Why Stress Interferes with your PCOS Recovery

Stress’s relationship with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) is very much a doubled edge sword. The diagnosis of PCOS along with its devastating symptoms such as hair loss, acne, hirsutism (facial hair) and weight gain can be extremely to women. But the problem is that this stress could be the one thing blocking a women from recovering from PCOS both with a natural holistic or a conventional medical approach. If you or someone you know has been battling with PCOS, trying every remedy under the sun to no avail, then it is time to give a closer look at stress.

Ivy BraninOctober 20, 2020stress, acne, pcos, progesterone, estrogen, pregnancy, fertility, weight

What Anxiety does to Your period

In the past few months since the world went on lockdown, many of us have spent more of our time in worry than ever before. Fear of our financial future, the health of our family or the grim prospect of never being able to find a partner has been keeping many of us up at night.

Ivy BraninJuly 7, 2020PMS, fertility, adrenals, headache, periods, anxiety, sleep, insomnia, estrogen, progesterone, stress

Getting Off the UTI Cycle

For many years, I had been helping women at my naturopathic practice rid themselves of urinary tract infections naturally. It was a mystery to me was why these women were so desperate to stop getting UTIs. How bad could a UTI be?

Ivy BraninJanuary 8, 2020estrogen, menopause, PMS, periods, UTIs, water, gluten-free, sugar, probioticComment

Let's Get You Ovulating

Many women come to me because they aren’t getting their period. Often they have just come off hormonal birth control or have had a long history of erratic and absent cycles. In my New York City naturopathic practice, the goal is not to get these women to “bleed” but to ovulate.

Ivy BraninNovember 12, 2019PMS, Birth Control, periods, pregnancy, fertility, menopause, estrogen, progesterone Comments

Spironolactone for acne?

Perhaps you thought acne would be something you would be to leave behind in high school like your senior physics class or braces. Unfortunately hormonal acne, which normally appears along the chin, jawline and cheek, can persist into early adult hood and even emerge during menopause.

Ivy BraninJuly 3, 2019acne, pcos, estrogen, Birth Control, skin, nettlesComment

Could the Pill be Messing with your Gut?

Is this you? A young woman, who I have been seeing over the years for PCOS, came in struggling with terrible acid reflux. She had never had it before and it was even keeping her up at night.

Ivy BraninNovember 13, 2018constipation, PMS, sibo, acne, Birth Control, periods, progesterone, estrogen, pregnancy, pcos Comments

Cervical Dysplasia and HPV: Naturopathic Perspectives

According to the American Cancer Society last year over 12,000 women were diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer , and more than 4,000 women died from this disease. Fortunately, if detected early, cervical cancer is highly curable.

Ivy BraninJune 8, 2018estrogen, brocoli, cancer, PMS, periods, superfoods, indole-3-carbinol Comment

Post-Pill Reset

Women go on birth control pills for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you have been on and off them since you were 14 because you had unbearable cramps or extremely heavy bleeding…

Ivy BraninMay 6, 2018PMS, Birth Control, bpa, periods, pcos, Liver, estrogen, progesterone

PMS: Which one are you?

Everything was going great until you enter that dreaded week before your period. You felt completely fine, rational and sane the week before and now you are feeling like a complete basket case thanks to that three letter word, PMS….

Ivy BraninApril 29, 2018PMS, estrogen, progesterone, Birth Control, Liver, stress, sugar, indole-3-carbinol, insomnia, weight Comments

Seed Cycling: Resetting your Period Naturally

It’s possible to balance hormones naturally with a process called “seed cycling.” Seed cycling is essentially the addition of various seeds to the diet during different phases of the female reproductive cycle to promote a healthy balance of hormones in the body.

Ivy BraninJuly 26, 2017pcos, PMS, fertility, estrogen, pregnancy, progesteroneComment

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