"Menstruation - is it really necessary?" Article

**Invader** · 09-13-2011 05:46 AM

Credit to finding this article goes to my sister. It's an interest read and, as I can only imagine, helpful. As one who's been engaged in the lifestyle changes discussed herein she can attest firsthand to the benefits, so in good faith I'd like to share this with you in hopes that it may come of some use. Obviously this wont be directly helpful to roughly half or more of the population here. Eye-opening nevertheless.

Menstruation--is it really necessary?

"...menstruation as most of us experience it is neither natural nor healthy. Ovulation does not depend on it. And it can be changed very much for the better - even to the extent of not experiencing it at all yet remaining healthy and fertile. How this can be done has been known and written about by health practitioners for centuries, and practiced just as long by women willing to make the simple but significant lifestyle changes involved."

Hope you find some good in this.

**Arra** · 09-13-2011 06:23 AM

That's interesting, and another reason of many to eat healthily, I suppose, as long as the article can be believed.

I only read 1/3 of it, not because I'm lazy, but because it bothers me a lot to hear about the internal female reproduction things going on, especially about ovulation. It might be a phobia actually. The whole time I was just shifting positions in my chair every few seconds, cringing, trying not to think about it. Especially when they talk about the blood lining... I literally feel sick, a little like I'm about to throw up. I just couldn't continue to read it. I have no problem hearing about male reproduction stuff. It's odd. I guess it's because I'm imagining the female stuff happening in me.

Anyway, thanks for the article. I don't personally 'suffer' from the symptoms nearly as much as that article implied the average woman does. There really isn't much blood, and 2/3 times I don't feel any pain at all. The other 1/3 I'll feel something similar to a stomach ache for only about an hour, and only about 1/8 of the time is it demobilizing.

Coincidentally, I was thinking today about the benefits of the emotional effects. The negatives are usually emphasized, but there are positives, at least to me. Sometimes emotions are emphasized (and it isn't predictable when, or if it will happen at all in a given month). Anger will turn to fury, mild sadness will turn to near-suicidal depression... but good emotions are emphasized too, to extents that I'd probably never experience if I didn't menstruate. The times I've perceived the most beauty in the world, felt the most love for people, appreciated art the most, etc. has probably been during PMS.

The article surprises me because I've never heard anything like it before. I suppose I'd have to know more about the experiments they used to determine that it isn't natural. Maybe they did explain them later on after I stopped reading. I don't quite believe it yet. The 'evidence' I saw presented went along the lines of "I know a person who started eating healthily and had 3 healthy kids after she stopped menstruating." Specific examples and not experiments. If it were shown that humans in other parts of the world who do eat healthily don't menstruate and remain fertile, or something like that, I'd begin to believe it more.