Read This If You’ve Painful Periods
A guide that’ll *actually* reduce your period cramps
During the second year of my period, I’d experience Breast tenderness, PMS, unbearable pain, dysmenorrhea, headache, and vomits. To name a few. Everyone’s periods are different. A bit of discomfort is common. But if it starts to affect your lifestyle, you should take a look at what’s wrong.
Causes Of Your Period Pain
Prostaglandin: A hormone that causes uterine contractions. They’re also responsible for inflammation and pain. Prostaglandins are released and cause the uterus to contract and shed its linings.
The more the lining sheds, the more pain you experience. It’s good because dead tissues are removed from your body, but if it affects your life, It’s a red flag that you need to change your lifestyle (more on this later).
Estrogen And Progesterone: They are associated with the chemicals in your brain that cause headaches. So if you also go through headaches, Drinking more water helps. You can also apply a cold cloth, which will cool your head and keep it calm.
Less Protein: This could also be a reason why you have period pain. This causes lethargy, and you don’t feel energetic. It leads to the weakening of your muscles, leading to uterine contractions, cramps, and pain.
Dryness
If you drink tea, or coffee, or eat dry fruits or packaged junk food. These might make your tongue happy in the short term, but they affect your body in the long run. These things make your body dry and cause more pain.
Iron Deficiency: A common reason why some women experience intolerable period pain. Include more iron-rich foods in your diet and see how this pain goes.
Include nuts, dried fruit, whole-meal pasta and bread, iron-fortified bread and breakfast cereal, legumes (mixed beans, baked beans, lentils, and chickpeas), dark leafy green vegetables (spinach, silver beet, broccoli), oats, and tofu.
Magnesium Deficiency: This is a primary reason why females experience period pain. Because magnesium causes uterine contractions to be more delicate. It also reduces prostaglandins (the culprit for inflammation and pain).
Studies showed that females who were experiencing primary dysmenorrhoea Had low magnesium levels (9–13). The best thing you could do is to eat more magnesium-rich foods like Carrots, pumpkin seeds, almonds, cashews, raisins, potatoes, cacao, rice, spinach, and bananas
I included them, and I’m on my period while typing this. I didn’t experience terrible pain like earlier. It was only mildly uncomfortable. But I got rid of it. It works wonders. It’s been 4 months now, and I haven’t experienced the horrible period of pain I had earlier.
I included iron, magnesium, and protein-rich foods; more movements; and less screen time. It’s only when you change your lifestyle that you change your life. So here are the actionable key takeaways you can implement in your life to reap the benefits:
Balance Estrogen
Estrogen is a beast. It’s a crucial hormone in the female body. Since the female body is hormone-sensitive. Even a bit of estrogen fluctuation can impact your mood. Optimize your lifestyle to maintain the optimum level of estrogen.
It’s no mere coincidence that the 30-day moon cycle and the 30-day menstrual cycle are synchronized. If your periods are irregular, you should drink moonlight-charged water.
According to health shots
- Moon-charged water can help you get your menstrual cycle back on track.
- It can also help with PCOS.
- It keeps you energized.
- It helps you with your skin too.
- Moon-charged water also helps in dealing with mental health problems.
And if you don’t want to drink moonlight-charged water, You can look at the moon for 15–20 minutes. And it still improves your mental health. I’ve been doing it since 2021.
Back then, I didn’t know its benefits, especially for periods. But my mental health got better over the years. Moon helps keep your estrogen at an optimum level, leaving you healthier and happier.
Healthy Breakfast
Eat seasonal fruits. It provides the nutrition your body needs. You only need to eat them. If you think eating fruits and salads for breakfast every day is hectic, Read Atomic Habits; it helps you build good habits and get rid of bad ones. I did this and couldn’t be more grateful.
Protein
When you’re having terrible period cramps. Your body has a craving for protein, which it gets from almonds, peanut butter, cashews, and paneer. Eating them keeps your protein, zinc, and essential fat levels checked.
Pomegranate
Pomegranate controls the nausea and vomiting you experience during periods. Because it’s an iron-rich food. Earlier, I’d lay in bed all day. But here I’m writing this and showing you how a bit of lifestyle change can change your life.
Natural Sunlight
I started sunbathing every day. 85 days in, I’m beyond grateful. Every day, give your body at least 20–30 minutes of essential sunlight. Vitamin D normalizes your menstrual cramps. It decreases your period pain and mood swings (or, at worst, depression).
Sunbathe every day.
Oil Massage
The reason so many females experience period pain is because of the dryness within. Lubricate your body. Apply cold-pressed oils, spread butter (ghee) in your chapatis, drink plenty of water, and smile more.
Because when you stress, your estrogen level fluctuates and affects your mood and body. So do yourself a favor and meditate more; don’t dwell on failures or the past. Move on, smile more, and you’ll live a happier life.
Parting Thoughts
I hope this blog post was helpful, wish I had someone who’d have described it, I would have saved myself from a lot of pain. Share it with your mom, sister, and other female friends so they can also have a better period.
Thanks for reading!
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