Today we had the honor of talking with our dear friend Kylah Smook. She is a health advocate passionate about getting women off hormonal birth control. Kylah broke down the women’s cycle so freaking well, you won’t want to miss this one ladies!
Kylah’s Story
Kylah is a women’s health advocate who is passionate about getting women off hormonal birth control while also helping them understand their menstrual cycle so that they can take their health into their own hands. She runs several women’s wellness retreats each year in central and north America designed to immerse women in a hormone-supportive lifestyle, and she is also the host of the Intentional Health podcast.
Okay for any girl that is listening and is on BC, what would you say to them?
It’s a very “easy fix” for things. They aren’t even fully educated with all the information about women’s health. The copper IUD does not stop your cycle but everything else stops your ovulation.
A healthy cycle is 28-34 days long. The main event of your cycle is this thing called ovulation.
Day 1 of your cycle is day one of your period. That is the menstrual phase, which will last 3-6 days long, where all hormone levels are super low. They are at rock bottom.
Once our period ends we enter our follicular phase and this is the phase before ovulation. Estrogen is the dominant hormone. It peaks when ovulation occurs. Ovulation is when our body releases an egg to try and make a baby. It only happens once per cycle. The egg only lives for 24 hours. Once it is probably not fertilized it will die which then releases progesterone. This is going to take over as the dominant hormone in the luteal phase.
Once progesterone goes back down, that is what triggers your period to start and then we go back around.
How to know when you are ovulating
When you ovulate your egg is only alive for 24 hours. But when sperm is present it can live in our body for up to 6 days. That gives you a six-day fertile window for you to get pregnant. And then outside of that, it is scientifically impossible for you to get pregnant.
We have three fertility signs.
The first one is cervical mucus, if you have discharge in your underwear that is a healthy part of your cycle. This is what your body produces leading up to ovulation. That alone does not indicate ovulation. You need to cross reference your fertility signs. So the next one is your basal body temperature. This is your body temperature first thing in the morning. Your temperature will be at a lower range in your follicular phase, but then after ovulation occurs it will spike and remain spiked for the remainder of your cycle. Our last fertility sign is your cervix position. When your cervix feels high and soft that is leading up to ovulation and then the rest of the time your cervix will lower and harden.
What is your favorite book you’ve read recently?
Taking Charge of Your Fertility of Tony Weschler
Is This Normal by Dr. Jolene Brighten
Fast Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz
The Comfort Crisis by Micheal Easter
The Impossible First by Colin O’Brady
The Twelve Week Year by Brian Moran
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