Monthly Archives: August 2008

Fertility Awareness For Women–The Menstural Cycle Part 2

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

  All of us women know that stress and emotions play a huge role in how smooth our menstrual cycle will go. If it is a stressful month, we are more likely to be irritable around our menses and have symptoms like insomnia, fatigue, headaches, cramping, depression and so on….. But why and how does [...]

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Fertility Awareness for Women—The Menstrual Cycle

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I don’t know about you, but when I was in high school nothing would put me to sleep faster than trying to memorize the series of hormonal fluctuations in the menstrual cycle. In college, my boredom turned to mixed interest and confusion as I tried to piece together the complex interconnected feedback loops of the [...]

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Fertility Awareness for Women

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The first step in becoming more fertile is learning about your body and hormonal cycle. Conception is regarded as a process in the Asian medical view, not simply a single event. Rather than just pin pointing certain windows of potential egg fertilization, we look at signals from the body over the cycle that indicate hormonal balance [...]

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What is Fertility? An Asian Medical Perspective

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Fertility is more than the ability to conceive a child. In essence, fertility is the ability to create—to create new life, a new idea, a piece of artwork, relationships, etc. The impulse of fertility is the spark of life, both literally and figuratively. Understanding this broadened concept of fertility is important when we look at [...]

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