Many women experience fatigue, period pain, sleep interruption or weight gain and are told these symptoms are simply "part of being a woman." However, experiencing common symptoms does not mean your body is functioning optimally. As Dr. Gillian Goddard, an endocrinologist, points out, women's health complaints are frequently dismissed. You should not have to fight to justify an investigation into your own fatigue or pain. Hormones operate in complex feedback loops. When physi