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7 Things That Interfere And Mess With Your Period

It sure would be great if there was no delay in your period, isn't it -- planning things including vacations and routines would become so much more easier. Missed periods is a common phenomenon that most women face. As such, there are numerous things that can interfere with and affect your periods. In this article, we go about discussing these things that can mess with your period.

The kind of lifestyle you adopt and the food you eat are the two most prominent things that interfere with your period. So let us go about looking at these lifestyle habits and foods that can affect periods.

Here are 7 things that affect your period. Read on...

Rigorous Exercise

Rigorous Exercise

This sure is no myth. Women sports persons often have missed periods for this very reason. Rigorous exercise can put pressure on your body and delay the produce of reproductive organs in your body.

Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drugs

If you are administered prescription drugs, there is a high probability of missed periods. Prescription drugs alter hormonal secretions in the body, there by causing problems with periods in women.

Stress

Stress

Excess stress can be a detriment to normal periods in women. Stress messes with proper functioning of hormones, thereby affecting your period.

Irregular Sleep Patterns

Irregular Sleep Patterns

Irregular sleep can mess with hormone secretion and working of key glands. Irregular sleep patterns include both over sleeping as well as under-sleeping.

Being Overweight

Being Overweight

Obesity and being overweight is another factor that can mess with your period. High body fat results in high levels of estrogen, disallowing your ovaries from releasing the egg. Obesity is a very prominent factor that affects periods in women.

Contraceptive Pills

Contraceptive Pills

People take birth control pills to have normal periods but it takes the body longer than you think to adjust. Contraceptives can interfere with your periods.

Underweight

Underweight

In the case of being underweight, the body fails to produce enough estrogen- just the opposite of what happens in the case of overweight and obese women. Low estrogen levels can delay your period.

Story first published: Monday, October 6, 2014, 17:28 [IST]
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