The standard treatment for women who complain about their monthly miseries is a pat on the head and a prescription for birth control. The prescribing doctor’s reasoning is that some women’s bodies are broken, and that nothing can be done but suppress the patient’s defective hormonal cycle with the drugs used in the Pill/Implant/Hormonal-IUD/Injection.

Doctors are pressed for time, so they say that the “hormones” in the prescription will “regulate” the patient’s cycle. While this sounds nice and sells well, the statement that the chemicals in these prescriptions are actually “hormones” that “regulate” is a little white science-lie. People who think they know better say “yeah, they’re actually hormone-analogues, so they’re fine.”

But no provider of in vitro fertilization would use birth control to support a pregnancy. That’d be malpractice.

Rather than going to a doctor a couple times a year for drugs to make your life less miserable, we think it better to address the root causes of the conditions that women experience.

If you like your birth control, congratulations. I believe it is a mistake to trust ‘the experts’ that say this is your best option.

Consider the possibility that simple inexpensive interventions could fix the problem, permanently, and allow you to age gracefully, without the risk that one day your birth control will fail you (it always fails, eventually).

Wouldn’t that be great?

[… There is currently nothing of substance on this site. ‘Menstrual Makeover’ is a sort-of catchy title that an older female friend came up with.]