Posted on 01/16/2011 3:25:13 PM PST by decimon
A pill containing a mix of essential oils has been shown to significantly reduce the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Reproductive Health tested the tablets by carrying out a randomised, controlled trial in 120 women.
Edilberto Rocha Filho worked with a team of researchers from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, to conduct the tests. He said, "The administration of 1 or 2 grams of essential fatty acids to patients with PMS resulted in a significant decrease in symptom scores. Furthermore, the administration of the dietary supplement did not result in any changes in the total cholesterol in the patients evaluated".
Women who were given capsules containing 2 grams of a combination of gamma linolenic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, other polyunsaturated acids and vitamin E reported significantly eased PMS symptoms at both 3 and 6 months after they began the treatment. Few adverse events were recorded and these were mild, insignificant and did not appear to be directly related to the medication. Speaking about the results, Rocha Filho said, "The negative effect of PMS on a woman's routine activities and quality of life may be significant, in addition to the repercussions on economic costs resulting predominantly from a reduction in productivity. Essential oil capsules can now be said to show much promise as a treatment".
Here's a theory. Evolutionally speaking, PMS is a sign of reproduction failure since only non-pregnant and non-lactating women menstuate and get PMS. So it may be evolutionally advantagious for a woman to drive away a male when she fails to conceive.
I agree.....but I am of the age where I inquire “Will this ever end?”
Are there enough men in the country to vote something like this in?
Are there enough men in the country to vote something like this in?
Maybe we should wait until we know what it does to us (men). ;-)
I couldn't find it. Maybe the presser jumped the gun?
Hmmm, never thought of it that way. Kinda like Mother nature expects us to be perpetually pregnant/nursing and so the menstruation is inherently an “unnatural” thing to have keep recurring every month lol.
Yeah God was only supposed to punish us with pain in childbirth, said nothing about being punished also when we don’t conceive.
Isn't that it? At the bottom of the page is a link to a "provisional PDF."
It is. They jumped the gun. It wasn't there yesterday when I spent 5 - 6 hours looking for it. That's why I don't like pressers. I like to have the citation, abstract, link or URL.
Your dedication is commendable. Irrational but commendable.
Put another way, you're a better man than I am, Never Din.
PMS is generally considered a problem of hormone imbalance. The EFAs help repair the imbalance.
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