We live in a world that expects us to operate like linear machines, delivering the exact same baseline of energy, mood, and productivity 365 days a year. Meanwhile, our actual biology runs on a beautiful, non-negotiable cyclical clock. For decades, the mainstream cultural approach to reproductive health has been to suppress it, ignore it, or treat our periods as an inconvenient biological design flaw to be medicated away. But trying to force a cyclical body into a rigid, line