hey everybody today I am sitting down
with Hannah hi hello hi Hannah and she
is here to offer up her insights because
one thing I really love about Hannah is
that she is always working on herself
and she has a lot of self exploration
yeah just a constant think take of
judgment and criticism so it's really a
walk in the park
but I love hearing her insights and her
take on things and so today we're gonna
sit down and talk about PMS and
debunking some of the misconceptions or
myths around it so when we're talking
about PMS let's define what we're
talking about what are we referring to
specifically when we say PMS PMS would
be the premenstrual syndrome which
usually happens but like two weeks prior
to you actually menstruating and will
last for two days into your menstrual
cycle and then it should end so the
first myth that I want to talk about is
that all women have PMS well that's a
myth mm-hmm people think that oh you
know I think that all women at PMS not
true Wow
only 35% of women actually experienced
PMS like symptoms oh my god you know I
feel like it really varies for me though
because I feel like sometimes I'm like
oh this must have all just been PMS but
then other times I'm like that's that's
in your head like I know that every once
in walks I don't get PMS very often
maybe once every six months really yeah
how do you know you're just not like out
of touch with your feelings and that's
possible right it could be 35% of women
admit to feeling things yeah or report
that they felt things 35% of women have
reported that they felt things in
possible association with maybe PMS I
love science it's also valid it's also
straightforward yeah all the time
so next like we just kind of talked
about is the myth is that all women are
irrational or crazy when they're PMSing
and like we talked about it could be
physical symptoms and you may never
experience the mood just like the mood
dysregulation that could come with Pima
the myth that people are irrational or
crazy during PMS I assume has to also
stand from some sort of actual like
hormonal thing mortal shift that happens
that affects the mood in the mind but
you're saying only 35% of women report
even feeling that at all yes and the
interesting fact are the interesting
findings I guess where that only about
3% of women report their PMS symptoms
via severe or have had to go and get
help talk to their gyno talk to their
doctor about it but it rolls even that
thought like rolls into what I had is
number three of the misconceptions but
the all women are Moody during PMS and
we're what we're talking about right now
is just the emotional side not actually
the physical side of PMS which could be
like breast tenderness bloating fatigue
all of those kinds of physical symptoms
that we can feel that many women will
feel without any mood dysregulation at
all so then if people aren't
experiencing mood changes because I
thought PMS is like the week leading up
to your period your extra moody mm-hmm
it's actually just the physical things
of your body preparing for to actually
let you men straight you Wow
yeah it can't be the the moodiness can
come with it right but not everyone
experiences that huh but the final one
and I think the thing that's the most
important to debunk and to talk about is
that there's nothing we can do to help
it it just happens to us every month and
we have to just deal with it but not all
of us know and oh maybe only even 3%
technically maybe yeah wild right yeah
both your mind apparently does I assume
do at least be like 80 percent I just am
I'm surprised and I'm not surprised all
at the same time so what some of those
who do experience it what can they do to
kind of alleviate the symptoms the
number one thing that can exacerbate the
symptoms is stress so if you don't
manage stress well if you I know right
that's not even that's not medical
that's like you don't like guess what
you're gonna make it alone it's just
mental health yes not just it is you're
right it is but it's like you know you
think that like yeah like oh if you
experience PMS here's a pathologizing
super clinical thing that we can like do
to help blah blah blah but no it's if
you reduce your stress level across the
board in moments of higher and lower
stress you're peaks and valleys are
gonna feel less so yeah for the longest
time we thought that it was elevated
levels of progesterone that caused PMS
we now know that that is completely
false and it's actually the opposite
it's when we have a progesterone
deficiency
estrogen has risen so the estrogen in
our body is dominant that is what they
think causes PMS and the PMS like
symptoms and so there are things that we
can take and different supplements you
should talk to your doctor because I am
NOT a physician but there are a lot of
different things they can take and
different foods you can incorporate that
help better naturally balance that I
mean so diet is one of the things that
we can do but again I talked to your
doctor because everybody's different and
they can actually test for your levels
and figure out you know whether or not
that is the problem for you you might
think you're PMSing but really you just
need to re-evaluate some things in your
life potentially and see a therapist
maybe all right if you find yourself
struggling with PMS and you feel really
moody and you feel you know breast
tenderness bloating all the symptoms
we've talked about diet exercise
sleeping willow and avoiding alcohol
those are all things that can really
help you I think even just in life
sometimes in general it's true I'm
honest with ourselves yeah to be totally
fair when I'm going through a period of
time of extreme stress or if I feel like
I need to rebalance my life I just don't
even want to drink because we've talked
about this before - I don't like to
drink when I'm unhappy cuz it just kind
of makes things worse yeah it's a downer
it's a big downer literally well thank
you so much for sharing your insights I
think they're having me Katie I'm so
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