Hormonal Health Guides

  1. Nourishment & Recovery: Why Food Is The Functional Foundation for Hormone Balance MyOva

    Food and Hormone Balance: What Eating Can and Can't Do

    When we talk about supporting hormones, supplements tend to take centre stage. But what's on your plate matters too, and it's the part you do three times a day. This is what I wish someone had told me: food isn't a magic fix for your hormones, and it isn't nothing either.

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  2. Week 8 Nourishment & Recovery: Supporting Your Body and Hormones, MyOva

    Week 8 Nourishment & Recovery: Supporting Your Body and Hormones

    Julia Young
    Registered Nutritional Therapist · juliayoungnutrition.com

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  3. Close up of Claire Johnson smiling

    Blood Sugar Balance: An Underrated Tool for Women’s Hormone Health

    By Claire Johnson, Clinical Nutritionist (@claire_womenshealthnutrition). Published by MyOva.

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  4. Image of Julia Young preparing vegetables

    Fertility Habits: A Q&A With Nutritional Therapist Julia Young

    You're not imagining it: fertility advice online is loud, contradictory and often fear-based. So we asked someone who does this for a living. Julia Young is a Registered Nutritional Therapist and Fertility Specialist who has been through IVF herself. She works with people dealing with unexplained infertility, PMOS (PCOS), endometriosis, fibroids and other hormonal conditions, male infertility, preparing for IVF or IUI, recurrent miscarriage and secondary infertility. We asked about her daily habits and how she supports people on their fertility journeys, in her own words. (A quick note on names: PCOS has been renamed PMOS, and we use both here. Here is what it means.)

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  5. Woman arranging jars of loose-leaf herbal teas including spearmint, cinnamon, ginger and dandelion root

    Herbal Teas for PMOS (PCOS): What the Research Shows

    Walk into any conversation about PMOS (PCOS) and natural support, and within about five minutes someone will mention a tea. Spearmint for hair growth. Cinnamon for blood sugar. Dandelion for your liver. Ashwagandha for stress.

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  6. Clear glass cup of pale green spearmint tea with a fresh sprig, a small dish of dried spearmint leaves and fresh spearmint sprigs on a cream linen tablecloth

    Spearmint Tea for PMOS (PCOS): Does It Work?

    You're not imagining it: spearmint tea is all over PMOS (PCOS) feeds, usually with a before-and-after photo and a promise about hair or skin. So does it actually do anything, or is it just a nice cup of tea with good PR?

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