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Category: Women’s Health

When your adrenals are fatigued, you literally feel like a different person -- wishing for the "old you" to come back. Living in "fight or flight" mode all the time, you're exhausted, anxious, and on-edge, relying on caffeine to make it through the day. Along with a nutrient-dense diet, focus on sleep, and good supplements, you can also use these top 5 essential oils for adrenal support to help you heal.

Top 5 Essential Oils For Adrenal Support

Most of us say we want to lose weight when what we really need to lose is FAT. Learn about candida's effects on your liver and how its toxins are stored in your fat cells, preventing fat loss. Then learn how to lose fat effectively -- even with candida.

Is Your Stubborn Fat Related To Candida? How Does Candida Affect Fat Loss?

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Cherry, Flax & Maca Hormone Balancing Smoothie

Understanding The Female Cycle & How Seeds Can Restore Hormone Balance (even in menopause!) | Once you have an understanding of the female cycle, you can heal from the hormone imbalances that cause PMS, heavy periods, low libido, and even the discomfort of menopause. Learn how to track your cycle and how seeds can help restore hormone balance -- yes, even if you're in menopause and don't have a period! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Understanding The Female Cycle & How Seeds Can Restore Hormone Balance (even in menopause!)

Don't fight your period, embrace it as your body's way of resetting each month. But don't feel like you have to settle with the aches and pains that can accompany your period...here are 6 hacks for period relief. Follow these simple tips and care for yourself during that time of the month. #period #hacks #tips #relief #facts #tradcookschool

5 Ways to Take Care of Yourself During Your Period

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6 Essential Oils For Candida (+ Oral Thrush Mouthwash Recipe!)

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Herbal Fertility Tea (with 5 pre-conception, fertility-enhancing herbs!)

Dairy-Free Hormone-Balancing Chocolate Malt {with maca & collagen!}

Dairy-Free Hormone-Balancing Chocolate Malt {with maca & collagen!}

Easy Homemade Herbal Hair Rinses for Beautiful, Healthy, Hair | Drugstore shelves are full of products that promise to give us healthy, manageable, shiny, smooth, strong, and beautiful hair. The problem is, most of those bottles are filled with anything-but-healthy chemicals. Thankfully, we need look no further than our own kitchens, gardens, or local herb shops to find natural, organic care for truly healthy locks! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Easy, Homemade Herbal Hair Rinses {for Beautiful, Healthy Hair}

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Natural Homemade Deodorant …That Really Works!

How Staying Hydrated Can Help You Avoid Candida | Do you know the dangers of dehydration? Migraines, less energy, compromised immunity, and... candida? As an opportunistic pathogen, candida can use an immune system weakened by dehydration to gain a foot hold. Here's how staying hydrated can help you avoid candida!

How Staying Hydrated Can Help You Avoid Candida

Whipped Body Butter | It's not frosting, but it does look good enough to eat. This whipped homemade body butter is thick and rich. It nourishes the skin with just a few ingredients like shea butter and essential oils. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Way Better Than Lotion: Homemade Whipped Body Butter with Essential Oils

What about using essential oils for those deeper issues... the ones no one sees but we most certainly feel? For relief from PMS or menopause, pain relief during childbirth, hormone imbalances, and even in the bedroom, you need to know about these top 5 essential oils for women.

Top 5 Essential Oils For Women (for hormone balance, PMS, menopause, & in the bedroom!)

No More Cramps! Essential Oil Roll-On | Argh...cramps. They can feel like your uterus and ovaries are staging a coup. Conventional medicine prescribes over-the-counter pain meds and even hormonal birth control for relief. Is there a better way? This essential oil roll-on brings natural relief for stomach and back cramps before and during your period. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

No More Cramps! Essential Oil Roll-On

Headaches, cramps, and bloating... Then, confidence, focus, and energy... Women run the gamut of weird, cycle-related symptoms! Can essential oils act like or balance hormones in the body? Find out! Plus, learn the 10 essential oils to use during every phase of your cycle -- from menstruation to ovulation to PMS -- for hormone balance, pain relief, libido, brain fog, and more!

10 Essential Oils To Use During Every Phase Of Your Cycle

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5 Foods That Are Wrecking Your HPA Axis

Have you experienced fatigue, insomnia, weight gain, blood sugar imbalance, anxiety, and cravings for sweet or salty foods? A nutrient-dense diet is exactly what sufferers of HPA axis dysfunction (formerly called adrenal fatigue) need! It is possible to find healing through diet with these 5 foods that nourish the HPA axis!

5 Foods That Nourish The HPA Axis

The hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal loop produces hormones that regulate our blood pressure, libido, metabolism, and stress response. When interference happens, symptoms of a hormone imbalance occur: insomnia, fatigue, anxiety/depression, thryoid issues, and more. This used to be called 'adrenal fatigue', but was that accurate? Learn why adrenal fatigue is actually HPA axis dysfunction.

Why Adrenal Fatigue Is Actually HPA Axis Dysfunction