Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals26 Helmi 2021

FFP 353 | Myths & Facts About Hypothalamic Amenorrhea | Dani Sheriff

Dani Sheriff is an Australian-Born, Austin based digital illustrator, YouTuber and podcaster. She is the host of The Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Podcast and founder of The HA Society – a podcast and online community for women who care about getting their periods. Her mission is to free up mental space for people who are caught up in the diet-hard mindset so that they can do their life's greatest work.

In today's episode we talk about some of the most common myths about HA (i.e. that it can only happen to women who are really skinny) and much more!

Today's episode is sponsored by the Fertility Awareness Mastery Mentorship Program! We start the first week of March! For details and to apply now Click here to register now!

Topics discussed in today's episode:

Dani's period history and birth control use
Dani's personal diagnosis and experience with HA
Dani's experience with telling her doctors about her missed periods
The effects of HA on ovulation and progesterone
Differences between women with PCOS and HA
Dani's discovery between weight and HA
How all women's bodies differ when it comes to weight loss and the effect on their menstrual cycle
The quality of food is more important than the amount of calories you consume
How the emotional component of HA is harder to correct than the diet
Advice for women who have extreme distortion of their body image

Connect with Dani:

You can connect with Dani on Instagram and on her website.

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Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by J-Gantic

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