How to INSTANTLY Relieve Painful Periods (Menstrual Cramps)

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about how to stop period pain or menstrual cramps.

With period cramps, you experience cramping in the lower part of the body. It’s the uterus itself that’s cramping or contracting, which can cause a painful period.

A great way to get instant relief from menstrual cramps is to try stretching. To do this stretch, you need to lay on your stomach and push your hands into the ground straightening your arms and stretching your back.

However, to get to the root cause of the issue and get rid of menstrual cramps, we need to lower a chemical in the body called prostaglandins.

People will typically use ibuprofen to lower prostaglandins. But ibuprofen has side effects. Thankfully, there are natural alternatives you can try to help lower prostaglandins.

The best natural remedies for menstrual cramps:

1. Cinnamon

2. Vitamin D3, calcium, and magnesium

3. Omega-3 fatty acids (cod liver oil)

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0:00.0	I wanted to do this quick video on how to get rid of painful periods, which are also called
0:06.4	menstruals, 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.
0:16.0	Now the question is what is cramping? Well, it's the uterus. Yes, the uterus can cramp.
0:21.9	Because when you think about like even pregnancy, it's a uterus that
0:25.3	contracts. Well, during your menstrual cycle, the uterus also contracts as well. And so we're dealing
0:30.9	with a spasm of a muscle.
0:33.0	There's a really quick thing that you can do to give relief to yourself.
0:37.0	So what you do is just lay in your stomach, that's called a prone position,
0:40.0	and then you put your arms up and you stretch backwards, hyper extending your lower back, which
0:47.6	will stretch out the uterus in front of your back.
0:50.7	So that's the quick thing to give you immediate relief and it will help if you can do it.
0:55.0	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.
1:01.0	All right, so now you can't keep stretching all day long, so what can you do to
1:04.9	really get to the root of the problem? If you look up painful periods or menstrual cramps, you will always see this word prostaglandins.
1:15.8	Well, it's a chemical that signals certain parts of your body to do certain things like create inflammation and this is why
1:26.1	prostaglanins are behind inflammation in the brain and when people take medication
1:30.8	like ibuprofen for pain or a headache it is blocking these prostaglanins.
1:36.9	But there's different types of prostaglanins and the one that we're going to talk about
1:40.4	has a very specific purpose of causing a vasoconstriction in the uterus if it's too high.
1:47.0	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 a lower prostate lens.
1:56.0	Most people take ibuprofen, okay?
1:58.0	And it does work.
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