Benefits of Seed Cycling

🌱 Balance Your Hormones Naturally with Seed Cycling! 🌿

Hormones are a complex interplay of nutrition, gut health, stress, genetics and environmental exposures, a simple technique that I sometimes use with clients as a gentle support to re balance their hormones is seed cycling

Seed cycling is a gentle, food-based approach that benefit the following:

✔ Help regulate cycles and ease PMS symptoms

✔ Support clearer skin & improved mood

✔ Can aid  hormone-related fatigue

✔ Provides essential nutrients for gut & liver health

How Does Seed Cycling Work?

In each stage of your cycle you consume 1 tablespoon of the specific seed, which contain amino acids useful to support progesterone, or specific metabolites responsible for clearance and detox of

other hormones .

How to Get Started?

Below is the recommended seed for each stage of your cycle, if your cycle various by 28 days - still aim to divide the cycle length into 4 equal parts

*leave out any seeds if allergic or intolerant

🔄 Follicular Phase

Days 1-14 1 tablespoon of ground Flax seeds & 1 tablespoon of ground Pumpkin seeds

🔄 Luteal Phase

 Days 15-28, 1 tablespoon of ground Sunflower seeds & 1 tablespoon of ground Sesame seeds

Simply grind 1 tbsp of the recommended seeds daily and add them to smoothies, oatmeal, yogurt, or salads! 🥣

Benefits from balancing your hormones can include improved mood and sleep across the cycle, less breakouts, improved energy and mental clarity and much more.

If you are looking for further support with your hormones, having a Naturopath in your corner can be a great support, as a functional practitioner we are able to offer testing that delves deeper into things like urinary metabolites for hormones when your bloods "look normal" . Exploring the connection of hormones with inflammation, gut health, genetics, mood and sleep.

✨ Want personalized support? Book a consultation to get more in depth support.