ENDORPHINS, MENSTRUATION

AND SPORT
 INDEX

1. What are endorphins?

2. Which is their function?
3. The endorphins and sport.
4. The period and the endorphins.
5. The menstruation.
6. The period and sport.
7. Sport’s benefits during menstruation.
8. Final summary.
 WHAT ARE ENDORPHINS?

• They are hormons created by our brain.

• They increase runing,walking,listen to music…

 WHICH ARE THEIR FUNCTIONS?
• Improve the mood. ·Reduce blood pressure

• Reduce the pain. ·Make more powerful the inmere system

• Postpone the age. ·Reduce high levels of adrenalin

by the anxiety

They also are called: «Happy hormons»

 THE ENDORPHINS AND SPORT

• Aerobic activities like run, swim, ride a bike,

walk…, increase the level of them.
• Level of endorphins in men after do exercise=
level of endorphins in women after do the
same exercise.
 THE PERIOD AND THE
ENDORPHINS
• Estrogens: make grow secundary sexual
female characteristics like growth of breasts.

• They increase the level of endorphins.

 THE MENSTRUATION
• Is a part of the female reproductive cycle. It has got 4 stages:

1. FOLLICULAR OR POST-MENSTRUAL STAGE: from 1st day to 13th day of

each cycle.

2. OVULATION: 14th and 15th days of each cycle.

3. PRE-MENSTRUAL STAGE: from 16th day to 28th day.

4. MENSTRUATION: from 28th day to 1st day of each cycle.

1st to 13th 14th and 15th 16th to 28th 28th to 1st

days days days days
Follicular Ovulation Pre-menstrual Menstruation
stage stage
 THE PERIOD AND SPORT

Don’t stay in your house, go out to do sport!

You’ll feel better.
 SPORT’S BENEFITS DURING
MENSTRUATION
• RETENTION OF LIQUIDS: We acumulate less litres of water
doing exercise.

• STRESS: Stress cause more pain but doing exercise we reduce

it.

• PAIN TOLERANCE: Planned training increase the resistance

for the pain.
 FINAL SUMMARY

THERE ARE NOT EVIDENCES FOR GIVE UP THE

PRACTISE OF SPORT DURING ANY STAGE OF
MENSTRUAL CYCLE.
I HOPE YOU LEARN
SOMETHING NEW
By: Andrea Baltanás Palomar.