(Naturalhealth365) Of all the discomforts that can accompany menopause – including insomnia, mood changes and hot flashes – the most frustrating of all may be unintended weight gain. The fact is: the lifestyle choices women successfully used to maintain healthy weight in their 20s and 30s may begin to fail...

I am 53 years old and having heavy bleeding from last five years. Now from last ten months I am having periods after every two months, but it is still heavy. I have gone through ultrasonography and it shows multiple intramural & subserosal fibroids. What should I do? Am I...

How Your Skin Changes During MenopauseFor all women, menopause is an incredibly complicated process. When your hormones change, your body starts changing: hot flashes, night sweats, dryness, mood swings, hair growth, hair loss, acne, insomnia, and more.  But did you know that menopause significantly effects your skin?The reason that menopause effects...

It’s a common scenario. A woman in her 50s wakes up feeling nauseous. Dismissing it, she moves through her day, feeling a bit fatigued during her morning walk, even short of breath. Her friends urge her to go to the doctor after she experiences shooting pain in one arm. Despite...

Women transitioning through menopause are at higher risk for heart disease, according to the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). This research adds to the growing evidence that menopause is a critical time for changes in cardiovascular health. The study helps to underscore the importance of women and...

Living near green spaces is associated with a wide variety of benefits, including a lower risk of obesity, improved attention capacity in children and slower physical decline in old age. In a new study, researchers found that living in a greener neighborhood is also linked to an older age at...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological malignancy in the U.S. and the fourth most common cancer among women. In addition, endometrial cancer incidence rates are on the rise in the western world, suggesting that alterations in environmental factors such as diet, lifestyle, and the vaginal...

Sometimes, menopause symptoms are worse than just hot flashes and night sweats, and you must learn to cope with them. Here’s how to do this!Even though menopause has not been directly linked with an increase in psychiatric morbidity, many women experience emotional turmoil during the initial phases of menopause.In addition...

Teri Hines was in her mid-40s when she started to notice that her body was changing. Her period became irregular and more intense. "It increased in frequency, it increased in intensity and it increased in duration," she says. She began to have hot flashes, gained weight and her energy levels...

Common ‘forever’ chemicals found in drinking water, among other things, have been linked to early menopause in women, raising new concerns over the contaminants. The study builds upon an existing body of research that has linked per- and poly-fluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals with a number of health issues, including everything from...

In a national sample of US women in their mid-40s to mid-50s, those with high serum levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were likely to enter menopause 2 years earlier than those with low levels of these chemicals. That is, the median age of natural menopause was 52.8 years...

Apparently our menopausal bodies are a desert. We certainly knew about the hot part, getting reminded of it constantly when the flashes turn us into flesh-and-blood furnaces. But we weren’t quite as aware of the dry conditions that went along with the soaring temps. Dry skin. Dry scalp. Dry hair....

More and more women are continuing to lace up their sneakers to train and race hard later in life. But the physiological changes brought on by menopause can be tricky to navigate for many women, particularly when paired with the physical toll of training. Fortunately, the challenge of training through...

Menopause is a natural cycle that affects women (usually in their 40s or 50s) and marks the end of the menstrual cycle. Although this sounds great in theory, it tends to coincide with negative side effects like hot flashes, low energy,...This content was originally published here.

For a birthday girl worried what the advancing postmenopausal years are doing to her mind — yes, that would be me — the chance that very day to talk to a leading neuroscientist who studies women in midlife and beyond proved a happy coincidence. And a galvanizing one. “There’s so...

Environmental exposure to certain synthetic chemicals was associated with early menopause, according to a new study. In an analysis of over 1,100 premenopausal women, those who fell into the highest tertile for exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) -- a family of endocrine-disrupting chemicals -- were at a 63%...

While the perception of menstruation is changing and the topic is becoming increasingly less of a taboo, it’s clear that the same cannot be said about menopause — which is not a disease, but a natural phenomenon when a woman’s period stops, generally around 50 years old. And menopause continues...

Menopause is a time where the body goes through a lot of changes, and those changes come with some unpleasant side effects. The most commonly known side effects include: mood swings, hot flashes, and insomnia, but did you know that it can also cause hair loss? Why Does Menopause Cause...

There’s a broad range of supplements available to women who are interested in managing their menopause symptoms as naturally as possible. Judging from the interest and enthusiasm of the women I talk with—that’s most of you! Let’s take a closer look at some of the supplements that target menopause symptoms, with...

Puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause. These are the various stages in a woman’s biological cycle. One leads to the other, while pregnancy can happen at any time during a woman’s years of fertility. The chances of getting pregnant come down as the woman crosses 35 years. By her 40s,...

Menoquil Review: Ease Menopause Symptoms with This Natural Supplement Menoquil Review: Ease Menopause Symptoms with This Natural Supplement : Menopause is an inevitable stage for all women. When women reach menopause, they do not experience menstrual cycles anymore. To get confirmation that women have reached menopause, they have to undergo diagnosis...

Embracing the Menopause Metamorphosis!One day, a small opening appeared on a cocoon. A man sat and watched for the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then, it seems to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as...

Women could protect their bones by adding some soy to their diet, a new study suggests.Researchers from the University of Missouri in Columbia have discovered that soy protein found in food might counter the negative effects of menopause on bone and metabolic health. This means that women might be able...

Hot Flashes: Is It Menopause? Or Is It Your Thyroid?The summer heat can make just about anyone uncomfortable; especially the Texas summer heat we are currently experiencing. But if you notice yourself sweating more or unusually hot most of the time, maybe it’s not the heat – perhaps it’s your...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2018 -- A year of hormone therapy cut the risk of depression symptoms in women going through menopause and early postmenopause, new research shows."Thirty-two percent of women randomized to treatment with a placebo experienced clinically significant depressive symptoms. But for women randomized to hormone therapy, the risk...