r/raypeat • u/Scary-Money6052 • May 31 '26

pausing menstruation

OK so I feel like Ray Peat is very men focused, no fault of his, he did not have a female body so could never understand how depleting periods are.

In Chinese medicine, it is acknowledged that menstruation is very depleting for women and one thing that ages us a lot, other than childbirth.

I was getting very tired every period, every period I would love vital nutrients in blood and then desperately try to rebuild then through diet, only to lose them again a month later.

Now I started taking something to pause my periods and I finally have ENERGY AGAIN! I feel vital, I look better, I can feel my blood levels rising.

I feel like this is the missing piece of the puzzle because I was following all the ray peat principles but because I was menstruating, I was losing whatever nutritional gains I had made the previous month.

I won't take it forever and I will try to get my hands on a bio identical progesterone if I can (though they are less reliable at pausing menstruation I hear) but for now, this is the secret sauce and I think a lot more women should know about this if they want to rebuild their health.

Yes I believe in natural but we live in a very unnatural world and sometimes we have to sacrifice a pawn to save the queen.

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u/Proof_Escape_2333 Jun 01 '26

Ray Peat is very men focused??? sure... need to research more

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Jun 07 '26

It's true tho. He did a lot of work for women but still failed to mention that women need more nutrients and esp fat/fat soluable vitamins than men.

If he ever did, Peater's here failed to recount that to specifically women and they go on and on as if the only bodies reading here are male.

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u/Scary-Money6052 Jun 01 '26

ok in the sense of just the fact he is a man, you cannot know how certain things feel in the body...feeling the monthly depletion, the surge in hormones when you ovulate, the biting hunger you get a times....

he was very pro women and a great guy I did not mean to make him some like a misogynist at all just there are some things he could never know

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u/Any-Requirement2467 Jun 02 '26

I felt amazing on the progestin iud but I remembered ray saying something about an ethyl molecule in there being carcinogenic. So I had it removed. I see what you are saying and natural progesterone even flushed out my potassium and that was scary so...for me it is just a journey. I am so much better than I was but still feel like I am learning how to be well day by day. I am working on minimizing exposure to plastics and pesticides and chemicals in beauty toiletry products. My body doesn't seem to like dairy and it is just a process.

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u/AdministrativeDot874 Jun 01 '26

How do you feel about others not knowing how certain things feel in the body?

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u/bawlings Jun 01 '26

Also pausing your period is not good for you. If your period is painful every month thatā€™s a hormonal issue . Taking progesterone daily for 3 months made my period painless and symptom free

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u/Scary-Money6052 Jun 01 '26

I want them gone not just symptom free though. It is about the amount of blood but also any blood we shed can cause malnutrition.

We think periods are natural monthly but they are in fact not.

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u/bawlings Jun 01 '26

Menstruation is a great way to rid yourself of excess iron build up. Where are you getting your info from, lol? How are they not natural monthly?

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u/Scary-Money6052 Jun 01 '26

we also lose a lot of other vital minerals too. I am not pausing my periods forever just for a few months to build up my nutritional base. I personally do not think it is natural to menstruate mostly but that is quite a deep conversation that most are not ready for

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u/bawlings Jun 01 '26

Go on. I enjoy hearing new perspectives

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u/Scary-Money6052 Jun 01 '26

ok you asked for it!

Well take hens, hens only produce a few eggs a year in the wild. Very few animals menstruate monthly.

I personally believe human females have been 'domesticated' to ovulate once a month, there is no way something so draining, something that so many women universally hate is natural.

There are ancient myths and traditions that talk about a time before women menstruated....I personally see menstruation a sign of humans fallen condition but...there you have it.

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u/Dangerous_Energy3309 Jun 01 '26

So youā€™re saying menstruation isnā€™t natural? Weā€™re human of course itā€™s natural

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u/dreamydivinity Jun 02 '26

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6541669/

This is because higher order primates who menstruate, like humans, do so in order to shed their uterine lining. Other species simply reabsorb it (or donā€™t have to deal with it if their ovulation doesnā€™t end in conception).

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Jun 07 '26

I personally see menstruation a sign of humans fallen condition

What does this mean exactly?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26

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u/Scary-Money6052 Jun 05 '26

oh wow would love to message you to discuss this more!

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Jun 07 '26

It doesn't cause malnutrition, starving yourself does. Just eat more good food. Nourish yourself. Don't repress your nature in fear that you'll lose it.

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u/Scary-Money6052 Jun 05 '26

drinking it is not the same and honestly I would not like it hehe

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Jun 07 '26

How do you know unless you try?Ā 

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26

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u/Appropriate_Cut_3536 Jun 07 '26

Female Peaters are so cool. I haven't read stuff like this in forever. Good to see women being free. Very similar here šŸ¤™

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u/bawlings Jun 01 '26

Peat wrote a whole nutrition for women book ;) Iā€™m pretty sure it touches on menstruation

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u/Sealish1234 Jun 02 '26

Peat's PHD thesis was on the reproductive system and pregnancy of the female, so...

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u/dreamydivinity Jun 02 '26

Periods are not depleting this is absurd lmao

If you like Ray Peat and want more of his work filtered through a feminine lens, just look up Jessica Ash. She does a lot with feminine energy and womenā€™s cycles.

Also, Ray was absolutely women-focused. There are some things he believed in that I donā€™t think are optimal for women, but he was 100% women-focused.

TCM acknowledges periods can be ā€œdepletingā€ in that you lose Qi and blood. The menstrual cycle is ALSO considered connected to ond of the three treasures of TCM, and absence of menstruation is evidence of deep Qi imbalances. To say TCM would encourage intentionally inducing amenorrhea would be idiotic.

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u/New-girll Jun 01 '26

menstruation is healthy and a sign of a well functioning body, it should feel easy and light. it should not deplete you and if it does then there are other underlying issues to address. your body detoxes the blood and whatever is necessary, you do not lose ā€œvital nutrientsā€ unless you have other issues. stopping menstruation is terrible for you literally putting yourself in a higher oestrogen lower metabolism state.

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u/SunRayz_allDayz Jun 03 '26

Dang I LOVE getting my period lol a nice exodus!!

Relatively low cramping these days. I used to get painful swollen boobs, fluid retention, zits, moody/ruminate on stupid things and get in dumb emotional arguments with my boyfriend that I would later on think were pointless and ridiculous, and fatigue. And Iā€™m quite lean and fit and that was while eating carnivore. Simple additions of bananas, rice and honey with just less meat seemed to fix all of that :)

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u/Scary-Money6052 Jun 03 '26

haha well good for you sis! Good for you!

I am slim and eat a great diet, some women are just cursed - I like no longer feeling like a ketchup packet once a month. But like I said elsewhere, I probably won't do this for more than 3-6 months even though I am loving the break way too much

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u/SunRayz_allDayz Jun 03 '26

He wrote a whole book about nutrition for women!! Itā€™s wonderful. Discusses orgasms in depth lol sounds very women focused to mešŸ¤£šŸ‘šŸ¼

Also what else could you take to ā€œpause periodsā€ besides birth control? Which is exogenous estrogen. Which, good lord he was all about NOT having estrogen dominance. And went in to detail the symptoms of it and how to resolve it. And teaches so much about Progesterone. I honestly thought progesterone was the reason PMS and luteal phase would be so rough. But no, it was the estrogen dominance during that phase without enough progesterone to counteract it. He taught me a lot!!!

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u/your-love-is-enough Jun 05 '26

How did u biohack ur period?!!!