If women experience pain a few days before their period, it’s a protein’s fault. Researchers at the University of California (United States) claim to have found the origin of premenstrual syndrome (PMS)which plagues the lives of many women between 2 and 10 days before the onset of menstruation.
Headaches, fatigue, irritability, desire to snack, stomach aches, skin problems … All these annoyances, well known to eight out of ten women, are linked to the presence of a protein, the C reactive protein (CRP), known moreover as being a marker of the risk of heart disease. The Americans have found that CRP is associated with the acute inflammation causing PMS.
The study published in the Journal of Women’s Health was conducted on 3,302 women. It has been established that women with a high level of C reactive protein in the blood suffer more from PMS.
A healthy lifestyle to limit the risk of PMS
The exact role of this protein remains to be determined. But the researchers are bouncing back on their study to invite doctors to better support women prone to PMS, in particular by prescribing anti-inflammatory drugs but also by modifying their lifestyle. Certain factors like smoking, being overweight, the stressor one food imbalance can promote the inflammation that causes PMS.
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