ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to The Period Recovery Podcast, hosted by Cynthia Donovan, Registered Dietitian and Period Recovery expert. This podcast is dedicated to helping women restore their menstrual cycle, balance hormones, and rebuild a healthy relationship with food, body, and exercise.
Each week, Cynthia shares science-based education, real client stories, and practical strategies to help you understand why your period may be missing and what it actually takes to get it back naturally. Whether you are dealing with hypothalamic amenorrhea, irregular cycles, or fertility challenges, this podcast will help you stop guessing and start understanding your body.
After recovering her own missing period, Cynthia has supported women worldwide in restoring their cycles, improving their metabolic and reproductive health, and achieving pregnancy through a sustainable, evidence-based approach to period recovery.
If your goal is to regain your period, support fertility, or finally feel at peace with exercise and nutrition again, this show will guide you step-by-step toward that outcome.
New episodes every other Thursday.
Follow Cynthia on Instagram @period.nutritionist or visit www.periodnutritionist.com.
Hosts:
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biweekly
Average audio length:
46 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
122 episodes
since May 12, 2022
episodic
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What happens after you get your period back?
For years, I thought that getting my period back would be the end of the story.
After years of a missing period, fertility struggles, being told I had PCOS, and eventually discovering that hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA) was behind my absent cycle, getting …
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This is Part 3 of my personal hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery story.
If you haven't listened to Part 1 and Part 2 yet, go back and start there. In those episodes, I share how I lost my period, struggled with infertility, was diagnosed with hypothalamic amenorrhea, and eventually found my way throu…
What if the diagnosis you've been given isn't the whole story?
Kayla spent years believing her missing period was caused by stress, work, and travel. After developing an eating disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic, losing a significant amount of weight, restricting her food, and continuing to exer…
What happens after you get your period back?
Getting a period after hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA) can feel like the ultimate finish line. But as Ali discovered, getting your cycle back is just the beginning.
Ali is back on The Period Recovery Podcast for her second episode—and this time, she has a v…
What happens when your identity has always been tied to being an athlete?
In this deeply meaningful conversation, Cynthia sits down with former Division I tennis player, author, speaker, and eating disorder advocate Betsy Brenner to discuss how years of perfectionism, athlete identity, and a lifeti…
Can you recover your period after more than a decade?
Cynthia sits down with former client GNic who shares her remarkable journey from losing her menstrual cycle for 14 years to welcoming her miracle baby.
As a professional dancer, GNic spent years believing that being smaller meant being more succ…
In this episode, I welcome back Dr. Chrisandra Shufelt, one of the world's leading researchers in Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea, to discuss exciting new findings from the largest HA studies to date.
For years, women with missing periods have been told to simply "go on birth control" or have st…
Lauren spent years doing everything she thought was healthy: tracking food, exercising constantly, staying disciplined, and chasing the perfect body.
On the outside, she looked like she had it all together.
On the inside, she had lost her period, her freedom, and much of the joy in her life.
In thi…
Cynthia Donovan sits down with Dr. Jen Gaudiani, physician and author of Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders (https://amzn.to/4waPFVf), to unpack one of the most misunderstood aspects of hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA): you do not need to have an eating disorder to lo…
What happens when you finally get your period back… only to lose it again?
In this deeply honest conversation, Cynthia sits down with Audrey to talk about her experience with hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA), exercise obsession, food rigidity, perfectionism, and the identity crisis that can happen duri…
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