Well, let's see: there's the current news story about diet and PMS which sounds (based on my own experience - I do eat a lot of broccoli, almonds, calcium-fortified soya products, tahini & hummus these days) not implausible,
and
there was a very useful PMS workbook which I now think is now extremely out of print and hard to get hold of (sadly) but it talked about all the things that helped reduce symptoms: not just diet, but regular exercise, quantity and regularity of sleep, stress reduction and so on.
IIRC there is also evidence to suggest that consuming tryptophan-containing foods (turkey, milk, peanuts etc) can reduce irritability symptoms within an hour or so.
As I understand it, it's common to experience a regular cycle of various types of emotions and urges - it's just that PMS is more recognized (and obviously people tend to focus more on the time period when they are breaking things rather than the time period elsewhere in the month when they are particularly inspired and focussed, or the time period when they have the urge to get things done!). The "nesting urge" that women get just before they give birth is well known - but there are other helpful results of hormone levels (the "flipside" of PMS) which are less profound and so less recognized.
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Date: June 15th, 2005 02:30 pm (UTC)From:there's the current news story about diet and PMS which sounds (based on my own experience - I do eat a lot of broccoli, almonds, calcium-fortified soya products, tahini & hummus these days) not implausible,
and
there was a very useful PMS workbook which I now think is now extremely out of print and hard to get hold of (sadly) but it talked about all the things that helped reduce symptoms: not just diet, but regular exercise, quantity and regularity of sleep, stress reduction and so on.
IIRC there is also evidence to suggest that consuming tryptophan-containing foods (turkey, milk, peanuts etc) can reduce irritability symptoms within an hour or so.
As I understand it, it's common to experience a regular cycle of various types of emotions and urges - it's just that PMS is more recognized (and obviously people tend to focus more on the time period when they are breaking things rather than the time period elsewhere in the month when they are particularly inspired and focussed, or the time period when they have the urge to get things done!). The "nesting urge" that women get just before they give birth is well known - but there are other helpful results of hormone levels (the "flipside" of PMS) which are less profound and so less recognized.