Menopause

By Jenny Karen


If you are a woman that is reaching the menopausal age of life, it is a good time to reassess your health requirements and make some alterations to your lifestyle that will accommodate your changing body.When ovaries begin to stop producing estrogen and this results in the reproductive system slowly but surely shutting down, one may be reasonably sure that it is menopause. Due to the body adapting to changing levels of natural hormones, the person will be affected by vasomotor symptoms like hot flashes and palpitations, and also psychological symptoms like increase in depression moods, anxiety, as well as irritableness, and lack of concentration. In addition, there may also be atrophic symptoms like vaginal dryness as well as having an urgency to urinate.

At the age of menopause, caloric intake requirements go down, and the need for certain types of nutrition go up.In fact the word menopause emanates from the Greek root "meno" which means month and the word "pausis" or, a pause or cessation. In a technical sense, the word menopause refers to the ceasing of menses. Otherwise, the slow and steady process through which it takes place will typically take a year though, it may last only six months and is known as climacteric.

Some experts will recommend that a woman who is on hormone replacement therapy follow a menopause diet that consists of about 1000 calories each day. The menopause experience is like a transition in the life of a woman which means no more periods and no more child bearing. It also means that the woman will no longer be able to produce milk, and this transition in the woman can be a traumatic as well as a psychologically depressing period in her life.

However, women may feel depressed but may also feel elated by feeling liberated from the monthly routine and may lead to her becoming wiser as well as more mature. There are often many misconceptions as well as myths surrounding menopause, even though it is a natural process of aging. The old fashioned view was that life begins to go downhill after menopause. Today, many women take the help of medicines and thus are able to face life as a new challenge.

A healthy menopause diet should be considered an important part of middle-age, especially when combined with regular exercise. A woman that smokes may experience menopause a couple of years before non-smokers, and it may not result in depression in each and every case. There is also no lessening in sexual satisfaction and may in fact lead to a healthy life practice.




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