| Approximately ten days prior to menstruation, when | | | | The first day of menstruation your blood calcium takes |
| your ovaries are least active, your blood calcium drops | | | | a still greater nose dive, causing muscular cramps in |
| steadily and progressively. This results in premenstrual | | | | your emptying uterus and sometimes elsewhere in |
| tension, nervousness, headaches, insomnia, and mental | | | | your body. |
| depression. | | | | Should your blood calcium drop dangerously low, |
| Because the decreased blood calcium acts as a | | | | convulsions can result. Yet, if adequate calcium is |
| stress, the production of certain hormones are | | | | obtained and efficiently absorbed, both premenstrual |
| stimulated and salt and water can be retained in your | | | | tension and menstrual cramps can be prevented. |
| body, often causing your breasts, hands, face, and feet | | | | Calcium gluconate is an excellent painkiller. It is far |
| to swell, weight to increase 5 - 10 pounds, headaches, | | | | better than morphine but without the side effects and |
| your resistance to allergies and infections to decrease | | | | addiction possibilities. |
| markedly. (Interesting point is that crimes of violence | | | | This being the case, imagine how much it could help |
| committed by women take place mostly during this | | | | reduce PMS and menopausal symptoms and still allow |
| period - which shows how badly some girls or women | | | | you to function. |
| are affected by PMS.) | | | | During menopause, the lack of ovarian hormones |
| The first day of menstruation your blood calcium takes | | | | causes severe calcium deficiency symptoms to occur. |
| a still greater nose dive. Because the decreased blood | | | | When this happens, large amounts of calcium should |
| calcium acts as a stress, the production of certain | | | | be taken, which will help reduce irritability, hot flashes, |
| hormones are stimulated and salt and water can be | | | | night sweats, leg cramps as well as mental depression. |
| retained in your body, often causing your breasts, | | | | Even after a woman no longer menstruates, there is |
| hands, face, and feet to swell, weight to increase 5 - | | | | often one week in a month when she might have a |
| 10 pounds, headaches, your resistance to allergies and | | | | pseudo-menstrual cycle and calcium-deficiency |
| infections to decrease markedly. (Interesting point is | | | | symptoms can be particularly noticeable at such times. |
| that crimes of violence committed by women take | | | | It would be wise to increase the calcium intake at such |
| place mostly during this period - which shows how | | | | a time. |
| badly some girls or women are affected by PMS.) | | | | |