women's period tracks 47 different health markers that blood tests miss doctors call irregular cycles "normal variation" while thed hypothalamus screams warnings about insulin resistance, chronic stress, and nutrient depletion 3 years before any other symptoms show 🧵1/12

mainstream medicine treats the signal as the problem irregular cycles? here's birth control painful periods? take painkillers like putting tape over your check engine light while your engine burns 2/12

the entire system runs on your hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis command center in your brain fires GnRH pulses every 90 minutes → pituitary releases FSH/LH → ovaries produce estrogen → massive LH surge triggers ovulation perfect self-regulating symphony when nothing interferes 3/12

after ovulation, the follicle remnant becomes the corpus luteum and pumps progesterone progesterone dominates your luteal phase, stabilizes everything no pregnancy = progesterone crashes, lining sheds, hormones signal restart your body runs this program flawlessly for decades 4/12

chronic stress is the primary saboteur your hypothalamus can't tell a deadline from a predator, both flood you with cortisol cortisol directly blocks GnRH release no GnRH = no FSH/LH = no ovulation 5/12

when GnRH gets suppressed, the entire cascade fails FSH and LH pulses falter ovulation delays or skips entirely progesterone never gets produced your cycle becomes the canary in the coal mine for systemic breakdown 6/12

monitor it in real-time and regain control try this protocol for 3 cycles, watch what your body tells you level 1: track cycle length 7/12

note first day of period each month healthy cycle: consistently 21-35 days massive variations (25 days then 40) signal HPO axis instability your body struggling to maintain hormonal rhythm 8/12

level 2: track cervical mucus estrogen rises before ovulation, mucus becomes clear, slippery, stretchy like raw egg whites peak fertility signal absence or poor quality = low estrogen production most women never learn to read this 9/12

level 3: track basal body temperature same time every morning before getting out of bed after ovulation, progesterone raises BBT by 0.3-0.5°C thermal shift confirms ovulation occurred 10/12

mastery level: synthesize the data high temp phase < 11 days = progesterone deficiency no temperature shift = anovulatory cycle direct biological feedback about your hormone production, not guessing 11/12

your menstrual cycle detects dysfunction years before disease learning its language is step one toward biological sovereignty for more: