"Are You Stressed? Things You Should Know About Stress And Its Affects On Causing PMS Symptoms!"

We all know that stress is bad for your health but unfortunately that's almost everything we know about stress.
Most of us don't really know about how bad it can be to your health and specially to triggering PMS symptoms. Stress affects our hormonal balance by causing adrenal gland exhaustion and reduces our progesterone output.

As a women your ovaries produce a combination of hormones including estrogen, progesterone and testosterone during the menstrual cycle. These hormones fluctuate and help regulate women's menstrual cycle during her reproductive years. When these hormones become imbalanced it causes the symptoms like those associated with PMS.
However Estrogen is a powerful hormone, and when it becomes the dominant hormone and progesterone is deficient, the estrogen becomes toxic to the body.

Progesterone is more like an antidote to the harmful effects of estrogen,and helps to create a greater hormone balance.
It is very important for women to keep a correct hormonal balance between estrogen and progesterone. An excess in the quantity of estrogen will cause insomnia and anxiety, which further taxes the adrenal gland. This leads to a further reduction in progesterone output and even more estrogen dominance. If this vicious cycle lasts for several years, the adrenal glands becomes exhausted. This dysfunction leads to blood sugar imbalance, hormonal imbalances, and chronic fatigue.

For instance when you face a stressful situation your body draws on its progesterone to produce the hormones to counteract it. These are the hormones that protect against stress. However if your body is in a constant or permanent state of stress it can't provide enough progesterone to be converted into anti-stress hormones and the result is adrenal exhaustion. Furhtermore, you will be in deficit of progesterone which is essential for other normal body functions.
Now we know how stress can affect our body and causing hormonal imbalance to trigger irritability that comes along with pms symptoms. PMS can be prevented when we prevent ourselves from daily nonsense stress.