Food and Supplements for Optimal Fertility
Making a baby may seem straightforward, but if you’ve ever tried and struggled to conceive—or witnessed one of your girlfriends endure the experience—then you know...
The Supplements Every Woman Should Take
For as long as I’ve been teaching women about hormonal health, I’ve been asked questions about supplements. What brands are best? Which supplements help solve...
Estrogen & Insomnia: Why You Can’t Sleep the Week Before Your Period
PMS-related insomnia is real, and it stinks. When PMS strikes, you’re already feeling bloated, cranky, tired, and moody the week before your period. Now add…
Travel is Hard On Hormones. Here’s How to Protect Them
Travel is a hallmark of summer, with so many of us hitting the open road or the friendly skies, heading to the beach, visiting friends…
Why Summer is the Best Time to Boost Your Fertility
If you’re ready for a baby, you’re in luck: the best time of year to boost your fertility is…right now. Summer is the ideal season…
Safe Sunscreens for a Hormone-Healthy Summer
Are you suffering from sun-safety whiplash? It looks like this: You’re super woke about skin cancer (and accelerated skin aging) thanks to pretty much everyone…
What to Do When Acne Affects More Than the Skin
If you have acne, you don’t need me to tell you that breakouts affect more than your skin. Acne can bring emotional consequences, like low…
The Hormone-Anxiety Connection (and How to Solve It)
Anxiety is real, and it is serious. It can show up in a variety of different ways—from excessive worry about life events like work, health,…
How to Protect Your Hormones on Vacation
Warmer weather is finally here and that means a couple things: longer days, more socializing, more sunshine (…and natural vitamin D (!), which is a…
How to Tell If You Have a Caffeine Intolerance
Attention, Coffee Drinkers! Did you know that caffeine disrupts your hormones for a full 24 hours? That’s not all. Caffeine stays in women’s bodies longer…
Natural Strategies for Successful IVF
If you want to get pregnant one day but, when the time comes, it doesn’t happen as easily as you hope, you’re not worried. There’s…
Your Guide To Glowing Skin
Spring has sprung! The warmer weather and longer days mean you’re getting out of the house more, which is great…that is, if you feel like…
Hormone Help for Your Teenage Daughter
The teenage years can be a tricky time. Teens have to navigate newfound independence, more responsibility at school and at home, and, of course, surging…
Why Micronutrients Matter for Hormones
If you follow FLO Living, you know I talk ALL THE TIME about how food is key to balanced hormones. And that’s true. What you…
How to Stock a Hormone-Healthy Home Medicine Cabinet
The Hippocratic Oath tells doctors to “first, do no harm.” But no such rule applies to the products in your home medicine cabinet, and that’s…
The emotional cause of ovarian cysts
In previous posts I’ve discussed the potential impact of emotional stress on your menstrual cycle, like how it can make your period late, delay or…
5 Natural Remedies for HPV & Cervical Health
When was the last time you had a check-up? Annual pap smears are important to check for HPV and to monitor the health of your...
Is your tampon toxic? Is your lipstick life-threatening?
My take on this month’s women’s health news and hot topics In this exciting new series for our blog, I take a look back at…
5 ways your femcare products could sabotage your health
PLUS my recommendations for health-conscious and convenient pad and tampon alternatives As you well know, I like to encourage women to be thoughtful about what…
5 things you don’t know about the WomanCode System
When I started my women’s health coaching practice over a decade ago, I always had a vision for helping as many women as I could…
Video of Alisa Vitti’s Virtual Book Club
Missed Alisa’s Virtual Book Club/Party for WomanCode? Don’t worry, you can watch the recording below! Please be sure to leave your questions in the comment…
4 hormone-related symptoms you’re ignoring
It’s time to get intimate. We all have lady parts, and we all at some point will come across mysterious or embarassing symptoms that we’re…
Get your Greens: Kale Salad for Hormonal Health
As ladies, we just can’t get enough green leafy vegetables in our diet. They are full of calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, folic acid, plus fiber!…
Benefits of Bathing with Salts: The Ritual of Bathing
The Benefits of Bathing with Salts and The Ritual of Bathing While it’s cold and blustery outside, inside it’s toasty and warm – and a…
Prevent Hormonal Breakouts: Breaking the Monthly Cycle
Prevent Hormonal Breakouts: Breaking the Monthly Cycle Long after puberty, many women experience monthly breakouts. Some changes in the skin over the course of a…
Have a Healthy Halloween: Trick AND Treat
You can have a healthy Halloween! Halloween is a time when sugar and candy are running rampant, overshadowing the real lure and mischief of the…
Boost Fertility with Food and Spice Up Your Diet!
Whether you’re trying to conceive now or just thinking ahead and wanting to best prepare your body for optimal fertility, we know the…
Diva Cup Review – Freedom in your FLO
This month as I start my new cycle, I am reminded of the fabulous freedom I feel since having switched from tampons to the Diva…
Spotlight on Skin: 3 sunscreen ingredients to avoid
Is your sunscreen disrupting your hormones? Say what? I thought my sunscreen was protecting me from the dangerous rays of the sun, but now I…
Have Ovaries, Will Travel!
One of Alisa’s fave sayings is ‘Have ovaries, will travel!’ Lately. it seems she needs to add to that saying. Perhaps ‘Have ovaries, will give…
A Valentine Idea – A Valentine for your Vagina
A Valentine Idea – Give your Vagina a Valentine! On this day when we think we should be receiving love from someone outside of ourselves we…
7 Tips to Stay Healthy During the Winter Months
Welcome to Winter! Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and the turning…
Are you dealing with hormonal skin problems?
Hormonal Skin Problems? Here is a Checklist for Healthy Skin Eczema, acne, dandruff, oh my! Tis the season for annoying skin conditions to pop up,…
