Interesting Things You Didn't Know About The Female Body

There are actually many proven differences between men and women. Many people think of these in terms of behavior, but there are also many interesting ways women’s bodies react. Following are some of the most surprising facts about the female body.

Some Women See More Colors

The gene that allows for the perception of the color red is found on the X chromosome. When women have a mutation of this gene on one of their chromosomes, it enhances one’s ability to see a wide spectrum of hues of this color. This is believed to have developed as a way to distinguish between insects, berries and foliage, but the modern woman usually uses it when buying sundresses.

Women Use Twice As Much Brain Power

Scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine used MRIs to monitor the brain activity of men and women listening to passages from a novel. The brain activity of men appeared almost exclusively on the left side of the brain associated with speech and listening, but women also showed activity on the right side of the brain associated with creativity.

Estrogen Affects Dental Health
Surges in estrogen can cause gums to swell, and this can increase a woman’s chances of developing gingivitis. It is important for pregnant women to have dental exams and cleanings as frequently as every three months. Estrogen also makes dry sockets more likely, so women needing extractions should schedule them during the last week of the menstrual cycle for the lowest estrogen levels.

The Female Face Photographs Better
Women have skin that starts to age faster at middle age, but men still tend to look older in general. This is due to the fact that women usually have more supple skin along with the fact that men constantly shave and apply aftershave. Higher levels of testosterone also tend to make skin look oily.

Women Are More Wary
Carnegie Mellon researchers have evidence that aversion to dangerous (or just creepy) creatures may be stronger in females from the time of birth. They showed infants photos of spiders and human beings. Female babies tended to spend more time looking at people compared to looking at spiders, but male babies spent an equal time on both. The theory is that women evolved to be more wary of dangerous creatures in order to better protect their children.

There’s a Reason Women Need Their Own Bathrooms
The lower portion of the colon (known as the sigmoid) is often longer in women. Combine this with the reproductive organs of the female, and it results in more digestive components tucked in a smaller space. The system of a woman has less room to expand when plagued by excess gas or food, so females are more likely to experience gastrointestinal distress.

Free Waxing?
The hair “down there” tends to remove itself after a little less than a month. This is nothing compared to hair on the head that can last for as long as seven years.

Intuition in the Nose
Researchers have shown that women of childbearing age can pick up familiar scents even at very low levels. Women can also tell when their partner is feeling stressed out just by sniffing their shirt.

Cancel That Drinking Competition
Women produce less of the enzyme that breaks down ethanol in the stomach. When drinking the same amount of alcohol as men, women have a higher blood alcohol level even when controlling size differences. There is also less water to dilute the alcohol, and this makes the negative effects much stronger.

You’re Not Overly-Emotional… Your Body Is
Adult females cry around 5.3 times per month compared to the 1.4 times for men. It has been shown that women have tear glands that are built differently to those of men, and this allows women to cry more easily. The hormone prolactin regulates the development of tear glands, and women have up to 50 percent more of it by the age of 18.

The Pain Threshold
When men and women suffer from the same health conditions, women actually suffer more. It has been shown that women feel pain more intensely than men. The solace is that high levels of estrogen can trigger the body’s ability to reduce pain, but it can produce a more intense response whenever estrogen levels drop.

He Cheated, She Stayed: One Woman's True Story of Getting Over Infidelity Part 2(final)

I tried to downplay what a chump I'd been for not seeing this coming. When I told one friend about Sam's infidelity, I said, "I know it's not like he's literally the last person on Earth you'd expect to have an affair...."

"Nope," she cut me off, "he pretty much is."

And honestly? I'd thought so, too. I fell in love with Sam with the kind of total trust and joy a child feels when she jumps off a table into a grown-up's arms. I knew with utter certainty that he would catch me.

After we got engaged, he asked me to promise that if I were ever tempted to cheat on him, I'd come to him first and tell him, so we could address whatever part of our relationship had gone awry and was making me crave attention elsewhere. I laughed, because it seemed like such a ridiculously hopeful request. And then I gave him my word. Did I ask him to promise me the same thing? Of course not. It never even occurred to me. Sam's cheating on me was inconceivable.

What is the difference between trusting someone and taking them for granted? I think I fell into that gap. I felt so safe with Sam that it was almost an insult. If you'd stopped me on the street any time during the past five years and asked what was the single thing I loved most about my marriage, I'd have said, "That's easy: trust."

I had grown less in love with Sam than with the security I felt from him.

While it was happening, of course, I wasn't aware of any of this. I knew we were a little off, but I told myself it was just a passing phase, a rough patch on the long road of married life.

Besides, Sam and I went to great lengths to take care of our relationship. Even during the years when he was cheating, we went out on date nights every week (except when he was traveling for work—or for "work"). Every Thursday, as I stood before the mirror putting on eyeliner and brushing my hair, the children would mewl and cling to me like kittens. "Why do you have to go out with Daddy again?"

I would stop what I was doing and gather them around me and explain that our family was a wonderful, precious thing, and that my relationship with their father was at the heart of it. We had to keep our relationship strong for the whole family to be strong.

And sometimes, a few hours later, when Sam and I finished dinner (we never went to movies or shows; we always preferred to talk) and the bill came and we balked at the cost, one of us would offer up what had become a standing joke between us: "Well, at least it's cheaper than couples therapy." Ha ha. (Ask me, when all this is over, how much we've spent on therapy, individual and group and couples. It will be in the tens of thousands.)

And sometimes we'd have a fight, and after it was over we'd congratulate ourselves on the way we fought things through, really aired them and resolved them, didn't let them fester. We agreed that one of the strengths of our marriage was that we fought so well.

The idea that Sam had sat there, echoing all these preening verdicts about our marriage while he was screwing Daphne on the side, walloped me one day, many months after his confession. This kind of thing happened a lot: Some out-of-the-blue realization—some piece of the puzzle I'd somehow missed—would, out of nowhere, just stun me. Each time this happened, I went spiraling down into a three- or four-day depression. After a while, it occurred to me that maybe my mind was parceling out the pain, because I never could have handled it all at once.


Yet interspersed with the dark whirlpools were small, sparkling moments when I would remember why I loved my tall and handsome husband—and why I liked him, too: his intelligence and sincerity, his patience and humor, the pleasure I took in his easy company, day to day.

And so, after some of my anger had dissipated, I began to take a long, hard look at myself. I had to admit that I was partly to blame, not for Sam's affair—that was his own stupid decision—but for the cloud of disappointment and annoyance that had become a permanent feature of our marriage. I had grown to resent him when our kids were babies—a time when his needs, even his love, felt to me like just one more tiresome burden.

Oh, I'd never stopped being generous and sweet to Sam in small ways, but deep down I had gradually divested myself of our marriage. Many years ago, I read in a magazine (Esquire, I think) that men care less about how their wives look than about how they look at them. In other words, our extra ten pounds matter far less than our critical, disappointed gaze. It had been a long time since I'd bothered to regard Sam adoringly. How could I when he neglected to call and tell me he'd be home late from work again? Or left his underwear in a wad behind the bathroom door again? Or was too busy to help when I prepared a dinner party for our friends...again? We were in a standoff—neither of us getting what we really needed, and neither of us willing to perform the first act of generosity. It felt easier—kinder, even (for the fight it avoided)—to give up, to just not care.

Of course, not caring is fine as long as you really don't care. But in our case, we actually did. A habitual mild bitterness, a casual scorn, became my default attitude toward Sam. He, meanwhile, was boiling with anger. He just didn't know what to do with it—until Daphne came along and offered him an outlet.
It is very hard to fall back in love with someone you know as well as you know a spouse after 12 years. You have none of the momentum of early love to propel you forward, and all the habits that drive you crazy to drag you down. But we both cared for our marriage enough to want to give it a chance, and to try our best not to damage it further. So we set some ground rules (which, okay, we broke fairly regularly): First, rather than blaming each other for what went wrong, we would each talk only about ourselves and how we felt—hurt, scared, unappreciated, whatever. Second, we would try to put aside our own anger sometimes and really listen to each other. And third, we'd spend as much time as we could not talking about the affair, but just talking—about the news, or our friends, or our crazy siblings. We'd go to concerts, and on hikes and bike rides with the kids. We'd cook together. We'd hold hands.

It's too soon for me to say how this will all turn out. There are still times when I am suddenly appalled to realize that I am married to a man who could do to me what Sam did. But here's the thing: Sam is appalled—and ashamed, too—and he was appalled and ashamed even when he was with Daphne.

Meanwhile, I do know this: Much as I am loath to admit that anything good could come out of his affair, our marriage now is, in important ways, often better than it ever was. Sam doesn't dismiss his anger in hopes that it will go away—and he's getting better at pinpointing some of the vulnerable feelings that the anger, like a guard dog, protects. And I've begun paying attention to the parts of him that I fell in love with 12 years ago, and that I never stopped loving, though I let them get buried beneath piles of laundry and dirty dishes. I even try to gaze at him adoringly, though sometimes it comes off more like a crooked grimace. "I'm trying!" I tell him.

A few weeks ago, I came across the push-up bra in the back of my closet. It embarrassed me—so emphatic, so blatant, more like a prosthetic device than an article of clothing. Yet I couldn't bring myself to throw it away.

So I tried it on for Sam. And it turns out it still works, still makes my breasts look amazing. He liked it.

But then, in the middle of sex, I slipped away, unable to stop myself from wondering: Did he touch her like this? Were her breasts bigger than mine? What did he say when he walked through the door of the hotel room—at any of the 21 different hotels where they had sex?


Sam held me while I cried. Later he asked how long I thought it would take until I was over it, and I had to admit I had no idea. Forever maybe. Or tomorrow.

Then he did something for me that I wasn't able to do for myself. He pulled me out of that ugly, bleak chapter of the past—our past, now—and back into the just-fine present. He said, "I am with you now. I love you now. I want to make our marriage really good again, starting now."

I blew my nose, took a deep breath, and found myself in his arms—the arms of someone utterly familiar to me, and also completely new and unknown. Which, it turns out—even after all the shock, the hurt, the betrayal—is still where I most want to be.

From the April 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

He Cheated, She Stayed: One Woman's True Story of Getting Over Infidelity Part 1

What happened to her marriage made her come undone. Now, piece by piece, she's putting it all back together.

I have a black lace push-up bra left over from my days as a mistress. I was in my early 30s then, and fed up with relationships, fed up with falling for men who, the moment they noticed that I was sweet on them, would ask me to please stop liking them so much because it was making them feel claustrophobic.

Dating a married man who lived 3,000 miles away was different. To him, I represented the opposite of claustrophobia. I was freedom, excitement, possibility. To me, he was a kind of pause button in a dismal romantic life, and if I hadn't been feeling like such a misfit at dating I probably never would have gotten involved. I saw him maybe half a dozen times in five months. It never felt right—I worried more about his wife than he seemed to—and it was a relief to put an end to it when I met Sam (not his real name), the man who became my husband 12 years ago.

Sleeping with a married man taught me that an affair is mostly about carving out a little make-believe space in your life and then filling that space, helium-like, with passion. I also learned that sex occupies most of your hours together, and that preparing your body for sex occupies most of what's left of your free time. (I have never spent so long bathing and waxing, getting pedicures, and shopping for lingerie.) I learned that you regard someone differently when he is not a prospective mate; if he has an annoying habit—or an annoying personality, for that matter—so what? It's another woman's cross to bear. I learned that, in an affair, you are always on your second date, just about to fall in love, always witty and delightful and utterly uncomplicated.

It is tempting to romanticize that charmed bubble, especially when you compare it to the fatigue and frustration and bill-paying and child-disciplining and flinch-inducing touches and bad breath and underhanded jibes that fill the middle years of marriage. But an affair only briefly obscures the dark grief every spouse surely feels over the dwindling of marital love, while doing nothing to address what went amiss.

I knew all that, and I also knew (from People magazine if not from experience) that an affair can destroy a marriage. What I didn't know is that some marriages can withstand the damage. And that some might actually benefit from being broken open, because the breaking—however painful—opens the door to rebuilding something better.

It turns out that my marriage was—is—one of those.

In December 2008, nine days before Christmas, and barely four months after my husband, three small children, and I had moved to a new town where I knew not a single person, Sam came home from work, ate supper, sat me down on the sofa, and confessed that he had been having an affair for the past three years. I can still remember the way his face looked when he spoke those words—crumpled and terrified, it trembled and spasmed like a bird that has been hit by a car but is not yet dead.

Sam said the affair was completely over. He said he was deeply regretful, that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that all he really wanted was us—me, our three amazing kids, our life together. He promised that he would not communicate anymore with Daphne (not her real name, either), and that if she tried to reach him, he would let me know. He called it a big mistake. He called it a bad choice. But he also said that he had truly loved and admired Daphne, whom he met working on a long-term project on the other side of the continent. He said she was funny, smart, and ballsy. That she was married with two small children. (How small? They met when she'd just come back from maternity leave. She had actually introduced Sam to them, and to her husband. And to her parents.) Oh yes, and he also mentioned that they'd neglected to use any birth control whatsoever, either of them. Ever.

I was...oh, Christ, I don't know if there are words enough in the English language to describe what all I felt over the course of the next few weeks and months. I was hurt, shocked, heartbroken, furious, traumatized, upended, terrified. I felt betrayed, violent, suicidal, humiliated, and unutterably sad. I injured myself—by mistake a few times but also on purpose, like a teenager, with a knife, and with coals from the fire. I was half wild with insomnia. For weeks on end, I slept maybe two hours a night, and ate little more than a hard-boiled egg and a chocolate a day. (I had never in my life lost my appetite so completely; this, at least, felt like a gift.) My mouth was dry and I was always freezing cold, shivering. I drank huge amounts of vodka and never felt drunk, as if my fury were burning off the alcohol the moment it entered my bloodstream. During the day, after Sam went to work, I dug through everything of his; it was the only activity I had the will for. At night, while he slept, I searched his laptop, cut his favorite sweaters to pieces, poured nail polish on his shirts, then woke him up, shouting, flailing, sobbing.

And yet there was one thing I knew right away: I was not ready to get divorced. In part this was simply because I realized I was too distraught to make a sensible decision. If I kicked Sam out in a rage, I might take him back once I cooled off, only to banish him again a few weeks later when more bad feelings hit. I couldn't do that to our kids.

But I was also reacting to the fact that I did not know who Sam was anymore; the person who had cheated on me was completely foreign to me (and to himself, as it turned out). I needed to find out who I was actually married to now. And whoever that person was, I knew (in my rare lucid moments) that our marriage must have stopped working for him somewhere along the way, and that fixing it was something we could only undertake together. I still felt attached to Sam—married to him, in my most random thoughts and habits, in my very blood and bones—and it seemed better to go through this trial with him than on my own.

The year following Sam's confession was wretched. I felt as if I were living forward and backward at the same time, excavating details about the past—ours and theirs—as I tried to figure out what came next: How could I keep our family on an even keel, and what could I do to fix our marriage, and was it even worth the trouble?

Sam went into therapy. I went into therapy. Night after night, we talked. I raged and called him names; he let me. I asked him questions and he answered, and although some of his replies will torment me forever (like, yes, they had sex in the bed in which we conceived our children), the mere fact that he was willing to talk made me feel safer and more connected, reassured me that he wasn't placing his memory of Daphne in a little private treasure box and pocketing the key.

Equally important was his willingness to apologize. "I'm sorry" is a remarkably powerful phrase when it comes from the heart.

"You can just keep on saying that," I told him. "Over and over, whenever you feel it." And he did.

There were moments when I actually felt a weird tender pity for Sam, who had come to our marriage with less knowledge of himself and less experience of the opposite sex than I had, and who seemed to have gotten in over his head with Daphne.

Weirder still, I was frequently (freakishly, it felt) turned on—especially in those first couple of months—and though I kept insisting to Sam that it was just break-up sex we were having (in the laundry room, guest room, car), I could not for the life of me understand why I was attracted to the jerk, let alone having the best sex of my married life with him.

I write this because no one told me what it would be like. When I called my closest friends in the city where I'd lived for so long (a place that suddenly felt very far away; I was unbelievably lonely that entire year) and revealed to them what had happened, I always wound up asking them if they knew anyone—anyone—who had been through this and made it out the other side, anyone who'd survived an affair and come out happily married. Because I wanted to believe it was possible, and to know how it could be done. What was normal? Was there a road map? How long would it take? None of my friends seemed to know such a couple. Other marriages might have survived an affair, but no one was talking.










Second part coming tomorrow night....

Is He the One? Does He Love Me? Part 1

Love isn’t one grand gesture.


It’s a series of little gestures that last a lifetime.


Your man and you may truly be in love with each other.


But every now and then, especially when you’re feeling a little insecure or confused, your mind can’t help but helplessly wonder if he really loves you.


Feeling insecure occasionally is a part of experiencing love.


It’s natural and something all of us feel now and then.


But what matters is what your lover does to reassure you, and make you feel more loved.


When two people first fall in love and experience the high of infatuation, all either of you would want to do is please the other person or shower them with little acts of love and romance.


But as the infatuation starts to fade and steady love starts to set in, the same gestures you use to decipher love *infatuation* can’t be used anymore, not when love takes a truer and deeper form.


Your guy may buy you gifts or indulge in romantic gestures to please you and woo you, and they definitely work!


But to truly understand whether your man loves you, you need to keep an eye on the signs he gives away when he doesn’t realize it himself.


#1 He communicates. In a relationship, the more the couple talks, the better they understand each other. And if your guy does love you, he can’t help but talk about his feelings and his desires, and he’ll want to know everything about your life too. It’s the easiest way to connect and build a better relationship.


#2 He’s mesmerized by you. Do you ever catch him staring at you when you’re busy doing something else? That’s a clear sign that he can’t get enough of you! *and he’s definitely awed by you too*


#3 He bears it for you. A guy who really loves you likes seeing you happy. And he’d want to be involved in activities that make you happy even if he doesn’t enjoy it himself. Does he watch your favorite show with you even if he cribs or moans about it? Does he grumble about the dirt and the thorns while helping you weed your garden on a Sunday afternoon? It seems like he really loves you.


#4 Together time matters to him. He spends a lot of time with you, perhaps even more time than he spends with his friends. When your guy truly falls in love with you and sees you as a partner for life, even his closest buddies will take a backseat and he’d start spending more time with you.


#5 He tries hard to impress. He’s impressed you and he’s won you over. But if he loves you, he won’t just stop there. He’ll go out of his way to be nice to your friends and family so he can make a good impression on them, even if it’s only because he knows that’ll make you more happy.


#6 He bridges the personal space. Secrets are acceptable in a relationship, but when a guy falls hard for you, he’ll start to bridge the divide between his life and yours. He’d be okay with you knowing about his bank account details, a few of his passwords, or even if you answer his phone for him.


#7 He likes hugging you. Does your boyfriend hug you and hold you tightly occasionally, for no reason at all? He feels good when he hugs you because he’s in love with you. A good hug that lasts more than just a few seconds releases feel-good chemicals in your body, and even if your boyfriend doesn’t know this fact, his mind can feel it.


#8 Your thoughts are on his mind. He may have a busy life himself, but yet he makes it a point to remember all the big events in your life. And if you ever have something big to work on, he’s always around to help you or at least assist you.

#9 He’s changed his world. If a guy loves you, he’d change his habits and his lifestyle just to spend more time with you. He’d even be willing to miss a game or his favorite movie *and he won’t even whine about it* just to help you with a project or to listen to you when you have a shitty day!

#10 He flaunts you. A guy who’s not committed to you yet would avoid talking about you with good looking girls that he knows, especially his colleagues in his office or his hangout. But if he’s really serious about you, he’d flaunt you every time you come to meet him instead of trying to keep your presence discreet.

The man who loves you cannot imagine why he has never done it before.

Stay glued for more.... Part 2 coming next weekend, you wont want to miss it.

How do you get rid of period pain?

All those headaches and cramps you have every month – is there a way to either prevent them or get relief from them?

Lets Get To the Bottom Of This Together!

What about the tender, sore breasts and the distended abdomen from bloating? How do I deal with that? How do you get rid of the pain from constipation or from the weight gain and fluid retention when your ankles are swollen and you are miserable?

Do you have back pain? Diarrhea? Do you get depressed or over anxious during your cycle or are you one of the panic attack folks?

There are so many ways that you can suffer through your menstrual cycle that there must also be many way to get rid of period pain for good.

First let’s look at the menstrual cycle itself and where each type of pain shows up and how severe it is or can be. We will look at a few other cycle symptoms that are not pain but that can lead to excruciating pain.

Then we will look at the causes of each of these menstruation pains. Do you experience these pains before, during or after your period?

Are they from pms (Premenstrual syndrome)? When do you have chronic abdominal and stomach pain or really bad leg cramps?

Then what about those women who have very bad zits or extreme mood swings which can lead to those painful migraines.

Then we will look at ways to treat or remedy these episodes of painful menstrual cycles.

How can you deal with period pain naturally and quickly? What works fast? What can you do when you are at work?

What remedies work when you are at home?

We will give you all the help and all the tips you need to deal with all these symptoms and all these types of pain.

What remedies allow you to treat the pain naturally and quickly?

Can you do it without pills and without painkillers?

Can you cure the causes of this pain without taking tablets or without medicine?

Can the pain be alleviated for good? Are there home remedies that will do this?

Stages of the Menstrual Cycle

Premenstrual Stage – this is the one to two weeks prior to the start of the bleeding period. It is in this stage that all the pms symptoms begin. They might be slight and build to a crescendo in the next two stages but they start here. Mood swings, headaches and depression are particularly prevalent in this stage. Breast swelling and tenderness starts in this stage. Fluid retention can begin in this stage and last until the bleeding begins.

Follicular Stage – in this stage estrogen is produce in high quantities while the lining of the uterus in thickening in order to accept and hold the fertilized egg if need be. Eggs begin to mature in this stage and with the buildup of estrogen there is a hormonal imbalance that begins. All the symptoms of pms are in play in this stage. Bloating and cramping are particularly intense in this stage due to the buildup of the uterus and it begins to push on the pelvis and rectum. There are uterine contractions and spasms in this stage as well. Any symptom that began in the premenstrual stage will manifest stronger in this stage. This stage ends as ovulation begins.

Luteal Stage - In this stage the hormone progesterone is produced in the kind of quantities that estrogen we produced in the follicular stage. This progesterone starts to take over and push out the estrogen. You still have a hormonal imbalance but you don’t have as much because the real culprit is the estrogen. For instance the soreness of the breasts eases at this point. Ovulation is occurring in this stage and uncomfortable things like vomiting, nausea, constipation and diarrhea also happen here.

Period Stage this is the stage in which the menstrual bleeding or menses takes place. When the eggs are not fertilized they are shed along with the excess uterine lining, excess fluid and water and blood. The bloating ends in this stage along with any moodiness, depression, anxiety or panic attacks. Breast pain does return in this stage. All painful and uncomfortable symptoms taper off toward the end of this stage of the cycle.

Post Menstrual Stage – unfortunately some women experience some or all of the pms symptoms and issues in the week or two after their period ends and they stop bleeding.

Causes of Menstrual Cycle Pain

“According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 50 percent of menstruating women suffer from dysmenorrhea or painful periods.” (http://www.livestrong.com/article/279819-what-vitamins-are-good-for-period-pain/)

Headaches – it seems that the increase in progesterone and the imbalance between estrogen and progesterone is the cause of these headaches and migraines. The decrease in estrogen in the luteal stage causes a decrease in magnesium. This depletion of magnesium is the real cause of the headache.

Cramps – Abdominal and stomach cramps – these can be debilitating to the point of making a woman bed ridden during her cycle. Cramping is caused by spasms and contractions in the uterus and pelvis. The release of prostaglandins increases the intensity of those spasms and contractions.

Back pain - For many women lower back pain is excruciating during the menstrual cycle and some also have upper back pain. The culprit here might be prostaglandins again.

Remedies and Treatments

Medical Treatments

It would be nice to deal with this period pain without medicine, but if need be there are both over the counter (OTC) and prescription medications that can help. These include Pamprin and Midol made specifically to deal with pms and prescriptions NSAIDS (Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) and analgesics. 

Vitamins – 

Vitamin E: “According to Obgyn.net, a study was conducted on women who suffer with dysmenorrhea and found that after giving these women vitamin E supplements, 70 percent of the women tested experienced improvement in menstrual cramping after two cycles.” (http://www.livestrong.com/article/279819-what-vitamins-are-good-for-period-pain/) Vitamin E can block those pesky prostaglandins that can cause so much pain. Vitamin E needs to be taken at the very least 2 days before the cycle begins and three days after. 

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) “Vitamin B3 can also be helpful in combating menstrual cramps if taken every two to three hours when cramps begin. In a study stated on OBGYN.net, 88 percent of women noticed a decrease in menstrual cramping when taking this supplement. The recommended dose is 100 mg twice per day throughout the month, and 100 mg every two to three hours when experiencing menstrual cramps.” (http://www.livestrong.com/article/279819-what-vitamins-are-good-for-period-pain/)

Vitamin D is helpful in reducing inflammation that builds up during the menstrual cycle. Reducing the inflammation will reduce pain in the back and joints.

Natural Remedies without pills, painkillers, tablets or medicine

A lot of these remedies will help to reduce or prevent the menstrual pain without the use of pills, tablets or medicine.

Some of these herbs are in pill or tablet form however. 

Herbs there are a variety of herbs that help with menstrual cycle pain depending upon what type of pain it is and where it is. Many of these herbs can be used at home and at work so that women do not have to miss so much work time.

Dong quai is traditionally very effective at relieving pain from the menstrual cycle and especially joint pain. Dong quai is effective because it affects the life span and the production of estrogen. As we know estrogen causes most period pain.
Raspberry Leaf Tea is used to stop the contractions and spasms of the pelvis and uterus. This relieves the cramping pains.

Ginger is one of the most versatile herbs ever. In respect to period pain, ginger affects the release of prostaglandins which cause inflammations and pain.
Pycnogenol made from pine bark it is often used as a substitute for prescription analgesics.

Chaste berry is used almost exclusively for migraines and headaches as it is the most effective herb for this type of pain during the menstrual cycle.

Magnesium can act as a muscle relaxer for the uterus and can prevent spasms and cramping. It also helps to relieve headaches and fatigue during the menstrual cycle also.

Calcium reduces not only pain during menstruation but fatigue, depression and loss of appetite.

Lifestyle

There are several lifestyle issues you can pursue to ease the pain of pms and the menstrual cycle. There are just a few.

Yoga there are several advantages yoga that are helpful in pain reduction. Yoga offers the user exercise, stretching, relaxation time and meditation. All of these techniques can impact pain in a positive manner. 

Exercise is always a good remedy for pain. It takes your mind in a different direction, it stretches the muscles and tissues that might be cramping and causing the pain, and produces endorphins to make you feel better.

Sleep is a vital component to pain reduction. It is recommended that a woman who is inclined to a lot of menstrual cycle pain get more than 8 hours sleep a night in the week leading up to the start of her cycle.

Diet eating a well-rounded diet is also important to pain reduction.

So you can see there are a lot of ways to get rid of period pain. Every woman must decide for herself what the best choices are and what the best route is for her.

7 things to do when a guy doesn't like you

There are certain ways to act like a lady even when you have been rejected by a guy

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The worst thing a woman can do is to react obsessively to a guy who doesn't like. There are certain ways to act like a lady even when you have been rejected by a guy because he doesn't share the same feelings with you.

One sided crushes could be the worst thing ever, so how can a lady get herself out of that situation.

Kiley Coleman of Binoni lists a few tips on how to handle being rejected by a guy:


Ignore him: The most important rule when it comes to ways to react when he doesn't like you is to make sure you forget he exists. The worst thing you can do is try and talk to him. I'm not talking about that 3 day rule of no texting or calling, I mean a good amount of weeks. Girls always get this itch to text a guy something funny we've thought of, or a simple question, anything just to seem like it was okay to contact him, when really he knows what your true motive is. When we see the guys we like, we usually say hi and smile, and try and come up with a creative topic. Instead, go out of your way to not speak to him. If you have to, keep it really short, no more than 3 words. If he sees you are confident enough to be rejected and not become clingy, it will help paint his view of you different in his head. Best part is it may turn the tables around and create this chase! Because what guy can imagine a girl really getting over him that fast?


Don't be a flirt: If you are into a guy and he doesn't like you back, the worst thing you can do is flirt with him. All you are doing is making yourself more available to him, when your solution is to always become harder to get. Keep the body language to a minimum. That includes arm touching, turning anything he says into something sexual, and purposely trying to be around him. Rule on how to react when he doesn't like you, keep hands and feet away from boys at all times! There is a way to communicate with him in a monotone way just by staying neutral. You'll have no problem just by thinking of him as the creeper who is hitting on you when you go out.


Be cordial: This relates above to the two ways to react when he doesn't like you. There is a fine line between being a priss and being super sexual. The goal is you don't want him to think your emotional actions have any correlation between his zero feelings for you. If he says hello, say hello back. Think of being cordial as looking in a mirror. Whatever he does, you reciprocate the same way. That doesn't take away that ignoring him and not flirting are priorities. Just don't make the guy think, "Wow, she's so dramatic," because you purposely scuff him. When men see a female angry at them they think two things: crazy girl, and they don't want to deal with you.


Throw your guy friends in his face: Hard truth about men, ladies, is that the other views males have of you highly affect their opinion of you. The cycle of life with boys is that if one man finds a female attractive and tells another man, it creates an approval. The next thing you know the whole group of guys are talking about you. We all know men's basic instinct is competition, so when two or more are on the same page with a girl, the automatic "who will win" factor kicks in. When you first read this way to react when he doesn't like you, the assumption is to make your crush jealous. But really it is for him to see you are wanted and approved by other men. Even if your crush doesn't know it, his natural caveman instincts react.


Make yourself feel good: Girls, of course no one likes to feel rejected. Our first thought is to jump to "I am not enough." Instead of putting all your attention into feeling sorry for yourself and changing who you are to be liked, focus on enjoying your womanhood. If a guy doesn't like you it usually has to do with his own stuff, unless you are "that crazy girl" I mention often in my articles. Go for a massage, a manicure/pedicure, even a nice hike for some fresh air. If you feel like crying, throw on A Walk To Remember and grab a bowl a popcorn. Anything to take your mind off that boy, and put it onto yourself in a positive light.


Stop trying and accept it: There comes a point in our lives where we feel we will never get over that certain person. From experience, you do finally move on. If you are dwelling over the same crush for months on end, just give it up. It's a hard truth but sometimes you need to stop trying and accept the fact he doesn't like you. Why spend all your time going after and obsessing about someone, who isn't into you? All that energy can be focused on you, your friends, work, life, etc. The more you try and focus on something, the bigger it gets in a negative way. A lot of times letting go of the obsession creates a freedom, and a gift. The gift can come in different ways, like now that you are not fawning over this boy, you became more appealing to him. Or because you stopped spending your time focused on him, you opened your eyes up to see all the other men that are available to you. This is the toughest way to react when he doesn't like you.


Go party it up: Last but not least, go have fun! How are you suppose to have the opportunity for someone to come find you if you are stuck isolating and upset over a boy? Having a social life is the best way to react when he doesn't like you. Your social media walls will be blowing up with hot pics, and fun stories of the great nights you have been having out. This could make that boy realize you are someone he wants to go hang with, or better yet you might have found a new guy that is actually interested in you! So go throw on some heels and call up your girlfriends to have a night of fun!

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