If your period is so heavy that you plan your schedule around it — the clothes you wear, the meetings you avoid, the bathrooms you map out — that is not something you should have to simply accept. For many Black women, these symptoms are caused by uterine fibroids: non-cancerous growths that develop in or
Category Archives: Hormonal Health
Hormonal Health
Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and What Your Period Is Telling You
Menstruation is defined as the monthly shedding of the inner lining of a woman’s uterus. Menstruation is also known by such terminology as menses, menstrual period, just “your period” or more colloquially in conversations as “aunt flow”. The menstrual contents (a mixture) […]