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If you have painful periods, you might want to try ginger.

It's a great natural remedy and very effective.

Now, in the first day of a woman's period, you have some massive changes going on in the

uterus. You have changes in the muscles, the blood vessels, and you have a lot of inflammation.

And all of this is occurring because of something called prostaglandins.

Prostaglandins are certain compounds involved when tissue is damaged and when tissue is inflamed,

and it helps to regulate that inflammation.

And so when someone takes an end-side, like ibuprofen or aspirin,

they're blocking certain enzymes that make prostaglandins.

The problem is, there's some slight minor side effects you have.

Indigestion ulcers, you get headaches, dizziness, drowsiness.

You can start developing allergies, right?

But the phytonutrients in ginger can act as a very potent inhibitor of prostaglandins.

In the first study, ginger was just as effective as a medication called Novifen,

which is a combination of ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and caffeine.

And in the second study, which I'll put the link down below,

ginger was just as effective as ibuprofen.

So the cool thing is that it's just as effective, but without the side effects.

But in fact, ginger can actually aid in digestion.

It can help you with digestive issues.

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