05/21/2026
You're not laughing because you think this is fine.
You're laughing because the only options anyone's given you are birth control, "this is just what happens to aging women," or some version of try harder.
MAYBE you're offered HRT but no one has bothered to find out why your body isn't making the hormones it should be making in the first place.
So you white-knuckle it on your own. Peptides out of someone's trunk. Coffee enemas. 200g of protein you choke down. Cold plunges at 5am.
None of those are answers. Some of them might make you feel better. Most of them are bypassing the actual question โ why is this happening to you?
So you laugh, because what else is there.
Just because it's common doesn't mean it's normal.
The rage you don't recognize, the smell sensitivity, the fog of depression that rolls in two weeks before your period, the crying in the car - they're signals. Not the unavoidable cost of having a uterus.
Here's what's actually happening:
Progesterone is supposed to rise after ovulation and hold steady.
When it drops too fast or never rises high enough, your nervous system loses its buffer.
Add blood sugar instability, sluggish estrogen clearance, or chronic stress, and the second half of your cycle becomes a survival event.
This is fixable.
Not with a pill that masks it. Not with replacement hormones that paper over a body that's still trying to tell you something. Not with the supplement protocol someone sold you off Instagram.
With actually looking at what's happening in your body - proper hormone testing in the right phase of your cycle, gut function, liver pathways, nervous system support - and treating the root causes.
You've been laughing because nobody's offered you a real option.
This is the work I do with clients โ proper testing, targeted intervention, and a body that finally responds. ๐