Weight: While true obesity increases the risk of heart disease, the moderate weight gain most women
experience around menopause is not harmful.
Current guidelines suggest that women only take hormone therapy for a short
period around menopause to alleviate symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats.
The most dramatic changes in woman's appearance take place
around menopause years, when estrogen drop causes considerable loss of collagen, which is an important protein that makes up most of the skin's supportive structure.
«Women have been telling doctors that their migraine headaches
worsen around menopause and now we have proof they were right,» says Vincent Martin, MD, professor of internal medicine in UC's Division of General Internal Medicine and co-director of the Headache and Facial Pain Program at the UC Neuroscience Institute.
The research concludes that the symptom experience of non-Western groups has not had the opportunity to inform theoretical
developments around menopause symptoms in the same way that the experience of Western groups has.
Study found links between too little shuteye and less sexual satisfaction, especially around menopause
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Those memory lapses many women
notice around menopause are real, and they can begin at a relatively young age, researchers report.
For many women and men, use of Bio-Identical Hormones results in dramatically improved quality of life, particularly
around menopause for those who exhibit severe hormonal imbalance symptoms.
Whether you're just starting out or you've been trying for a while to lose weight (especially the stubborn belly weight that slowly crept
up around menopause) one thing is really clear, the time is now to make some major changes and get your body back.
Yes, and there are plenty of studies to prove it.Perimenopause is the 5 - 15 year
span around menopause when ovarian hormone production begins to decline.
«Among women who started to take hormone therapy around this critical
window around menopause, we observed a subsequent reduction in Alzheimer's disease 20 to 30 years later,» says senior author Peter P. Zandi, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore.
Testosterone, synthesized from cholesterol, is the main sex hormone in men that peaks around age 20 and slowly declines around age 35, though present to a lesser extent in women especially after a drop off
period around menopause.
«Women have been telling doctors that their migraine headaches
worsen around menopause, and now we have proof they were right,» study author Dr. Vincent Martin, co-director of the Headache and Facial Pain Program at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, said in a news release.
But what's worse, at least for women, is a shift,
around menopause, in where this excess flab accumulates.
Keep in mind, perimenopause means «
around menopause,» so it could usually be described as a slow, steady march toward the end of estrogen production that commonly presents as a very gradual onset of the menopausal symptoms we listed above.
A: Perimenopause (literally meaning «
around menopause») is the transitional phase leading up to menopause which can start in your early 30's or begin as late as into your 50's.
With that said, remember regular weight - bearing exercise is very important, clean diet is key, and remember to talk to your doctor about different options other than HRT if you are
around menopause and starting to experience some of those symptoms.
«Also,
around menopause, Latina women may develop melasma, which creates dark blotches on the cheeks, forehead, or chin,» Rendon notes.
The triggers or risk factors for depression do appear to vary across the life course, and the postnatal period and the period
around menopause are times of particular risk of depression among women.