8 Natural Remedies to Curing Menstruation Cramps and Mood Swings

What Causes Menstruation Cramp?

Symptoms of menstruation include headache, dizziness, cramps, irritability, depression, bloating, breast tenderness, nausea, vomiting, food cravings or aversions, weight gain, irritability, anxiety and fatigue. These symptoms are commonly known as PMS and they usually occur before the menstruation cycle begins. The main causes of menstruation cramps are:

• Hormones imbalance
• Lack of Sleep
• Stress
• Eating processed food or man made fats

What Causes Vomiting During Menstruation?

Many women are susceptible to nausea and vomiting during the menstrual cycle. While every women experience different things, some women who experience very bad cramps actually throwing up during their menstrual cycle even though they eat pretty much the same thing as what they usually eat. Dysmenorrhea is the condition where nausea and vomiting is accompanied by headaches, cramps, and abdominal pain. It is believed that the production of prostaglandins during the menstrual cycle is the culprit. Prostaglandins are chemicals a woman’s body produces and it is produced by yhe tissue that lines the uterus. Prostaglandins stimulate the uterine muscles to contract.

Women who have high levels of prostaglandin may experience more intense contractions of their uterus and more pain as well as vomiting, diarrhea, and headaches. There could be a more serious reason for this nausea which is a condition known as endometriosis. This occurs when the cells, endometrium that make up the lining of the uterus grow outside of the uterus. These cells grow in large number and line both the abdominal and uterine cavities. During the woman’s menstrual cycle these cells are influenced by the hormone production and imbalance. Endometriosis can cause nausea, bloating, diarrhea, rectal pain, and abdominal cramping. Vitamin B deficiency and/or sugar imbalance can also be the cause of nausea before, during or after a woman’s menstrual cycle.

What Can You Do?

A. Make Changes To Food Diets

       1. Avoid Man Made Fats Found in Vegetable Oil

Man made fats are highly unstable and oxidize easily in the body. These oxidized fats cause inflammation and mutation in cells, causing inflammation, clogging of arterirs, skin cancer and endometriosis and PCOS. Hence avoid fats such as vegetable oil, peanut oil, canola oil, soybean oil, margarine, shortening or other chemically altered fats. Choose fats like extra virgin coconut oil, sesame oil, avocado oil, olive oil (don’t heat it) and animal fats (tallow, lard) from healthy sources instead and eat lots of high Omega-3 fish.

 2. Avoid Processed Foods

Processed foods contain toxin that mimic hormones in the body and keep the body from producing real hormones. Hence, one should always choose to consume natural and organic food.

 3. Avoid Inflammatory Foods

Foods like gluten and dairy can create inflammation leading to hormone problems. There have been few cases where severe menstruation cramp were resolved by adopting a Superlife Co Asian Quinoa Packs.

 4. Eat the Right Kinds of Fats

Eating fats like butter, tallow, Superfoods, ghee, olive oil can help to produce proper hormone. While the wrong kinds of fats can interfere with hormone production, eating enough of the proper fats can really help!

Coconut Oil is amazing for hormone health. It provides the necessary building blocks for hormone production, can assist weight loss, reduce inflammation, and even has antimicrobial and antibacterial properties.

 5. Take Natural Supplement

Maca is a plant that is grown in central Peru in the high plateaus of the Andes Mountains. It has been cultivated for at least 3000 years and used as a root vegetable, a medicinal herb. Regulate mood swings, alleviates menstrual cramps and menopause symptoms. The most widely researched benefit of maca powder is its interaction with the endocrine system such as adrenals, pancreatic, pituitary and thyroid gland. This system of glands produces and transmits the proper quantity of hormones for reaction and response purposes.

Maca powder energizes the endocrine system to make good hormones which helps to regulate hormones naturally. It alleviates cramps, body pain, hot flashes, anxiety, mood swings, stress and depression (Brooks et al, 2008; Caldas, 2006). This is the reason why it is commonly used to treat women’s menstrual cramps. However, if you are pregnant or lactating you should avoid taking maca. It has also been held that maca powder helps to reduce the symptoms related to menopause such as sweating at night and menopauses flashes (Balik and Lee, 2002)

 6. Vitamin D

Viatmin D is supportive of hormone function and can be obtained naturally from son, fermmented cod liver oil which is also a great source of Omega-3s and beneficial fats.

B. Change your Habits

       1. Sleep

Get enough sleep (at least 8 hours of quality) to improve hormones regulation. Sleeping sufficiently is also linked to longer life, less chance of disease and optimizing weight.

If you have insomnia or problem sleeping, try to take deep breath for 4 counts, hold for 7 counts and breathe our for 8 counts. Repeat this breathing exercise for at least 5 times.

 2. Yoga

Yoga can helps to improve the blood circulation in your body and hence reduce cramps during menstruation cramps.

Yoga also helps in stress management which is also one of the main factors that causes menstruation cramp.

Yes, you might already know a lot of these changes that you have to make! The key is to start changing your lifestyle and diets. Remember, “you are what you eat”.  Start your Super Life with us now!