Natural Treatmentsalternative Therapies

When the synthetic medicines were found to provide as much headache and risk as much as relief, man turned back to the ancient medical science to seek answers to modern afflictions as well as the age old afflictions that have affected people.

These are usually contraceptive pills prescribed to women who are pre-menopausal to regulate and slow down the menopausal symptoms.

Natural Treatments/Alternative Therapies


You may want to consider alternatives to hormone therapy to ease menopausal symptoms. Some women decide to take herbal, natural, or plant-based products to help their symptoms. But there is not enough evidence to know if treatments like these are helpful. Tell your doctor if you are taking any of these treatments. They may have side effects or make another drug not work as well. Some of the most common ones are:

* Soy. This contains phytoestrogens (estrogen-like substances from a plant). Some research has shown that soy food products can help with mild hot flashes. Other research suggests that women who have been diagnosed with estrogen-dependent breast cancer should be cautious with their soy intake. Eating large amounts of soy products could be harmful for women with this type of breast cancer.
* Other sources of phytoestrogens. The active ingredients in most dietary supplements for menopause are phytoestrogens chemicals found in plants that may act like the estrogen produced naturally in the body. These include herbs, such as black cohosh, wild yam, dong quai, and valerian root.
* Bioidentical hormone therapy. Bioidentical hormones are custom-mixed formulas containing various hormones that are chemically identical to those naturally made by your body. These over-the-counter products are marketed as being tailored to a woman's individual hormone needs. There are two main types of Bioidentical hormones:
1. Those that are FDA-approved and commercially available with a prescription
2. Those that are mixed on an individual basis for women in compounding pharmacies, which are NOT FDA-approved

It is important to know that alternative therapies can affect medical care by introducing personal belief systems that are not typically a part of the doctor-patient relationship.


More Menopause Information

Also avoid alcohol, caffeine, large meals, and working right before bedtime.

A partial or sub-total hysterectomy, on the other hand, removes the upper part of the uterus and leaves the cervix in the body.

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Soy products in particular have been seen as high beneficial since they are able to provide the required phytoestrogens (plan estrogens) that the menopause depletes from the body.

Other Menopause Article Snippets

Research shows that other symptoms you're having, such as sleep problems, hot flashes, night sweats, and fatigue cause these feelings of despair.

How To Find Out If You Have Premature Menopause
This includes whether you are at risk for heart disease, osteoporosis, and breast cancer.

Coping With Menopause
You should also have a low fat and high fiber diet which has plenty of calcium magnesium and omega3 fatty acids, all foods that help you fight menopause naturally.

Menopause Hot Flashes Is An Unexplained Menopausal Symptom
The research that is being carried out on mice is highly inadequate in terms of human application since mice do not actually get menopause.


However on the flip side of the coin some women are very happy to find out that they are pregnant during menopause.

Women get unusually low spirits during this time, with wild mood swings that scare even them, not to mention those who live with them.

  • Raloxifene is a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (SERM), which preserves bone density and prevents fractures (although not hip fractures).
  • The most common symptoms of menopause are hot flashes or flushes, night sweats, and sleep disturbances.
  • During menopause a womans body slowly produces less of the hormones estrogen and progesterone which often happens between the ages of 45 and 55 years old.
  • In 2002, the WHI estrogen-plus-progestin study was stopped because of an increased risk of breast cancer and because, overall, risks from use of the hormones outweighed the benefits.

 

 

Menopause Article Snippets

"Nothing much can be done about it, other than symptomatically treating the causes."

 

How To Find Out If You Have Premature Menopause

"Menopause diet - an easy way to minimize the negative symptomsPeople today prefer quick-fix methods of handling any disease and symptom associated with it."

Menopause Hot Flashes Is An Unexplained Menopausal Symptom

"One of the emerging trends and also highly accepted ones are vitamin for menopause treatments."

Is It Possible To Diagnose Menopause With A Menopause Test

"There are a number of plant food products that have phytoestrognes which are very easily absorbed by the body."

Coping With Menopause

"It is very important that you will be and stay in touch with a good medical practitioner during this time."

 

"Spotting after Menopause Calls for ConcernWhile it seems very common that women will experience some vaginal bleeding after menopause, it goes with out saying that you need to see your doctor when you spotting after menopause."