Can I eat maple syrup during my period?

Can you eat maple syrup during menstruation? In fact, many women don’t know the answer to this question. Not to mention whether they have ever eaten maple syrup, even if they have, they usually don’t think about this aspect, so under normal circumstances, they are not clear about this issue. However, this problem will often affect one's physical health, so it is necessary to understand the key to this problem clearly.

Speaking of maple syrup, there are actually very few people who know about it, because this kind of food is not originally from China. It is mainly a specialty of Canada, so for most of us in China, we generally don’t get to eat maple syrup. And the body of women during menstruation is very special.

So let’s talk about whether you can eat maple syrup during menstruation?

It is best not to eat sugar during menstruation, otherwise it will be bad for your health. You should pay more attention to this. A common feature of various sweet foods is that they are high in sugar content. Relevant studies have pointed out that sugar will affect the body's absorption and metabolism of vitamins and minerals. These two ingredients can relieve muscle tension and make uterine contractions less intense, and they are effective in relieving dysmenorrhea. For this reason, girls should indeed reduce their sugar intake during their period.

But it must be mentioned that carbohydrate intake increases the level of a neurotransmitter called serotonin, also known as 5-HT, in the body. Studies have shown that serotonin does have a certain effect in relieving PMS. It seems that the legendary saying that "eating sweets can relieve symptoms such as irritability caused by premenstrual syndrome and improve your mood" does make sense. But while PMS is relieved, dysmenorrhea does not receive the same treatment. Serotonin promotes the synthesis of prostaglandin PGE2, which is the real culprit of dysmenorrhea. It seems that sugar has both positive and negative effects on menstruation, and it is difficult to simply say whether it is good or bad.

In the past, many people believed that eating sweets could improve menstrual discomfort, so brown sugar, sweet biscuits or chocolate have almost become "regular medicines" for women during menstruation. It is now believed that eating high-sugar sweets will cause blood sugar to rise rapidly, which does have the effect of stabilizing mood. However, once blood sugar drops, it will cause a greater gap and emotions will become unstable. According to a British magazine, deliberately eating sweets during menstruation will not only fail to improve menstrual discomfort symptoms, but may affect the balance of hormones in the body due to unstable blood sugar, and aggravate the feeling of discomfort.

Therefore, women who are menstruating should not eat maple syrup, because sugar itself is one of the taboos during menstruation. The main reason why you cannot eat sugar or sweets during menstruation is that eating sweets during menstruation will affect women's mood, thereby causing some discomfort in the body. Therefore, our female friends should remember not to eat sugar during their future menstrual periods.