After my initial surgery for Endometriosis and upon refusing my doctor’s prescribed treatment of “Lupron Therapy,” I realized that proceeding within the Western Medical Model came with great risks. I needed another way to fight this disease. It was at this point in my research that I stumbled upon some information about monthly menstrual products. …
We just can’t run off to the red tent and bleed into the ground, neglecting our children, husbands/partners, jobs and other duties, can we? We need something to collect that menstrual flow! Well, if you’re like me, you were taught that the thoroughly “modern woman” will use disposable pads or tampons. With disposable pads, you …
Okay, so maybe we’re not dummies. After all, how many of us remember what we learned in 6th grade health class. Sure, they separated the boys from the girls (was that really such a great idea?) but there was still all that giggling. And the embarrassment! And that sweating, droning health teacher who acted as though …
Being the great niece of world renowned Professor Joseph Stolkowski, whom I never met, is probably more than an irony. It’s genetics. Or chromosomes, which we are going to discuss here. First of all, I should say that I’ve never read my great uncles’s book Garçon ou fille? le choix par sélection préconceptionnelle. Namely because it …
Who among women and couples who have experienced infertility can forget the monthly cycle of pain? Maybe you have been taking your temperatures orally or vaginally. Maybe you have been timing intercourse to correspond with day 14 of your cycle. Maybe you have spent an entire month (or many months!) on a special diet. Or …
Today I received a call from a very gentle and kind spirit who had some questions about using my practice in conjunction with fertility treatments. She was not the first person to ask me this question. The answer is, sometimes I can work with whatever the fertility clinic is doing, but generally speaking I won’t …
