(Ina) Menstruation

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I gained a couple of pounds already, changed my diet drastically, eat loads of

proteine and fat now but it didn't help yet.>>>

 

Hi Ina,

The post I have is pretty much like the one that was posted from Survival into

the Twenty-First Century. It talks a lot about the toxicness of too much protien

and fat in our diets causing the body to eliminate thru menses.

 

<<It would be very nice if you could send me the articles. I wonder if other

women experience a changement with their cycle since going raw.>>>

 

Being older now, I'll never get the chance to find out about the menses. One

thing that I did discover when I went thru menopause, having been a vegetarian

for five years, was that I never experienced any of the hot flashes, migraines,

or crazyness that some women go thru. All that I experienced was a cessation of

the monthly flow. This might fall in line with what the writings of the book

said about no need for the body to detox via the menses and when women that have

destroyed their reproductive system from poor diets go into menopause, the body

has to find another way, thus the terrible episodes with menopause. Sorry I

can't be of more help. I've added what I saved as follows.

 

http://www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com/menstruation.htm

 

That website and some of the books it refers to also have

testimonials.

 

The most comprehensive book I know of is the classic " Is Menstruation

Necessary? " by Wendy Harris and Nadine Forrest MacDonald, Life

Science Publishers, Austin, Texas. You can sometimes find it at

www.abebooks.com or www.amazon.com, among other used book sources (I

think it's out of print), and perhaps through libraries.

 

There may also be some very good pertinent info in the 2 books by

Leslie and Susannah Kenton, mentioned in the bibliography of Habib's

article.

 

There is no such thing as " menopause " in Nature, because there is no

such thing as menstruation in Nature, and there is no such thing as

cessation of ovulation in Nature. The term " amenorrhea " refers to the

absence of menstruation, it is of questionable use because of its

implications that something wrong is occurring when there is

cessation of menstruation--in our toxic society, menstruation usually

stops when women manifest increasing pathology. But technically,

amenorrhea just means an absence of menstruation, and it is

applicable. When we become healthy and stop menstruating is

NOT " menopause " , since the amenorrhea we are talking about is simply

the cessation of menstruation, nothing more. Menopause implies a

cessation of ovulation, as well as of menstruation.

 

Menopause is NOT what happens when we become healthier. In our toxic

society, women's reproductivity decreases, large numbers of ova end

up damaged and discarded by the body, ultimately ending up in the

cessation altogether of the ability to ovulate, and the menses stop

only because the ovulation stops. But the opposite happens when we

become healthy. We simply stop hemorrhaging, and we are more fertile

than ever--and we do not stop ovulating. In fact, as our bodies

become healthier, our ova become healthier, our reproductive

capabilities resume the vitality they are meant to have, they are

more vital than ever.

 

Where can we find this absence of menstruation occurring? In every

animal in Nature! And as cited in the article, it is also the case

in " primitive " cultures. Menstruation is a hemorrhaging, one of the

ways the body deals with a pathological condition. When we regain

health, we stop hemorrhaging, that is all. And our ovulation, instead

of ceasing, becomes healthier and continues. " Science " tells us that

we are born with a certain number of ova and that's it, and when

those are spent, we are no longer capable of reproduction. However

that is based upon what happens in the SAD lifestyle.

 

But in Nature, females are fertile throughout their entire lives, and

do not hemorrhage. As we regain our health, we regain our

reproductivity, at least as far as the body is still capable of,

after cleansing out the toxins and repairing the damage caused by

unhealthy diet and lifestyle. Ovulation in Nature is not accompanied

by hemorrhaging, or pain, or PMS, or discomfort--that whole mess is

nothing but the symptoms of the body trying to eliminate its massive

built up toxic overload via a monthly elimination of the endometrium,

and it ceases when the body has cleansed and repaired itself to the

point where it no longer needs to continually use those channels of

extraordinary elimination.

 

Indeed, even childbirth is such a simple thing in Nature, just a part

of life. I once saw a film sequence of a woman in a tribe in Africa

giving birth. She was in a hut doing chores with other women, and

simply walked away when it was time, by herself, to a wooded area,

and she simply crouched down, which is the natural position for

correct positioning and dilating, so that the baby simply glides out.

That is what happened in the film, and the mother simply wiped the

baby off with some leaves, and went right back and joined the other

people, just resuming life, with the new baby. No trauma, no

screaming, no pain, no hours of labor, no hospitals, no doctors, no

midwives, no cutting, no tearing, no breach, no big deal, no

pathology! Just simple effortless birth, the way it's intended by

Nature, the way all creatures in Nature have been doing it for

millions, even billions, of years.

 

Again, all of this is just so very simple, though I found it

fascinating and amazing when I first heard about it. When the

pathology is gone, i.e., when we stop putting toxins into the body,

and the body has a chance to clean out, and repair, and maintain its

equilibrium and good health, then body functions return to the way

they are intended by Nature. It may take a while, we have spent our

entire lives heaping pathology on our bodies, but our bodies

valiantly seize as thoroughly as possible the chance to regain health

and optimal function, and they never stop--they just continue to get

healthier and healthier if we live according to the natural

principles.

 

The best thing to do, IMO, is to read books which put us on a path

toward living according to the principles of Nature. Here are some of

my favorites:

 

" Fasting Can Save Your Life " , " Superior Nutrition " , and any others

you can find, by Dr. Herbert Shelton

 

" The Natural Food of Man " , and any others you can find, by Hereward

Carrington

 

The Life Science Course, if you can find it, by T.C. Fry

 

" Awakening Our Self Healing Body " , by Arthur Baker