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Menopause Help!! Four Ideas For Menopause Relief |
| Estrogen replacement therapy need not be the only or even the main approach to bring menopause help. Research and real world use is finding that many natural supplements work just as well if not better in bringing relief for menopausal symptoms. This article presents four of the highly effective natural suppliements that bring menopause help. |
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If you’re a woman you will go through the menopause. In fact, if you’re a man it is looking more and more like you will go through your own version of menopause. But this article is focused on women. We’ll talk about what men can expect and do later.
The majority of women experience the arrival of menopause between the ages of 45 and 55. It can begin before and after – but this range is fairly representative..
You go through changes that impact the chemical composition of the reproductive system. Your hormones change and this begins a variety of symptoms including: increased anger, the dreaded hot flash, emotional changes, depression, confused or less clear thinking, and more.
Most women will try to get menopause help by finding products and/or activities that reduce the symptoms. We want to feel better, our mates and those closets to us want us to feel better. In fact, there is emerging data strongly indicating that a alarmingly high percentage of marriages and intimate relationships break up during this time. This is due to a lack of understanding on everyone’s part.
Traditionally, some kind of hormone therapy or hormone replacement therapy to be exact has been recommended. These days, there is growing evidence that this can be dangerous and perhaps even a cancer causer.
Happily, there are a variety of supplements, natural, non-chemical, non-drug related supplements that can help you to control these symptoms. A large and growing body of evidence has been uncovered as to the benefits of natural supplements for everyone – but during menopause women can reap even greater benefits.
For women ( and men also by the way) who do not want to take the risks associated with hormone replacement therapy great benefit can be derived from some of these essential natural supplements.
Let’s take a look at just a few.
Black Cohosh
Black Cohosh is a flowering plant that grows naturally in the Eastern USA and Candada. It contains phytoestrogens that are thought to relieve symptoms of menopause. well actually they seem to do that very well for many. Chemically what happens is that this natural supplement binds with the remaining estrogen in the body. These “plant” provided estrogens work very well with the natural estrogen already in the body…it’s like getting reinforcements….but not as drastic as using the chemical based replacement therapy estrogen. Some of the benefits of Black Cohosh are touted to be the relief of night sweats, ansxiety and depression.
Dong Quai
Dong Quai is also known as “Chinese Angelica” and is a herb native to China and the East. This natural supplement also provides phytoestrogens that bind to the estrogen receptors in the body so more reinforcements! In particular Dong Quai is known to increase blood flow by dilating blood vessels, well this will help to ease the night sweats, and vaginal dryness associated with menopause. In addition, Dong Quai is a mild sedative, so menopause help related to anxiety reduction is possible.
Red Clover
Red Clover is another supplement that has been researched extensively and is native to Europe and Asia. Red Clover has been shown to reduce mood swings and hot flashes extensively. In addition, Red Clover contains helpful amounts of vitamins and mineral including magnesium, niacin, calcium, potassium and Vitamin C.
Maca Root
Maca Root is native to South America and helps to replace estrogen lost and actually can increase the libido by mimicking the female sex hormone. Some of the benefits are a moderation of mood swings, increased sex drive and it seems to increase the amount of “good” cholesterol in the blood stream.
There are more natural supplements for providing menopause help but we will address those later.
We need menopause help, we need relief from some of the symptoms of something we can’t avoid….the menopause. By using natural supplements, among other things, we can lessen symptom intensity and get through the menopause journey in a more vital way!
Solid Rock is a organization concerned with the health of men and women today. The President of Solid Rock is actaully going through "male" menopause!
Learn more at http://www.menopausemoodswings.com
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Posted 2008-10-28 07:36:38 By Kenneth Meyer
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