Soothe menstrual inflammation with this little-known holistic secret



Every woman gets their period, but very few understand it.

And while many choose to use artificial fixes like hormonal birth control to relieve period symptoms, this doesn’t actually regulate or fix the menstrual cycle — it simply shuts the menstrual cycle down.

“A natural menstrual cycle is beneficial for women, because it’s how we make hormones,” naturopathic doctor Lara Briden tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable,” explaining that to give women birth control to solve all their problems is a “reckless approach.”

And there are other solutions to issues like painful periods that aren’t birth control.


“I definitely have friends who say, ‘I just have horrible periods, they’re really heavy, I have horrible, debilitating cramps,’” Stuckey says. “A lot of doctors will say the only remedy is birth control, but you have a natural approach to that, so where should women start if they’re in any of those boats?”

“I’ll give you two examples, which are kind of my favorite ones because they can really move the needle on symptoms,” Briden says. “If young women or teenagers are having very heavy periods, painful periods, one of the things I have learned early on, and then I’ve just seen in practice again and again, is that it can improve by switching the kind of dairy cow’s dairy they’re eating.”

According to Briden, unlike “A2 milk,” certain dairy proteins can be “quite inflammatory for some people” and that inflammation “can manifest as heavier flow, or more painful flow, or premenstrual mood symptoms.”

“Another example is the nutrient zinc. A zinc supplement can relieve period pain,” she explains. “There’s been at least one clinical trial where they tested zinc in direct comparison to the pill for period pain, and they found that zinc worked as well as the pill.”

Zinc is not only cheaper than the pill, but Briden notes that it also “doesn’t shut down the menstrual cycle.”

“So it sounds like there are a lot of potential natural remedies for the menstrual issues that people have that aren’t suppressing someone’s very necessary ovulatory cycle,” Stuckey comments.

“It’s 2025, we don’t have to shut down women’s entire hormonal systems just to avoid pregnancy,” Briden agrees.

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Health coach explains the potential connection between hormonal birth control and bisexuality in women



Emily Detrick, @littleraeofhealth on Instagram, is a certified health coach who specializes in helping “women balance their hormones naturally using mostly food as medicine.”

On this episode of “Relatable,” Emily joins Allie Beth Stuckey to discuss the sinister (and often dismissed) side of birth control.

A long and arduous journey to her own healing led Emily to discover the detrimental effects of birth control when it comes to our hormones.

Many women will recall doctors telling them that birth control has a host of benefits, including regulating your period and balancing your hormones, but according to Emily, these are lies.

“The second I got off birth control, I felt a million times better,” she tells Allie, adding that it felt like “coming home to [herself].”

“Basically none of them are good,” she explains. “I don’t think any woman needs to be on birth control for any reason,” as birth control “doesn’t regulate anything.”

For those who believe that birth control regulates your period, Emily attests that “you don’t get a period on birth control” but rather “a withdraw bleed from withdrawing from the fake hormones,” like “fake progesterone, fake estrogen.”

And for those who praise non-hormonal birth control methods, such as the increasingly popular copper IUD, Emily says that not only is “copper toxicity a big issue,” but also that copper “increases estrogen” and actually “[inflames] your uterus.”

Further, teenagers and young women who are put on birth control “are 70% more likely to be prescribed antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication.”

But that’s not the only “psychological impact” hormonal birth control can have, apparently.

“You also may be more likely to be bisexual if you are on the pill and that it can actually change who you are attracted to,” says Allie, referencing Dr. Sarah Hill. “I’ve also heard the argument that women may be ... more attracted to more feminine men ... when they are on the pill.”

“This is true,” says Emily. “There’s data, there’s studies” to confirm this.

“One of the [studies] they did is they showed women on birth control ... AI mockups of men, and then they slightly feminized their features,” Emily explains. “Women on birth control chose the men with more feminine features.”

There was also a study called “the sweaty T-shirt test,” which involved having “a bunch of different men work out in these sweaty T-shirts and put them in bags.” Then female test subjects — some of whom were on birth control and others who were not — were instructed to “smell them, essentially smelling their pheromones.”

They found that “the women who were on birth control chose the scent of men who were more genetically similar to them,” which Emily says is problematic considering “the most viable, resilient offspring” demand “someone with the DNA farthest from you.”

To learn more, watch the episode below.


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Young people can be intimidated by social media messages that use periods — yes, periods — since they apparently signal anger, linguists say



Social media messages using periods, believe it or not, can intimidate teens and young adults, who interpret such punctuation as a sign of anger, the Daily Mail reported, citing linguists.

Say. It. Ain't. So.

It seems the aforementioned age group — otherwise known as Generation Z — has grown up with smartphones they use to send short messages without periods, the outlet said.

According to a 2015 study from State University of New York, Binghamton, those who finish messages with periods are viewed as insincere, the Daily Mail said, adding that the debate resurfaced after writer Rhiannon Cosslett tweeted: "Older people — do you realize that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat? Genuinely curious."

The outlet said several Twitter users couldn't believe it — particularly because Cosslett's own tweet ended with a full stop (i.e., period). One Twitter user even accused her of "peak snowflakery," the Daily Mail said.

Enter crime novelist Sophie Hannah, who replied, "Just asked 16-year-old son — apparently this is true. If he got a message with full stops at the end of sentences, he'd think the sender was 'weird, mean or too blunt,'" the outlet said.

Experts say young people used electronic communication to break up their thoughts by sending each one in a separate message without punctuation — and the only time a period is used is when they want to communicate annoyance or irritation, the Daily Mail said.

In regard to the SUNY Binghamton study, which surveyed 126 undergraduates, research found that text messages ending in periods were perceived as less sincere while those ending in exclamation points were seen as heartfelt or more profound, the outlet said.

The researchers therefore concluded that punctuation "is one cue used by senders, and understood by receivers, to convey pragmatic and social information" such as irritation, the Daily Mail said.

"When speaking, people easily convey social and emotional information with eye gaze, facial expressions, tone of voice, pauses and so on," research leader Celia Klin said, the outlet noted. "People obviously can't use these mechanisms when they are texting. Thus, it makes sense that texters rely on what they have available to them — emoticons, deliberate misspellings that mimic speech sounds and, according to our data, punctuation."

Owen McArdle, a University of Cambridge linguist, told the Telegraph that periods "are, in my experience, very much the exception and not the norm in [young people's] instant messages, and have a new role in signifying an abrupt or angry tone of voice," the Daily Mail said.

More from the outlet:

Professor David Crystal, one of the world's leading language experts, argues that the usage of full stops is being "revised in a really fundamental way."

In his book, "Making a Point," he says that the punctuation mark has become an "emotion marker" which alerts the recipient that the sender is angry or annoyed.

He wrote: "You look at the Internet or any instant messaging exchange — anything that is a fast dialogue taking place. People simply do not put full stops in unless they want to make a point. The full stop is now being used in those circumstances as an emotion marker."

This writer's perspective!

Ah, youth (Look Ma! No period!)

I fondly recall in the previous century when folks commonly ended sentences and complete thoughts with periods, and no one got offended. (Sorry, kids) Now a "full stop" means the writer is, well, mean? May it never be!

I'm not sure Elaine from "Seinfeld" had a problem using the period, but her publishing company boss sure didn't like her overuse of the exclamation point!

Elaine and Mr. Lippman - Exclamation points youtu.be

Or her guy pal!

Seinfeld - Exclamation Point youtu.be

Young ones, take heed :)