3. We Want To Eat Everything, But Everything Makes Us Sick
Our periods make us insatiably hungry. It’s part of our bodies feeling like they’re in a state of recuperation. We want sleep and we want food. The hormones rising while on our periods balance out with serotonin and cortisol; therefore we crave foods high in these chemicals, like fried and sugary foods (there goes our diet). Unfortunately after we eat anything, we feel incurably nauseous.
The nausea accompanying our periods can be caused by several factors. Our hormones are in flux and can thus be out of balance, causing nausea, or the hormone changes can cause more acid to be produced in our stomachs, which would do the trick, too. Or our super-sized uterus is just taking up all the room in our abdomen and there’s pressure on everything, making us feel sick. These factors can all come together in an inconvenient, sickening way. You’d be pretty frustrated too if you were constantly starving and sick, and had no way to fix either of these problems.
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