This post is about acupuncture and its role in enhancing fertility outcomes for those conceiving naturally or using ART

More than half of women who have a period experience pain. There are two types of dysmenorrhea (painful periods); primary dysmenorrhea is the most common without known pelvic pathology. Secondary dysmenorrhea is due to pelvic pathologies such as endometriosis, uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, or ovarian cysts. The solution for dysmenorrhea is birth control in Western medicine, which is good as a bandaid to alleviate pain, but it doesn't help figure out why you have pain in the

My goal of this article is to help reframe how we think about our periods. I want to help you understand your period, learn from it, and how to live according to where you are in your monthly cycle. I'll admit that I knew very little about my menstrual cycle until I started acupuncture school. I went to the gynecologist when I was 16 because of irregular periods. The doctor suggested I go on birth control to regulate my cycles. I thought, "Great, I'll get my period more reg