How To Get Rid Of Menstrual Cramps

I wanted to write this quick article on how to get rid of painful periods, which are also called menstrual cramps or known as period pain. They're all really the same thing.

You have a cramping going on in the lower part of your body. Now, the question is: what is cramping?

Well, it's the uterus. Yes, the uterus can cramp, because when you think about even pregnancy, it's the uterus that contracts.

Well, during your menstrual cycle, the uterus also contracts as well.

And so we're dealing with a spasm of a muscle. There's a really quick thing that you can do to give relief to yourself.

So what you do is just lay on your stomach — that's called a prone position — and then you put your arms up and you stretch backwards, hyperextending your lower back, which will stretch out the uterus in front of your back.

So that's the quick thing to give you immediate relief, and it will help if you can do it. Sometimes it's so painful that you can't even do that, but at least that's something I would attempt as a first thing.

All right?

So now, you can't keep stretching all day long. So what can you do to really get to the root of the problem?

If you look up painful periods or menstrual cramps, you will always see this word: prostaglandin.

Well, it's a chemical that signals certain parts of your body to do certain things — like create inflammation.

And this is why prostaglandins are behind inflammation in the brain.

And when people take medication like ibuprofen for pain or a headache, it is blocking these prostaglandins.

But there's different types of prostaglandin, and the one that we're going to talk about has a very specific purpose of causing a vasoconstriction in the uterus if it's too high.

And I will get into why it's too high in a minute. But let's talk about what you can do to inhibit or lower prostaglandins.

Most people take ibuprofen, okay? And it does work. The problem is, there are side effects.

There's a lot of side effects. It can affect your stomach, it can create other issues — which I don't want you to get into.


And it was very, very close. Ibuprofen did win out in being more effective, but initially, both of those proved to be very, very similar or compatible in effectiveness. And the remedy is cinnamon.

That's right — so just sprinkle a little cinnamon and sugar on your toast and you'll be good to go... and I'm being very sarcastic.

The type of cinnamon that you want is going to be in a capsule.

Because you need to get a gram or a thousand milligrams, and you're going to take that three times a day.

Cinnamon has a lot of different properties for regulating blood sugars, but in this situation, it gives an antispasmodic effect.

It gets rid of spasms, and it can help you reduce inflammation. Why? Because it lowers prostaglandins — the specific ones that are affecting the uterus.

Now, the question you're probably asking right now is: why are these prostaglandins too high in the first place?

 It's really an imbalance with two hormones. We have an excessively lowered amount of progesterone, and we have too much estrogen. That is the combination that creates this problem.

And it just so happens that cinnamon lowers estrogen and it increases progesterone. So it not only affects that prostaglandin, but it helps to go deeper.

A couple other things that I recommend that also will directly inhibit prostaglandins: vitamin D3 — and I would take about 10,000 IUs three times a day throughout the day at the same time you're taking the cinnamon — as well as calcium and magnesium together.

The vitamin D helps the absorption of the calcium and the magnesium go into the tissues, helping to relax this spasm.

Vitamin D is also a potent anti-inflammatory as well. And the third thing that might be very beneficial is omega-3 fatty acids, in the form of cod liver oil. Omega-3 is a natural pain reliever — a natural anti-inflammatory.

So now you have a very potent solution for menstrual cramps or period pain.