What Is Seed Cycling & Can It Really Balance Your Hormones?
By Dee Davidson, Board-Certified Functional Health Practitioner
If you're navigating PMS, irregular cycles, mood swings, or frustrating symptoms like bloating or breast tenderness, there's a good chance your hormones are out of balance—and you're not alone.
As a Board-Certified Functional Health Practitioner working with women across North Attleboro, MA (and virtually), I’ve seen firsthand how nutrition and nature can work together to restore balance. One of my favorite gentle but effectivetools to support this process?
Seed cycling.
It’s been gaining popularity in the wellness world, and for good reason. But what exactly is seed cycling—and why are so many women raving about it?
Let’s break it down.
What Is Seed Cycling?
Seed cycling is a natural hormone-balancing practice that uses specific types of seeds at different phases of your menstrual cycle to help support estrogen and progesterone production.
It’s not a quick fix or magic pill—it’s a rhythm-based tool rooted in food as medicine, and it aligns beautifully with your body’s natural cycle.
By rotating seeds like flax, pumpkin, sesame, and sunflower at key times of your cycle, you can help:
Alleviate PMS symptoms
Support regular ovulation
Boost fertility
Balance estrogen and progesterone levels
Soothe mood swings and breast tenderness
Reduce period pain or heavy bleeding
Why Seed Cycling Works
Each seed offers specific nutrients (like zinc, selenium, magnesium, omega-3s, and lignans) that help either support hormone production or assist in hormone detox—two things that are often missing in modern women’s health.
Your hormones thrive in rhythm and balance, not chaos. And seed cycling gently helps reintroduce that rhythm in a way that feels natural, supportive, and aligned with your body.
Think of it as a nudge—not a shove—toward balance.
What Seed Cycling Is Not
Just to be clear—seed cycling isn’t:
A substitute for lab testing if you’re experiencing severe hormone dysfunction
A replacement for deep gut or adrenal work
A one-size-fits-all miracle fix
BUT… it is an empowering, food-based tool you can easily add into your current wellness routine.
And if you’re someone who wants to start somewhere simple, sustainable, and non-invasive—this could be a beautiful entry point.
Want to Try Seed Cycling?
If you're curious about how to actually do it, I created a simple, easy-to-follow Seed Cycling Starter Guide just for you.
It includes:
Which seeds to eat & when
How to track your cycle
What to do if you’re not cycling regularly
Tips to make it easy and consistent
Recipes to get started
Grab your FREE download here:
Download the Seed Cycling Starter Guide
You deserve hormone harmony.
And seed cycling could be your first step toward more energy, fewer symptoms, and a cycle that actually works with you—not against you.
Let this be your gentle invitation back into sync with your body.
Dee Davidson is a Board-Certified Functional Health Practitioner based in North Attleboro, MA, specializing in hormone balance, mineral restoration, gut health, and women’s wellness. She helps women ditch surface-level solutions and address the real root causes of fatigue, hormonal chaos, and burnout—so they can finally feel like themselves again.