19/11/2025
“If PMS turns you into someone you don’t recognize…read this” 🌸
PMS isn’t “moodiness.” It’s neuroendocrinology.
To calm your brain, in the luteal phase your body relies on a hormone called progesterone, which your brain converts into allopregnanolone -a neurosteroid that enhances GABA, your main calming neurotransmitter.
GABA helps regulate anxiety, emotional stability, sleep, and stress resilience especially in the last phase of your cycle. 🌸
But here’s the part almost no one is taught:
1️⃣ You must ovulate to make enough progesterone.
Ovulation isn’t just about fertility -it’s a neuroscience event.
After you ovulate, the corpus luteum produces a surge of progesterone.
If ovulation is weak or doesn’t happen, progesterone stays low → allopregnanolone stays low → GABA signaling weakens.
This can be the the root of:
• PMS anxiety
• irritability
• overwhelm
• crying spells
• sleep disruption
• “I don’t feel like myself”
Your brain literally has less access to its calming chemical. 🤍
2️⃣ Stress can “steal” progesterone and worsen PMS.
Chronic stress pushes your body to prioritize cortisol over reproductive hormones.
This can:
• shorten the luteal phase
• weaken ovulation
• reduce progesterone output
• lower allopregnanolone
• disrupt GABA activity
When stress is high, your brain loses its natural calming buffer.
PMS becomes louder, sharper, harder to cope with.
3️⃣ The real takeaway
PMS isn’t a personality flaw -it’s a hormone + brain chemistry shift.
To feel better, you need:
• healthy ovulation
• stable progesterone
• reduced physiological stress
• supported GABA pathways
Your symptoms make sense.
Your body is talking.
And nothing about this is “in your head.” 🌸
Link in bio to book- let’s find out why this PMS is happening! ✨
