Why do women have mood swings during their period?
Male hormone levels change throughout the day– higher levels in the morning (that’s why many men wake up with, um, morning wood.) Males have fewer than 10 different ‘sex’ hormones. Their high range is roughly 2-3 times their low range. This range is pretty much the same, day after day after day for years. High in the morning, lower in the evening; high in the morning, lower in the evening… Female hormones range up and down over the course of their cycle — different hormone levels rise and fall throughout the month. The high range of some of these is roughly 5 times the low range and the change can happen within just a span of a few hours. So literally, one minute you are fine, then hormones kick in and within a couple of hours, that hormone is RAGING throughout a woman’s body. A day or so later, that same hormone is back to a more ‘sane’ level. These dramatic hormone swings affect our moods. (FYI, during pregnancy, some of these same hormone levels can multiply by the THOUSANDS, so
