Providing women with information on how to support the body and information on how to manage the symptoms of PMS
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) or premenstrual tension (PMT) is the behavioural, physical, psychological symptoms that can happen during the two weeks before your period. Most females have some form of PMS/PMT and the symptoms usually disappear a few days after your period starts. There are many different symptoms, but typically they can include:
- bloating
- breast pain
- mood swings
- feeling irritable
There are things you can try to reduce or manage the symptoms and also resources to help you better understand and appreciate this exclusively-female thing that is happening within your body.
Websites Offering Support:
The Hormone Cure
- All paths lead back to cortisol.
- Women trying to “do it all” becomes the major downfall of our health
- There’s a time and a place for caffeine – why/how are you using it? Tuning in to our bodies and realizing if we are using it “medicinally” or not
- Master hormones for women: Cortisol – Thyroid – Estrogen, Men: Cortisol – Testosterone – Thyroid
- Strategies to address your cortisol issues!
- When women are more likely to experience low thyroid issues (two specific times in life)
- Go-Go-Go, Androgens, and PCOS
- Catabolic vs anabolic hormones
- Oral contraceptives – how it affects us and for how long
- The importance of testosterone levels in women
- Dr. Gottfried’s recommendations for birth control
- Rogue facial hair on women
NAPS
offers the following support free of charge:
- Information on the website on PMS
- Personal PMS chart
- Advice on how to approach your GP for treatment
- Access by email to advice (please note specific medical advice can only be obtained through Ask the Expert Service which is a Member Benefit or through the CONTACT US Tab on the Menu bar)
- NAPS bulletin viewable online
- A free Forum
- Guidelines on Premenstrual Syndrome
JoyfulBelly
has a wealth of information on nutrition including how your menstrual cycle affects digestion.
British Homeopathic Association
has some suggested remedies for PMS. As with other possible remedies, homeopathy works for some people and for others not.
A Mail Online article on: Can alternative medicine relieve period pain?
Books on this subject:
The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol
New York Times bestselling guide to hormone balance that helps women of all ages achieve increased energy, resilience, vitality, and sensuality through science-based natural therapies.
All too often women are told that feeling moody, asexual, tapped out, dried up, stressed out, and sleep deprived is just a part of being female. Or they re led to believe that the answer can be found only at the bottom of a bottle of prescription pills. Dr. Sara Gottfried, a Harvard-educated physician and nationally recognized, board-certified gynecologist, refuses to accept that being a woman means feeling overwhelmed or that popping pills is the new normal.
Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods
is your guide to healthier periods using natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and bioidentical hormones. It is a practical, user-friendly manual suitable for women of every age.
Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You
Period Power is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle, to give women a no-nonsense explanation of what the hell happens to them every month and how they can use each phase to its full advantage. What if instead of just trying to plan for our dark days, women were equipped with ways to improve them? What if our desire to improve ourselves could be combined with our need to know just what our womb and ovaries are getting up to every month? Not to mention how to take advantage of the natural superpowers that sit in each phase of our cycle, so that we can plan our month to perform at our best. Maisie Hill is uniquely placed, as an acupuncturist, women’s health practitioner and doula, to explain just how we can achieve this. She gives accessible and practical suggestions through which readers can improve their physical symptoms, and stop berating themselves because of the way that they evolve through each menstrual month.
Overcoming PMS The Natural Way
In Natural Solutions to PMS Marilyn Glenville, the UK’s leading nutritional therapist, explains that the discomfort and pain associated with the menstrual cycle is not inevitable. She shows you simple nutritional and lifestyle changes you can make that will balance your hormones and relieve your symptoms.
