What is menstrual cycle nutrition?

The food that you eat provides the raw materials that your body and cycle needs to function; the nutritional building blocks that construct hormones, neurotransmitters and literally every cell in your body. Each body system, organ and bio-chem reaction, uses nutrients to do it’s beautiful job of keeping you alive, healthy and happy.

This means that you have a base-line of nutrients that are required for your hormones to operate properly. If your diet is lacking, imbalances like PMS, hormonal anxiety, fatigue, mood swings and painful, heavy or irregular periods, soon follow.

Menstrual cycle nutrition is a wholefood-based way of eating that nourishes hormone health, by meeting the changing energy and nutrient requirements throughout the cycle, for optimal physiological and psychological flow.

Nutritional needs are cyclical.

The food you eat is one of the most significant contributors to menstrual and hormone wellness. Just as a garden blooms with the right balance of sunlight, water, and nutrients, your endocrine system thrives with nourishment from the foods we eat.

These foods provide the essential substance needed for hormone production, metabolism and detoxification, ensuring the smooth transition through each phase of the menstrual cycle. 

A colourful blend of hormones are moving through your endocrine system, at any give given time. Throughout your menstrual cycle, hormone levels and ratios fluctuate in a predictable pattern, meaning that your nutritional needs are non-linear. Yes that’s right, your nutritional requirements are cyclical.

This is something we should be taught at school!

Menstrual or hormonal challenges arise or are exacerbated by digestive system inflammation and an imbalanced gut microbiome. Eating to support your gut ecology, reduce inflammation and maximise nutrient absorption, will radically impact your cycle and mental health.

The human body functions optimally, when just the right amount of each hormone is circulating through the bloodstream, during particular times of the cycle. Too much or too little, will cause immediate imbalance and over time lead to chronic health conditions.

Menstrual cycle nutrition guides you to eat right for your unique cycle and hormone health. Work with your flow, not against it!

You will: Develop an understanding of your own biology, cycle and symptoms.

You will: Gain an embodied knowing, on how to use lifestyle, nutrition and menstrual cycle awareness to reverse menstrual challenges and maintain lasting results.

You will: Recognise and overcome mindset blocks so you can truly nourish you.

You will:

  • Naturally support your system

  • Sync your cycle and create ease and flow

  • Increase your energy

  • Reduce menstrual problems

  • Balance your mood

  • Find your cyclic superpowers

Supporting you with.

Managing hormone challenges- PMS, PCOS, fatigue, low-libido, insulin resistance, endometriosis, hormonal acne or irregular, heavy, absent and painful periods.

Education- Understand your biology and menstrual cycle, learn how to sync your cycle and eat for hormone health.

Empowered cycles- Discover and embrace the unique physiological and psychological fluctuations within your menstrual cycle.