Folk Medicine and Mineral Balancing for Women’s Health
with Marya Gendron of Minerals for Migraines
As many women know, hormones and hormone balancing can be a complex topic yet is highly important for overall health. Many symptoms we experience are, in fact, symptoms of hormone imbalance. In this class, Marya will be discussing the following folk remedies and minerals for women's health:
The importance of iodine in preventing all cystic and fibrotic conditions, from endometriosis to fibroids to cystic fibrotic breast tissue, ovarian cysts, migraines, and acne. All of these are downstream effects of hypothyroidism. Marya will go over some of the controversy and precautions around taking iodine, which mineral supports are needed to keep iodine in balance, side-effects of iodine, and which toxic halides in our environment are depleting our bodies of precious iodine.
Four other key herbal, culinary, and natural preventive treatments that help keep women's hormones in balance to prevent or heal these conditions.
Marya’s purpose at Minerals for Migraines is to share with you everything she has learned about:
How amazing your body is
The incredible plants and minerals available to heal
How the allopathic model of medicine gets in the way of that
Why chronic illness can be a gift of transformation
How to use this opportunity to get out of pain
while using it to learn how to live the life you truly desire.
About Marya
“ My name is Marya and I grew up in rural southwestern New Mexico in an intentional community founded on principles of healing, land stewardship, nonviolent communication, farming in harmony with nature, and consensus decision-making. My childhood was truly wonderful. My parents created their own Montessori school for us kids and they all took turns teaching. We bathed outdoors in natural hot-springs under the starry sky, and splashed in ponds and waterfalls. We lived in handmade homes that were art pieces made of clay and wood.We ate healthy organic food and regularly had group meals together in the community kitchen.We had big dance parties often.I was surrounded by many aunties and uncles and roamed freely across the landscape from one house to another with my friends. My friendships were deep and life was meaningful, connected, free, and full of beauty. My upbringing gave me a strong connection to Nature, and a framework for healthy living in community.
Years later as a mother, moving around constantly with my young son following my husband’s work, I found that I was a shadow of my former self.
I suffered from chronic migraines which had plagued me since the emergency c-section at my first son’s birth. I had no nearby family to help me to raise my son or help me with my chronic pain condition. I had very few friends or sense of community because we moved so much. I coudn’t find any doctors who could figure out how to help me. I was sick, depressed, malnourished, isolated, hadn’t slept well in years, and was totally freaked out by all the other symptoms that accompanied my migraines: peripheral neuropathy, nightmares, ringing in the ears, myriad food intolerances, compromised digestion, pain sensations in the major organs of my body, gallbladder attacks, insomnia, etc. etc. etc. etc. Although I knew I was privileged, and I adored my husband and son, I found that I was totally overwhelmed by motherhood, traumatized by my medicalized birth, angry and resentful at allopathic medicine, bewildered that mothers were expected to raise kids in such isolating conditions, scared that I would never get out of migraine, and daunted by the overwhelming task of having to learn how to heal myself. Little did I know that this dark period would be the fertile soil for a hugely transformative experience that would include years of study into nutrition and physiology, a lot of experimentation, the development of the gift of my analytical mind, a deep respect for the healing plants and minerals that Mother Nature offers us, and an even more profound astonishment at the ability of my body to heal.
Chronic migraine mixed with motherhood was a rite of passage that taught me -Marya, what my real purpose in life is, and for this I am forever grateful.”
Learn more about Marya, her offerings, and the things she knows at Minerals for Migraines.