In the Flo: Unlock Your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize Your Life

by Alisa Vitti

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age are taught to view their bodies as tools to master the environment. —GLORIA STEINEM

Science shows us that PMS symptoms arise only when there is an imbalance of estrogen and progesterone during the luteal phase.

menstruation is the fifth vital sign, just as important as pulse, temperature, breathing rate, and blood pressure.

The PFC, which isn’t fully developed until our mid-twenties, develops faster in females, which may be the reason young women tend to seem so much more mature than their male counterparts.

And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend.” It took a long breath and replied, “I have been waiting my whole life for this!” —NAYYIRAH WAHEED

“There’s no greater beating than that of the fine lashing of woman’s tongue upon her own mind.”

A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself. —MAYA ANGELOU

From the beginning of our lives we’re fed a tapeworm—a combination of misinformation and ignorance about our biology—that leaves us forever starving, striving to find something outside of ourselves to satisfy this hunger.