article_snippet.sent: Cradling your stomach with a hot water bottle might seem like the norm at 'that time of the month'.
article_snippet.sent: Foods like sugar are inflammatory so you should avoid it throughout the month, not just at the time of your period.
article_snippet.sent: Research has found zinc can relieve period pain and is effective for removing prostagrandins.
article_snippet.sent: Things like walking or yoga help lympathic drainage in the pelvis and translates to less period pain when the time comes around.
article_snippet.sent: When we’re stressed we make less of the hormone progesterone that prevents period pain so the happier and less stressed you are during the month, the more you prevent period pain occurring.
article_snippet.sent: I think periods are still an unnecessary taboo subject - especially when half the population has half the population,' says Naturopathic doctor Lara Briden.