PMS
PMS is the luteal-week cluster of mood, swelling, and pain when progesterone falls relative to estrogen and stress chemistry. Low thyroid worsens it. Bright light and food change the same axes that seasons change.
Peat's view
[edit]Peat traced PMS to light deprivation: women who moved to cloudy Eugene often developed premenstrual syndrome within months, and the mechanism was absence of bright light creating a progesterone deficiency that left estrogen and prolactin unopposed.[1]
Practice
[edit]Sugar, salt, protein, and light in the luteal week. Progesterone and thyroid when indicated. See Progesterone, Estrogen, Thyroid, Light, Serotonin, Harm reduction.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Ray Peat, "Aging Eyes, Infant Eyes, and Excitable Tissues." "Women who had been healthy when they arrived would often develop premenstrual syndrome or arthritis or colitis during their first winter in Eugene... The absence of bright light would create a progesterone deficiency, and would leave estrogen and prolactin unopposed."