Women's Balance PMS Support - LifeSource Nutrition

LifeSource’s exclusive formula has been scientifically engineered to support the normal hormone function of today’s active female. With Wild Yam, Borage Oil, Dong Quai and more, this perfectly balanced blend of potent herbal extracts and essential fatty acids (omega-3 and –6) may encourage normal menstruation, reduce the severity of cramps and support a healthy positive mood. Women’s Balance also contains folic acid – a key component in the production of cellular energy.

** Don’t get discouraged Ladies: Your PMS symptoms can be relieved. Try our new Women’s Balance and see what life can be life with out these symptoms. So read below and you will see that along with the Women’s Balance we can approach PMS from other angles if we find we need a little more support. But most will be fine with this Women’s Balance.

It is estimated that as many as 85% to 90% of pre-menopausal women regularly experience mental and/or physical symptoms before the onset of menses. While symptoms are mild in most women, 8% to 20% experience symptoms that meet the clinical definition of pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), a disorder characterized by moderate to severe symptoms of depression, irritability, fatigue, abdominal cramping, breast tenderness, and headaches.

Fortunately, research has shown nutritional supplementation to be very effective in helping deal with PMS. In one study, women who supplemented with 1200 mg per day of calcium carbonate for three months reduced PMS symptoms by 48%. Other studies have also seen “significant” improvements in women with 1000 mg and 1336 mg per day of calcium supplementation.

Now a new study7 has found that another supplement for bone health, vitamin D, may also help improve PMS symptoms. In the study, researchers used a food frequency questionnaire to compare the diets and supplement use of 1,057 women aged 27 to 44 years old who reported developing PMS over the course of 10 years to 1,968 women who reported no diagnosis of PMS or no or minimal pre-menstrual symptoms in the same time period. The food questionnaires were administered in 1991, 1995, and 1999.

It was found that women with the highest intake of vitamin D (over 700 IU per day) were 41% less likely to suffer from PMS compared to women with the lowest intake of vitamin D (100 IU per day). In addition, calcium intake was also found to decrease PMS symptoms, with an intake of nearly 1300 mg per day from food sources found to decrease PMS symptoms by thirty percent compared to women with the lowest intakes of calcium (529 mg per day).

For the researchers, the findings of this study suggest “that a high dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium may lower the risk of incident PMS.”

Greg Arnold is a Chiropractic Physician