Amenorrhea

Author: Karen Lennox Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Amenorrhea is a disorder in the female body that occurs in the absence of a menstrual cycle for several consecutive months. A healthy diet helps balance hormones.

Amenorrhea is a disorder in the female body that occurs in the absence of a menstrual cycle for several consecutive months. The causes of this problem can be of different nature: genetic, anatomical, mental, physiological, biochemical.

Causes of amenorrhea:

obesity or vice versa - anorexia;
excessive physical activity;
mental disorders;
constant cooling of the genitals;
sexually transmitted diseases;
prolactinoma;
Kalman and Turner syndromes;
adherence to strict diets;
starvation;
disturbed metabolic processes;
pituitary insufficiency;
when the body does not receive the required amount of vitamins and minerals.

To deal with amenorrhea, the first thing you need to do is understand the reasons for such behavior of the body and only then to deal with overcoming the problem.

The most common cause is improper and unbalanced diet, which leads to impaired metabolism, deficiency of vitamins and minerals, female hormones.

In case of hormonal imbalance, products containing estrogen, vitamin E, folic acid should be consumed.

Vitamin E can be obtained through the following foods:

nuts (cashews, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, peanuts);
fish dishes (from eel, white fish, squid, salmon);
spinach, sorrel;
dried apricots and prunes;
viburnum fruits and sea buckthorn;
porridge: oatmeal, barley, wheat.

Estrogen levels can be increased with the help of:

bean cultures;
flaxseed;
bran bread;
apricots;
coffee (1 cup daily).

Folic acid is contained in:

lettuce, spinach, turnips, mustard, celery;
all kinds of cabbage;
fruits and berries (papaya, raspberry, strawberry, grapefruit, avocado);
lentils;
peas (different types);
sunflower seeds;
beets;
corn;
pumpkin;
carrots.

It is also necessary to provide the body with fish oil, protein, vitamin D (dairy products, mushrooms, egg yolks).

Dark chocolate, which contains flavonoids (similar in composition to estrogens), is very useful for amenorrhea. With their help the microcirculation of the blood in the ovaries, the blood circulation is improved, dopamine is released, which does not allow the blood to clot. It is better to eat dark chocolate before menstruation, because the magnesium it contains will increase the level of progesterone, helping not to reduce the premenstrual syndrome.

Harmful food for amenorrhea:

sugar;
Pasta;
White rice;
refined products;
fast food;
semi-finished products;
too greasy and salty dishes;
canned food;
sausages, sausages;
carbonated drinks;
sweets;
margarine.

All of these foods go through many stages of processing, which can dramatically increase insulin levels, and this is known to suppress progesterone.

You should not smoke or drink alcohol.