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Mood Swings and PMS Symptoms - What's the Scientific Reason?
Most women will report just in that pre-menstrual phase, so PMS, that they will get moods. Mood changes and that can be mood swings, feeling tearful, irritable. There's up to 150 different PMS symptoms that women report. And 90% of women do experience them, so they're a very real thing. But we don't really understand why because if you take a woman who has PMS and a woman who doesn't have PMS or a report mood changes, they have the same levels of hormones. So it's not the level of hormones, but it seems to be that the women who experience it are more sensitive to that drop in hormones