End the Misery of PMS With… (Wait for it)
September 20th, 2010Via: University of Birmingham:
Neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham are working on a novel approach to ending the scourge of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) after identifying, for the first time, an organic cause for the condition.
Researchers led by Dr Thelma Lovick have shown that premenstrual-like symptoms can be triggered in female rats by a change in the level of secretion of one of the female sex hormones that normally occurs towards the end of the menstrual cycle in women.
In the Birmingham tests the PMS could be prevented by giving low doses of the commonly prescribed anti-anxiety drug fluoxetine (Prozac).
Dr Lovick and her team believe that if affected women were to take a very low dose of fluoxetine for just a few days during the premenstrual period, they should avoid developing the negative physical and emotional symptoms that characterise the syndrome.
‘All that would be needed for countless women to benefit from what could be a simple and accessible treatment, involving a drug that is already in widespread use, is clinical tests to refine it and identify the optimal dosing strategy,’ she says.
Although I have a post-it note on my computer, “no commenting on Cryptogon when drinking wine,” I have to break my new rule for this one. Prozac? My gawd what is Big Pharma going to come up with next to push their DRUGS? Prozac is a nightmare. My nephew took it for years because he had unexplainable migriane headaches. Did it help? Maybe. Not sure.
I had the odd coinkeydink of having a Vitamin D3 deficiency, as well as a depleted adrenal gland at the time I went through menopause. To this day, I believe that restoring my Vitamin D3 (4,000 per day for a year- along with some calcium and magnesium supplementation, komboucha, diet, etc) were the THINGS that made my menopausal discomforts something now of a distant memory.
Going through a change in life is something, I think, we go through every day. But when the hormones do their thing as they have and will in each individual human life, I think it would be better to face these situations in optimum health (teens and adults and not just women).
There is not a drug that can give ANYONE optimum health, or “protect them” from the natural cycles of hormones.
Women and men who live of north of Atlanta, GA. (in the Southern Hemisphere I don’t know) are most probably all Vitamin D3 deficient.
There’s that chart that shows cancer rates manifesting in magnitude the further north we are from the equator).
I know I probably sound like Dr. Mercola, but for me, optimizing my vitamin D3 level was the basic good health platform upon which I was able to physically, emotionally and rationally deal with menopause, and the loss of my mother. Before I wax too much more eloquent..goodnight.