When my mother went through “the change”, her house felt like an ice box. Just like many other women in the perimenopause, hot flash were one of her common complaints. To make matters worse, she worked on the shift of the cemetery at a time when her body needed any extra ounce of support. Lack of sleep, insufficient food and stress of work have only worsened her perimenopause experience.
Perimenopause is defined as the transition time between the fertile years of a woman and her menopausal years, which is characterized by 12 consecutive months without menstruation. For most women this happens around the age of 50, but can take place for others later in some and even in the late 1930s. As a society we are taught that it is normal for women to go through perimenopause to experience hot flashes, moodiness, nocturnal sweating, reduced libido and fatigue, but the symptoms seem to vary from culture to culture. For example, women in India do not have many complaints outside of menstrual changes, while Japanese women report shoulder stiffness. Many studies have shown that Japanese women consume a larger amount of soy -rich in Fyto -Strogens, which can be a reason why they do not report hot flashes, but this probably also has more to do with other lifestyle and nutritional factors.
If I don’t already emphasize the adverse role in this series in this series, let me do this again! In my first few years that customers saw one-on-one for nutritional advice, the vast majority were women in perimenopause or somewhat older women who had hysterectomies at a younger age and suddenly had perimenopause symptoms. All these women had one thing in common: their adrenal glands needed some TLC!
When a woman enters the perimenopause, her ovaries begin to delay the release of eggs. These eggs produce most of the progesterone in the body of a woman to prepare the womb when the egg is fertilized. As soon as the unfertilized egg leaves during menstruation, including the increase in progesterone. For women in perimenopause, the adrenal glands take responsibility to produce progesterone when the ovaries leave or stop releasing eggs. For many women, the adrenal glands simply cannot keep track of. Chronic stress exhausts the adrenal glands. Maybe you remember in my previous post pregnolone stealsIn which cortisol is priority above progesterone. Ultimately, the combination of stress and perimenopause can leave the progesterone of a woman exhausted.
I encourage all women to have a hormone panel done with your annual physical. It helps to know where your hormone levels are. I am not a fan of synthetic hormones because of their potential consequences. For more information, view the Nurses Health Study.
We are all organic unique. The beauty of whole herbs is in their huge series of voters. Where a voter can be what the body of a person at that time needs, another component of the same herb can serve a different purpose for someone else. In my next post I will emphasize some of my favorite herbs to support women through perimenopause.
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Writer Danielle Cicak is the sales representative of Noord -Colorado and Wyoming and regional educator for Wishgarden Herbs in Louisville, Colorado. In 2003, Danielle started working her career in the supplement gangs with Natural Grocers. Inspired to help others with their health and well -being, she followed a training in holistic diet of the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Denver, Colorado. As a Master Nutrition Therapist (MNT), Danielle served as a food health coach (NHC) before he improved to become the NHC development specialist where it led and developed the NHC training program for natural grocers. As a resident of Colorado, Danielle is delighted to work with another local, family business that promotes health and activism through education: Wishgarden Herbs! In her spare time she likes to spend time with family and friends, creating healthy dishes in her kitchen and enjoying the beauty that Colorado has to offer!
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