Natural Options to Support Your Period with Berrion Berry | Ep 179

Dealing with period problems is common for so many women, and today Erin sits down with menstrual health educator Berrion Berry to discuss why this is the case. Listen in as Berrion and Erin get back to basics on common culprits behind period pain (spoiler alert: stress is a big one!) and talk strategies to help relieve problematic periods in a natural way. Tune in to hear how anything that can influence your overall body can influence your cycle, and how implementing certain strategies and principles can not only change your health, but also change your life. Hint: these things don’t have to be hard, overwhelming, or scary! Berrion helps break this all down for us!Berrion Berry is a Menstrual Health Educator, Practitioner & the Founder of Optimize Your Flo. She teaches modern women to transform their periods and life through menstrual mastery. From hormone balancing to cycle syncing, to mood enhancing and self healing, Berrion covers it all and is excited to help you have your best period yet.In this episode:-Premise of today + related past episodes for deep dives [3:07]-Berrion explains a normal vs abnormal period [8:31]-How to figure out what’s “normal” for us [11:57]-Natural options to support painful periods [16:07]-Why do we collectively struggle with periods so much? [21:06]-The things that can influence your cycle [26:12]-Cooking based on your cycle [29:17]-What’s the deal with seed cycling? [31:51]-Menstrual cups, period underwear, & other alternatives to pads & tampons [36:39]-The importance of using fragrance-free, organic cotton menstrual products [40:52]FOR OUR FULL LIST OF LINKS + RESOURCES, HEAD TO: https://www.erinholthealth.com/funktional-nutrition-podcast/2021/10/29/natural-options-to-support-your-period-with-berrion-berry