Have periods always been debilitating? Or is it because nowadays all the hormones that are in food disrupting our body's endocrine balance? Purely anecdotal but my mother and grandmother would tell me how in their time periods weren't this gut wrenchingly awful.

personally when I was a vegetarian for two years I rarely had pain or mood changes on my period. I started back eating meat in September and now I’m curled up in bed almost every time I get it now.