Written By: Tania Tarafdar | Published : February 16, 2017 3:46 PM IST
Apart from helping you drop kilos and look sensational in your clothes, exercise can keep you healthy in many ways. Exercise can keep your heart healthy, improve your skin and also ease menstrual cramps. While moderate physical activity is okay, did you know that overdoing your exercise can mess with your periods? Menstruation is controlled by your body s regulation, and production of hormones and exercising puts physical demands on your body that affects your hormonal levels and messes with your periods. Gynaecologist Dr Arundhati Dhar tells you how.
If you are working out excessively and have a lower BMI, your body can go into a rescue mode. Exercising requires tonnes of energy which can make your body shut down some basic functions to keep up with the energy lost during exercise. Not getting enough fuel for workouts and shrinking mineral bone density halts menstruation. Exertion due to participation in sports that involve excessive exercise or extreme physical and mental stress or a combination of all these factors can lead to missing periods or primary amenorrhea in young girls. However, excessive exercising is not the only thing that can cause a missing period. If you have missed your periods, here are 15 other causes of missed periods or amenorrhea.
Tips
If your missing periods are accompanied by fatigue and faltering workout performance, you can use a fitness app like MyFitnessPal to ensure that your exercise output does not exceed your food intake. The good news is that when you get adequate nutrition in your diet and not expend too much energy on exercise, your period cycle comes back to normal. However, sometimes medical intervention becomes necessary to treat this kind of a condition as it needs proper evaluation. Prolonged amenorrhea can also lead to loss of calcium from your bones which in turn can result in osteoporosis and fractured bones. Here are some natural remedies to regularise delayed periods.
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