3 Simple Steps to Naturally Treat PMS

3 Simple Steps to Naturally Treat PMS

Symptoms from Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) can be a challenging part of many women’s monthly cycles. Two recent studies on adolescents show that vitamin D can be a safe and effective method for reducing these symptoms, lessening anxiety, irritability, sadness, cramps, and other associated issues. These benefits were not gained by the placebo group. Gut health and non-hormonal herbal supplements are other avenues to consider if your vitamin D levels are already optimal. https://drruscio.com/?p=28840

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Hey everyone, this is Dr. Ruscio. Let's discuss three simple steps you can take
to improve your female hormone balance, especially if you're suffering with PMS, irritability,
mood swing, or cramps. There’s good news. There are three fairly simple, effective and
natural things that you can do to improve those symptoms. Let me start off by documenting one of these,
which is vitamin D. Then we'll talk about gut health, and then we'll talk about some
herbal supplements that can also help you. But the big thing I want to touch on today—and
we'll cover two studies to substantiate this—is that vitamin D seems to be able to help women
with the symptoms of PMS. So let's jump in by looking at the two studies
that have documented this. Firstly, I'll put the abstract up here on
the screen. “High dose vitamin D supplementation can
improve menstrual problems, dysmenorrhea, and premenstrual syndrome in adolescents.” So these authors start: “Vitamin D has a crucial
role in female reproduction, possibly through its effects on calcium homeostasis, cyclic
sex steroid hormone fluctuations or neurotransmitter function.” They set up a study where they looked at just
under 900 adolescent girls and put them on once-weekly 50,000 IUs of vitamin D.
That would break down to about 7,000 IUs per day. Of the vitamin D that I use in the clinic,
that's about three to four drops. It sounds like a lot, but it's actually not
a supremely high dose. After the intervention period of roughly nine
weeks, here's what they found: PMS significantly reduced after the intervention. Dysmenorrhea (or cramps) significantly reduced
after the intervention. PMS and cramps together reduced after the
intervention. And vitamin D supplementation was also associated
with a reduction in the incidence of several PMS-related symptoms such as backache and
a tendency to cry easily, as well as a decrease in pain severity of menstrual cramps. This led the researchers to conclude high
dose vitamin D supplementation can reduce the prevalence of PMS and dysmenorrhea, as
well as has positive effects on the physical and psychological symptoms of PMS. So, great news. Another study was also published: “Vitamin
D Supplementation for Premenstrual-Syndrome-Related Mood Disorders in Adolescents with Severe
Hypovitaminosis D.” In this case, there were 158 girls given vitamin D or placebo. Here are the results: anxiety, irritability,
crying easily and sadness decreased, a lessening of disturbed relationships (these are all
significant decreases by the way), while there was no improvement in the placebo group. Conclusion: On the basis of these findings,
vitamin D therapy can be proposed as a safe, effective and convenient method for improving
the quality of life in young women with severe hypovitaminosis D (or low vitamin D), and
concomitant mood disorders associated with PMS. So this is great news. This tells us that a simple vitamin supplement,
vitamin D, can help improve PMS. Now, what if you're already taking vitamin
D? Or if you have perhaps normal vitamin D levels
and you would like to do more than vitamin D? Just to rehash, make sure that you have your
vitamin D dosing where it should be based upon some of these studies. A good place to start may be using three to
four drops of the formula that I'm using at the clinic, which is Functional Medicine Formulation's
Vitamin D with Vitamin K. I won't go into the details as to why, but certainly not a
bad idea to have the vitamin K accompanying the vitamin D at three to four drops per day
(so not a huge dose). Now, I wouldn't do that dose forever. After a few months I'd have your levels checked
to make sure you're not getting too high and eventually having high levels of vitamin D.
But for most people the battle will be preventing low vitamin D, getting into the normal range. What if that, in and of itself, is not enough
for the PMS? Fortunately, there are two other fairly simple
things you can do to improve your female hormones and your PMS. One of these is improving your gut health. We've documented a number of case studies
here in the clinic whereby improving a female's digestion—making them less constipated,
less bloated, with less abdominal pain, or less diarrhea—has led to improvements in
correlated female hormone symptoms. There's a comprehensive plan for that laid
out in Healthy Gut, Healthy You. We're also working on a quick start guide
for the Healthy Gut, Healthy You protocol and a quiz to help you see if you also have
female hormone imbalances co-occurring with gut imbalances. If that quiz is ready by the time this video
publishes, then we'll attach it. If not, check back soon and that should be
accessible through our home page. In this case, I also recommend two different
herbal blends that help to balance estrogen and progesterone. The ones that we're using are Estro-Harmony
and Progest-Harmony. Both of these are non-hormonal (meaning they
don't contain any hormones), rather they contain herbs that help to balance hormones. I've seen these be very effective when women
are doing everything else right. Vitamin D, diet, lifestyle, gut health are
all dialed in, but they're still not quite where we'd like them to be. These herbs tend to give a gentle push for
the hormones and get them in the right direction, where sometimes these other interventions
have not had quite enough punch to get us there. So by doing these three things—vitamin D,
improving your gut health, and using an herbal supplement to balance your female hormones—there
is an extremely high probability that you can see your female hormones balance and the
corresponding PMS, cramps, irritability, sadness, and mood lability all decrease. If you're a woman suffering with these problems,
I wouldn't wait another day because you don't need to. Fortunately, there are safe and natural solutions
to help improve the majority of these cases. This is Dr. Ruscio, and I hope this information
helps you get healthy and get back to your life. Thanks.

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