Women's Health Tips

If you elect not to use Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for treatment of your early menopause symptoms, there are natural remedies that can greatly reduce, or eliminate the most common symptoms. However, it’s important that you not mix natural herbal remedies with HRT, as this can cause serious problems by flooding your body with too much estrogen.

The most common symptoms of early menopause are: hot flashes, neat sweats, interrupted sleep patterns, mood swings, reduced sexual drive, irritability, forgetfulness, and vaginal dryness. There are specific natural remedies for all of these symptoms. However, there are many things you can do that will help alleviate all symptoms, such as drinking more water to help flush toxins out of the system.

Exercise, including Yoga, can also help alleviate most of the symptoms associated with early menopause. Try to exercise about 30 minutes each day, and you’ll notice that you have fewer hot flashes, fewer mood swings, less irritability, and you sleep better.
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In most cases, early menopause cannot be prevented. Early menopause occurs for a wide variety of reasons, including family history, viral infections, surgeries, and cancer treatments. However, some studies show that women can do various things to prevent the possibility of early menopause.

Studies have shown that women who smoke are 40% more likely to have early menopause than women who don’t smoke. Smoking lowers estrogen levels, and changes the way that our bodies use estrogen. Some researchers even believe that smoking has an influence on the menstrual cycle. Breaking the smoking habit will greatly reduce your chances of having early menopause. Other research shows smoking intensifies the symptoms associated with menopause.
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Women who experience early menopause have many health concerns that they should address with their doctors. These health concerns cover physical changes to the body, emotional changes, and the risk of greater health problems in the future.

The emotional health concerns that women face during early menopause include:

1. Emotional distress due to the fact that the childbearing years are over
2. Feelings of being an ‘incomplete’ woman
3. Fear that you can no longer keep up with other women your age who are not experiencing early menopause
4. Depression
5. Other mental and physical changes and symptoms can add additional emotional health concerns as well
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During early menopause, a woman is experiencing both physical and emotional changes. All of these changes are greatly affected by the fluctuation in hormone levels that occurs during early menopause. Women who experience early menopause have the same concerns that women who have natural menopause at average age have. However, they do have a few additional concerns that have an effect on their emotional well-being.

For many women, sleep patterns are interrupted during early menopause. This is often caused by night sweats. This interruption in sleep patterns, along with the fluctuating hormones, can make a woman quite irritable. While this irritability has an effect on the people around you, it actually has a greater impact on your emotional health. You can feel that your emotions are out of control, and that you’re possibly ‘losing your minds.’
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Women gain weight in perimenopause – especially around their waist and hips—even if they are dieting. Why does this happen? The culprit is the link between hormonal balance and body fat. One link is between insulin metabolism and body fat. Many people eat foods that are high in carbohydrates such as processed foods (pasta, breads, most snacks, beer, wine etc.) Eventually this type of diet can create a condition known as insulin resistance. When your body becomes resistant to insulin it will convert every calorie into fat – even if you’re dieting and doing what you can to keep the weight off. Insulin resistance will not allow you to burn fat when you exercise.

Another link is between stress and body fat. Stress hormones block weight loss. Even if you’re eating adequately, your body will interpret stress as a famine. Your body thinks it’s necessary to store every spare calorie as fat. Many of us combine a high carbohydrate diet with a high stress lifestyle, which doubles the chances of weight gain.
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Many women mistakenly believe that they cannot become pregnant during early menopause. However, pregnancy during early menopause is entirely possible, unless the uterus has been surgically removed by hysterectomy. You are still at risk for pregnancy until you have completely stopped ovulating.

A pregnancy that occurs during early menopause is considered a high risk pregnancy, because when a woman reaches her late thirties, or when menopause begins, the quality of the eggs is diminished and the lining of the uterus begins to thin as well. This makes the risk of miscarriage very high.

Since periods become irregular, or non-existent, knowing for sure when you are ovulating can become quite difficult. So, while the chances of becoming pregnant have diminished by about 50%, you still must continue to use contraception to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
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During early menopause, periods become irregular, but bleeding is quite normal. In most cases, there’s no need for concern. Light spotting may also occur. However, there are some instances where bleeding is not normal during early menopause, and treatment should be sought.

Irregular menstrual periods can occur for up to six months in early menopause before the periods stop altogether. Bleeding should not be any heavier than your normal period. In most cases it will be even lighter than normal.

If you begin to bleed again, after you have not had any bleeding for the previous six months, you should seek medical treatment, as this is not normal. The only time this may be normal is if you are just beginning estrogen treatment. If this is the case, your doctor can give you more information as to what you can expect in terms of bleeding.
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Most women think that menopause doesn’t occur until a woman is in her late forties or early to mid fifties. However, many women and I begin to experience menopause or early menopause symptoms before the age of forty. We mistakenly think we’re too young to begin menopause. So we don’t associate the symptoms we’re experiencing are due to early menopause symptoms.

Early menopause symptoms are basically the same as symptoms associated with natural menopause. However, women who experience symptoms of menopause at an early age should consult with a doctor to ensure that the symptoms are actually early menopause symptoms, and not symptoms of something more serious. You should also note that scientists believe that women who experience early menopause tend to feel the symptoms of menopause more intensely than women who experience natural menopause later in life.
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Scientists admit that the heterosexual male attention to the female breast is one of the truly mysterious phenomena of the universe. Modern medicine offers various ways to improve breast health, to enlarge it or to make little changes connected to the skin problems for example. As we know female breast starts to increase its size when the girl is at least 8 years old. In other cases breast start maturing until age 13 or 14 or even later.

Every female has a individual biological “clock” that tells her body to start producing high levels of the female hormones estrogen and other hormones such as progesterone and other estrogens. For 5 to 6 years female breast go through about 5 stages of maturity. Usually this process ends when the female complete age 17 or 18.
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