OT - was interesting iodine experience, now period regularity

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Hi –

you may want to look at this link…Fertility Awareness, Food and Night-Lighting.

I have used the moon to make my periods regular. There are also herbs

that can help bring on menstruation. renee

http://www.westonaprice.org/women/fertility.html

A clip from above:

In addition to

incorporating Dr. Price's principles into their diets, many women with

irregular cycles have benefitted from addressing their night-lighting situation.

Exposure to light at night can inhibit the pineal gland's production of

melatonin. The pineal gland directs your body's rhythmic activities--including

sleep, appetite, and the onset of puberty--through its production of melatonin.

This hormone is primarily secreted at night, and it requires darkness to be

produced. Bright light suppresses melatonin secretion.2

The hypothalamus

gland, also located in the brain, is richly supplied with melatonin receptors.

This gland regulates your body's overall homeostasis, including things like

blood pressure, emotions, temperature, and the endocrine (hormonal) system.

Hormones secreted by the hypothalamus stimulate the anterior pituitary gland to

secrete its hormones; and these, in turn, stimulate the thyroid gland, the

adrenals and the ovaries to secrete yet other hormones. The ovaries (and the

testicles) are also thought to contain melatonin receptors.3

You can see how

melatonin production--and thereby sleeping in darkness or with light--can

affect the whole body's functioning, including the menstrual cycle: if the

hypothalamus doesn't receive sufficient melatonin, its ability to regulate the

hormonal system will be impaired.

In the late 1960s,

Louise Lacey, a writer, realized that being on the Pill took her body away from

its natural rhythm. She went off it, and subsequently had very irregular

cycles. She began reading about circadian rhythm and the sexual cycles of some

primates, which suggested peaks of sexual activity relating to the lunar cycle.

Lacey wondered if the moon's cycles relate to human reproduction, and if so,

how? She wondered whether artificial lights could interrupt the moon's effect.

A newspaper article

that reported the effects of night-light on the menstrual cycle then caught her

attention. Rock (the Ob/Gyn whose experiments with giving infertile women

synthesized progesterone led to the creation of the Pill) and physicist E.M. Dewan

found that women's menstrual cycles became regular by sleeping in complete

darkness Days 1-13, sleeping with a 100-watt bulb burning all night (under a

lampshade in their bedroom) Days 14-17, and then returning to sleeping in

complete dark.4

Thrilled by the

possibility that she could return to healthy cycles, Lacey tried variations on

the above experiment, beginning in 1971. She also began to chart her

temperature. She found that sleeping in complete darkness except for three

nights each cycle (when she slept with a 40-watt bulb under a lampshade or with a 75-watt bulb beaming a shaft of

light from a nearby bathroom (essentially mimicking full-moon light) triggered

ovulation. She called the technique Lunaception, and found that it could be

used to direct her fertility--and that of her women friends. By avoiding

intercourse on the days they slept with light, Louise Lacey and 27 of her

friends developed regular, healthy menstrual cycles, and used Lunaception to

avoid pregnancy effectively until menopause.5

Other clinical

researchers have also found that sleeping in the absence of light (introducing

it for a few days each cycle, or sleeping only in the absence of light) can

help women in a variety of situations to strengthen their cycles.6,7

Re: Interesting

iodine experience with my periods

Interesting.

I wonder if this would help me have a period. I haven't had one since

July.