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10/29/2026

Prolactin usually gets talked about in the context of pregnancy and breast-feeding, but that is not the only time it matters.

It can also be elevated in women who have never been pregnant or breastfed, and when it is, it can interfere with the hormonal signaling between the brain and ovaries. That can show up as irregular or missed periods, a shorter luteal phase, lower libido, pain with s*x, or even unexpected milk production.

The tricky part is that there is not one single cause. Thyroid dysfunction, chronic stress, certain medications, and pituitary conditions can all be part of the picture.

So if your cycle has become irregular or disappeared altogether, this is one more reason not to stop at, “Your hormones look fine.“

Sometimes the better question is: what was actually checked?

If you’re ready to better understand the patterns behind your symptoms, reach out to learn more about virtual 1:1 women’s health coaching.

10/29/2026

Somewhere along the way, even our downtime became something we felt the need to make productive.

A free afternoon turns into catching up on errands, a quiet morning becomes an opportunity to get ahead on work, even a walk outside somehow becomes about hitting a step goal instead of simply enjoying the fresh air.

And listen, there’s nothing wrong with being productive. But there’s also something really lovely about doing something simply because you enjoy it, without needing to justify how you’re spending your time. Read the book, sit outside a little longer, have coffee with a friend, take the long way home because it’s a beautiful day.

There will always be another email to answer, another load of laundry, or something that needs your attention.

You’re allowed to have moments that belong to absolutely nothing on your to-do list.

10/28/2026

A client with PMOS was frustrated because she had had multiple positive ovulation tests in a single cycle, but still couldn’t tell whether she’d actually ovulated.

We talked through what those tests were measuring. Traditional ovulation strips detect a rise in luteinizing hormone (LH), but an LH surge doesn’t guarantee an egg was released. And for women with PMOS, LH can remain elevated or surge multiple times, making those results especially difficult to interpret.

Rather than continuing to rely on positive or negative test strips, we incorporated Mira into her cycle tracking so we could look at her LH, estrogen metabolite (E3G), and progesterone metabolite (PdG) patterns over time.

This gave us more context around her potential fertile window and whether a rise in PdG following an LH surge suggested ovulation had occurred.

We also discussed the limitations of home hormone monitoring and what information would be useful to share with her fertility provider.

When you’re dealing with an irregular ovulation, understanding the hormonal patterns throughout your cycle can be far more informative than relying on a single positive test.

10/28/2026

Welcome to 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 of 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗨𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀, a series about the things women have been taught to normalize, dismiss, or simply endure.

This week, we are talking about the part of the month women joke about constantly, but rarely get taught to actually understand.

You know the feeling… There is a stretch of the month when your patience gets shorter, your energy drops, your cravings change, your sleep feels different, your anxiety seems louder, or you simply do not feel quite like yourself. Then, when your period arrives, things eventually settle down, and you move on until it happens again.

Because women have been hearing “it’s just PMS“ for most of our lives, many of us learn to treat those symptoms like an embarrassing personality change instead of information worth paying attention to.

Yes, hormonal fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle are normal. HOWEVER, that does not mean every level of premenstrual discomfort or disruption automatically has to be accepted as part of being a woman. The timing matters, the severity matters, how long it lasts matters, and most importantly, the effect it has on your actual life matters.

This is why I want women tracking more than when their period starts. When we begin looking at symptoms alongside cycle timing, sleep, stress, nourishment, movement, cravings, mood, medications, and the rest of the woman’s life, patterns can become much easier to recognize.

That does not mean diagnosing yourself from a tracker or blaming every bad day on hormones. It means having better information about your own body.

That is a big part of the work I do in women’s health coaching. I help women understand their patterns, identify the areas they can actually support, prepare better questions, and advocate for themselves with more than “I just feel off” when they walk into a healthcare appointment.

You do not need to spend part of every month apologizing for yourself and waiting to feel normal again.

What changes for you in the week or two before your period that you were always taught to just accept?

10/27/2026

A teenage girl has irregular periods, acne, maybe some excess hair growth, and suddenly she has a diagnosis in a birth control prescription.

And sometimes PMOS absolutely is the right diagnosis.

But I want us to get much more curious about what happens between “she has symptoms“ and “here is the pill.“

PMOS is not simply a period problem, an acne problem, or ovarian problem. It is a complex endocrine and metabolic picture that can involve ovulation, androgens, insulin, and blood sugar regulation, inflammation, stress physiology, and communication across multiple hormonal systems.

So making her periods predictable or clearing her skin can be valuable relief, but it does not tell us why the symptoms developed in the first place.

This is where so many women look back years later and realize they never actually learned what was going on with their bodies. They took birth control throughout high school, college, and their 20s, stopped when they were ready to conceive, and suddenly they irregular cycles or lack of ovulation they had as teenagers were right there waiting for them. That does not mean the pill caused PMOS or infertility!

It means symptoms suppression and addressing the deeper picture are not always the same thing.

If a teenage girl is diagnosed with PMOS, she deserves more than a name for what she is experiencing. She and the adults caring for her deserve to understand what has been evaluated, what may be contributing, what the medication is intended to treat, and what the long-term plan is for supporting her endocrine and metabolic health beyond simply making her cycle look more predictable.

Birth control may be part of that plan, but it should not automatically become the whole plan.

If you are parenting a teenage girl, save this one. The questions we teach her to ask now may change how she understands her body for the rest of her life.

10/22/2026

Testosterone tends to get filed away as a “male hormone,” which means a lot of women never realize how much it actually matters in their own bodies.

Yes, it plays a role in libido, but that is only part of the picture.

Testosterone also supports muscle, bone density, mood, cognitive function, energy, and resilience to stress. So when levels shift, the changes may show up in ways that have nothing to do with s*x drive.

Low motivation? Feeling weaker? More fatigue? Difficulty building or maintaining muscle? Changes in libido?

None of these symptoms, on their own, confirm low testosterone. But when several start showing up together, they can be useful clues worth looking at in context.

I have a question for you: 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱?

For a lot of women, the answer is either 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, or 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢.

Hormones don’t work alone, and symptoms rarely tell the whole story by themselves. Understanding the bigger pattern is where the useful information starts.

If you are ready to better understand the patterns your body has been showing you, reach out to learn more about virtual 1:1 women’s health coaching.

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10/20/2026

There are haunted houses, and then there’s being a woman trying to navigate her own health in 2026. And frankly, I’m not sure which is scarier.

Give me the ghosts, creepy hallways, and the guy chasing people with a chainsaw. What I won’t be doing is entering a room where someone tries to diagnose me from a TikTok, sells me a 19 supplement “reset”, and suggests fixing my libido with a date night and a glass of w**e.

The scariest part? Most of these aren’t even exaggerations. Somewhere between dismissing women’s symptoms, and turning every little fluctuation in our bodies into another product to sell, we’ve made understanding our own health unnecessarily complicated.

Not every symptoms needs a supplement and having a discount code doesn’t make someone qualified to give medical advice.

I’m all for a good scare during spooky season, but I prefer it didn’t come from my lab results, laundry room, or Instagram algorithm.

Now tell me, which room are you turning around and walking straight out of? And what other women’s health horrors did I miss?

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