4 Natural Remedies For PMS Symptoms

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Every month, billions of women get their periods and for many, it’s a dreaded event.
In fact, a whopping 75% – 90% of women experience some sort of premenstrual symptom.
If you’re reading this, then you’re most likely one of those 75 – 90% of women.
And you want relief. Right. Now.
So, in this post I’m going to share 4 simple, yet effective, tips that you can use whenever those intrusive PMS symptoms strike!

THE ROOT CAUSE OF PMS

Before I get into the specifics of my PMS remedies, let’s take a few moments to look at what’s happening in the body during the menstrual cycle.
From a technical perspective, there’s a fluctuation of hormone levels, with estrogen increasing and progesterone decreasing.
This fluctuation is naturally designed to occur.
But contrary to popular opinion, it is not the root cause of PMS (unless you believe that nature is your enemy and out to get you).
The root cause of PMS lies in how the body reacts to the natural hormonal change.
How the body reacts to natural hormonal changes is what manifests as PMS symptoms.
So you might be wondering: what affects how the body reacts? Well, the answer lies in our lifestyle.

HOW LIFESTYLE AFFECTS PMS

As I already mentioned, nature has programmed estrogen to increase during our monthly cycle.
Since estrogen is already high, if our lifestyle exposes us to extra estrogen, we become estrogen dominant.
These days it’s very easy to be in a state of estrogen dominance, thanks to things like:

pesticides in food (pesticides are estrogen based)
processed oils, processed sugar and processed food in general (some contain estrogen-based chemicals and/or chemicals, as well as chemicals that directly interfere with our hormone system)
plastic bottles (they contain compounds like BPA, which is estrogen-based)
unfiltered water (common water pollutants interfere with our hormone-regulating processes)
cosmetics (contains chemicals that disrupt our hormone production system)

Estrogen dominance is no joke and it can go on for years, undiagnosed.

Now, with all of these toxins floating around and inside of us, does this mean you have to live in a bubble?
Not at all!
You simply have to make choices that boost your health and that build on each other.
As you do this, your PMS symptoms will eventually dissipate!