Shattered dreams

Menstrual Cycle Evaluation and Women's Health: An Overlooked Biomarker for Vaccine Injury

- Leslie Carol

Puberty, Immunity, and Vaccination

It is amazing to me that women of all ages live their lives without an understanding of the fundamental nature of their menstrual cycle and how it affects their minds, moods, and behaviours. The message that women continuously receive is that the menstruation is too complicated for us to understand, and in some camps, it is believed that menstruation is an unnecessary evil, and is dismissed, denied and denigrated.

However, menstrual health advocates know that attitudes about menstruation, and the media and cultural shaming that takes place at the time of first menstruation, frame the conversation about how we feel about a natural, if not sacred, monthly rhythm in women's bodies. Many practitioners look at menstruation as a separate process and the release of the uterine lining if conception does not take place. Period.

However, menstruation is the final chapter of a monthlong process of neuro–endocrine–immune functioning vital to women's health and well-being. Menstruation is also a biomarker for mental and physical health.

However, the educational focus in schools is on the reproductive system in terms of sex and pregnancy. Birth control and sexually transmitted diseases are discussed, and the fundamental nature and driving mechanisms of action via hormone messaging is often ignored. This lack of knowledge about how hormones affect our behaviours keeps women victims of their bodies.

The Role of Hormones