My guest for this episode is Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator, Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner, author of The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility, and host of the Fertility Friday Radio podcast.
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack talks about vaginas a lot! She’s a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and monitoring overall health.
In her new book The Fifth Vital Sign, Lisa debunks the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you want children, by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific literature, Lisa presents an evidence-based approach to fertility awareness and menstrual cycle optimization.
Lisa also hosts the amazing Fertility Friday Podcast, a weekly radio show devoted to helping women connect to their fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between menstrual cycle health, fertility, and overall health. With well over a million downloads, Fertility Friday is the #1 source for information about fertility awareness, and menstrual cycle health, connecting women around the world with their cycles and their fertility — something our education systems have consistently failed to do.
When she’s not researching, writing, and interviewing health professionals, you’ll find Lisa spending time with her husband and her two sons.
In this episode we delve into how Lisa found her path as a fertility awareness educator, what the Fertility Awareness Method is and how to use it, what a normal menstrual cycle and period looks like, the amazing importance of cervical mucus – some mind-blowing facts here, and some excellent advise on pain management for you to take away. I literally could have chatted to Lisa all day, she really was one of the most easy to talk to guests I have had on the podcast!
The long list of things we covered::
- How Lisa got into charting and became a fertility awareness expert
- Why Lisa started her Fertility Friday podcast
- The concept of how our menstrual cycles is our “Fifth Vital”
- What a healthy menstrual cycle looks like
- What to expect from a healthy period
- Is a heavy period a symptom of Endometriosis or something else?
- What the Fertility Awareness Method and the 3 key indicators
- When best to have sex to get pregnant
- The importance of having healthy cervical fluid
- How we house a “Sperm Hotel!”
- How you can learn to understand your cycle
- Difference with using ovulation prediction sticks, cervical mucus and body basal temperature monitoring
- How PCOS can give false positives with ovulation prediction sticks
- The importance of the foundations of your cycle
- Some reasons for early ovulation and implications for fertility
- How a woman’s demanding life affects the health of her cycle
- How having support with charting can be helpful to avoid panic especially when trying to get pregnant
- How our cycles are highly susceptible to stress, sleep and exercise
- What makes pain occur with a period
Plus, period pain management strategies, specifically, timing your supplements with your cycle to reduce inflammation and pain!!
Mentioned links
Lisa’s new book! The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility
The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility welcomes you into an unparalleled understanding of the incredible connection between your menstrual cycle and your overall health. With over 1000 research citations, The Fifth Vital Sign presents an evidence-based approach to understanding and tracking your menstrual cycle for birth control, conception, and overall health. Discover why regular ovulation is essential for optimal health, regardless of whether you ever plan to have children. The Fifth Vital Sign offers practical strategies to preserve (and improve) your natural fertility, improve your menstrual cycle health, and optimize your chances of conception.
Relevant blogs and podcast episodes:
Connect with Lisa:
- info@fertilityfriday.com
- fertilityfriday.com
- Facebook: Facebook.com/FertilityFridays
- Instagram: @FertilityFriday
- Twitter: @FertileFriday
- Pinterest: FertilityFriday
- Skype: FertilityFriday
Further Endo Fertility resources:
- Join my Endo Fertility community! Find us in the Thrive and Conceive with Endometriosis Facebook Group.
- Follow me on Instagram and Facebook
- Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Optimistic Future
This episode is sponsored by the Endo Fertility Resource Library where you can get your 3 amazing freebies: E-Book:
- 5 Things I Learnt to Drop My Pain & Optimise My Fertility,
- Your Guide to Super Sperm
- 88 Ways I Dropped My Pain and Got Pregnant.
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