Don’t Accept the “Normal” Amount of Pain and Annoyance

Women are conditioned to believe periods are painful, and leaking urine is part of aging

This is not true

Women of Reproductive Age

Our culture has misled us to believe that what is common is normal.

It is not normal to have pain with your period, mood changes, and heavy bleeding.

These symptoms are messages from your body saying there is an imbalance.

Together, we can figure out what it is and resolve it.

Peri-Menopausal Women

We are conditioned to believe that peri-menopause is a time of life that is prolonged for years (or even decades if we include pre-peri-menopause) in which we experience great emotional and physical upheavals.

We are conditioned to believe this is normal.

This is not normal.

In other cultures, and at other times in our culture, the way a woman knew she was menopausal was that her period stopped.

Physical and emotional turbulence as as part of peri-menopause is common in our culture because of lifestyle/behavioral patterns and environmental exposures.

Dr. Peterson can help identify the lifestyle and environmental factors you can change, and offer support for the things you cannot change.

This will help you have a more gentle transition.

Post-Menopause

After menopause women accept a little urinary leakage as normal.

After menopause women accept prolapse as normal.

At least half of all women will experience these conditions after menopause, but there are things we can do to improve function.

It is important to improve function because the brain will down-regulate as the end organs (like the bladder) lose competence.

Bone, muscle, digestive, brain, and cardiovascular health are all things we can address with natural medicine to improve function.