What is menopause?
What is menopause for your health?
Menopause affects every woman. The average age of menopause has been estimated to be between 50 and 52.
Emotional and psychological changes often start years before the ‘official’ start of menopause.
If menopausal symptoms occur, they may include hot flashes, night sweats, pain during intercourse, increased anxiety or irritability, and the need to urinate more often.
Not all women experience prior to or following menopause symptoms, which is defined as the time when a woman has naturally ceased having menstrual periods for one year.
The changes associated with menopause can be mild, moderate, or severe.
As menopause concerns of hormone balance it can increase of risk heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, breast cancer and etc. Pay additional attention to your health.
What is menopause for your skin?
Many menopausal women notice changes in their skin, especially increased dryness and wrinkling. Skin is less capable of storing moisture. These changes are believed to be due in part to the breakdown of collagen in the skin due to decreasing estrogen levels. Another common symptom experienced by many women is a feeling of itchy crawling skin or formication. The skin becomes hypersensitive because of the thinning of both the surface and the underlying muscles that support the skin. So you need special face care that can decrease the unpleasant menopause symptoms.
What is menopause for you mood?
We’ve all heard the jokes about the mood swings, quick-triggered temper tantrums, and lack of sexual drive attributed to menopause. For every woman deals with her individual symptoms is entirely up to her.
Menopause is one of those life changes. How a woman handles those changes is truly a choice she must make on a continuing basis.
First of all, you need to understand her feelings. Feelings are deceitful and can change in a moment, so you need to make the decision not to react immediately to situations or circumstances.
Secondly, it helps greatly to take time to pamper herself. No one wants to get up early every morning, so she should choose one day a week to either sleep in an hour longer, or go to bed an hour earlier than usual.
Thirdly, everyone knows that if a woman looks good, she’ll feel better. Taking that extra hour of rest is just the beginning. Then the skin care, a little extra care with her makeup, and a look in a magazine or catalog for a new hairdo can give an extra boost to her attitude.
Understanding of what is menopause helps you prepare to this natural process. Researchers now say they may be able to predict when that clock will wind down.
