Irregular menstrual cycles can be an early indication of declining ovarian functions. Check out these four tips to help you strengthen your ovaries and regulate your periods.
Do you have irregular periods?
Menstrual irregularity makes it hard to predict when you’re going to ovulate, an important piece of information – whether you want to get pregnant or avoid a pregnancy.
Irregular menstrual cycles can also be an early indication of declining ovarian functions.
As we know, the job of ovaries is to produce eggs. It’s said that a woman’s ovaries have a reserve of potentially 450,000 eggs. But only about 400 of them will mature throughout a woman’s reproductive life, from puberty to menopause.
If you don’t ovulate at all, or if your ovulation is extremely irregular, you are likely to experience irregular periods.
This is because in the absence of ovulation, your ovaries aren’t producing sufficient amount of progesterone – an important hormone regulating your menstrual cycles.
How to Strengthen Your Ovaries and Regulate Your Periods
So to regulate your menstrual cycles, it’s very important to pay attention to, and take good care of, your ovaries, both physically and energetically.
I have a couple of suggestions for your consideration:
1. Reduce stress.
Excessive and prolonged stress is a major factor in the decline of ovarian functions. It overtaxes your body and causes premature aging – including your ovaries.
It’s estimated that about 1% of women go through menopause before age 40 these days.
To prevent this from happening, it’s important to find ways to de-stress on a daily basis, so stress doesn’t build up and become detrimental to your health.
Check out these 30 stress-relieving ideas I came up with during a holiday season (which is often a stressful time for people). They work just as well in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
2. Create a healthier lifestyle.
There’s no easy way around it. Regular exercise and balanced diet are the keys to your menstrual and overall health.
Read My Little Guide to a Healthy and Balanced Diet and Four Guidelines to a Perfect Exercise Routine.
3. Express your creativity.
The ovaries are thought to contain large amounts of life force – the source of our sexual and creative energies.
From her years of clinical experience, Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D., identified the correlation between ovarian problems and repressed creativity, especially as a result of fears or insecurities about the world outside oneself.
Like any other muscles in our body, our creativity follows the same law: use it or lose it. The more we use it, the more of it we have.
So find ways to honor and express the creative flow deep within you, whatever it may be.
4. Manage your emotions.
According to Dr. Northrup, ovarian problems often result from a woman’s perception that people and circumstances outside of herself are preventing her from being true to herself, and living from her center.
The energy of vengeance, resentment, or the desire to get even is especially harmful to the ovarian health.
So learning to forgive and taking full responsibility for our own life is an important step to healing our ovaries – and our menstrual cycles.
Read How to Manage PMS Anger.
Even though this post offers only broad brush strokes on the topic of strengthening ovaries and regulating our periods, I hope it will prompt you to examine certain areas of your life, and inspire you to make adjustments, if necessary.
Let me know if there’re specific areas or topics you’d like me to address in my future posts.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, by David D. Burns
52 Lists for Happiness: Weekly Journaling Inspiration for Positivity, Balance, and Joy, by Moorea Seal
Good Days Start With Gratitude: A 52 Week Guide To Cultivate An Attitude Of Gratitude
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Hi jing
I m having pcos and irregular periods but it comes every month before marr7age I uae to get only 2 days of very less bleeding n after marriage tried for baby n got a baby after 5 yearsthat too abnormal, then after having the baby I started getting heavy periods then after severalmnths of birth control pill I was diagnosed with pcos n then my period rsometimes heavy someti, es normal but now im having this problem this mnth that spotting before periods and the period r normal bleeding of three days n now ots 4 days im having drops of blood occasionally is this a problem? How to overcome this prob plz help n iwanna try for next baby now …..my age 29 , my weight 83 kg, n hight 4, 7 and 9 years of marriage now plz help..
Dear Sammy,
after reading about your struggling with PCOS, I did some research and found this very interesting site http://natural-fertility-info.com/pcos-fertility-diet.
I understand PCOS are most probably responsible for the irregularity in your period and your difficulties getting pregnant. The site provides a lot of information about ailments you can add to your diet, some herbs and supplements you can take, proper exercises…
Hopefully, some of these insights will help you improve the symptoms you’re experiencing 🙂
Take care of yourself and good luck my dear!
Hi I have had a normal period from the age of 14. I came on regulary and for a week exact. I reached 18 where there was significant responsibility and life events in which caused deep stress. Since then I have a period every 6-8months. I am 23 i am getting married in a few weeks and is very stressed how can I improve this? I had started to relax this 2 weeks. Been getting cramps, tiredness and my discharge is White and sticky. What does this mean? Many thanks x
Hi Sat,
First of all Congratulations. Marriage can cause lot of excitement and stress among other things can be most detrimental to our overall well being. Now since you are getting married and this period thing is really bothering you, I would suggest you see your Doctor. Please write back incase you want to share how you feel after reading the article or seeing your doctor. Hope you feel better.
I’m kind of scared… A couple of days I was lifting heavy objects and then a black gooey thing came out . I thought it was my period ,but it has not blead like its sopost to. I’m scared I have had unprotected sex can this mean I’m pregnant? I’m kind of scared please help…
Dear Starly,
when the black discharge occurred, were you supposed to have your period or was it between cycles?
I haven’t started my period but a couple days ago I lifted heavy objects and then a black gooey thing came out I haven’t blead like usual period I’m kinda scared please help
my flow comes very three to four months intervals…..what do i do. thank you
Diana, to better answer your question, please tell me if you have any other symptoms: Heavy or light bleeding? Period cramps? The color of your menstrual blood? Lower back pain? Fatigue?
I have a irregular period always been this way since I started my period, at the age of 8yrs.. from April 2012 to June 2012 my period became regular actually thought it was going to stay that way.. it would start the 21 n end the 29.. on July my period did not come on the 21st instead it came on the 28 n ended on august 3.. and since then I have not had a period.. so since July I have not had a period… I took 2pregnancy test last month which was September n both said negative… now am having really bad head aches and dizziness..do you know what it could be? Please help thank you
Judging from your history and symptoms, I wonder if it’s related to progesterone deficiency. Check out these natural supplements to increase progesterone.