HTMA for Severe PMS/PMDD: What We Can See in 90 Days of Your Mineral Story

A deeper look at why your symptoms are not random, not “just hormones,” and not something you’re meant to endure.

If your luteal phase feels like a different version of you — your body is trying to tell you something.

For many women, severe PMS or PMDD isn’t simply “a bad week.”
It’s a complete derailment of who they normally are.

You’re calm most of the month…
then suddenly irritated by everything.
You’re competent, smart, capable…
then suddenly you can’t think straight.
You love your family deeply…
then suddenly every noise or request feels like too much.

And the worst part?
You start questioning yourself.

“Why am I like this?”
“Why can’t I cope?”
“Is this just who I am now?”

You’ve probably tried supplements.
Clean eating.
Therapy.
Cycle tracking apps.
Blood tests that come back “normal.”

Yet the same storm arrives every month.

This is where HTMA changes the entire conversation.

The Truth: Severe PMS/PMDD is Often a Mineral Pattern — Not a Personality Problem.

Your hormones don’t operate in isolation.

They respond to:

• Your stress load

• Your mineral reserves

• Your adrenal function

• Your blood sugar stability

• Your thyroid

• Your nervous system

• The micronutrients that allow hormones to be made, processed, and cleared

When your mineral foundation is imbalanced — your hormones can’t regulate themselves properly.

This is why severe PMS/PMDD often feels like it comes out of nowhere…
but in reality, the underlying patterns have been building for months or years.

HTMA gives us a real timeline — your last 90 days — and shows us exactly what your body has been trying to tell you.

What HTMA Actually Shows (That Blood Tests Usually Miss)

A Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis looks at mineral trends over 8–12 weeks — not a single snapshot in time.

It reveals:

1. Adrenal Patterns (the root of “I can’t cope” feelings)

• High cortisol patterns (wired, reactive, edgy)

• Low cortisol patterns (flat, exhausted, emotionally fragile)

• Mixed patterns — very common in PMDD

Your adrenal rhythm is deeply connected to:

• Progesterone stability

• Irritability

• Sleep

• Emotional resilience

• PMS anxiety and intrusive thoughts

If your adrenal pattern is off, the luteal phase becomes unbearable.

2. Copper & Zinc Ratio (the emotional seesaw)

This ratio tells us about:

• Estrogen balance

• Mood regulation

• Irritability

• Anger spikes

• Motivation

• Dopamine & serotonin pathways

Women with severe PMS/PMDD often show:

• High copper → emotional overwhelm, anxiety, estrogen dominance symptoms

• Low zinc → low mood, poor stress tolerance, difficulty calming down

This ratio alone can explain why the luteal phase feels like a switch is flipped.

3. Magnesium Status (your nervous system’s “calm” mineral)

Most women with severe PMS/PMDD are magnesium depleted — even if they supplement.

Low magnesium =

• tension

• irritability

• cramping

• sleep issues

• feeling overstimulated

• heavy emotions

HTMA shows:

• whether magnesium is low inside the cell

• whether you’re burning through it too quickly

• whether your body can even hold on to magnesium

This is vital for understanding mood swings.

4. Sodium & Potassium (your inner battery pack)

These two minerals determine:

• resilience vs shutdown

• emotional bandwidth

• how quickly you get overwhelmed

• your ability to wake up with energy

Low ratios often show up as:

• feeling easily triggered

• low tolerance for stress

• emotional crashes

• fatigue in the luteal phase

HTMA reveals how “charged” or depleted your system actually is.

5. Calcium Shell Patterns (the armour your body builds)

A very specific HTMA pattern called a calcium shell can appear in women who have:

• chronic stress

• trauma history

• emotional burnout

• long-standing overwhelm

It’s the body’s biological armour — shutting down emotions to survive.

But during the luteal phase?
The shell cracks, and everything floods out at once.

This is often misdiagnosed as PMDD, when the real root is emotional + mineral shutdown.

6. Hidden Heavy Metals (that block hormone pathways)

HTMA can reveal metals such as:

• copper toxicity

• lead

• mercury

• cadmium

These can disrupt:

• estrogen clearance

• thyroid function

• progesterone production

• mood regulation pathways

Even low-grade toxicity can provoke severe cyclical symptoms.

The Most Important Thing HTMA Shows: Your Capacity.

When your mineral base is strong → your hormones, mood, focus, and nervous system all stabilise.

When the mineral base is weak → your body simply doesn’t have the internal resources to manage hormonal shifts — especially the steep drop in progesterone before your period.

HTMA reveals:

• Why your mood drops

• Why you feel like a different person

• Why your reactions are bigger than you want

• Why the week before your period feels impossible

And, most importantly — what your body needs to feel balanced again.

What We Can See in 90 Days of Your Mineral Story

In just a single HTMA test, we can uncover:

✔ Whether your luteal mood symptoms are cortisol-driven, mineral-driven, or progesterone-driven
✔ Which mineral ratios are creating overwhelm, irritability, or low mood
✔ Whether your body is in burnout, overdrive, or switching between the two
✔ How well your body manages stress vs stores stress
✔ Why your energy crashes before your period
✔ Whether emotional symptoms are biochemical, adrenal, nervous-system related — or a combination
✔ What nutrients your body is begging for
✔ What’s blocking your hormones from stabilising
✔ And exactly what your body needs to rebuild balance

For many women, HTMA is the first time their symptoms make sense.

Why Severe PMS/PMDD Needs a Different Approach

If you have severe PMS or PMDD, you don’t need to be told:

“Try yoga.”
“Take magnesium.”
“Go on the pill.”
“Your tests are normal.”
“It’s just your hormones.”

You need to understand why your body is reacting so strongly — and how to calm the system beneath the symptoms.

HTMA gives you the map.

Once You Know the Pattern — You Can Change the Pattern.

With the right insights, you can begin to:

• stabilise your mood

• rebuild your nutrient reserves

• support progesterone naturally

• calm the nervous system

• reduce inflammation

• regulate blood sugar

• strengthen your stress resilience

• create smoother, steadier cycles

You can move from:
“I dread this week every month” → “My cycle feels predictable, manageable, and supportive.”

From:
“I feel hijacked by my hormones” → “My body finally feels like mine again.”

From:
surviving each month → living your life with clarity and confidence.

If PMS or PMDD feels like it’s running your life — it’s time to read your body’s mineral story.

And once you do?
You’ll understand that none of this was your fault.
Your body has been asking for help — and now you’ll know exactly where to begin.

Not sure where to begin?
Start with The Mineral Map — your foundational mineral analysis + 60-minute consultation.
And if you choose to continue, you can easily upgrade into the full Peaceful Periods Programme.

👉 Book The Mineral Map
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