Why Do Women in Menopause Gain Weight

By Katy Anderson

If you have started going through menopause you have probably noticed a few extra pounds around your mid-section area. Don't worry, you are not alone, one of the main symptoms of menopause seems to be the gaining of weight, as well as, an overall change in your body's shape. And, while you may not be happy about this unfortunate occurrence, you just have to keep in mind that women in menopause gain weight, and it is an extremely common occurrence. Studies have shown that approximately 90% of women will begin gaining weight between the age of 35 and 55. Never fear, you may not be responsible for this weight gain, studies have shown that most women in menopause gain weight because of a change in hormone levels, not because of overeating.

The average woman has been seen to gain around 10 to 15 pounds during those menopausal years. However, the weight will most likely be gained gradually throughout your pre-menopausal years; you can expect to pack on about an extra pound a year. The weight gain that happens with menopause will most likely be around your abdominal area, instead of the more common areas such as your hips, thighs, and butt. During menopause it is harder and harder for your body to redistribute your weight evenly.

What Factors Cause Women in Menopause to Gain Weight?

The cause of menopausal weight gain is the change in your body's weight maintenance hormone levels.

1. Estrogen: Estrogen is a female hormone that causes a woman to ovulate monthly. However, during menopause, this hormone dramatically declines to cause your body to stop ovulating. This decline in estrogen seems to be a big factor in menopausal weight gain. Because your ovaries are producing less estrogen, your body begins to look for other places to get its desired estrogen from. The problem here is that, fat cells have been known to produce estrogen, so your body will begin turning your calories into fat in order to increase estrogen levels. This is obviously one of the main reasons women in menopause gain weight.

2. Progesterone: This is the hormone that regulates the water weight that we carry around in our bodies. During menopause, this hormone has been seen to rapidly decline, just as estrogen does, which causes women to retain more water as they get older, thus, adding a few more pounds on to the menopause weight gain pile.

3. Testosterone: Testosterone is the hormone that facilitates the creation of lean muscle mass from the calories that we consume. And, it is a proven fact that muscles burn way more calories than fat does, by increasing our metabolism. During menopause, testosterone hormone levels will drop, thus causing muscle loss, which, unfortunately results in a lower metabolism and more weight gain.

4. Androgen: This is the hormone that is responsible for sending that newly formed fat straight to your mid-section. Actually, the term for the weight gain during menopause is commonly referred to as "middle age spread" due to the rapid weight gain in the abdominal area. Actually, one of the number one signs of menopause is the increased production of this hormone which results in the increase of belly fat.

The Silver Lining:

While I know it can be difficult to accept that women in menopause gain weight, it is important to know the benefit of this seemingly unfortunate event. You have to know that this weight gain is natural and can actually be a good thing. This small amount of extra weight that you put on can actually lesson the symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes and anxiety. Also, weight gain during menopause is regulated by your body, and will help prevent osteoporosis and other common illnesses associated with getting older.

There IS something you can do to combat weight gain during menopause, first off, you should try eating a balanced diet, free of refined sugars and full of fruits and vegetables. And, if you are truly serious about getting rid of and even preventing this menopausal weight gain, I highly recommend the program Strip that Fat which is a weight loss system that is completely customized for your unique situation. Click Here to learn more.

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50 Symptoms of Hormone Imbalance in Perimenopause and Menopause

article by Kristin Gabriel
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You may be in your mid-life and are experiencing some of the following fifty hormone imbalance symptoms. If so, you may have hormone imbalances. Women in their late thirties and early to mid-forties begin entering what is known as peri-menopause, which turns into menopause by the late forties or early fifties. Perimenopause usually starts in a woman's 40s, but it can start in the 30s or even earlier, and it can last from four to fifteen years.

Today, many women are thinking about taking bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to offset their hormone imbalances and to simply feel better.

Menopause is clinically defined as the cessation of menstruation for 12 consecutive months. It marks the end of a woman's reproductive years, and this usually occurs naturally around the age of 52 when her ovaries stop producing estrogen, and there are no more eggs that are fertile.

Most hormone imbalance symptoms are caused primarily by the incorrect relationship between progesterone and estrogen levels in a woman's body. Two of the female hormones, estrogen and progesterone, exist in a delicate balance with variations that can have a dramatic effect on a woman's health, resulting in symptoms of hormone imbalance. The amounts of hormones that a woman's body produces monthly vary, depending on factors including ovulation,lack of ovulation, and other factors like stress, nutrition, or exercise.

Listed below are the fifty symptoms that are most often associated with perimenopause and menopause:
1 Anxiety attacks
2 Allergies
3 Brain fog
4 Breast pain or tenderness
5 Bloating
6 Body odor
7 Bone loss
8 A burning tongue
9 Chronic fatigue
10 Gum bleeding
11 Depression
12 Difficulty concentrating
13 Discomfort while having sex
14 Dizziness and disorientation
15 Dry eyes
16 Dry itchy skin
17 Emotional bouts
18 Facial hair increase
19 Face flushing
20 Fatigue
21 Fingernails brittle and dry
22 Feelings of apprehension doom and gloom
23 Forgetfulness
24 Hair loss
25 Headaches
26 Hot flashes
27 Incontinence
28 Irregular periods
29 Joint pain in the back of knees and heel pain
30 Lethargy and tiredness
31 Light headedness
32 Loss of balance
33 Loss of libido
34 Memory lapse
35 Menstrual irregularities
36 Mental confusion
37 Migraines
38 Moodiness
39 Muscle aches and pains
40 Night sweats, or nocturnal hyperhydrosis
41 Osteoporosis
42 Panic disorder
43 Rapid heart beat
44 Sleep Disorders
45 Sudden tears
46 Thinning hair
47 Tingling extremities
48 Urinary urges
49 Vaginal dryness
50 Weight gain

Perimenopause causes a woman's estrogen levels to drop, so they might begin to feel any one or more of these fifty signs of menopause. As the estrogen decreases she may have periods that come at irregular intervals, including skipping a month or several months. The reality is she is no longer ovulating, and cannot get pregnant. She has just enough estrogen to make a real thin lining in the uterus but not enough to peak. This is why in perimenopause causes the periods to get shorter, and a woman's breasts might also feel lumpier, and her mind gets foggy. did you know that a pounding, racing heart is the second most common complaint associated with peri-menopause. If a woman doesn't peak estrogen with regularity, then she is probably in perimenopause.

Basically the loss of this rhythm in peri-menopause actually triggers the destruction of the rest of her eggs, through the action of excessive FSH, using up the remainder of the eggs. Around this time, she begins to get hot flashes.  In thisway her body's hormones begin to shut down and she will enter menopause. Hot flashes are the body's reaction to a decreased supply of the hormone estrogen, which occurs naturally as women approach menopause. This entire process can take up to fifteen years. Menstrual irregularity is most common in the mid-forties as a woman approaches menopause.

The clinical diagnosis of menopause is finding in your blood work of an FSH score higher than five (5). You too can stop this destruction of old age, get rid of the symptoms of hormone imbalance and menopause and achieve feedback and shut off FSH with estrogen replacement. It is in the early stages of menopause when many women experience aching joints and muscles, and others get bad if not debilitating headaches, most often caused by dropping estrogen levels. Known as "menstrual migraines" these headaches can occur when estrogen levels drop during her period.

Most women who are going into menopause experience absent, short, or irregular periods caused by hormone imbalances. Your periods may even come more frequently, every 24 days instead of every 28, or they may come later than normal. You may have a light period that lasts only a few days, then the next month have a very heavy period. Your period may last a long time or a shorter amount of time. You could skip a month, or two, and then go back to normal for a couple of months, until your period ceases altogether.

During early menopause, some women have allergies, brain fog and have trouble concentrating. Most women experience some anxiety, night sweats or hot flashes. Your skin may become dry and fingernails brittle and most women experience a loss of the moisture in the lining of vaginal area which may be associated with itching and irritation. And of course, one of the most dreaded signs of getting older is dry wrinkled and aging skin. When your estrogen levels drop, collagen production also drops, and it is the collagen that keeps our skin youthful looking.

Fatigue is second only to pain as the most common symptom. It's simply defined as an ongoing and persistent feeling of weakness, tiredness, and lowered energy.  When your estrogen levels drop, your vaginal tissues start drying and become less elastic. Sex becomes uncomfortable and you may be more prone to infections. Sudden hair loss happens because our hair follicles need estrogen.

Sleeplessness is another common sign. If you're tossing, turning, and have insomnia, it may be because of menopause. Weight gain, especially around your middle, is yet another sign of changing hormones and your metabolism is slowing down. You may also notice bloating as well, due to periodic increases in fluid retention and abdominal distension.

A loss of sex drive or loss of libido is a problem for some women at this age. Unless taking bioidentical hromones, most women will experience acceleration in bone density reduction as their estrogen levels drop. All women in menopause will experience osteoporosis, the thinning and weakening of the bone and a general decrease in the bone mass and density making us more susceptible to fractures or breaks. This happens later in menopause after your estrogen levels have dropped. Estrogen is involved in the process of the bone's calcium absorption.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

You can only try to fool nature by covering the fact that you are missing eggs if you replace the hormones that they would generate in exactly the amounts and rhythm in which they would occur. This is the reasoning behind rhythmic, bioidentical hormone therapy. If we don't replace our hormones, we will face debilitation, or the falling off of hormones that women experience in perimenopause and finally menopause. Today's woman can stop the aging process and not experience the dreadful symptoms of hormone imbalance and menopause by taking natural, rhythmic bioidentical hormone restoration. But the hormones must be replaced exactly as they would be generated in youth - in exactly the amounts and the rhythm in which they would occur when she was younger. This is the reasoning behind rhythmic, bioidentical hormone therapy. It is not static dosing, but dosed in a rhythm with varying amounts of estrogen and progesterone during the month. Women using this rhythmic cycling also will get their periods again, just like when they were in their prime.

Most of the women taking rhythmic bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are raving about how good they now feel. No more sleep deprivation due to hormone-related insomnia and hot flashes. They no longer experience brain fog or depression. Their sex drives are back! Their skin looks soft supple and youthful, taking them back ten years or more in their looks. But best of all, almost all of the women taking the Wiley Protocol say that all of their symptoms of menopause are gone, and they now feel like themselves again.

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Kristin Gabriel works with T.S. Wiley developer of the Wiley Protocol®,  http://www.thewileyprotocol.com , who also teaches environmental endocrinology, The Wiley Protocol Biomimetic Hormone Restoration Therapy (BHRT) is also known as rhythmic  bio-identical hormone replacement therapy..

Test For Menopause - Worthwhile Or Just a Waste of Time?

article by Hannah Cooke

As with many menopausal issues, there are those who will speak out in favour and those who are vehemently against. Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH)is one such topic and the opinion of its usefulness is once again very much divided.

The women that are most likely to take the test, may be those who suspect they are going through an early menopause and want to begin treatment immediately. Those who simply want to put their mind to rest that their symptoms are nothing serious. And those who simply want confirmation that they are indeed entering "the change". By the way, does anyone else simply loathe that phrase? It sounds as though we`re about to morph into some sort of alien or turn into a totally different species. Mind you, catch me on a day when my hormones are being particularly unruly and that may not be too far from the truth!

The FSH test can be done by taking a blood or a urine sample, which then checks the level of the FSH present in the body. When it is above ovulation range, menopause is complete. Quite often the test will confirm what you already suspect, that you have experienced a hormonal change. If you have a blood test, that will also check the levels of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and other hormones present. These hormones all become unbalanced this transition.

Opponents claim that the test is not totally reliable as blood FSH levels correlate poorly with symptoms of menopause. But as an indicator, it may point you in the right direction as to whether menopause is imminent or not.

Hannah Cooke decided to write her latest book "The Complete Menopause", due to her own experiences of "the change". Discovering that there was so much contradictory advice given to women, she took almost 12 months to gather the information that is packed into this fascinating book. For more great information on menopause testing, visit: http://www.thecompletemenopause.com/test-for-menopause/

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Gaining Weight During Menopause and How to Stop It

article by Mandy L Smith

 

The most difficult and problematic matter for a woman in menopause is gaining of extra weight. This weight gained always settles in the wrong parts of the body. Being able to identify all or most of the symptoms of menopause will help in a great way for a woman to learn how to deal with it. You need to have the determination to lose the extra weight. What you have to carry and walk around definitely depends on all the dietary changes you can make in your life. Remember that weight gain for even a normal healthy woman of younger age also poses life threatening situations.

 

Gaining Weight During Menopause

 

For a woman who has reached the end of her "baby making days" it is worse. If you lack the determination and have problems in disciplining your life, then all that ugly fat and weight you carry around is what you have not taken proper care of. Menopausal obesity is extremely difficult to lose unless you really exercise, with the recommendation of your doctor.

 

Even after moderate exercise like jogging, walking or even cycling and swimming you still have a problem then you need to consult with your physician immediately if any of your weight symptoms are causing serious problems in your life. It is unfortunate that for a women the fat deposits itself in places like the abdomen, arms, thighs and breasts which could also lead to breast cancer, cardiovascular and many other problems associated with this type of fat deposits.

 

What you have to worry about is the fat that gets deposited in your internal organs starting with fatty live and then proceeding to the other parts of the internal organs. When you come to this phase of life your estrogen levels decline, and your body will search for places to deposit fat because of the decline of the hormone known as Estrogen. You have to make exceptional and rigid changes in your eating habits. Increasing your level of activity helps to reduce the fat that is deposited in all the wrong places.

 

Even though women begin to notice that they are   gaining weight while they are in their late thirties or early forties. You will learn why we gain weight during menopause, where the fat collects and how to target it. http://menopauseandweight.com/ways-to-fight-weight-gained-during-menopause/

 

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Menopause is Good For You - For Longevity

article by Libo Li

 

Nowadays, women think menopause is related to hot flashes, insomnia and many other menopausal symptoms. Menopause is so feared and dreaded that most women do not want to talk about it.

 

Although menopause is the end of your childbearing years, it is not the end of your life. In fact, menopause is a protective mechanism for longevity. Human beings are the only species with such a long span of life after reproduction. For most animals, the basic function for female is to reproduce. After reproduction, females will die.

 

The current women life expectancy is about the age of eighty, so women still have about forty years after menopause. The second half of life can be longer, richer, and more satisfying than ever before. The first half of life was childhood, which was controlled by your parents and youth which you made many innocent mistakes.

 

We should understand that menopause is the energy-saving mechanism used by nature in order to live longer, because energy-saving is a basic principle of living organisms.

Reproduction costs a lot of energy. During childbearing years, a woman experiences about 500 periods. Menstruation is the greatest and most unpretentious of deities evolution by natural selection. Every month, the uterine lining builds up with nutrients and energy, and awaits implantation. Ovulation is accompanied by an abrupt surge in hormones.

 

After menopause, the body is kept in a low hormone level: the ovaries slow down the production for hormones. In the Novak's Textbook of Gynecology (Williams & Wilkins, 1987) said: "Thus it would seem that although menopausal women do have an estrogen milieu that is lower than that necessary for reproduction, it is not negligible or absent but is perhaps satisfactory for maintenance of support tissues. Menopause could then be regarded as a physiologic phenomenon that is protective in nature, protective from the undesirable reproductive and the associated growth stimuli."

 

So, after menopause, estrogen levels are below that necessary for pregnancy but sufficient for other normal functions, in order to avoid risky stimuli on hormone-sensitive organs: breasts, uterus and ovaries.

 

The hormone replacement treatment is against the nature, and it artificially recreates childbearing years, without the childbearing ability. Estrogen pills artificially induce the cycle of bleeding every month to keep you "feminine forever". Unfortunately, they only bring excessive stimulation on estrogen-sensitive organs: breasts, uterus and ovaries and hasten your death from cancers. No wonder breast cancer and uterine cancer are epidemic today.

 

For your healthy longevity, take the menopause as a protective design by nature. Take hormone replacement treatment as the sloppy design by man.

 

Libo Li, MS. MPH.

 

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Rhythmic Bioidentical Hormone Replacement For Women in Menopause

article by Kristin Deann Gabriel

You may be a woman who is 45 years of age or older and experiencing the following hormone imbalance symptoms. If so, then you probably will want to consider something gaining popularity called rhythmic bio-identical hormone replacement.

Following are hormone imbalance symptoms for you to see if you have: anxiety, allergies, foggy brain, weight gain, depression, dizziness, endometriosis, dry skin, fibrocystic breasts, hair loss, headaches, less libido, osteoporosis, or urinary tract infections. These are the typical symptoms associated with menopause and hormone imbalances, and they are caused primarily by the incorrect relationship between your body's progesterone and estrogen levels.

Here's how it works... The two female hormones, estrogen and progesterone, co-exist in a very delicate balance, and any variations of that balance can have an effect on your health. The amounts of these hormones that the woman's body produces every month can vary, depending on factors including age, nutrition, stress, exercise or ovulation or the lack of it.

Our hormones begin falling off starting with perimenopause when hormones drop you back to the same range that a girl went through at the time when she was younger -- that time between adrenarchy and puberty. As a woman's estrogen levels decreases into that same range again, she may still have some regular periods, or periods that come at fairly regular intervals during the year, but the reality is that she is probably no longer ovulating. She can no longer get pregnant any more.

These peri-menopausal periods are like the ones a girl experienced when her reproductive engine was maturing as a teenager. At that time, her adrenal glands were trying to jump-start your brain to turn on the your ovaries, and once the ovaries kicked in, she had enough estrogen generated by a full basket of eggs.

Some twenty years later, once a woman is in middle age, she has just enough estrogen to make a real thin lining in her uterus but not enough to peak. During perimenopause, her periods get shorter, and this is when her breasts seem lumpier, and often times, her mind gets foggy. If a woman doesn't peak estrogen with regularity, she is in peri-menopause. It is the loss of this rhythm during perimenopause that triggers the destruction of her eggs. It is the action of excessive FSH, using up the remainder of her eggs. It is about this time, when she will start to hot flashes, because that's how her system effectively shuts down for good. it can take up to ten years to go through the entire process before getting through menopause.

Clinically, menopause is defined as the cessation of menstruation for 12 consecutive months. Menopause marks the end of a woman's reproductive years, and this usually occurs naturally around the age of 52 when her ovaries stop producing estrogen, and there are no more fertile eggs. Also, the clinical diagnosis of menopause is finding in the blood work an FSH score higher than five.

Today, a woman can stop the aging process and not experience the symptoms of hormone imbalance and menopause with hormone replacement. But she can only try to fool nature by covering the fact that she's missing eggs if the hormones are replaced exactly as that they would be generated in youth - in exactly the amounts and the rhythm in which they would occur when she was younger. This is the premise behind rhythmic, bioidentical hormone therapy. It is not static dosing, but dosed in a rhythm with varying amounts of estrogen and progesterone during the month. Women using this rhythmic cycling also will get their periods again, just like when they were in their prime.

Women taking rhythmic bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are raving about how good they now feel. No more sleep deprivation due to hormone-related insomnia and hot flashes. No more brain fig or depression. Their skin looks soft supple and youthful. And more often than not, women who had experienced the dreadful symptoms of menopause, are now saying that they got their lives back.

Rhythmic bioidentical hormones could truly be the real "fountain of youth."

Kristin Gabriel is the marketing director for T.S. Wiley, developer of the rhythmic Wiley Protocol Biomimetic Hormone Restoration Therapy (BHRT), also known as bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. This rhythmic cycling protocol is for any doctor or woman seeking cutting edge therapies for menopause and anti-aging. Visit http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/.

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Menopause - Hair Loss Treatments

Article by thomas devos

It is well known that men can start losing their hair from their
early twenties onwards yet it is still thought of as uncommon
for women to loose their hair. However women can experience
sudden hair loss when approaching the menopause with as many as
forty percent of women being affected by the condition. There
are many different causes for female hair loss including
pregnancy, genetics and illness but the menopause is the time
most women experience the condition.

The Reasons

Increased hair loss and thinning hair as women approach the
menopause is due to changes in hormonal levels in the body. In
fact noticing hair loss can be one of the first signs of
approaching the menopause. It is caused in part by a drop in
estrogen (female hormones) levels produced by the ovaries,
creating an imbalance between androgen (male hormones) and
estrogen hormones. Testosterone is one of the hormones from the
androgen group and increases as the estrogen levels fall. For
men, testosterone is the hormone commonly associated with
causing male pattern hair loss and although produced in much
lower quantities in women, it creates a similar hair loss
condition. This process is started by testosterone combining
with an enzyme called Alpha5 reductase to create a substance
called dihyrotestosterone (DHT). It is the DHT which is
responsible for the hair loss. After the menopause the ovaries
may continue to produce even more androgens than estrogen and
this can result in further hair loss. It also doesn't just
affect hair on the scalp but body hair can also become thinner,
just the opposite of men who tend to get more body hair as scalp
hair thins. Some women however experience no menopausal hair
loss or excessive thinning at all, the reasons for this are not
yet fully understood.

Treatments and Advice

Many women are prescribed hormone therapy treatment (HRT) to
counter some of the more severe symptoms of the menopause such
as hot flashes, night sweats, lack of sleep, mood swings, and
sensitive skin. But HRT works by increasing the levels of
estrogen to pre-menopausal levels. HRT is therefore also an
effective hair loss treatment which reduces testosterone and DHT
allowing hair to grow back.

There is also a prescription only drug called spironolactone
that instead of raising estrogen levels, works in the opposite
way by slowing down the production of androgens (testosterone)
in the adrenal glands and ovaries. With less testosterone
produced there is less damaging DHT produced and therefore less
hair loss.

There are also a number of non drug based measures that can be
used to slow down menopausal hair loss. For example gently
massage the scalp when shampooing to increase blood flow to the
hair roots. Also using good quality conditioners containing
natural products like henna, helps to prevent breakage and
reduce further hair loss. It is also important to eat a well
balanced diet as healthy hair requires the minimum daily intake
of the right minerals and vitamins. Try to eat plenty of fish,
liver, dairy products, eggs, poultry, meat, etc, for vitamin A,
Vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin B12, also leafy vegetables,
orange juice, avocado, beets and broccoli are a good source of
folic acid.

Keep the hair short to help prevent mechanical breakage and have
it layered to give the appearance of more volume. Try to avoid
damaging the hair with hot hair dryers and heated hair
straighteners and avoid chemically treating the hair with dyes,
tints and bleaches.

Conclusions

Hair loss caused by the menopause is a natural process but can
be managed through special care and prescribed treatments. If
you have any special concerns about this condition it is always
advisable to consult your local GP as stress and worrying can
make matters worse. Remember that you are not alone, many women
experience the menopause and hair loss but there are now many
effective treatments available.

Please visit our web site for more information and advice about
the cause of hair loss in a woman.

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Central Heating For The Menopausal Women

Article by carly

When you hit the menopause, it can be hard knowing what feels
normal anymore. Hot flushes, a change of character and anxiety
are just some of things evident in menopausal women. The hot
flushes are one of the most common symptoms. So, if you're
trying to work out if its too hot or too cold in the house, you
need to make sure you check the central heating system. It could
be on too high and it could be on all day. Whereas a few years
ago you could withstand and enjoy all day central heating, the
menopause changes your hormones and the way you feel about
things.

Go Digital For Full Control

Hot flushes can be frustrating, but it is important that you
keep on top of the central heating. The best way to do this is
to ensure you have a new boiler fitted with a digital thermostat
so you have more visible control over the heat in the house. It
could be that you suffer with hot flushes mainly in the morning
or evening, in which case you will want to make sure the central
heating is turned down low at this time. The good thing about a
digital thermostat is that you can adjust it accordingly with
short notice, and a new boiler will heat up and cool down much
quicker than an old boiler. The last thing you want is to be
sweating all night, and with a new central heating system, you
can make the menopause much easier to deal with.

Get Your Life Back In Control

It's fair to say that some women do not cope with the menopause
very well at all, but research has shown that it is the things
around you that could be affecting how you deal with the
menopause and the severity of it. It is recommended that you not
only look at your central heating but also consider your general
lifestyle and diet. Irritability is a common symptom with the
menopause and some women who suffer with this find that if they
get too hot then they get irritable. See the link? It's all
about controlling the things around you, and having a central
heating system that you can control is surely one tick on the
list. Women like to feel in control and don't want the menopause
to take over their life, so just changing a few things could
help considerably. Look at what you do and what your lifestyle
is.

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Ovarian Cyst Based Imbalance During Menopause

It is normal for you to be concerned about the effects of ovarian cysts during menopause. If they do occur, then you could experience additional fluctuations in the hormones being produced by your ovaries, throwing you even further out of balance than menopause is already doing, as hard as that may be to believe.

No Worries About Long Term Damage

The first thing that you need to understand is that ovarian cysts that occur during menopause are not likely to have any long-term effects. Ovarian cysts are only one of a variety of fibroids that can form both inside the uterus and on the ovaries during menopause. Most of these will naturally disappear once you are safely on the other side of menopause. Occasionally one will need to be removed surgically, but it is still considered a benign tumor except in rare cases.

Improve Your Short Term Well-Being

That may be a comfort, but a reduction in hormone fluctuations would be a greater comfort! Some options are:

1: Increase levels of estrogen and progesterone

Since ovarian cysts often form because your body is out of balance and producing a lower amount of estrogen and progesterone it follows that correcting this imbalance will reduce the effects from the fibroids. Enzyme therapies delivered within a homeopathic treatment regimen may help with this step naturally.

2. Adjust your Diet

You're probably already watching your food intake for other reasons, but here's another one. Adding additional raw fruits and vegetables gradually to your regular diet may make a difference. As with many other complaint, exercising regularly can help keep your body balanced.

3. Stay Hydrated

The effect of hormone fluctuations may be reduced with proper hydration. Make sure that you are drinking eight to 10 glasses of water every day and taking a little bit of salt with the water. It will help to flush impurities out of your body and to bring it back into a balance that it may be lacking.