Nourishing Women Podcast

My personal work is with orthorexia, and as a result we see a ton of HA clients and use No Period Now What as a recommendation for our clients to read while we work together. I find people with orthorexia can use this scientific understanding of what’s going on in their bodies to focus on recovery. A lot of my work is focused on how exactly to eat more and exercise less, which sounds simple but is incredibly complex. But for today’s episode I really want to dive into the bodily processes and science behind what is happening in your body when  your period is missing, which is why I asked the main author of this incredible resource, Dr. Nicola Rinaldi to come on the show today.   Nico has a PhD in computational biology from MIT. After graduating she worked for a biotechnology company while pursuing her dreams of a family, which were thwarted by a diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea (no periods). Eighteen months of trying to conceive followed. She spent hours on research, using the knowledge gained to work on r