Menopause Symptoms and Challenges

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How do you get rid of symptoms of menopause?

Very few doctors give their patients a complete list of menopause symptoms. And besides symptoms of menopause, there are premenopause symptoms and perimenopause symptoms.

First, it's a long list, to be sure. And a woman's time in a doctor's office could get very long if she asked about even just a few of these.

Whatever the reason, here is a full list of the premenopause, perimenopause and symptoms of menopause. You may want to take a moment to consider each one, as some are very subtle and have no real outward symptoms.

Each of the menopause symptoms shown here can be related to hormone imbalance, poor diet, lack of exercise, excessive alcohol consumption, a lack of or poor quality of sleep, exposure to household chemicals, environmental toxins, synthetic hormone replacement therapy, birth control pills and stress.

If you have one or more of these symptoms, you need to re-evaluate your health and wellness!

- Aching joints and muscle aches and weakness
- Allergies
- Arthritis
- Breast tenderness, painful breasts and swelling
- Chronic fatigue
- Cold or tingling hands and feet
- Craving sweets, caffeine, junk food and carbohydrates
- Depression, anxiety
- Dizziness, lightheadedness
- Dry and itchy eyes
- Dry, thin, or wrinkly skin
- Endometriosis
- Facial hair growth
- Fibrocystic breasts
- Gallbladder pain
- Hair loss, thinning hair
- Headaches, migraines
- Heart palpitations
- Heavy or light periods
- Hot flashes
- Hypoglycemia or low blood sugar
- Inability to sleep or sleeping excessively (insomnia or hypersomnia)
- Incontinence or urinary symptoms
- Irregular and erratic periods
- Irritability, inability to handle stress
- Lack of concentration, foggy and fuzzy thinking
- Leg cramps
- Low energy and fatigue
- Low metabolism
- Lower sex drive, loss of sex drive
- Menstrual cramping
- Morning sluggishness
- Mood swings
- Memory lapses or memory loss
- Night sweats
- Osteoporosis and bone loss
- Ovarian cysts
- Painful intercourse
- PMS
- Ringing, buzzing in ears
- Spotting, light bleeding
- Symptoms of hypothyroidism with normal T3 and T4
- Unstable blood sugar
- Urinary tract infections
- Uterine fibroids
- Vaginal infections
- Water retention and bloating
- Weight gain, especially in hips, waist and stomach
- Yeast infections

You can begin to solve these symptoms of menopause now! An astonishing number of these premenopause, perimenopause and menopause symptoms are related to estrogen dominance or a deficiency of progesterone in the body.

Both estrogen and progesterone are produced in the women's ovaries. After menopause, the production of estrogen drops to 40-60 percent of what it once was. On the other hand, the production of progesterone declines to zero after menopause.

Balance your hormones yourself!

By using phytosterols (PLUS) you can safely reduce or eliminate unwanted premenopause signs and menopause symptoms.

Phytosterols (PLUS), are natural substances found in plants. When humans eat plant foods, phytosterols are ingested and can naturally balance the hormone system before, during and after menopause restoring the body to its optimal functioning without causing side effects. A PLUS capsule taken two or three times a day will cost less than your morning cup of coffee.

In 3-4 months, you will be able to judge for yourself, because most of your symptoms of menopause should start going away because you are reducing hormone imbalance. The PLUS vital nutrient does a fine job of rebalancing your system so you don't have symptoms of menopause!

Lifestyle changes to help correct hormone imbalance and reduce menopause symptoms!

- Improve your diet by including protein, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. A healthy diet will improve your long term health, will reduce your hormone imbalance and menopause symptoms and will allow you to live longer and healthier.

- Increase your physical activity by exercising. Women who exercise will begin sleeping better, having more energy, looking younger, fewer menopause symptoms, and bones and connective tissues will be stronger.

You will start losing weight and maintaining a more positive outlook. The list goes on! The key is to make exercise a lifelong habit.

With exercise, women have better sex lives and reduce hormone imbalance.

Exercise is known to improve your mood, and it also boosts your immune system which helps protect you from infectious diseases.

- Reduce stress in your daily life. Stress stimulates your body to produce more cortisol, androgens, epinephrine and adrenaline. According to Dr. John R. Lee, cortisol inhibits progesterone production by the ovaries. Also with stress, your body will produce high levels of cortisol that can significantly reduce progesterone production and cause estrogen dominance.

Too much cortisol in the body reduces progesterone production, causes diabetes, high blood pressure, weakens your immune system, leads to overeating, and eliminates essential minerals and vitamins in the body. All this adds to increased menopause symptoms.

- Reduce your exposure to household chemicals by using natural cleaning products. Regular commercial household cleaning products are petroleum-based. According to Dr. John Lee and other physicians, exposure to the chemicals found in these cleaners disrupt the endocrine system's function which includes the glands that make brain hormones, insulin, thyroid, adrenal and reproductive system hormones.

Another aspect of health is related to regular drinking of clean, pure water every day.

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