18/10/2024
As you go through menopause, you can experience physical and emotional symptoms. These symptoms are caused by changes to hormone levels in your body.
Menopausal symptoms can begin when you’re perimenopausal and continue post-menopause.
Key facts
Menopause is the point in time when you have not had a monthly period for 12 months.
The average age at menopause is 51 years. (Mostly between 43-60 ages)
Menopause marks the end of the reproductive stage of your life.
Symptoms during menopause include hot flushes, night sweats, muscle and joint aches, tender breasts and emotional changes.
Ways to manage the symptoms of menopause include lifestyle changes, hormone replacement therapy and complementary therapies.
A woman experience in menopause can vary dramatically & this is not in anyway a diagnostic post or telling you what to do with your own body.
For me I have a wholistic approach to these changes that began in my very early 40s and are ongoing 10 years later.
My key to living through this process has been to listen to my body and its cues.
🌿Reduce carbs (not eliminate) eat whole foods every meal,
🌿eat mindfully and stop when full.
🌿Minimal caffeine (I’m not going to give up my morning cuppa!)
🌿yoga and mindfulness
🌿 being in whatever symptoms arise (they have changed over time)
🌿 reducing stress
🌿drinking filtered water
🌿healthy sleep habits
🌿minimal alcohol consumption
🌿occasional natural boosters from
What do you do to help yourself through this period of life??
