Menopause and Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Menopause and Pelvic Organ Prolapse

By Elizabeth Carrollton  

If you're a woman who is approaching menopause age or already going through the change of life, you've probably been told that you'll have to be more careful about your health, since the risk of certain diseases and health conditions increases after menopause. However, there is one very common health condition that often occurs with or after menopause that many doctors don't think to mention – pelvic organ prolapse (POP).

While POP isn't generally life-threatening or even particularly dangerous, severe cases of this pelvic floor disorder can have a big impact on a woman's quality of life. Catching and treating it in its early stages can help prevent it from progressing to that point.

Prolapse

Pelvic organ prolapse is caused by deterioration in the strength and tone the pelvic floor, which is the sheet of muscles and connective tissues that provides support to the pelvic organs, such as the bladder, uterus, rectum and small intestine. POP happens when the pelvic floor becomes weakened to the point that it can no longer support organs properly, allowing them to slip away from their normal position and fall lower in the pelvis, creating excess pressure on the vagina.

Risk and Menopause

While pelvic organ prolapse frequently appears after the age of 50, the pelvic floor damage that leads to it typically begins years earlier. It is most often linked to the pressure, strain and stretching that occurs in the pelvic floor during pregnancy and childbirth. Other factors that can contribute include obesity, chronic coughing or constipation, a history of frequent heavy lifting, and smoking. Then, as menopause approaches, estrogen loss can reduce the elasticity of those already compromised pelvic floor tissues, allowing POP to happen.

Signs and Symptoms

POP doesn't always produce symptoms. The range of symptoms commonly reported includes pain and pressure in the lower abdomen, and vaginal pain or bleeding. Urinary problems are common, such as incontinence, urine retention and chronic urinary tract infections. Bowel dysfunction can occur, leading to incontinence or chronic constipation. A bulge can develop inside the vagina, and in some cases, organs may fall into the vaginal canal and can protrude from the vaginal opening.

Treatments

Pelvic organ prolapse can often be managed or improved with treatments that include physical therapy to strengthen pelvic muscles, weight loss to reduce pelvic pressure, dietary changes to reduce issues like constipation and incontinence, and bioidentical hormone therapy to enhance tissue elasticity and health.

When non-invasive treatments fail and symptoms are severe, surgery may be the best option. However, it is very important to be well-informed on the various surgical options for POP repair, since some are riskier than others.

Of particular concern are procedures that use vaginal mesh implants, which have been associated with high rates of serious complications. Among the most common problems were mesh erosion, mesh protrusion, organ perforation, pain and infection, and mesh shrinkage, often causing intense pain, vaginal shortening and sexual dysfunction. Vaginal mesh lawsuits have been filed against makers of mesh products by women suffering from these complications.  Non-mesh surgeries are safer and can resolve most cases of POP, so be sure to discuss them with your doctor.

Elizabeth Carrollton writes to inform the general public about defective medical devices and dangerous drugs for Drugwatch.com.

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How Safe Are Bioidentical Hormones?

AnnA Rushton comments: "The most common argument I hear against the use of bio-identical hormones is that they have not been subjected to a formal drug approval process so how can we know they are safe? The reality is that there have been trials of natural progesterone and with thousands of doctors prescribing bio-identical hormones around the world and millions of women using them it’s fair to say this constitutes a body of evidence, overwhelmingly compelling, that natural hormones are safe and effective.”

"Women are increasingly concerned about the risks of taking HRT but unless you are lucky enough to have a doctor that prescribes natural alternatives you've had nowhere to go to for the information you need to make an informed choice." said AnnA Rushton, the editor of Bio-Hormone-Health.com and a consistent champion of natural hormones through her articles, books and talks.


http://lovemyhormones.blogspot.com/2011/02/studies-are-showing-bioidentical.html


Legal Disclaimer: Hopefully you have found information on this blog inspiring and useful, but do remember it is not a substitute for personal medical advice. Self medicating with BHRT is not advisable!   Always consult your own medical advisor, be it your doctor, or Holistic Medical doctors specialising in anti ageing, bioidentical hormone therapy. lf you have any concerns about any aspect of health or hormonal functioning.

Are Bioidencal Hormones Censored In the UK

"All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed, Second it is violently opposed, Third it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, (1788-1860)

" Great thinkers have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" ~ Albert Einstein

Albert quote above hits a raw nerve with alternative, complementary therapists and healers, so nothing new there, that fact is age old and will never change. We're always going to be decided into two camps, whither we are talking about bioidentical hormones, alternative or complementary therapies; and as one physicist, who requested anonymity stated, "New ideas are always criticized - not because an idea lacks merit, but because it might turn out to be workable, which would threaten the reputations of many people whose opinions conflict with it. Some people may even lose their jobs."  

Bioidentical hormones fall into the alternative health category and therefore they won't receive much medical, media or airplay, so many people have no idea over here in the UK, or Ireland for that matter. Before I heard about bioidentcail on a the Oprah show, I was desperate to find a cure for the menopause and I searched all the major books stores in London. Much to my surprised not one book about bioidentcail was on on any shelf and that fact alone, made me wonder if bioidentcal hormones has been censored here in the UK. All that was available was traditional herbal remedies and diet approaches. Had there been at least one book about bio's I'd have bought it, and have saved myself another year of sheer emotional and physical hell. I have all the most traditional books that treat the menopause with natural herbs and diet, was a waste of money for me, herbs or diet never worked for me. I was eating herbs like sweets and they had no effect whatsoever my menopausal symptoms.

One of the books that I bought was Katie Neil & Patrick Holford book Balancing Hormones Naturally, although their diet failed to work for me, they did devoted a very tiny paragraph to bioidentical hormones. They did not cover bios in a great details, merely mentioned rubbing on some bio progesterone from day 14-28th day of every month. Basically the same advice that is given by many private doctors over here in the UK, that do believe in bioidenticals and offer progesterone privately to their patients, but only for a small dot of cream to be rubbed on the arm from day 14 to 28th of every months.

The problem with that - you aren’t just losing progesterone, but also oestrogen, and you won’t be restoring your hormones to sufficient levels that would permit your body to cycle again. I had contacted a number of doctors in London after I heard about bio's and enquired if they offer hormonal cycling, the answer was always no.

One of the doctor's that I consulted for BHRT, said when I asked about the Wiley Protoco: "She didn't believe that women who had reached post menopause should have their periods restored." Although, she did offer a prescription for progesterone.  She took out a small syringe of progesterone and demonstrated how to use a small dot of progesterone by rubbing on to the underside of her arm.

I was more than surprised and in that moment, I knew I had to search for another BHRT doctor!

Bioidentical therapy works best when it is talored for each woman, as set by the levels of your recent blood tests, because a dot of any type of bioidentical cream, may suit you, but could send my body crazy looking for more!  I felt crazy enought at the time and I mean locking up crazy.

" Great thinkers have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" ~ Albert Einstein

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Hormones And Ageing - The Cancer Link

"Inventions rarely come from people within an industry, but, instead come from people on the outside who aren't under the same limiting beliefs and habitual thinking that forms within any organization or industry."  ~ Dr. James Asher  

Dr Joseph Dubroff in his article Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) and Age Related Decline, talked about the use of bioidentical hormones as a way to avoid cancer and other related health problems. He suggested that, "All mid 30 women and men should have their estrogen, and progesterone ratio checked around their mid 30s. Breast cancer has been associated with older women not younger women. Considerable breast cancer rates start in women’s mid to late 30s. The incidence of this cancer increases as women grow older. As a woman gets into their 30s they start to enter what is called perimenopause. This stage of life is marked by a decline in progesterone and then later in years a decline in estrogens resulting in menopause. This leaves a high estrogen to progesterone ratio. This is one example of what is commonly called estrogen dominance which can lead to estrogen positive cancers such as breast, endometrial and others. Progesterone is the counterpart to estrogen and is protective of estrogenic effects." 

  "I am 45 and I have the mind and body I had when I was 25 and that is because I'm healthy inside. My estrogen levels are normal. My metabolic chemistry is normal. I don't suffer from hot flashes. I sleep at night. I don't have headaches. I have plenty of energy. My skin is smooth and supple. My hair is soft and full. My eyes are not dry. My stomach is flat. I don't have panic attacks or heart palpitations. I have a memory. I can multi task. I know you want all these things too. And you can have them. Just don't be afraid of your oestrogen. ~ Dr. Gretchen Jones

http://www.lovemyhormones.blogspot.com/

Dr Dubroff specializes in bioidentical hormones. He takes a three prong approach to holistic medicine. Scientific evidence based botanical/nutritional medicine, stimulating the individual’s natural resources to heal.


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Declining Oestrogen and Menopause Solution

"Far too many people die by not helping themselves.  Afraid to seek alternative natural healing therapies, just because the medical profession told them that their condition was incurable. So they do NOTHING. Self healing is an act of self LOVE."   ~  Marie Hart

Oestrogen is a natural hormone that is produced by the body. Females begin producing what is call E2 oestrogen in the ovaries as their bodies mature from childhood to adulthood. As the ovaries produce oestrogen, a female begins her childbearing years. At puberty women produces eggs each month & if not fertilized, they will be flushed from the body along with the lining of the uterus that the body prepared for nurturing a baby. This is the menstrual cycle that occurs every 28 days (like clockwork for most women).

Once the menstrual cycles begin, they continue uninterrupted -- except for pregnancies -- until the woman's body begins to put an end to the childbearing years.

As the body ends its decades-long production of oestrogen, the ovaries will stop releasing the egg each month, and the body will stop preparing for a pregnancy that can't happen. The body isn't fond of change, and so it naturally rebels against this lack of oestrogen. Left untreated, the woman's body will adjust to the lack of oestrogen. As the body makes its adjustments, the symptoms of menopause abate naturally. The problem is with the symptoms caused with the process of menopause and not with menopause itself.

And these symptoms of menopause can be brutal. There are night sweats. Some women have such severe night sweats that they must get up and change their night clothes and even their bedsheets.

Another symptom of menopause is a hot flash or hot flush. This is an intense feeling of heat that suffuses the body….usually just the upper body. A hot flash is like no other feeling, and when a woman experiences her first one, she doesn't need anybody to tell her what just happened.

Oestrogen decline eventually hits a zero level, causes many symptoms of menopause, but with time, these symptoms do subside on their own but with health consequences.  For that reason, the process of the post menopause isn't plain sailing and a majority of women are left walking tight ropes with their minds and physical bodies behaving oddly, not realising they are now prone to major health conditions and diseases.



Dr Gretchen Jones spelled out the pitts falls of the menopause when she said in her blog, " It's true, if you have no hormones the path way will surely be either, "Cancer, Dementia, Auto Immune diseases ) like Lupus, Arthrities, DJD), Heart dieases, Osteoporsis (which means hip fractures, Knee Replacements).  Just to name a few. I see it everyday in my office ladies! So for all you men out there get your wives to see the changes in them. George did and Arlene has been on the Wiley protocol for only 1 month and even "I" can see the changes beginning in her. Mainstream medicine plays that factor down but Holistic MD doctors now advise women to seek alternative herbs or bioidentical hormones to ensure they maintain long-term mental clarity and optimal health.

Women are forced towards synthetic HRT simply because the side effects of oestrogen withdrawal is too much, but they don't realise,   "Synthetic drugs posed as hormones are not oestrogen. Low doses of oestrogen given in the same dose every day is not hormone replacement, it is symptom management as reported by Dr. Gretchen Jones

There's a huge drive forward for bioidentical hormones for conscious modern women who share cutting edge minds for anti ageing methods to maintain their fully functioning minds, control body weight as they progress into middle years, optimal health, hang on to multi-tasking ability and have productive lives beyond the menopause.

Many women who decide to 'Embrace the 'Change.' They are told to enjoy the journey, by the other women who have bought into the Natural Hype about the menopause being all natural as spun by the medical profession. Unfortunately these women will suffer the most. Totally locked into mainstream indoctrination, they will all follow similar patterns of health deterioration as their mothers and grandmothers.

The only difference from previous generations, is time and knowledge. Bioidentical hormones are available and has the potential to liberate women and men from the natural so called age makers.



Dr Gretchen Jones said, " The data compiled by scientific experts who disagree with the absurd notion that ageing humans should stand by and do nothing to reduce their risk of degenerative disease and claim that natural approaches are not effective in maintaining optimal health and can cause disease is amazing to me." 

There are two reasons why mainstream aren't interested in helping women to hang on to normal mentally and bodily functioning pre perimenopasue, because that would mean supplying anti ageing therapy and keeping us healthy. That would go against the Standard Health Care given world wide because both the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies are in the business of controlling and managing health conditions and diseases once you become unwell.

Secondly, pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in natural medicine as a whole. In case of bioidentical hormones even more so a no-no, because they are 'natural plant based' which are tweaked in the lab and turn into creams, but no synthetic chemicals are added. The Pharmaceutical companies cannot patent natural substances and make oodles of profits. They prefer to add chemical twists to natural substances, brand and make huge financial gains.

I have to repeat these two main reasons often, for women reading my blog for the first time, to help them escape the heavy conditioning that mainstream medicine has instilled, by their persistence in using outdated anatomy & physiology as set since modern medicne began and moved away from natural medicine.

"Hormone replacement for women is a passion of mine. I believe all women should have the opportunity to restore lust and love, sleep, lose weight, muscle, bone health, reduce depression and anxiety and be able to restore your health and get that youthful physiologic response from your body back. " Dr.  Gretchen Jones 

Inspiration: Dr Gretchen Jones is not just talking from medical experience, she also uses bioidentical hormones to keep her healthy.



Why So Many Think Estrogen Is Dangerous for Womenhttp://lovemyhormones.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-do-so-many-think-estrogen-is.html



George Wants His Wife Back
http://lovemyhormones.blogspot.com/2009/07/74-year-old-george-wants-his-wife-back_10.html



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Perimenopause Symptoms

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~ Helen Keller

The signs and signals that menopause is approaching can be from 2 to 8 years before menopause actually begins. For some women they can notice an emotional kick as they hit forty. Usually just a slight emotional hiccup that they just can't quite put a finger on what has changed within. Some report their forties was a time when they started to sleep less and couldn't resolve their insomnia. Emotional changes to how we feel and sleep patterns occur because hormone levels can begin to fluctuate many years before the onset of menopause. Confirming that menopause is actually complete is usually defined by a woman not having a menstrual cycle for a full year.

But before the menstrual cycle ceases, hormones fluctuate greatly. Sometimes a woman many skip an entire menstrual cycle and then have two very close together. The irregularity is caused by the irregularity of the oestrogen being produced.

Often when a woman has early symptoms of menopause, she will be convinced that she has become pregnant only to find out that she is not. She has simply skipped a period. This is often the first early sign that menopause is going to ensue within 2 to 8 years. Most of the time after one skipped period, the woman will have months of perfectly regular menstrual cycles, t the skipped period down to nerves or something similar, and not even realize that a warning buzzer has sounded.

Another symptom of menopause is hot flushes.  This is a terribly uncomfortable feeling of heat washing over your body almost like a wave of fire. Some women experience extreme coldness as the heat subsides.


 Night sweats are also another very common physical symptom of menopause that accompanies a great deal of sweating. I've known some women to literally have to change bedding and even pillows due to night sweats. You could well experience once a year a hot flush or night sweat, which does not indicate that menopause has in fact begun. Often there's a few years of menopausal symptoms that appear and disappear. Only when these symptoms happen often do they become certain indicators that menopause is in full swing.

Mood swings are an indication of menopause, as well. However, mood swings are also associated with just regular menstrual cycles. So just being a little moody is not necessarily a sign that menopause has begun, but it can be if they are more persistent.

Dry skin, weight gain, and increased urinary tract infections are also early symptoms of menopause.

Always listen to your body, even the slightest symptom or pain has a reason to reveal. It's the only way to keep a check on your overall health.


Always be WILLING investigate and don't be hasty in just taking pain killers, you will just silence the messenger.


If the menopause seems to be edging closer to you, it will be time to start your own research on how best to help your mind and body deal with all teh body changes that comes with hormones declining.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.  ~ Lindsay Wagner


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Natural Menopause?

Defining Natural Menopause & What It Means In Reality


"Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature." ~ W.H. Auden
  The medical community generally defines menopause as the cessation of menstrual cycles. That definition, in my opinion, is about as accurate as one describing a hurricane as a rainstorm. There is a lot more to the process of menopause than simply the cessation of menstrual cycles.
Speaking with experience, the menopause certainly lives up to its reputation,  ' The Change Of Life!'  Spare me the roars, ' The menopause is natural,' ' Natural rites of passage for women,' ' Menopause is the second part of your life,'  The menopause is a time for self discovery,' 'The menopause brings freedom to enjoy great sex,' etc.

Where's the Natural Menopause when  it makes you very ill as your whole body starts to malfunction?

What life are they talking about? The life you try so hard to remember that doesn't exist any more.  With your memory failing big time, besides depression and a host of health complaints, if someone  shouted and pointed ' Over here to get a life,"  you'd run for cover and hide till they were gone!


Oh yes, the menopause is a time for self -discovery, any given moment suddenly tuning into new painful symptoms and sensations, hot flushes, headaches, insomnia, joint aches, unwanted weight gain, loss of confidence, and libido.  I could happily type on and never run out of symptoms, but I don't want to make you feel depressed.

Great sex, in deed. A sexual mood would have to hit you like a tidal wave and even at that, with no natural lubricants, the pain wouldn't let you even want to even try and no amount of k-jelly works like nature.

Menopause is puberty in reverse. Do you remember when you were a young teenager? You were emotional, to say the very least. You could be happy and carefree one minute, and in the depths of depression the next over a broken fingernail.

Your body was doing weird things and sending out signals that were new and confusing -- not to mention flooding your body with hormones that caused your face to break out, always at the worst possible moment. First, you needed a bra. Hair started to grow in places other than your head.

All in all, puberty wasn't just a whole heck of a lot of fun. Menopause isn't any fun, either, but it doesn't have to be the end of the world. You survived puberty. You've probably survived childbirth. You will survive menopause, and frankly, on the other side of the process, if you seek SELF-help measures. While it's said, that there's a lot of freedom given by the menopause, that you haven't even gotten around to considering yet. For many women, there's a lot of health misery they won't have had any notion of either.

Freedom, you ask? You main gain freedom having joined the menopause club but it comes with a price? Well, for one thing, you may well rejoice that those monthly cramps are a thing of the past once menopause is complete. You will be able to thumb your nose at the "feminine products" aisle at the grocery store. You aren't likely to ever have another zit. You won't have to worry any longer about birth control or the possibility of getting pregnant, but for many women there is endless health problems to deal with from emotional, mental ability, physically symptoms that cross over into effecting physical ability. No matter how you dress up the so called freedoms provided by the menopause losing your periods comes with a huge personal feminine price.

Yes, menopause is the cessation of the menstrual cycle. On the other side of the process of called menopause, you are going to find a lot of freedom that you never even dreamed of.  In reality many women have to dig deep to find natural solutions for health problems they never dreamed about, not alone say, learn to live with them.

Even the women who have said with pride, “I never even knew that I was in the menopause, I had not even one hot flush, nothing. I sailed through it.” As if the menopause crimes again womanhood ended with no symptoms of having entered menopause or post.

Yet, if you asked these woman do they sleep at night, most will say they can't sleep all night; they have weight issues they cannot resolve; suffer extreme memory lapses, mood swings more than usual, lack energy to carry out a normal day's work, so good for natural menopause?  Besides they are often no longer at the driving wheel of meaningful and exciting lives. I have noticed many have simply withdrawn from life and if you look closely you will see there is no sparkle of life left in their eyes. What these menopausal symptomless women, didn't realise at the time, was their health troubles could have been silently developing and ten years later show up as conditions and diseases.

As example here's a selection of friends: four of whom were ten years post menopause. Four had to deal with breast cancer, one with ovarian. Sadly, one didn't make it. Another suffering with heart disease and another diabetes. The ten years post ladies, had all gushed how well the menopause had treated them. Unlike the women that face health challenges from the very second their hormones start to slip away, their missing periods were replaced with real health conditions and diseases.


Untold told numbers of women believe the menopause is natural that the medical profession has instilled; but the truth lies in the fact, yes, the menopause is natural biological process, BUT only if we were dying between the ages of 40 and 45 as we did a 100-years ago.  Before the full onslaught of the menopause. We are not suppose to live without vital hormones and to be clear, your not just losing sexual hormones, all your hormones dwindle every year. But, there's no need to suffer from having a Natural Menopause, you can now choose to Avoid or Escape the Menopause, just by using the Wiley Protocol. Other BHRT methods will simply restore your hormones to a level you have no negative menopausal symptoms. The choice is yours as to how far you rejuvenate yourself.

Every day mainstream churn out conflicting advise about BHRT to deter women from taking control of their bodies and lives using natural herbs and healing therapies. They say BHRT can't restore women's health, zest of life once menopause takes over. Research and you will undercover inspiring news!


Yet, bioidentical hormones have been around for years and I mean years. Pioneer MD doctors have been keeping a close eye on side effects and any noted any difficulties with Bio's and guess what? So far, they haven''t been given too many unnatural reasons too stop prescribing them unlike synthetic HRT. Their patients worldwide -are glowing and filled with nothing but phrase for their natural Bio HRT therapy.


Taken into account, all the long term suffering that's associated with a ' Natural Menopause? '  The mainstream medical  profession won't make me suffer, they have enough women to look after as result of accepting the 'Change of life without rejection.  'I'll have a virtual monthly happy period with no eggs to worry about.   Bring on the BHRT.  I'll let you take my chocolate but you won't touch my Wiley protocol bioidentical hormonal restoration  

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. " ~ Tori Amos


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How To Heal Menopause Nerves

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.  ~ Hippocrates

Anxiety and Menopause

Menopause is a time when anxiety can take hold.  All you may know, is that you don't feel well and you may not be able to expain why or how you feel.

Always seek out other women that are managing their menopause. There are many women who's lives are uninterrupted by the menopause and living inspirationally purposely lead ambitions. Opposed to hanging round women who has let the menopause shut them up and put their lives on the back burner, never to turn up the heat again.
Anxiety associated with menopause usually is the predecessor of depression. We all become a bit anxious from time to time as our situations warrant, but that isn't the kind of anxiety that we are talking about here. We are talking about the overwhelming anxiety associated with menopause.

The first thing that us women often do is become anxious about our body. Beyond certain ages, we can't help but notice changes that are occurring on almost a daily basis.
It is frightening, but it is even more frightening when you don't understand what is happening to your body and why it is happening. The best solution to alleviate this anxiety is to have a frank and forthright conversation with your physician, and preferably with your gynaecologist. He or she can relieve much of your anxiety by providing real and true information.

You will no doubt have heard many of the "old wives' tales" about menopause. You don't need old wives' tales, not everyone experience the menopause in the same way, you need facts…the real facts and more important up to date FACTS, that include bioidentical hormonal therapy.

Listen carefully to the way that you "self-talk."  We all do it. We have these internal conversations about everything that has an effect on us. We self-talk about diet, exercise, relationships, etc. and we certainly are doing a lot of self-talk about menopause.

Menopause can spoil lives but only if we give our bodies the green light to do so, by not seeking natural solutions. This so called 'change of life' also has the potential to spoil our relationships too - often we can emotionally become live wires.

If you are to remain in-tune with your true nature, you must learn how to manage the menopause or you'll end up being managed and lose yourself in the long run.

A simple tool we all have is self guiding from within. We can calm our own fears and settle our own anxious feelings simply by changing the tone of our self-talk.  We can turn negative self chatter into positive suggestions, and in the process we can relieve our anxiety.

Take Silent Action

So what can you do besides taking herbal remedies or BHRT? Meditation and yoga are both very good for calming and bridging the gap between mind-body harmonising. A calm mind is not disturbed by the waves of thoughts.
Meditation cannot create miracles while you are caught in the backlash of menopausal symptoms. Ideally combine meditation with diet, keeping carbs, like bread, sweet cakes, crips, and soft drinks to minimum as they often trigger hot flushes; try and keep your weight in check by incorporating daily fitness. Add some herbs to alleviate symptoms at the root cause, then meditation will help take you to higher levels of healing.
Caution: If you start to slide into depression seek help before acute depression develops, especially if other symptoms crank up a few notches. You may have to consider bioidentical. hormones. Some women cannot tolerate the menopause and do eventually end up with too many long term health conditions than they can handle.
As you know life dips, sways, and often pushes you towards the stars, often without a moment notice and usually when you've hit the lowest point, the only thing that can happen is an upswing to the road of recovery.
So be kind to yourself, look for natural solutions. Medication is great as lifesavers, but long term they can shorten your life and make your health conditions or diseases a lot worse.
Remember love yourself and take care of your body and your mind will love you for it!

Never let yourself suffer in the name of, “ It's only the menopause and it's natural, isn't so nature for many women. What makes you ill and robs you of ability to live a productive life with memory intact. For many women the menopause is no more natural than diabetes, cancer or heart disease, etc.

Self love starts and ends with you. Take positive action and find natural solutions that helps resolve your health woes. 
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Natural Herbs That Treat Menopausal Symptoms

 "Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over." ~ Stevie Nicks


Natural Menopause Treatment                                                   

Today it seems as though every time we turn on the television, we hear yet another report about a drug that was approved for widespread use and is now causing major health problems for many thousands of people. What are we suppose to do, suffer on with endless menopausal symptoms that the truth as yet to be told by mainstream will last till we die?

Yes, we need HRT medicines, but natural one's but we most assuredly do not need recalls and side effects and all the problems associated with so many modern-day medications.

In response to this growing list of recalled medications, many people are turning to herbal remedies for their ailments. Actually, herbal remedies are a very good choice. There are few if any side effects associated with the natural herbal medicines. Side effects are most often associated with the synthetic versions of the natural remedies.


There are very rarely any side effects associated with natural remedies. You almost always need a prescription from a doctor to get one of those synthetic versions of natural remedies.


For the relief of the symptoms of menopause, there are a great many different choices available in herbal medicines. There are herbs that provide natural oestrogen replacement without the added risk of breast cancer, like the synthetic oestrogen replacement therapies produce.

There are a variety of herbs that will reduce the frequency and the severity of such menopausal symptoms as night sweats and hot flushes. There are also a great many herbal supplements that help to calm the nerves and reduce the severity of the mood swings associated with menopause.

Herbs are used to treat menopause because they are believed to help regulate oestrogen levels, as well as to reduce the severity of common symptoms of menopause, including hot flashes.

There are two types of herbs that are used in the treatment and management of the menopause symptoms: estrogenic herbs (those containing oestrogen chemical structures) and non-estrogenic herbs (those that don’t contain oestrogen). Both are used to alleviate menopause symptoms and improve overall health. 

 

The Benefits of Herbs

The following herbs are reported to have a variety of benefits for alleviating menopause symptoms:

• Black cohosh: is an estrogenic herb that aids cramps, congestion and hot flushes
• Wild yam: a medicinal herb containing anti-inflammatory properties that reduces the risk of menopausal arthritis
• Chaste tree: this herb helps to balance hormones, and can help ward off depression
• Dong quai: its purported healing properties include reducing oestrogen deficiency biloba: decreases fatigue and depression and improves memory
• Sage: containing plant oestrogens, sage can help reduce night sweats and hot flashes

Although these helps will help they lose their effectiveness over long term use, due to the fact as you lose your hormones, you lose your hormone blood receptors also, that pick up your sexual hormones. You can eat as much soy beans, soy milk etc., but there'll be no be oestrogen converting going on because you won't have blood receptors being made. So use herbs as long as they are effective by reducing or resolving your hormonal symptoms. When those herbs fail, you will need to look for other natural herbs or other plant base solutions like bio identical hormones.

Menopause is said to be a natural part of the human experience for women, but modern M.D holistic doctors are now telling us a different story and I believe their version of what the menopause means healthwise for everyone. Forever, we've always been told that there wasn't any way around it, so we all had to go through it. The main objective is to find ways to restore natural hormones, not just getting get through menopause because for most of us that means long term health consequences to live with, and doing so without doing our bodies any additional harm as we try to treat the symptoms.

Menopause is said to be a natural part of the human experience for women, but M.D holistic doctors are telling us a different story. We've always been told that there wasn't any way around it, so we all had to go through it. The main objective is to find ways to restore our natural hormones the aim is not just to get through the menopause because for most of us that means long term health consequences to live with. Somehow we need to obtain natural hormones without doing our bodies any additional harm as we try to treat the symptoms.


Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards" ~  Omar Sharif 

World-wide Our Right To Choose Freedom of Choice For Natural Health, Food, Vitamins, Herbs, Vitamins and Bioidentical Hormones is under Treat!


Please Note: There is no prescription required for the natural remedy itself but that is changing with the Agenda of Banning Our Natural Herbs and Vitamins from our health shops. Here in Europe there's a drive for pharmaceuticals to gain more control over our health and that's another great injustice to natural health as in case of bioidentical hormones not available n natural form in mainstream medicine. Natural herbs & vitamins are classed as food, but there's a push to ban and name as Toxins.


USA are facing the same fight but they have a fabulous doctor standing up for our Rights to choose Natural Health. For more information research Dr Rima and the organisations behind this Natural Health BAN and take over bid

Dr Rima Reports! Codex Alimentarious & Nutricide Dr. Rima Laibow Part 1 of 5 You tube‏ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_isdBSrBihk&feature=player_embedded

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=9301

http://www.oraclebroadcasting.com/

Dr Rima Reports http://www.drrima.net/




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Legal Disclaimer: Hopefully you have found information on this blog inspiring and useful, but do remember it is not a substitute for personal medical advice. Self medicating with BHRT is not advisable!   Always consult your own medical advisor, be it your doctor, or Holistic Medical doctors specialising in anti ageing, bioidentical hormone therapy, if you have any concerns about any aspect of health or hormonal functioning

Women's Depression - The Cause Is Outside Our Minds

            
                 The Link Between Estrogen and Depression
                By Sheila Sullivan on November 10, 2009

According to the Center for Disease Control databriefs in 2005 -2006, 1 in 20 people in this country in the age group of 12 and up were depressed.

Though there can be life circumstances such as losing a loved one,  a job or going through a divorce that can lead to depression, which often times depend on how one has learned through life experience to cope with these kinds of events, there is new research that links estrogen to depression.

Since women experience depression twice as often as men, this new research should be no surprise but what should surprise women is until ten years ago not a single study had been done to determine this most obvious link.

In the book The Estrogen – Depression Connection The Hidden Link Between Hormones & Women’s Depression, which should be a must read for women of all ages, Karen J. Miller, PhD and Steven A. Rogers, PhD discuss this issue in length.

There are 50 million women in menopause in this country and thanks to them many of the symptoms that are related to hormone imbalance that  lead up to menopause, known as perimenopause, have shed new light on the estimated 35 symptoms that occur during this final stage in the hormone lives of women.

So if you are experiencing depression, anxiety, panic attacks and mood swings just to name a few, you should insist on getting your hormone levels checked before you are shipped off to a psychiatrist office and put on antidepressant drugs that have wide ranges of side effects and some that could kill you.

The pharmaceutical companies spend billions of  dollars on advertisement telling you that serotonin may be a cause in depression. They have never been able to say it is a cause because they have no way to measure it.

A recent news report cnbc.com revealed that the pharmaceutical companies have been spending millions of dollars, which come from our tax dollars, on clinical trials where during the final stages of the studies placebo’s are working as well as their drugs.  The top pharmaceutical companies are joining forces to try and discover why this is happening.  I don’t think you have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the mind is one of our most powerful healing tools.

We often hear the expression chemical imbalance. Well ladies I think it’s time you all knew that hormone imbalances can be the root cause your depression.

During my extensive research on this topic in a never ending search for my life long hormone problems,  I found that estrogen levels effect serotonin levels which in turn effect dopamine and memory.  Therefore,  if you are put on an antidepressant medication and go off you will go through withdrawal symptoms and most likely will still be depressed. This happens because the medication is affecting serotonin levels  not estrogen levels which most likely is the underlying cause your depression.

There are many natural alternative treatments to antidepressant medications mentioned the above mentioned book.

Some of those recommend in the book are exercise, diet, acupuncture, bioidentical hormone replacement.

Dr. Erica Schwartz drerika is an outspoken advocate on the treatment of depression with bioidentical hormone replacement.

Be well. The tide is about to change.

http://hormonaltides.com/the-link-between-estrogen-and-depression/


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Legal Disclaimer: Hopefully you have found information on this blog inspiring and useful, but do remember it is not a substitute for personal medical advice. Self medicating with BHRT is not advisable!   Always consult your own medical advisor, be it your doctor, or Holistic Medical doctors specialising in anti ageing, bioidentical hormone therapy, if you have any concerns about any aspect of health or hormonal functioning