John Russell asked:


In our ongoing endeavor to cover Menopause Symptoms, this paper’s subject is SLEEP DISORDERS.

If you’re waking up a lot at night, tossing and turning, and generally suffering with insomnia, it might be connected with menopause. When you begin going through menopause, you may find that your sleep is less and less restful, if you sleep at all. This is one of the most annoying menopause symptoms.

What are Menopause Sleep Disorders?

These disorders include any ailment in a person’s normal sleep patterns. If they reach a severe intensity, they can seriously affect your mental and emotional health.

Insomnia is the most frequent complaint, striking up to 56% of women as a menopause symptom. Some women may also develop restless leg syndrome, snoring, or sleep apnea. When women go through menopause, sleep is less restful. Typically, the frequency of insomnia doubles from the amount you had before you entered menopause. Research also indicates that women begin to experience restless sleep as many as 5-7 years before entering menopause.

Menopause Information You Need

What Causes Menopause Sleep Disorders?

There are two causes—psychological and physical.

Psychological—Emotional daily stress, overwork, and fatigue can be a cause. When these factors combine and get out of control, emotional stability is disrupted. This can lead to an unbalance of your bodily functions, causing metabolic changes that may lead to sleep disorders. Usually these are temporary and sleep disorders top when the stressful time ends.

Physical—Menopause sleep disorders are mainly caused by unbalanced hormone levels. Estrogen declination causes a variety of physical side effects including a reduction in serotonin (chemical in the brain), which is used to create melatonin (sleep hormone). Without a balanced level of estrogen, the body is not able to produce the right amount of serotonin or melatonin. This is why maintaining a balanced estrogen level is important for control and prevention.

What To Do About Menopause Sleep Disorders?

First, you must determine if your problem is psychological or physical.

Psychological—Menopause sleep disorders caused by stress, overwork, and fatigue should be treated by scheduling rest and relaxation time, as well as integrating an exercise program in your daily routine. Keep in mind that in most cases a combination of psychological and physical treatments is the best option for managing menopause sleep disorders.

Physical—Because menopause symptoms are generally caused by low hormonal levels, a hormonal balancing program is the best solution. There are several ways to manage menopause sleep disorders, but the best way is by combining therapies such as “lifestyle approaches” and alternative medicine. We all know about the problems with HRT, therefore, you will want to consider using a natural progesterone cream to balance your estrogen level. In summary, starting with perimenopause symptoms, sleep loss is a key indicator menopause has started. Menopause information generally describes low hormone levels as the root cause. While there are side effects of natural progesterone cream, using natural hormone replacement therapy is a good alternative to the more conventional HRT and the high risks associated with it.



Cory

Dr Self Help asked:


Weight gain can be an early sign of menopause although it can be caused by many factors including a slowing metabolism due to aging. An increase in using sugar, alcohol, tobacco or stress can result in weight gain, as of course can overeating. Another early sign of menopause is hot flushes. Research suggests they occur in 80% of woman during menopause, so they also can be seen as quite a reliable sign.

The big question really is how to reduce or eliminate these symptoms and signs of menopause.

There is of course HRT, however controversial research has linked it to an increase in breast cancer.

If you are more interested looking at natural menopause remedies then they fall into two simple categories.

1) Reducing menopause weight gain and other signs of menopause by detoxifying the body.

2) Reducing menopause weight gain and other signs of menopause by strengthen the immune system or balancing your body chemistry.

Detoxifying to reducing menopause weight gain and other signs of menopause.

Approaches that involve detoxification are based on evidence that the lower the toxic load of the body, the more easily it manages menopause symptoms. The underlying concept is that your body can heal itself if given less to manage, so you detox to free up resources for the body to deploy in managing menopause symptoms.

Strengthening/Balancing the body to reduce menopause weight gain and other signs of menopause.

Approaches that strengthen and balance the body are the \”otherside of the coin\” so to speak to the detoxifying approach. The underlying principle is the same, the body will heal itself if it has the resources. Approaches to managing the signs of menopause that strengthen and balance the body work by using herbal or homeopathic treatments that manage menopause symptoms whilst strengthen the body\’s natural systems.

Menopause, Weight Gain and Toxicity.

So how do natural menopause remedies help you lose weight, Well firstly the best of natural menopause remedies is regular and varied exercise but we will look at that in a moment. The second issue is that your body holds excess water and fat to buffer the body from its toxic load.

When that toxic load declines, weight just falls away, you don\’t have to do anything.

Exercise is very important as it works the body\’s lymph system, a key element in the detoxifying process. Exercise also balances hormones and promotes relaxation countering mood swings that may prompt you too eat \”comfort food.\”

Conclusion

Evidences supports the idea that toxic load can intensify menopause symptoms. It therefore seems clear that a detoxifying approach combined with a strengthening and balancing approach is an excellent \”non-medical\” way to manage your menopause symptoms. Find more useful information on how to tackle the signs of menopause here



Katie

Groshan Fabiola asked:


Women usually get to the phase called menopause after they pass 50. Until that age they have concerns about menopause symptoms and possible complications. Many reports about the risks and benefits of the hormone therapy treatment make them wonder even more and women will probably seek for another way of easing the symptoms. In most of the cases women seek for ways of treatment that do not include drug therapy or hormone therapy. Fortunately, studies revealed that in most of the cases other treatments than hormone therapy or drug therapy are effective. A natural treatment including diet, exercise and herbal supplements proved to be helpful. The mentions treatments are believed to be helpful for women that are in the developmental stage of pre menopause and will be much more helpful in the coming phases if they are used since the first symptom occurs. As an example we might remember that studies proved that implementing lifestyle changes in the pre menopause period, women will be more protected and their bones will be less vulnerable.

It is known that menopause biological changes that are the cause of reducing of estrogen level will increase the risk for osteoporosis. It is recommended the increasing of the calcium levels in the organism. This can be done by eating calcium rich foods such as soy products that can provide protection against bone loss. Another effective menopausal natural treatment includes plenty of exercise and also maintaining weight. These types of exercises that involve weight training are believed to help protect the bones as well.

Pre menopausal women might also experience PMS like symptoms that can be, if not avoided at least alleviates, by giving up the fatty foods and sugar. Another factor that can have not so pleasant consequences among menopausal women is caffeine. It was also proved that reducing its consumption is a wise natural menopause treatment.

Many studies and researches proved that herds are efficient in easing pre menopausal and menopausal symptoms. Among these herbs we can remember Saw Pimento, Black Cohosh, Echinacea, Uva Ursi, Passion Flower or Golden Seal. Each of these herbs has its role. For example Black Cohosh can reduce hot flashes, Golden Seal and Korean Ginseng can help if bladder infections occur, Passion Flower and St. John’s Wort can stabilize mood swings and ease the tension, not only for the menopausal woman but for its family too.

It is good for women to know that using the mentioned treatments during ore menopause, the risks for health problems that are associated with menopause will decrease considerably.

For more resources about menopause or about menopause products please review http://www.menopause-info-guide.com/menopause-products.htm



Beverly