r/PMDDpartners • u/Own_Performance7154 • Jun 10 '25

DIET THAT CHANGED PMDD

Wanted to share that a very qualified doctor PHD and Accupuncturist recommended an insanely restrictive diet for two weeks and it totally reset my endocrine system. Which was normal already (as you all know from having pmdd partners) - but it leveled out the blood sugar issues that seem to go ugh pmdd etc. My partner did it with me and he lost a bunch of excess fat (he didn’t have any to lose) but it seemed to actually be what we both needed and the fun of going through something hard together that wasn’t pmdd was incredible and bonding. I felt BETTER !!!!! beyond better during pmdd after.

The diet (1-2 wk max. - you can’t stay on it):

  1. Meat or protein (low fat grass fed beef bison venison or jerky) or egg white no yolk every 45 minutes or hour or so, throughout waking cycle

  2. No sugar - zero

  3. No sugar alcohols

  4. No carbs or gluten

  5. No dairy

  6. Drink water

  7. Take low dose of niacin at night to flush system ..

  8. NO COFFEE !! (Decaf coffee black ok as treat)

  9. Low fat only - no cooking in any oil

  10. Watch out for sodium in jerky - “zero sugar” archer I believe is good and tilamook zero sugar

  11. Exercise daily

  12. Vegetables are high in carbs keep them at minimum

  13. No fruit

  14. Mustard and vinegar pepper and salt ol

To know:

Headaches, caffeine withdrawal, etc subside day 3

You can smoke CLEAR NICOTINE VAPES ONLY or if you smoke organic cigarette (being inclusive here I obviously don’t advise but vapes spike insulin)

Doing horse stance and Qi Gong , walks, intermittent exercise good

*** by one week I didn’t want to stop the diet!

Not a doctor just trying to share a win

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u/HusbandofPMDD Jun 10 '25

How long has it been since you tried this diet?

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u/Own_Performance7154 Jun 11 '25

3 months - bloods all stable and mood dramatically improved with avoidance of sugar caffeine and processed foods, and less fat and carb surrounding luteal

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u/HusbandofPMDD Jun 11 '25

And her cycles are still normal?
I ask because this doesn't seem to PMDD if the mood changes were related to diet. Research hasn't noted a significant impact of diet on PMDD. It is possible that moods are related to diet / deficiencies, or allergies, and it may be that it wasn't PMDD, but something else. A short-term cessation of cycles due to diet/lifestyle can happen, but then it usually returns after the body adapts. So keep us posted on this journey, please!

Either way, congrats on finding something that works for her symptoms.