India, Dec. 19 -- Symptom suffering and 'making peace' should never be anyone's default setting.

But despite the barrage of information flooding the internet on the daily, there still seems to be a persisting perception around 'that time of the month', being necessarily debilitating. And that's probably because it is, for most. That being said, this is one of those realities which can, again in most cases, be worked out by simply feeding yourself information, and then accordingly acting on it.

Female cycle health influencer, Brigitte, who goes by the handle @period_and_stuff on Instagram, shares a no-nonsense guide - "Because our bodies aren't rocket science, we just never got the manual," she says.

Menstrual cycles necessarily run in ...