Article: PMS: hints of a link to lunchtime and zinc. (premenstrual syndrome)

PMS: Hints of a link to lunchtime and zinc

Many women suffer from crying jags, eating binges, anxiety, bloating and other premenstrual symptoms that can disrupt some aspect of their professional and personal lives for a few days each month. At one time, physicians widely considered such symptoms psychosomatic, but accumulating evidence now points toward out-of-kilter hormone levels as the cause. Last week, endocrinologists from Texas reported the first data suggesting that zinc may play a role in premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and a group from Kentucky described an after-lunch progesterone plunge that might help explain some PMS symptoms.

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