Learning how to cope with mood swings during your period takes a bit of time. If you’re a teenager or in your 20s, you may want to decrease the learning curve so this time frame is reduced to very little time; no one wants to end up having PMS mood swings for 20 or 30 years!

The key to truly overcome mood swings from PMS instead of simply trying to control them is to use natural means. If you use medications, including over-the-counter medications, you will end up eventually suffering from some type of medication side effect, as medications are not natural. Your body wasn’t created to metabolize these medications – and many of them have been found to induce vitamin deficiencies and mitochondrial toxicity, let alone other side effects. Naturally curing your mood swings when on your period is the only way that really makes sense.

The big key is to figure out where you are missing the mark with your health. Are you overwhelming your body with toxins by eating garbage processed and GMO foods? Then it’s no wonder why you have mood swings. Your body is trying its best to eliminate these toxins that do nothing to nourish you, yet if you aren’t even trying to help it along, then you can expect more mood swings as well as other symptoms during your period.

Some of the other things that women do unknowingly that can contribute to PMS mood swings as well as other symptoms include:

• Eat high glycemic index foods or high amounts of carbohydrates in the diet. (If you’re consuming more than 100 grams carbohydrate a day, it’s too much. This will cause you to be on a blood sugar roller coaster every day and when your blood sugar levels are low, you will experience mood swings.

• Eat foods with aspartame or other fake sugars in them. Fake sugars are toxins. You must realize that there is a big bad wolf out there who wants you to pollute your body with fake sugars, fake foods, and chemicals so you can be as bad, mean and honery as possible. Aspartame goes right for the brain and creates methanol, a known brain cell killer. Meanwhile, it causes moodiness, and it doesn’t matter if it’s during your period or not.

• Skipping meals. This also affects your blood sugar levels, as well as hormone levels.

• Not eating enough vegetables. Just because your mother wasn’t so nice when she decided you should eat vegetables during your baby years doesn’t mean you can’t make smart choices now. Get over it! You would be surprised at how many women sound ridiculous in their 50s when they tell their nutritionist, “I never liked vegetables as a child… My mom made me eat them before dessert…” Really, we all have unpleasant situations in life and the sign of maturity is getting beyond them.

Below are some specific tactics you can start initiating to eliminate PMS mood swings. Remember that the idea that you have to manage menstrual mood swings is a medical mindset that frankly does not work. You don’t want to MANAGE them or LESSEN them; you want to eliminate them. Most likely your answer involves more than one solution so keep a journal to discover the best combination of tactics that work for your body.

4 Ways to Eliminate PMS Mood Swings

Eat More Calcium Foods

Calcium makes you purr like a pussycat; it’s what it does to the nervous system. It relaxes your muscles as well. The right dosage depends on what your dietary intake and nutritional status is right now. If you avoid dairy products like the plague, then your intake is low. If you have not included dairy products in your diet for a long time, most likely you are entering into a deficiency. The least you can do is provide yourself with a 500 mg calcium supplement daily, and often taking two a day can be the best way to eliminate the moodiness.

Eat More Magnesium Foods

Just as you might not be eating enough high calcium foods, you may also not be eating enough high magnesium foods. These are the leafy greens. You need at least 500 mg magnesium a day during your period when you get PMS symptoms, including mood swings. The irritability in the nervous system is what is eliminated with the natural element called magnesium. Most Americans are low in this mineral. Taking a supplement can help a lot.

What Color is Your Urine?

If your urine isn’t bright yellow-orange, then you aren’t excreting enough B vitamins. The status of your B vitamins is found best by monitoring your urine for its color. If your body is getting less B vitamins than what it needs, it will excrete no B vitamins – your body is grabbing onto every last bit you have. If your body is getting more B vitamins than what it needs, the extra will come out in your urine. There is nothing bad about this – and you are not wasting anything as some anti-vitamin enthusiasts will try to make you believe.

Take a B complex vitamin daily and make sure it’s at least 10 mg. This means there is at least 10 mg vitamin B1, B2, and B6 in it.

Take a Period Vitamin

A period vitamin will contain calcium, magnesium, B vitamins and other vitamins and minerals in it. It won’t contain anything you don’t need. A period vitamin may also contain herbs like red raspberry leaf and chaste berry which both have a great impact on balancing hormone levels and eliminating mood swings. You only need to take one period vitamin a day, so it’s perfect for fitting into your daily routine.