Women’s Health Q&A Calls

Women’s Health Q&A Call Sessions

These calls were recorded live with Dr. Claudia Welch for participants of our Women’s Health & Hormones Parts I & II online courses. If you have taken one but not the other of these courses, some of the questions or answers might not make sense to you but hopefully most of this will be useful.

We hope you find these sessions useful or interesting. Or both. Thank you for being here.

Please note: Q&A calls with Drs. Welch AND Svoboda for the courses they co-teach can be found by clicking here.

20 Feb 2025 Women’s Health Q&A

Summary Today’s session focused on hormonal balance, stress, weight gain, and the effects of lifestyle choices. Dr. Welch shared insights on excess bṛṃhaṇa (building, heavy qualities in the body), estrogen dominance, castor oil packs, and the impact of stress on hormonal function. The discussion also touched...

27 February, 2025

2024 Women’s Health Q&A

In this session, we addressed questions related to the following topics: Topic: PMS symptoms and causes Topic: Topical estrogen safety and use in pelvic organ prolapse. Topic: estrogen and progesterone related to cortisol levels. Topic: Herb/drug interaction. RESOURCES: Here are the links I said I’d share about vaginal, estrogen supplements safety,...

23 May, 2024

26 OCTOBER 2023 WOMEN’S HEALTH Q&A

In this session, we addressed the following two questions: I have heard ...

26 October, 2023

2023 Women’s Health Q&A & Discussion

https://vimeo.com/806130993/a4d4981d0e Note: below the summary are some subsequent personal sharings from participants that viewed this session after it had been recorded. In this session, we addressed the following topics: The migration of endometrial cells (as far as the nose!). What's happening, why might that happen? Why is...

08 March, 2023

2022 Women’s Health Q&A

In this call: · We talk about how decreasing progesterone (from 35 onwards) affects the mind · We discuss the roles of vāta, pitta and kapha in the menstrual cycle and trying to describe estrogen or progesterone in terms of doṣas. · We share some of our own experiences of where...

10 August, 2022

2022 Jan 19 Women’s Health Q&A

Summary: In this session, we addressed the following questions and topics: Supporting women going through breast cancer treatment Why women might find they can’t manage alcohol as well as they (think they) did before peri menopause Sometimes sthambhana is (poorly) translated as, “astringent therapy” and it...

19 January, 2022

16 JUNE 2021 WOMEN’S HEALTH Q&A

In this session, we addressed the following questions and topics: Using castor oil packs and blood moving herbs with women who are not bleeding monthly. Reasons for sickness during pregnancy –if it is related to hormonal balance prior to conception. Acupuncture vs. marma therapy for...

16 June, 2021

2020 Dec 15 Women’s Health Q&A

In this session, we addressed the following questions and topics (and maybe a couple more): How to approach friends & family that may not want to hear our viewpoints on health Is estrogen related to Pitta? Is lifestyle & diet sufficient to address vaginal dryness...

16 December, 2020

15 JUNE 2020 Q&A SESSION

Dr. Welch addressed the following questions & topics in this second Women’s Health Q&A: [oddly, I didn't remember that I'd answered this in the previous session...

15 June, 2020

Q&A Session from 16 November, 2019

Dr. Welch addressed the following questions & topics in this inaugural Women's Health Q&A: If cholesterol is a pre-cursor to all hormones, or I believe you said the steroid hormones which must include the sex and stress hormones ( i gather) AND there is an...

16 November, 2019