November 2019

How Female Athletes Embrace their Cycles

In fact, fighting menstrual cycles — especially with hormonal contraceptives — can hurt athletic performance. Inadequate nutrition, sleep, and body fat negatively impact hormone levels, which in turn can create symptoms that disrupt training such as sluggishness, bloating, intolerable cramping or bleeding, and more. Medicating cycles away with artificial hormones can create further troubles, including poor bone density and increased risks of blood clots in otherwise healthy athletes.

PCOS? The Reason Your Period App Can’t Tell

Here’s the dirty little secret: use of hormonal contraception totally voids any charting data that could be helpful in identifying a reproductive disorder like PCOS.

Creighton Doctor Joins CCL Board of Directors

“I have a tremendous respect for CCL, particularly how it has reached out to younger couples utilizing social media and the like. I also greatly respect the goal of CCL to improve marriages overall. I always find the CCL message to be one of pro-family and pro-marriage.”