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So, I was watching some vegan health videos where women would discuss how a vegan diet affects their "cycle".  Many women who went onto a vegan diet would lose their period for a number of months to sometimes a number of years.  And, the women I observed discuss this were all well under 40 years old.  And, some would also note that their cycle was less predictable to almost not predictable at all on a vegan animal free diet.  They said they would show no sign or symptoms on an animal free diet, compared to perhaps week(s) of cramps and other physical and emotional highs and lows of modern women.  They would certainly admit that lows were eliminated or mitigated.  And, that makes me wonder also if highs were to a certain extent changed and maybe mitigated.  Meaning, animal free diet balances out lows and highs of a womans cycle.  And, this makes me wonder if an animal free diet would make the rhythm method either not so accurate or not as easy to follow/observe.  Perhaps a trad woman can look into this and maybe try this out on herself and see what information can be drawn as to how it may effect observing the rhythm cycle and determining fertile periods for NFP use.  Because, if an animal free diet makes a womens cycle more hidden, I think that is a good thing.  Woman's style is very hidden in many ways, why should their cycle be any different?  We are eating more fake artificial unhealthy and animal foods these days than in any generation.  And, what may be a resulting by-product?  Perhaps a by product is the over exposing of women resulting in the avoidance of pregnancy in favor of spousal lust.  Is that possible?  Maybe.  I have always simply just been bothered by the existence of knowledge of NFP.  The fact we have knowledge of it is my gripe.  If we consent to such knowledge, pius xii's 4 exceptions and protocol(confessor approval) are quite reasonable.   But, why should we concede to the knowledge?  I think we can argue its knowledge should not exist, and the results of an plant based(traditional) diet may support that.  

For all of the people who are offended by the word vegan or phrase animal free, just replace it with plant based.  Because, I am talking about diet here.  I am not talking about religion  We are allowed to eat animals.  Some, would argue out of emergency, others would argue out of selfishness.  But, they would never admit that.  

This video of these kinds of women also appear to me as women who don't like menstrual periods.  I knew of women who would purposely have hysterectomies so as not to have a menstrual.  Strange!  

I'm nowhere near an expert on woman's health issues, except to say that an 'animal free' diet today does not have the same meaning as 50 years ago.  Today all of our mass-produced meat and dairy is full of chemical estrogens which adversely affect the hormones and health of everyone - males and females.  So, many women today, i'm sure, are negatively affected, menstrually, through our modern diet.  This explains why women who went vegan felt better; they got rid of the chemical estrogens.  But, they just traded one problem for another - a lack of a cycle is a sign of a health problem as well - i.e. missing nutrients.  The solution is not to go vegan but to eat healthy animal products (grass fed, amish-style organic), which will provide the body with much needed (and often missing) healthy fats, as the poster above pointed out, as well as other key vitamins and minerals.