The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility

By: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

Narrated by: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's Summary

Menstruation isn't just about having babies.

Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pulse, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure. And it provides you with essential information about your health.The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility brings together over 1,000 meticulously researched scientific references in a textbook-quality guide to understanding your menstrual cycle.

In this book you’ll learn:

• What a normal cycle looks like;
• The best way to chart your cycle and increase your fertility awareness;
• How best to manage critical aspects of your health, including better sleep, exercise, and a healthier diet;
• Natural methods for managing period pain and PMS;
• How to successfully avoid pregnancy without the pill; and
• How to plan ahead if you do want to get pregnant.

The Fifth Vital Sign aims to better connect women with their menstrual cycles, to break the myth that ovulation is only important when you're ready to have a baby.

Listen to The Fifth Vital Sign to better understand your health and fertility. Whether children are a part of your future plans or not, your health matters. Start learning more now, and take control of your health.

About the author

Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner. She teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and overall health monitoring. In her work, Lisa draws heavily from the current scientific literature and presents an evidence-based approach to fertility awareness and menstrual cycle optimization.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Fertility Friday Publishing Inc. (P)2019 Fertility Friday Publishing Inc.

Thank you!!!

I chose this book for the vast and researched information following listening to Lisa’s Fertility Fridays podcast. It did not disappoint. It filled in the gaps I needed to understand my body and reduced the fear about being older trying to conceive. Between the podcast and the book it’s been 2.5 months eating healthy (even liver 😉) and today I got my first positive pregnancy test. I know it’s early but now I believe it’s possible for me to become pregnant where before I doubted it. This book is for people who are willing to listen to the research, track signs and symptoms, and change their eating habits. Again, thank you!

Excellent perspective

I love this book! I have been charting my cycles naturally for over 8 years, never been on hormonal birth control and still this book amazes me! Highly recommend it!

My top recommendation to women!

I've been a childbirth educator and birth doula since 10 years and am beyond thrilled to find this resource for my clients. This book is a must-read for anyone who ovulates/menstruates!!! If that's you, please please read this book. Whether you're trying not to conceive, trying to conceive, or just wanting to increase body awareness and wisdom so you can become your own best health detective, this is the BEST book for any and all of that.

Excellent!

This should be taught in school! So good, thanks Lisa for all you are doing in this world!

PLETHORA OF VITAL INFO

I chose to give this a 5 star rating because the author simply deserves nothing less. Although it's so much info that it can be dry at times, I appreciated that she included as much of her findings as possible. For this reason, I would essentially recommend this book to every woman as there is something to take away from this book whether it be about birth control, vaginal health signs, nutrition, and much more. I'm excited to continue learning about FAM and begin charting my cycles as well.

Vital book for family planning

Like many readers, I too wish I this information got available to me in my 20’s.

Are you a woman? You need to read this!

Such good information presented in such an easy to understand way. If you are a woman and value your health, this is a critical read to gain awareness and fully understand what maybe we’ve never spent a lot of time thinking about, or thinking was normal. Get this book now!

The Audacity

Finally a female-body owner's manual! The audacity to be informed beyond the norm. Well written.

A book ALL women need to read!

This book was informative, I wish I knew this years ago!!! I feel so empowered, thank you for creating this must read book!

A must read for every biological female!

This is such an important book. I wish I had been given it on my 13th birthday. Every woman should be taught this information !

A must read for all women

Why isn’t this taught in schools?
A brief overview of all things period related. So much I never knew.

So informative!

I am a huge fan of this book and the author, Lisa’s work is amazing. So much insight to learning about your own body! Highly recommend

A lot of Details, amazing!

A lpt of valuable information about my period. For me personally an amazing read :D

Must read!

All women should read it and girls be taught about it early on. We need increased knowledge on this sphere and even more importantly - appreciation! This book is a great step forward.

Empowering, engaging, life-changing

Thank you Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, thank you, thank you, thank you. The dedication to research based knowledge conveys women have been denied vital education. This book provides women with accessible methods of redefining liberation both mentally and physically through fertility awareness.

A book every girl and woman should read

Lisa managed to digest the last century of material on fertility and the “period” and it is the best knowledge a young or any woman can have. The fertility awareness and all other insights in the book, like how to identify health problems through your chart, should be mainstream- every parent, school and gp should know about it. She bravely challenges the misconception about the safety of the pill, the gaslighting of women by medical practitioners. The book is like a bible on fertility health. It is a must have for any women trying to avoid or achieve pregnancy, but also to be... healthy! I salute Lisa for her determination to change the field of women care and empower women to know and listen to their body. The Fertility Friday podcast brought to us this incredible book that should be translated in all languages.