Some clients' PMS symptoms stopped after stopping contraception, others were helped by lifestyle changes, a quality diet, and others even quit their jobs or resolved their personal relationships. In my office, I always pay attention to an individual approach and look for areas that are good to change. What can we do for ourselves if we are stressed? Functional medicine doctor Dr. Jan Vojáček describes this perfectly in his book The Art of Being Healthy - It is essential to slow down and calm down as much as possible in a tense situation.

I personally perceive the source of problems before menstruation to be a misunderstanding of female physiology from the advice of experts, from whom we seek advice, which is logical. But the problem arises that the advice given to women is often effective for the male sex, not ours. Women like to reduce their intake to lose weight, limit carbohydrates to lose weight, exercise more to lose weight, but it ends up with loss of menstruation or PMS for example. When PMS is caused by a reduced level of serotonin, zinc or magnesium in our body. And why? Because they tell us the exact opposite. Exercising more and eating less, which is the exact opposite of what a woman really needs.

Mindfulness practice helps us to open up to life's experiences, move from reacting to responding and actually allows us to live life with ourselves present for it. When we move from reacting to responding, we actually get to choose - is this worth exploding over, or not? In the past, I'd usually just explode. And then regret it. The ability to make that choice today is truly incredible. That's because we train our brain to stop. It's quite miraculous. I was extremely skeptical at first, but it was integral to my healing as it taught me to connect with my body and gain understanding that a lot of my chronic pain in the past was linked to anxiety trapped in...

This year I have a lot of clients with whom I deal with hormonal imbalance, painful menstruation, fatigue before and during the cycle, mood swings, inability to get pregnant, gynecological problems and discharge. I have noticed a few common denominators of these problems, especially with painful menstruation. From my practice and from the perspective of psychosomatics, I have observed that it is a total depletion of a woman's energy reserves, both physically and psychologically. I try to look at health and the body from several angles. The first thing I do is to address the body's nutrition. I look for what the body is missing or has left over. I use visual diagnostics to do this – nails, hair, eyes,...

Since women’s mucous membranes can absorb even more chemicals than our skin, frequent contact with these toxins and chemicals can contribute to the development of metabolic changes and lead to related health problems ( 3 ). The average woman will use 11,000 tampons in her lifetime, so the more we can limit our bodies’ exposure to these chemicals, the better ( 4 ).