Natural Cures For The Menopause

Although it is a fact that women don't enjoy having to face, the menopause is something that comes to every woman. It is a time when women stop ovulating, generally sometime between the ages of forty seven and fifty three, although it can happen either earlier or later as well.

But the biggest problem for most women is that when the menopause strikes, it tends to send her hormones awry, which often plays havoc with moods and feelings. This can also cause hot flushes plus feelings of dizziness and lightheadedness as well as abdominal pain, all of which help to explain why the menopause is so often a time of great unhappiness and misery for many women.

At the same time, the menopause also represents a psychologically difficult and traumatic time as well because it marks the end of her child-bearing years and whilst for many women, this represents something of a blessed relief, this is certainly not the case in every situation. As you would expect, every individual woman deals with the menopause in her own way and the degree or depth of psychological feelings associated with this particular time of life will obviously vary from woman to woman.

In fact, many women suffer the first problems of menopause before the actual 'change' takes place, with lengthening or shortening of the menstrual cycle often being an unpleasant precursor of what is just around the corner. It is a time when vaginal infections can become far more common and the desire to visit the 'smallest room' often becomes far more frequent and more pressing.

Yet another unpleasant side-effect of the menopause that is suffered by many women is an increase of a few pounds in weight, usually piled on around the stomach and waist.

Once again, it is fact that whilst many women really suffer very little at this particular time, still others suffer a great deal more.

All of these things happen because at this time of your life, the levels of the main hormones estrogen and progesterone drop significantly, which causes many functions of your body to go haywire on both a physical and a psychological level.

This is why many women seek to treat the menopause with hormone replacement therapy, with the idea being that by replacing estrogen and progesterone, the hormone balance can somehow be restored so that everything returns to 'normal'. And whilst this will work to a certain extent for some women, for many others it is not particularly effective and most doctors will not recommend this particular therapy unless the menopause symptoms are very severe.

This does not however mean that you're helpless or that there is nothing you can do to offset the worst effects of the onset of menopause.

One thing that you should definitely do is try to be honest about your situation with your loved ones around you, because it is upon them that the duty or burden of social support and the care that you must have will fall. If they don't know what you're going through or what you need, it is bound to be immensely difficult for them to give you the help that you so desire.

Remember that going through the menopause is something that everyone has to put up with at some point in her life, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. Seek support from those closest to you, because doing so is one of the most effective ways of making sure you get through the menopause relatively unscathed.

For many millions of women all over the world, going through the menopause is a time of great stress, discomfort and some hardship. Because it is a time of life when your hormone balance is completely askew, it can often be very difficult to keep a grip on everyday life, hard to keep everything in perspective when everything seems unremittingly grey and heavy.

For the fortunate few, the menopause is on the other hand a time that they simply sail through without any undue pressures or stresses, without either physical discomfort or psychological problems of the kind that it is probably fair to suggest the majority of women suffer whilst enduring the menopause.

The physical causes of the menopause are widely understood, as are many of the symptoms of this particular phase of every females life, such as the inevitable hot flushes, persistent headaches, dizziness and light-headedness. In addition, many women feel depressed and anxious as well, further adding to their general malaise and feelings of unhappiness.

Most women should start to keep an eye open for the first signs of menopause from age 45 onwards, because the majority of women go through this phase of their life between the ages of 47 and 53. However, it is not unknown for women in their 20s and 30s to suffer premature menopause, which is often a sign of ovarian problems that need medical attention.

Because the menopause is caused by hormonal imbalances, many women turn to hormone replacement therapy as a way of dealing with their condition but many medical professionals consider that rendering HRT is an extreme solution that should only be reverted to in the most pressing of circumstances. Hence, whilst many women who are fortunate enough to be the recipients of HRT report that the therapy makes them feel better and that they enjoyed other side benefits such as improved memory, it is not a solution that will automatically be made available to everyone.

Thus, it is fortunate that there are many other natural 'treatments' that you can learn about in 'Natural ways to overcome the menopause' that you can start using as soon as the first signs of menopause strike.

Many of these things are straightforward, logical and easy to implement, with such basics as regular exercise forming an integral part of any logical natural 'treatment' program for dealing with the menopause.

There are also plenty of herbs that you can use that are widely believed to offset the most unpleasant side-effects of the menopause, and again, there is plenty of detail about all of these herbs contained in 'Natural ways to overcome the menopause'.

This really is a 'natural menopause treatment' bible that any woman can use to deal with the worst effects of the onset of menopause. Assuming that you want to get through the menopause as easily as possible, this is a book that I would recommend you should consider, because it will help you deal with the menopause far more effectively (and painlessly) than you might otherwise do.