Alisa Vitti - WomanCode: Perfect your cycle, amplify your fertility, supercharge your sex drive, and become a power source

This book is dedicated

To my parents for nurturing me in every way and for having
a farm-to-table home long before it was trendy.

To my ovaries for taking me on this amazing journey.

To my nieces, who inspire me to envision
a new future for womens healthcare.

To my readers... I lovingly offer this book in service
to your ovaries, your life, and your prosperity.

Ex Ovo Omnia
Everything comes out of an egg.

WILLIAM HARVEY

CONTENTS

Christiane Northrup, MD, FACOG, author Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

T hink back to when you were in middle school. Think back to when you got your first period. Was this event something you talked about with your classmates? Your family? And if you had symptoms, such as heavy bleeding, irregular periods, or cramps, was there a wise healer in your life who told you exactly what you needed to do to establish a healthy partnership with your body, your menstrual cycle, and your cyclic lunar wisdom? Did anyone tell you that your periods, the condition of your skin, and the state of your bowel movements were all indicators of how well your hormones were balanced? Did anyone tell you how to find balance naturally?

Were you ever put on birth control pills to regulate your periods? Millions of women the world over are subjected to a barrage of medications and synthetic hormonal treatments designed to mask the symptoms of hormonal imbalance that lead to menstrual cycle, fertility, and libido problems in the first place. The most common of these treatments is birth control pillswhich result in over fifty different metabolic consequences that further disrupt a womans hormonal cycle (for example, birth control pills increase the need for folic acid and vitamin B12, two vitamins that are already in short supply in many women).

Giving birth control pills and other medications to women to regulate their periods, improve their fertility, or enhance their sex drive is akin to putting a piece of tape over the flashing indicator light on the dashboard of your car and pretending you have addressed the engine problem rather than looking under the hood and dealing with the underlying issue.

As a board-certified ob/gyn, I spent years and years being indoctrinated into finding better and more sophisticated pieces of tape (in the form of drugs) to put over the indicator lights of women with hormonal imbalances. But I always knew that there had to be a better way. And that is why I wrote Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom, a book that was quite radical at the time of its original publication. Happily for me, many women intuitively knew that drugs and surgery were not the whole answer. Little did I know that I was breaking ground on a trail that Alisa Vitti and others are now making into a superhighway of womens wisdom. In fact, Alisa is part of a new generation of thought-leaders in womens health who are at the forefront of truly assisting women to understand how to best care for and heal their bodiesincluding having healthy periods, optimal fertility, and a healthy sex drive.

Her protocol is a tried-and-true plan that brings tangible results for women trying to solve their hormonal issues. Youll be excited to read the stories of the women who have used Alisas approach and have fixed their periods; gotten pregnant successfully; and restored their sex drive, mood, and energy all without drugs or surgery. WomanCode is brilliantly organized and scientifically soundyet free of jargon so that anyone can understand the principles and how to apply them. Alisas goal is to help you understand your uniquely female biology in a way that will make balancing your hormones second nature to you.

To understand how important Alisas work on hormonal balance is, beyond her expertise as a holistic health coach, you also need to know something about what I call her soul qualities. Imagine, if you will, a bright young sixth-grader named Alisa Vitti who was so taken with the hormonal changes in her body she formed a PERIOD club at her school. Yepa club for her and her middle school pals to bond around their menstrual cyclesone of our Western societys last real taboos. Now THAT takes ovaries. And of course, Alisas ovaries were quite large and robustso large and robust, in fact, that she was later diagnosed with what is called PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome)a condition characterized by absent periods, stubborn weight gain, unwanted facial hair, and infertility. A condition for which medicine offers very little hope except for birth control pills, blood sugar regulators, ovulation enhancing drugs, and occasional surgery.

But Alisabeing a bright and audacious bulbdecided that she was NOT about to succumb to simply applying tape over the flashing indicator lights of her ovaries, and the rest of her endocrine system. Not her. She decided to defy the prognosis that she was given, which was this: PCOS is incurable and you may be infertile and obese the rest of your life. (NOTE: not all women with PCOS have weight problems, but most do.) So instead of going the traditional medical route, as any science geek such as herself would normally have doneAlisas ovaries led her on a different quest, a quest to find the real cause of her problem. A journey that led her to research intensively the healing properties of foods and how they can be applied to the organs of the endocrine system to bring it all back to balance. She wanted to find real solutionsnot just fancier tape for the indicator lights.

And she succeeded brilliantly! She not only reversed her own conditionshe has, through her center in NYC and her website, also helped thousands of women around the world end their suffering with period issues, infertility, and low libido. Together they have learned to partner with their bodies, create hormonal harmony, and reclaim their wonderful cyclic wisdom as well as their libido and their fertility. All without expensive drugs and surgery.

You hold in your hands the precious fruit of Alisas considerable labor to find her own womens wisdom and pass it on to you. You hold in your hands a very clear, practical, user-friendly solution to the most pervasive and all too common gyn problems that legions of women face today. Here are the solutions that your inner wisdom has been seeking all along. You too can follow Alisas guidance to find your own fertile, comfortable creative flowin both your body and your life.

I believe that every woman should learn how to be proactive about her hormonal balance by using food as medicine in order for her to flourish in her body and her life. Having watched Alisa and the FLO Living Center grow over the years, I know I am putting you in excellent and experienced hands.

T heres a silent epidemic happening to women everywhere: hormonal balance is being destroyed. Over twenty million of us suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), fibroids, endometriosis, painful/difficult/heavy periods, and thyroid and adrenal issues. For the first time since their creation, birth control pills are being used to treat girls under the age of seventeen for endocrine-related concerns. In fact, a key message of this book is that not only are young women suffering similar conditions to their mothers and sisters at an earlier age and with much more intensity, but new conditions are arising that women of older generations have not experienced. Hormone replacement therapy is at an all-time high. One in ten couples is infertile, and hysterectomies are still the number-one surgery performed on women.

Modern gynecological care cant keep up with our demands, yet we women are desperate to restore balance, preserve fertility, and maintain youthful hormonal patterns in our bodies.