Providing women with resources on how to make this period of life easier to get through
Perimenopause usually starts in a woman's 40s, but can start in her 30s or even earlier. Menopause then follows, and this is typically between the ages of 50 and 55. After no period for 12 consecutive months, you are in menopause. Permimenopause and menopause don't happen overnight and the symptoms can last years as a result of gradual hormonal changes. There are both natural and pharmaceutical methods available to help manage the hormonal changes - natural ones can include diet-management and herbal supplements and pharmaceutical ones can be prescribed via your GP following a consultation.
Different methods may work for different people so its worth using resources available to find something that can ease your symptoms and make this change easier. You will also find this time in your life easier if you feel mentally ready, so it is worth investing in yourself to do that if it doesn't come naturally.
Websites Offering Support:
My Menopause Doctor
Menopause: An Ayurvedic Perspective
Menopause Matters
is an award winning, independent website providing up-to-date, accurate information about the menopause, menopausal symptoms and treatment options. You will find information on what happens leading up to, during and after the menopause, what the consequences can be, what you can do to help and what treatments are available.
Femedic
is the first site to couple medical information with lifestyle content, because health is as much an emotional, environmental, and social conversation as much as it is a physical one.
The Femedic is not an alternative to medical advice from your own GP, or visiting a clinic or hospital. It offers friendly advice, information, and education about women’s health and health-related issues.
Books on this subject:
Your Hormone Doctor
Your hormones influence everything from your mood to your concentration, how well you sleep, the size of your waistline and how young you look.
It’s time to stop hor-moaning and arm yourself with the facts. This is an informative, fun and comprehensive guide to making easy and enjoyable changes to the way you eat, exercise and think. This book will help you to:
• reverse the ageing process naturally
• become sexier and slimmer and have more energy as you get older
• melt mid-life fat with a fast new diet and exercise plan
• de-stress and sleep better
• re-ignite your sex life and boost your memory
• cope with the menopause and hot flushes
• find whether HRT or bio-identical hormones are right for you
• learn why your chronological age has never mattered less
Leah Hardy is a well-known health and beauty journalist and an expert in anti-ageing. Susie Rogers is owner and founder of the BeautyWorksWest spa and clinic in London and a trained Pilates teacher. Dr Daniel Sister is a world-renowned expert in women’s hormones and anti-ageing therapies.
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About…Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty
Most women between the ages of 30 and 50 have some form of premenopause syndrome. This nonprescription hormone balance programme provides an effective and healthful alternative to potentially dangerous conventional treatment options, such as synthetic hormones. This book shows how to use natural progesterone to alleviate premenopausal symptoms, from fibroids to breast cysts to loss of libido to weight gain and fatigue – without synthetic hormones with their attendant side-effects and risks.
The Wisdom of Menopause
has inspired more than a million women with a dramatically new vision of midlife and will continue to do so for generations to come. As Dr. Northrup has championed, the change is not simply a collection of physical symptoms to be fixed, but a mind-body revolution that brings the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence. The choices a woman makes now from the quality of her relationships to the quality of her diet have the power to secure vibrant health and well-being for the rest of her life. Now completely revised, this groundbreaking classic draws on the current research and medical advances in women s health, and includes a new section on sex after 50 and how, if need be, you can rejuvenate your sex life updated mammogram guidelines and how thermography improves breast health the latest on the glycemic index, optimal blood sugar levels, and ways to prevent diabetes dietary guidelines revealing that hidden sugar not dietary fat is the main culprit in heart disease, cancer, and obesity all you need to know about perimenopause and why it s critical to your well-being a vital program for ensuring pelvic health during and after menopause strategies to combat osteoporosis and strengthen bones for life. With this trusted resource, Dr. Christiane Northrup shows that women can make menopause a time of personal empowerment emerging wiser, healthier, and stronger in both mind and body than ever before.”
The Second Half of Your Life
is a groundbreaking book which offers advice and answers to women in the second half of their life. Using the hormonal changes that occur around menopause as a springboard to transition from a woman’s reproductive years to her self-productive years, Shaw Ruddock gives positive, life-affirming guidance on how to make the second half of life, the best half. Drawing on extensive experience, research and interviews, Jill Shaw Ruddock explores what can hold women back at this important stage in their lives, and how to harness the new-found focus this stage in life brings i.e. the rest of your life. This revised and updated edition (including The Science of Hormones and the new chapter, Looking Your Best without Plastic Surgery) will inspire women to rethink what it means to grow older. The book has been heralded as ‘one of the most important women’s books for a decade’, ‘ground-breaking’, ‘inspirational’ and ‘the manual for women in the second half of their life’.
Providing practical hands-on advice on how to harness the power of the oestrogen-free mind to make the most of new opportunities, Ruddock covers everything from money to the mind, dating to divorce, exercise to eating, and the libido to looking your best. The Second Half of Your Life is an inspiring, motivating read that gives women a framework to create a game plan to help overcome many of the obstacles faced in the second half of life.
It Must Be My Hormones
Whether it’s realizing that you’re at that time of the month when you cry at adverts on the television or if you get a parking ticket, or the rollercoasters of puberty, pregnancy and menopause, 99.9 per cent of women have felt a slave to their hormones at some point in their lives. It is crucial to understand the important part hormones play in both our reproductive and overall health and then realize how much we can do through nutrition and lifestyle to have a positive effect on our hormones. From boosting fertility to easing symptoms of PMS and menopause, “It Must Be My Hormones” offers practical guidance by two highly recognized experts.
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