Can exercising too much affect the menstrual cycle severly?
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Yes sometimes for the good
Yes, it can actually cause it to completely stop.
You need to have a little bit of fat in order to have a period. So people who are seriously underweight will not have them.
yes it can affect the menstrual cycle, but how severly it could be depends on how heavily you are exercising.
Yes.
If you exercise too much you can reduce your body fat to low.
Your body interpretates this in evolutionary terms that you are starving. It therefore "shuts down"
-by not having a period you retain iron
by not ovulating you cannot become pregnant-nature does not want you to become pregnant when you are facing starvation
If this is the case with you
reduce your exercise
eat healthily -meat/fish/fruit/veg
regain your weight and body fat and you will start menstruating and ovulating
Nature then thinks that the starvation is over
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