Does Brown Period Blood Signal Hormonal Issues? I Asked A GP

Women exchanging period pads

Scrolling through Instagram, a video from holistic nutritionist Rachel Fuller caught my attention. 

“The brown blood you get at the start and end of your period... yeah, that’s not normal,” the alarming caption read.

Though I’d been taught that brown blood was simply older blood that was released later into your cycle, the post claimed that darker stains could come from a progesterone deficit. 

But is that true?

Here’s what GP Dr Rupa Parmar...