Natural Help With Menopause...
To know menopaus better , Lets start with an understanding of the Woman's
sexual health
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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause:
When a Baby girl is born she already has all the eggs she will ever produce in
her life time. These are in the form of between 1 - 2.5 million premature egg
cells called Oocytes stored in her body. She reaches adolescence or puberty
between the ages of 9-16 years and starts experiencing hormonal and sexual
changes. During this time, every month several of the Oocytes start
development to form an egg however only one usually reaches maturity into
a full egg, which is then passed out as bleeding during menstruation. Initially the periods
may be irregular... ranging between 2 periods a month to once every two or three
months. However within a short time, the pattern quickly settles into a
regular 28 - 30 days cycle every month.
Hence the quantity of the premature egg cells or oocytes keeps diminishing every
month. Also external influences such as pollution, stress, quality of
food, exercise, health , smoking, alcohol and drug abuse can all impact the
quality and viability of these premature egg cells.
In fact A women's menstrual cycle is affected by external influences such
as nutrition, sickness, stress levels, environmental changes, pollution, even
the thoughts in her mind. Hence it is quite common for girls to miss periods a
certain month due to changes such as travelling, or if they are experiencing
eating problems, low weight, stress etc. In fact the onset of puberty itself can
be expedited or delayed by the nutrition levels and life style of the girl
child.
Hence with time, the quality and quantity of the premature egg cells in the
women's body keeps diminishing and there are less and less of them left to
mature into healthy eggs. That's why Doctor's frequently advice against
pregnancies after the age of 35 years, because a lot of problems have been
experienced in fetal development at this stage due to the quality of the
mother's eggs.
Also around the age of 45-50 years, the woman is reaching the stage of menopause in her life,
where due to age her natural sexual processes are slowing down. There is now
less hormone around to aid in the maturity of her remaining egg cells. As
well as less egg cells left to be able to reach maturity. This combination of
less hormones and less eggs affects her monthly flow. The volume reduces. The
duration between menstruation increases ultimately to stop completely.
Menopause Help - Dealing With menopause
Of course the period of menopause is not as simple as cessation of
bleeding .
With the slowing down of the sexual process, and less hormone in the body, this
impacts other systems of the female body as well and Other symptoms start
showing up. Menopause can be a physically and emotionally harrowing time for the
woman. She has got to learn to live with the menopausal changes and manage
them as best as she can. There is no other solution to prevent, delay or avoid
this period of her life cycle. Though of course treatments for the signs and
symptoms of menopause do exist; also practical menopause management techniques
are available to help in dealing with menopausal symptoms.
One of the greatest challenges that a woman has to face in coping with menopause
is stress. She is already an emotional wreck considering that she is undergoing
a major change in her life -- she is officially becoming 'old' as the saying
goes. In fact the stress and emotional upheavals that she experiences at this
stage of her life are arguably greater than those that she experienced at
puberty. Because at that time she was looking forward to her 'blooming' or
becoming a young woman. It was something of a gain or progress for her. Now ,
she is looking at it as a 'loss' -- a loss of her youth. The stress simply adds
to her health problems.
In dealing with menopause, woman have to learn to look at it as a progressive
stage in their life cycle. There is no loss. It is always a positive gain. They
are moving on... graduating from one stage of their life to the next, onwards in
their journey of life. Hence Programs for effective menopause management
need to include adequate emotional self help, stress relief, Healthy diet, regular exercising as well
as nutritional supplements that support menopausal health.
Menopause Diet Tip - Natural Help with Menopause
An important tip for woman at the onset of
menopause is to make soy milk and other isoflavone rich foods a staple in their
diet plan. This is because in addition to other benefits of being rich source of
calcium and work towards reducing cholesterol, isoflavones also
imitate the behavior of human hormone estrogen at certain points in the body.
Hence they are capable of fulfilling the estrogen requirements of the female
body to some extent, thereby providing excellent relief for menopause symptoms
such as hot flushes and sweats.
Another tip for natural help with menopause
is to make flaxseeds in the crushed / powder form a daily staple in your
diet.
Women all over the world have to face menopause
without fail. The best way to deal with menopause is to get better informed &
take adequate treatment , supplements , diets , hormones, exercise and
emotional support to deal with menopause in the best way possible.
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