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Dealing with the Blues: Your Mental State and Menopause
Going through menopause and suddenly feel like life's stresses have just become a thousand times more difficult to deal with? Find yourself crying at Oprah more than you used to, or worse, crying at reruns of the Flintstones? Finding that your cute 3-year-old nephew or granddaughter is suddenly… well… a little childish, making you irritable?...
Menopause and Weight Loss
During menopause, many women report that the challenge of weight loss becomes even more difficult. The need to lose weight haunts women most of the time, and now more men are reporting the same struggle. When women hit menopause, weight gathers around the waist and hips; despite our best efforts to diet and exercise.
What we know is that...
How To Live With Menopause
How do you feel when entering menopause? Do you think you can live with menopause? It seems a woman in menopause faces physical changes and new emotional realities. Are you also feeling the same? Do you feel stress and uncertain with what happen to your body? Although Eastern and Western disciplines disagree in the interpretations of stress...
Menopause Relief
Menopause relief is possible through self care. Western doctors treat women in menopause like they have a disease. In truth, menopause is a transitional imbalance, a change that can be comforted with some study and experimentation. Peri-menopausal woman report experiencing symptoms including hot flashes, anger, urinary tract infections,...
Menopause and Headaches
During the mid-life phenomenon known as menopause, changes in headache type, duration and intensity are more common. Throbbing, explosive headaches can pain the sides of your head, and your energy become totally depleted. The slightest opening of an eye can cause a ripple of pain to burst on one side of your fragile head, leaving you in physical...
The Great Awakening--Menopause
Menopause is a natural transition all women experience, as natural as adolescence. For your grandmother and great-grandmother, life expectancy was shorter. Reaching menopause often meant that their life was nearing an end. But this is no longer true. Today women are living longer—on average, until age 78. How you experience menopause is...
Latest News:
Menopause: How ‘the change’ has changedFor Shelley, menopause was not the gentle life transition it is for many, nor a time in which various symptoms, inconvenient but transient, occurred.Study clouds evidence on soy and menopauseNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged women may find some relief from hot flashes and other menopause problems with soy supplements, according to Chinese researchers. They found daily supplements of soy germ isoflavones reduced the sudden sweats more than inactive placebo pills after six months. But a U.S. expert wasn't convinced by the results, which run counter to other published studies ...Factors Linked to Age of Onset of Menopause IdentifiedTHURSDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- New genetic factors associated with a woman's age when she begins menopause have been identified by an international team of researchers.
