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Aug/10
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Menopause and Its Various Symptoms



Menopause is a crucial step in the life of any woman and it’s not always a very restful period. The crossing of this important period can sometimes create several symptoms whom you could surely live without… But which you will easily overcome within a short time!

Menopause is quite a natural process in the aging stages of women. The term (menopause) means (end of menstruation). It is at this precise moment in time when a woman’s ovaries begin to produce a smaller amount of estrogen and progesterone, two of the main hormones necessary for reproduction. While the average women age for menopause is 52 years, some women will start to feel its effects in their mid-forties, while others will feel no signs of menopause before their late fifties. It may also take several years before the complete cessation of menstruation and disappearance of occurring symptoms. This is because the body goes through a period of per-menopause, menopause and then post-menopause. A woman who has no menstruation during a full year has generally completed her process of menopause.

What are those symptoms?

All do not experience menopause in the same manner and to the same degree of intensity. An estimated 10 to 15 percent of them pass through this period of their lives without symptom, while the same proportion of women will experience significant symptoms. The culture and diet have much to do with the symptoms intensity of the menopause. Other effects, such as urinary problems, irregularity of sleep, mood swings, irritability and decreased libido may also occur. Ask your health care professional for more information’s. In addition to urinary problems sleep disorders, mood swings and decreased libido, sometimes women are met with a variety of other symptoms which tend to occur more often than others:

Hot flashes.

Hot flashes are the most frequent of symptoms. Unpleasant, those bursts of heat, however, are not regarded as dangerous for the general health. Among some women, those hot flashes occur more intensely during the night. We then speak of (night sweats).

Vaginal dryness

If your sex becomes uncomfortable, it may be that the decreased production of estrogen dry your vaginal wall, making it less elastic and thinner

Osteoporosis

The decreased bone mass in women starts at the young age of 30 years and estrogen deficiency postmenopausal accentuates this phenomenon. This is called osteoporosis. Between three to four years after menopause, bone mass density annually decreases by 2.5 percent. It eventually decreases to 0.75 percent per year. Foods rich in calcium and soy as well as vitamin D supplements prevents loss of bone mass. Moreover, an examination of bone density called a bone microdensitometer test can be done to discover the state of your bones density and help you to prevent fractures.

Swelling or weight gain

Weight gain during menopause is normal but difficult to stop because the fat distribution changes and focuses more easily in the stomach.

PREVENTION QUESTION

To balance your estrogen deficiency, consume soybeans products and products which contains plants estrogen sources. Eat whole grain food products and foods rich in calcium. If you’re tired of hot flashes, then reduce your meat consumptions, coffee, alcohol, cigarettes and spicy foods for a while and focus on low fat dairy products. Chiropractic adjustment can help reduce joint pains, muscle pains and stress that often accompanies the menopause. It will balance your hormones and endocrine systems and will reduce the intensity of hot flashes and your feeling of swelling. You can cross the stage of menopause in all serenity: informs yourself! after all your femininity is well worth it!

14
Apr/09
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Meteorosensitivity: the gray sky and mood swings

You ever had to feel a low mood, tired and exhausted when it’s raining outside and the sky is colored a dark gray?
As it happens too often that mood changes and physical disturbances are felt to influence the climatic conditions or the change of seasons, then you have a real disease: the Meteor sensitivity.

The subject meteorosensibile, due to constitutional factors or acquired, has a particular predisposition to contract the Meteor sensitivity syndrome due to weather variations.

The person concerned starts to feel the symptoms before we realize the climate change, well in advance.
Climate change must be sharp to trigger the symptoms, which usually has induced acute and an equally rapid alleviation or disappearance with the cessation of weather conditions for the occurrence, or the realization of the climatic situation opposite.

The Meteor sensitivity, elderly affects both children, and in particular, people under stress. Bruschi weather can cause imbalances in Meteoric real shock weather, attacking the body.

The most famous are the Meteor sensitivity anemopatie, as the syndrome of the sirocco, the syndrome of wind east, Fhon syndrome, the syndrome of the South Wind and the syndrome of the desert wind; syndromes periods of thunderstorms, and the syndromes face cyclones.

He then speaks syndrome secondary Meteor sensitivity when climate change causes an acute exacerbation of chronic inflammatory or degenerative, as a result of abrupt climate changes, such as in a crisis of breathing difficulties in asthmatics and hepatic or renal colic in calculus.

Each organ or system that is already chronically ill appears to be an easy target for events meteoropathy.
In the case rather than to be hit are healthy subjects, Meteor sensitivity is manifested in the form of insomnia, restlessness, irritability, weakness, apathy, depression or hyperactivity.
The preliminary phase called prodromal, occurs even days before the storms, and is caused by the rise in positive ions in the air.

The subject feels respiratory functional changes and a state of hyper excitability Neurosis.
The stage where the disease takes place is configured with a state of decline, lowering blood pressure and depression.
But what are the possible remedies to the evil of the time?
The pharmacological treatments that are both natural anti-inflammatory to relieve pain, antihistamines for allergic reactions and a valuable aid are the care with acupuncture.
It can also diagnose Meteor sensitivity even in the absence of symptoms: There is indeed a test (Gualtierotti-Tromp) which controls the operation of the system of thermoregulation’s body.