Caffeine is a vasoconstrictor and constricts your blood vessels making your blood pressure go up, giving you that more awake feeling. If you drink too much coffee, it can be bad news for your period because it can worsen cramp pain and raise tension levels. This doesn’t mean you have to stop drinking coffee completely.
Try to just stick to one cup of coffee per day. Having excessive coffee can cause vasoconstriction- the narrowing of blood vessels, which can worsen your cramps during period. It can also increase discomfort and bloating. Your blood sugar fluctuates a lot when you are menstruating.
The oils and acids in coffee can irritate and flare up your intestines causing cramps and diarrhea. If you have a sensitive tummy, you may want to avoid coffee on your worst period days.
Coffee depletes vital vitamins and minerals needed for ovulation and healthy fertility (including absolutely necessary B vitamins and folate) and coffee’s acidity causes gut health problems One more Reason – Caffeine depletes the body of micronutrients essential for hormone balance
The resulting coffee beans require more human labor, at least in the example above, to fully dry them over a period of three weeks. Further machine sorting and processing takes place before the beans reach a panel of experts who determine their quality and give them a grade. More hands load the coffee beans onto container ships, unload them …
· Coffee prices have reached a 10-year high, and analysts expect tightness in the market to continue all the way into 2023. Coffee contracts for December delivery ended Monday’s trading session at …
· [UPDATE 05 Jan 2022] A few days after I published this post, Philip Magowan, a PhD candidate at University of Cambridge reached out.His research focus is on the coffee production in Kenya during the colonial period, and reading through his (unpublished) dissertation, the historical record establishes that the inequity in Kenya’s coffee production …
· There are a number of environmental concerns about coffee roasting. Along with the carbon emissions and other hazardous gases released as a byproduct of the fuel combustion in the roaster, coffee roasting also generates smoke and other harmful particulates. These emissions can be dangerous for those operating or working near the roaster, as …
· Finding more good news for coffee drinkers, the study took data from more than 30,000 participants who had a cardiac MRI at some point during an 11-year mean follow-up period. “The imaging analysis indicated that compared with participants who did not drink coffee regularly, daily consumers had healthier sized and better functioning hearts …
· As Nadya Okamoto discusses in her book, Period Power, the stigma has led to the belief that periods make people incapable, emotionally out-of-control, and an annoyance for men, as well as the cause of a menstruator’s bad mood and problems in the bedroom (not likely, bud). For centuries people with periods have been made to feel weak, ashamed …
· As a vital sign, body temperature helps medical professionals determine if a patient is experiencing any health problems. All vital signs—body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure—can be measured in the hospital, at home, or any place where proper equipment is available. The thermometer, a device we are introduced to as infants and use …
