The Bloody Curse

Menstrual Cycle Misconceptions

Sex, Lies, and Menopause by T. S. Wiley, Julie Taguchi, Bent Formby

Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein

The Menstrual Cycle

Common Perception

• Hysteria• Misery• Pain• Can’t be bothered with• Wish it wasn’t

What is Menstruation?

Menstruation (men-STRAY-shuhn) is a woman's

monthly bleeding. A woman’s body sheds the

lining of her uterus (womb). Menstrual blood flows

from the uterus through the small opening in the

cervix and passes out of the body through the

vagina. Most menstrual periods last from 3 to 5

days, peaking at day three, and ending no later

than day 6.

What is the Menstrual Cycle?When periods (menstruations) come once every 28

days, ending by day six, asymptomatic and without incident, this is called the menstrual cycle. Having regular, asymptomatic menstrual cycles is a sign the body is functioning at its optimal level.

A cycle is counted from the first day of 1 period to the first day of the next period. The menstrual cycle is 28 days long, and cycle with the phases of the moon.

The cycle of hormone levels during the month control the menstrual cycle and symptoms throughout the month.

The Trouble With The Curse

• Conventional, allopathic medicine isn’t interested in the cause of the problem as they are to keep the patient with the disease but manage the symptoms of the disease with surgeries and medications.

• Periods are supposed to be incident free, without pain, without headaches or migraines, without lower back pain, without cramps or blood clots, without bitchiness and moodiness, and without abnormal bleeding.

Causes of Irregular Periods• Stress • Birth control pills• Uterine polyps or fibroids• Endometriosis• Pelvic inflammatory disease• Polycystic ovary syndrome• Premature ovary failure• Uterine cancer or cervical

cancer• Medications• Medical conditions• Complications with pregnancy

The number one reason women have irregular periods

is because of estrogen deficiency.

This is a comparatively uncommon form of severe mental illness, with the following characteristics:• Abrupt onset against a background of normality.• Brief duration, with full recovery.• Psychotic features such as confusion, mutism and stupor,

delusions, hallucinations or a manic syndrome. Premenstrual tension, premenstrual syndrome, premenstrual (late luteal phase) depression or dysphoric disorder or menstrual mood disorder do not qualify.

• A circa-mensual (approximately monthly) periodicity, in rhythm with the menstrual cycle.

Menstrual Psycosis

The Curse

Amenorrhoea: absence of a menstrual period in a woman of reproductive age. 

Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: Treat the root cause.

The Curse (cont.)

Dysmenorrhea: pain during menstruation that interferes with daily activities.

Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: treat the root cause.

The Curse (cont.)

Hypomenorrhea: short or extremely light blood flow.

Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: treat the root cause.

The Curse (cont.)

Menometrorrhagia: prolonged or excessive bleeding occurs irregularly and more frequently than normal.Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: treat the root cause.

The Curse (cont.)

Menorrhagia: abnormally heavy and prolonged periods at regular intervals.

Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: treat the root cause.

The Curse (cont.)

Metrorrhagia: bleeding at irregular intervals, particularly between periods.

Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: treat the root cause.

The Curse (cont.)

Oligomenorrhea infrequent (or, in occasional usage, very light) menstrual periods occurring at intervals of greater than 35 days, with only four to nine periods in a year.Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: treat the root cause.

The Curse (cont.)

Conventional Treatment: Birth control pills, medication to treat the symptoms, hysterectomy

Functional Menopause Medicine Treatment: treat the root cause.

Polymenorrhea Cycles with intervals of 21 days or fewer.

How Conventional Medicine Treats The Curse

Western, conventional medicine is designed to treat the symptoms of disease

The goal is to keep the patient ill with the disease, but manage the symptoms of the condition with medications, or perform surgeries and remove body parts, i.e., birth control pills, Prozac, and hysterectomies.

How Functional Menopause MedicineTreats the Curse

Address the cause of the problem:

• What are the hormone levels?• What are the symptoms?• What does the blood work indicate?• What is the patient eating?• How is the patient sleeping?• What activities does the patient have?• What stress is the patient under?

Blood of The Bloody Curse

What your blood test will tell a Functional

Menopause Medicine Specialist

• Estradiol• FSH• Progesterone• LH

• Testosterone• TSH• SHBG• Vit D

Functional Menopause Medicine

The Panacea Protocol: Bioidentical Cyclic Dosed Hormone Restoration

If you are interested in learning more,

or if your doctor is interested in being

trained in The Panacea Protocol:

Bioidentical Cyclic Dosed Hormone

Restoration Systems™, please email

info@PanaceaSciences.com

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