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5 Essential Reasons Lifestyle is important for your Menopausal Health
A healthy lifestyle is important across all stages of life, but when a woman reaches the menopause years, it couldn’t be more important to start making lifestyle changes. This is the time when we begin to notice the impact that some of our choices have on our symptoms, and ultimately, how we feel. It’s a vicious cycle, as some symptoms make it really difficult to make changes, but the changes need to be made to see a decrease in symptoms. Add to this the confusion commonly felt as all the physical and emotional symptoms seemingly happen all at once. Most of the time, women don’t know where to begin. …
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How Stress Reduction makes a difference in menopause
Stress and menopause seem to go hand in hand, and although some amount of stress is important to keep us on our toes, stress in menopause is a very real and bothersome experience for many menopausal women. It can make symptoms such as hot flushes worse, and increase chances of interrupted sleep, headaches, upset stomach, making poor food choices and not exercising. Stress reduction is imperative in the menopause years to improve our health and menopause experience, and to help us feel well and energetic. Before talking more about stress reduction techniques, let’s look at what stress is and how it makes us feel when it is short or long…
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Mood, Cognition and Brain Fog in Menopause – Are you are risk of Dementia?
One of the biggest concerns that women have as they enter their perimenopausal years is that the symptoms of brain fog are actually the beginnings of dementia. Every year, the month of October is World Menopause Month, and October 18 is World Menopause Day (WMD). The International Menopause Society marked the theme of WMD to be Brain Fog in Menopause in 2022. Keep reading to learn more about brain fog, mood, cognition and the risk of dementia in menopause. What are Cognition and Brain Fog? Cognition is how we were feeling before the hormonal changes of perimenopause kicked in – we were able to focus and think clearly,…
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How to reduce Inflammation during Menopause
Believe it or not, one of the main drivers responsible for our menopause symptoms is inflammation, including weight gain, hot flushes, night sweats, aching joints and brain fog. It is usually a type of inflammation that without the symptoms of menopause, you wouldn’t even know it’s happening. This article is going to look at inflammation in more detail, its causes and consequences in menopause and health long term, and what you can do to manage both menopause symptoms and the inflammation contributing to them. What is inflammation? Inflammation is something that we have all experienced from time to time – whether it be an injury or illness,…
