red in color,
no cloths and smooth, inconsistency. It doesn't stay in your clothing,
And actually it says that if it does stain your
clothing or it's not bright red in color, it's usually
a sign or a symptom of having armor in your body.
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Arma means toxins in our Veda. It says that when
your body has any unprocessed substances or just toxin build
up in our body, it can end up plugging our
channels and creating dysfunction, and that can come through during
our period time as our bodies detoxing. And so sometimes
your period may be darker in colorist says that that
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can be a sign of toxin build up. It's regular
between twenty seven to thirty days, it lasts between three
to five days, it has a mild to no odor,
and your mood doesn't actually get too drastically affected. Now
you may hear that and think, damn, I have all
of the above and then some and that's okay. Honestly,
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most women don't even know that's what a healthy cycle involves,
because the norm is hearing how terrible it feels to
have a period and how we all dread it. So
now that you do know, let's talk about how you
can create a better relationship with your period and how
we can help you get to a healthy period if
you're struggling with it. So I actually read this book
recently called in the Flow by Elissaviti. In the book
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She speaks about cycle sinking, a method of aligning daily activities, diet, exercise,
and even work task with the four different phases of
your menstrual cycle to enhance your productivity, health and well being. So,
for example, the first phase is your menstrual phase, which
is when your period is in full flow. This is
the time for rest and reflection, she says, physically or mentally,
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I know when I'm on my period. If I push
myself in my workouts or over exert myself, it really
messes me up. I actually remember one time I was
on the first day of my period and I decided
to do heavy squats, and my back is just always
weaker during that time, and I didn't listen to my body,
and for a good three weeks after that, I actually
couldn't get out of bed. On a normal day, when
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I would have done that, I would have been fine,
but my back, my joints, every part of my body
is more sensitive during that time. So since then, I've
started noticing whenever I do intense workouts during my period,
it actually, instead of energizing me, which it does on
a normal day, it will end up feeling like it's
depleted me. My energy levels are just lower during that time,
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and so I don't feel like exerting or pushing myself
and actually a hormone, our hormones are already out of
whack during that time that when you end up doing
strenuous exercise or high intensity training, it actually messes with
your hormone levels too, and your quartersole levels, which is
your stress and anxiety hormone. And we all know we
get anxious during this time too. So essentially, what I'm
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trying to say is take a day off when it's
the first day of your period, or at least just
go for a gentle stroll, maybe do some yoga, because
you have to remember that during this time your body
is managing the shedding of your uterine lining and then
you're trying to do a barriers boot pump workout on
top of that, it's just not working. You know. The
bodies also in more of an inflamed state. Add in
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a long intense workout that increases inflammation further, and it
just puts you at higher risk of injury, more soreness,
and longer recovery time. So use this as a sign
to take a day off. Also, emotionally, hormones be hormoning.
But why do we get so emotional and feel like
the entire world is ending When someone says high in
the wrong tone, your husband's chewing suddenly makes you want
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to strangle him, or just the way someone looks at
you makes you want to cry. Well, there is a
reason for this. Our estrogen and progesterone levels, which are
hormones in the body. They fluctuate throughout our cycle, and
in the days leading up to our period, both estrogen
and progesteron levels drop. Estrogen effects our mood because it
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influences the production of our happy hormone, serotonin, and as
estrogen declines, so does serotonin, leading to sadness and feeling
real mad. Progesterone also drops at this time, and that
drop can lead to feeling anxious and sad too. I
actually get so anxious, as I mentioned before, But I
get so anxious before my period. I'm overthinking everything, getting
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weird dreams of things that I'm worried about. Everything's mixing
into this like one nightmare. All the problems that I
have in my life, all the fears I have in
my life, everything comes into like one dream and it
is horrific. I'm like sweating, waking up, sweating, or crying.
By the end of it, it's pretty rough. So when
you are on your period, take time to just sit
with your feelings. I remember this one podcast episode I
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heard from Dr Gabamarte. I absolutely love him. He's eighty
years old and he has some really great insights just
from life and observing people, and also is just a
very intelligent human And he said that actually, most people
think during your period you're just over dramatic and everything
is irrational, and it's just like, you know, you should
disregard everything you feel during it. But actually, he says,
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during your period, your body is just heightening what you're
actually feeling, so don't ignore it and push it aside.
Actually hear your emotions. So yeah, we may have some
irrational thoughts, but actually, if the same thing is coming
up more intensely over and over again when you're having
your period, it may be a sign of your body.
Because you think about it, our body is detoxing during
this time, so much is a detoxing face physically, so
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emotionally and mentally. It also becomes a detox phase something
that keeps coming up and maybe a sign that you
need to acknowledge it and just you know, have a
really really good cry, get those emotions out so your
body's able to let go physically and emotionally. I'm not
going to go through all the phases here, but if
you do want to know more about them, then definitely
read this book. It was so insightful. It takes you
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through all the phases after your period and the activities
and things that are best to do during those times,
even things like what kind of work you should be doing,
what kind of workouts you should be doing in each phase,
when is good for creativity on the phases of your
period cycle Like, it really goes into so much depth,
and I learned so much about my body that I
didn't know and implementing even just a few of the recommendations,
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the small changes made a difference to how I felt
through my cycle. Now, let's talk about what you should
eat on your period. Now, Eating the right foods before
and during your period can help manage symptoms like bloating, cramps,
smooth swings, and fatigue, all the general ones that we
tend to get. And like with most things, it's not
only about what you do when you are on your period,
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but what you do before to prep for it, which
is just as important, if not more so so, what
you eat leading up to your period. In the luteal phase,
that's the phase just before your period. It helps to
prepare your body for what's to come. We're going to
start off with whole grains, so whether it's things like
brown rice, quinoa, oats, just whole grains with a good
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amount of fiber. It can help stabilize your blood sugar
levels and reduce your cravings. Foods that are rich in magnesium,
like leafy greens, spinach, and kale can help to reduce
cramps by relaxing your muscles. You can also just make
sure you take your magnesium supplements or sprays. I find
they're really effective too. Cooked foods over raw foods. In Ourveda,
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it recommends that on a day to day basis, but
especially when you're on your period. If you get more
gassy and bloated on your period, raw foods are actually
much harder for your gut to digest and can cause
gas and bloating, so sticking to warm, moist foods that
are well cooked. Soups are so great during this time.
I love a good soup. Healthy fats like coconut and avocado,
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and your amigas from nuts and seeds. I love to
just sprinkled mix seeds over things, whether it's my smoothies
or onto my salads, or I'll just make up an
avocado smoothie and throw everything inside. Amigas have been found
to help reduce your painful crumps Calcium rich foods. Estrogen
actually helps with calcium absorption, so when estrogen production decreases
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during your menstruation, less calcium is then absorbed. And also
it's said that small amounts of calcium leaches out of
the body during this time too, so it's good to
double up on the calcium, whether it's through dark leafy greens, broccoli,
fortified milks, tofu tempe, just all the good stuff now.
During your menstrual phase, which is during your period, it's
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recommended to have foods rich in iron. Makes sense, right,
just to replenish the ion that's lost while you're bleeding,
whether it's bet fruits, lentils and beans, dark leafy greens,
nuts and seeds. Anti inflammatory foods are also recommended. Foods
which are rich in antioxidants like blueberries, seeds, nuts, leafy greens,
olive oil, and are you ready for this one? Chocolate
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If you're craving chocolate during this time, there's a reason. Definitely, definitely,
it has magnesium in it too. I think so double whammy.
Moist water rich foods and veggies. If you think about it,
your body temperature actually rises. There's a bit more heat
in the body can increase dryness in the body. So
having things like cucumbers, zucchini, fruits like peaches and plums, celery,
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just nice juicy hydrating things, herbal teas and hot water
to soothe your digestion. And you know, I talk about
this a lot. Hot water does everything from relaxing your
nerves to cleanse your digestive system. It's just makes your
body just feel so good. And there are nice herbal
teas that can help to soothe your belly, like hammer Mile.
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Spices like tumeric and fenogreek and cinnamon all help with
purid symptoms. So you can always throw in some cinnamon
into your tea, adding some turmeric in your curry. Oh yeah,
And I want to touch on this adaptagen called shatavari.
It's really well known. It's an aravadic hub that plays
a really important role in women's health, whether it's supporting
your reproductive health through regulating blood sugar levels. It's a
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natural remedy that's been trusted for centuries, whether it's menopause
periods or fertility. Chatavar is definitely a go to and
aravader for any female health support. Now, let's talk about
the foods that you should avoid even though you really
really want them. And it's usually the foods that you
really really want that are the ones that you should
be avoiding at this time. I know it's so sad.
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Saltium fried foods increase bloating and water retention. Caffeine obviously
increases your anxiety. Sugar causes the blood sugar spikes, It
can cause your mood swings and your cravings. Really, it's
just choosing nutrient dense foods that give your body the
extra vitamins and minerals that it usually loses during this time.
Just a little extra love and support and look if
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you are craving a little salty food here and there,
look your joy is more important at this time than
you know restricting yourself. But just know your limits. That's
about it. Next, I actually want to talk about the cramping.
If that happens every time my friends tell me they
have crambs. I say, oh my god, can I give
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you an ovary massage? And then they usually look at
me funny and they're like, hmmm, I'm not sure about that.
What does that entail? I'm like, trust me, it is magical.
I then proceed to stand up behind them, put my
hands on their hips and give them this ovary massage.
And suddenly you hear a sigh and I see relief
on their face. When I say it's magical, I truly
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mean it. Every man should definitely learn this for their women.
Foot massage is great by an ovary massage, oh, it
is a game changer. So basically, give me done laying down,
standing or sitting. Essentially you're pushing in just above your
pelvis the crevice of your hip bone. I like to
do it standing on the person I'm doing on because
then you can wrap around the side and also do
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a lower back massage at the same time, so you
kind of are massaging at the front and the back
at the same time with your thumbs. Your hands at
the front and your thumbs at the back. I'd actually
share a diagram on this or an example video on
Instagram because I think it is so useful. It really
does relieve the pressure that you're feeling there. It's so
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good You could do it on yourself, but so much
better if you call in a favor from a friend
or if someone else can do it for you. Those
areas also have pressure points that relieve congestion and energy
blockages in the body. So an acupuncture it says that
it helps it improve the flow of chia or life energy.
The massage targets lymphos as well, helping to drain and detoxify. Also,
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especially for women, we hold emotions in our hips, and
so don't be surprised if five minutes into the massage
you are also shedding some tears. I remember learning that
in my yoga teacher training where we did a whole
day of hip open it exercises and most of us
were crying throughout and then for long for at least me,
I was walking home crime eyes out. It really does
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help to release a lot of emotions that we store.
I just want to a little note at the end
of this. If your period pain affects your everyday life
in a drastic way, it is a good idea to
get everything checked out. You should be able to still
function through your day and it should not debilitate you.
And if it does, then I really do recommend going
to see a holistic doctor because you know, there's one
thing I don't know, you know what, people get mad
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when I say stuff like this, and I really do
see the place for western doctors. Of course I do.
If I break a bone, I'm definitely going to go see,
you know, a medical doctor. But a GP doesn't necessarily
know how to treat all of this from the root.
Cause you know, a lot of women unfortunately get told
to go on the pill when they have painful periods.
So what does that do? Just takes away your period,
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takes away a function that you really really need in
your life, that your body requires to detox to get
things out of your body as a natural system that happens.
So that really upsets me because amount of people that
have got messed up because they decided to be because
the doctor decided that they should go on the pill,
not thinking of the repercussions of what that's going to
be for them. I also think holistic doctors really consider
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so many other things than just oh, this is what's
going on. Let me give you a pill for this. No,
let's try and figure out the root. Cause let's try
having herbs and natural remedies before we put you on
some you know, something that was created in a lab, Like,
does that not sound so much better than going to
a doctor and being put on a pill that's going
to affect so much more in your life. I get
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really passionate about this because I think sometimes we blindly
follow things because it's the norm, versus really thinking what
our body needs and also what we're putting into our body,
Like would you rather put something in your body that
it's been created by in a scientific lab or something
that nature has provided. I really believe nature gives everything
that we need to heal our body. We just need
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to know how to use it. And so whether it's
acupuncturist by the way it meant to be amazing for cramps,
whether it's an ibadic doctor, whether it is honestly, I
try anything before I start to popping some pills, So
definitely try out. It's such a good investment to invest
in your health, and I never think you regress spending
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money when it's to do with your well being. Enough
of that, I wanted to talk about the dreaded period
acne next or in my case, the token peaky blinder
that shows up on my chin or cheek every single month.
It's humbling, to be honest. It's also uncontrollable to a
certain extent, because our hormones do shift and sometimes our
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skin just wants to have a little tantrum. But at
the same time, if we do make these little changes
that we spoke about earlier, it's less likely that we
have such a drastic hormonal shift, and that all the
good food and the nutrients that we're eating support our
skin to fight back when the spot comes the knockin.
But keeping your skin clean, double cleansing, exfoliating gently every
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day to the lead up to your period, that can
be really useful because there's actually more sebam that's produced
on our skin during your period, so when you're keeping
it clean and a little bit drier to avoid bacteria
build up, then that can definitely help. And oh my god,
do not do any kind of hair removal or skin
treatments during this time. I once made the mistake of
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going to get like a bikini wax or something, and
it was the first day of my period and I
didn't realize. No, I think it was a day before
my period. I hadn't actually started, but oh my gosh,
I was so much more sensitive and I literally was
like crying my eyes out, and I was like, it
doesn't normally hurt like this, and she said, are you
going to be on your period? I was like, oh
my gosh, yes, it's coming tomorrow. She was like, never
come here when you're about to be on your period.
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It will hurt ten times more. And then also when
I would do face hair removal, because let's be honest,
Indian girls are hairy sometimes and we need to remove
that hair. We don't need to, we want to. But
when I would wax my skin or I would do
any kind of facials that are a bit intense, my
skin would react in a way that would never normally react.
So I usually and it would break out and do
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all sorts of things. So avoid doing anything too drastic
to your body during that time too, because everything's just
a lot more sensitive. Lastly, I want to touch on
period products. Now. There's so many bits and bobs out there,
the cups, the pads, the tampons, the period panties, and honestly,
I'm not opposed to any of it. I would just
say they're great for different reasons, just depends what suits
you best. They all also have their pros and cons,
(26:26):
as everything in life does. But I will say, when
it comes to paths and tampons, and make sure they
are organic, unscented, made with cottsin, not with a plastic insert.
You don't want to put any fragrances or plastic up
there is just not right. I'm actually obsessed with period
pants right now. It's probably my favorite. I wear them
mainly at night because I just find pads so uncomfortable
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to sleep in, and it kind of takes us back
to how they used to do it back in the day.
You would have cloths that you wash and reuse better
for the environment, and also pretty comfortable, like you do
have to wash them, and there's a little extra care
I needed compared to the one use pads or tampons.
But honestly just feels like growing really comfy grinning pants,
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which is usually what you want to wear during this time.
I haven't actually tried cups, but I'm not sure how
I feel about them. I know they're made from silicon,
I still don't quite have an opinion on it, but
I know friends who use them and swear by them.
They absolutely love them. I really hope that this episode
help you to understand your body a little bit better,
which in turn will help you to love your body
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a little bit more and realize just how I've said
this many times in this episode, but how magical your
body really is and how blessed we truly are to
have a working, consistent menstrual cycle. And if you are
someone who is struggling with your period, whether it's irregular,
or it's painful, or it's just not as healthy as
it could be, I really hope that this does help.
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And if anybody who's not had a period for a
while or has peacos, I'm definitely going to have an
expert on to share guidance and wisdom on how to
get your period back if you've lost it, because I
know it can be so scary, and I really want
to help because I know it's possible and I've seen
it through holistic ways. Getting your period back is possible,
no matter what a doctor tells you. It is possible,
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whether you've got pecos or not, just know you can
get your period back. I have seen it and I
truly believe it, and so I will definitely try and
get someone on to talk about that. Also, share this
episode with some men I think they could really do
with some insight and getting over their fear of the period.
Let's be honest, the world needs to be a whole
lot more period friendly. Sending you all so much love,
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Thank you so much for listening, and let me know
if there's any other topics you'd like to hear about,
DM me send me a comment. We love hearing from
you at a really good cry. It makes my day
and yeah, I have a really, really wonderful day.
Host
Radhi Devlukia
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