Fem21 Herbal Formula 300g by LIFESTART NATUROPATHICS
Meah Robertson is an experienced Naturopathic Physician and has been specialising in women’s health & integrative natural medicine in clinical practice since 2006.
She has worked with herbal medicine & nutrition over this time. Often patients would be advised to take multiple supplements, liquid herbs, foods and fibre to get results. Meah saw the opportunity to combine these key ingredients into the 1 easy to take formula. After carefully developing the formula for safety, efficacy and taste Fem21 was born.
Fem21 can be safely used by most women, from teenagers 13 years and up through to post-menopause in the mid 50’s. It’s useful to increase the dose of Fem21 (1 dose = 2 heaped teaspoons) up to 2/day during times of peak hormonal activity, mid-cycle around ovulation and in the week before a period. It is very common in the first 3 months of working on hormone balance for your cycles & symptoms to change. This shift may involve symptoms of detoxification, changes in cycle length or the quality of your periods. This is normal and beneficial as your body & hormones are balancing and clearing. Know this phase will pass and on the other side of it you’ll be looking, feeling and functioning like a new woman.
Precautions:
- Not recommended if using Hormonal contraceptives such as the oral contraceptive pill (OCP), implant devices (Implanon or Nuva Ring), or contraceptive injections (Depo Vera) as it may decrease the contraceptive action – can be used safely with an intra-uterine-device (IUD) both the progesterone or Copper IUD.
- Not recommended for use in pregnancy, especially after 12 weeks – may be used at a ½ dose in the first trimester if previously taking Fem21 prior to getting pregnant.
- Not recommended whilst exclusively breastfeeding, generally safe after baby is 6 months.
- If using medication we recommend separating the dose of Fem21 by 2 hours due to it's high fibre content
- Not recommended if undergoing active treatment for hormonal dependent cancers
- Discuss use with your doctor or health care practitioner if you have any concerns or are on medication which may interact
Directions:
Mix 1 scoop (approx. 10g) into water, juice or a smoothie 1-2 times per day.
Ingredients per 10g dose:
- Pysllium: Plantago afra (seed husks) 1000mg
- Milk Thistle: Sylibum marianum (seed powder) 1000mg
- Slippery Elm: Ulmus rubra (Inner bark) 800mg
- Licorice: Glycyrrhiza glabra (root) 800mg
- Multi Strain Probiotics: (fermented from: mung beans, brown rice, red lentils, chick peas, linseed, alfalfa seed, millet, quinoa & filtered water) 800mg
- Withania: Withania somnifera (root) aka Ashwaganda 750mg
- Chaste Tree: Vitex agnus-castus (berry) 500mg
- Siberian Ginseng: Eleutherococcus senticosus (root) 500mg
- Barley Grass: Hordeum vulgare (sprout) 500mg
- Wheatgrass: Thinopyrum intermedium (sprout) 500mg
- Rosemary: Rosmarinus officinalis (leaves) 500mg
- Lemon: Citrus limon, (whole fruit including peel) 500mg
- Broccoli powder: Brassica oleacea var. italica (whole plant - not sprout) 400mg
- Ginger: Zingiber officinale (root) 300mg
- Raspberry: Rubus idaeus (fruit & seed) 300mg
- Pomegranate: Punica granatum (fruit & seed) 250mg
- Dandelion Root Powder: Taraxacum officinalis (root) 250mg
- Bladderwrack: Fucus vesiculosus (frond) 200mg
- Cinnamon: Cinnamon zeylanicum (bark) 70mg
- Stevia: Stevia rebaudiana (leaf) 40mg
- Black Cohosh: Cimicifuga racemosa (root) 40mg