Month: September 2020

The majority of women experience hot flashes, night sweats, heart palpitations, interrupted sleep, and irritability in menopause. And for a large portion of women, these symptoms either pass on their own, or they opt for hormone replacement therapy, which can reduce or eliminate their complaints. But then there are the patients who wind up in Read more…

Manage symptoms and avoid complications Menopause is a natural part of a woman’s life cycle. You can’t prevent menopause, but you can manage many common symptoms and prevent possible complications. It’s essential to make healthy lifestyle choices. For example: maintain your bone strength manage your blood pressure Eating a well-balanced diet and maintaining a healthy Read more…

One theory as to why blood pressure rises after menopause is that lower estrogen levels cause arteries to stiffen and blood pressure to go up. If a woman is pre-hypertensive before menopause, she will likely develop hypertension during or after Read more about Eating Right | Lower Blood Pressure for Post-Meno. This content was originally Read more…

We’re all familiar with menopause. The time in a menstruating person’s life, when they well, cease to menstruate.  There are endless factors that contribute to when someone stops getting their period. A lesser-known factor is a surgically induced menopause or surgical menopause. While the average age someone reaches menopause is 51, someone much younger may Read more…

Fact checked by Aimee McNew for Accuracy Vitex, also known as chaste tree berry, is an herbal supplement derived from a flowering plant.  Used for hundreds of years to address women’s health issues like PMS, cramps, and menopause, it’s still a relevant supplement today. Vitex has done better than placebos in several studies and has Read more…

Menopause is defined as the permanent cessation of periods resulting from the loss of ovarian follicular activity. Menopause is 12 consecutive months with no period, and this is only known with certainty in retrospect.  Perimenopause is the two to eight years preceding menopause and one year following the final menses. Interestingly, we women begin life Read more…

Menopause is characterized by hormonal fluctuations (especially the decrease in estrogen level) and entry into old age. Taken together, this means that women gradually lose muscle mass, and their bodies accumulate fat more intensely. If you gain weight during and after the menopausal transition, you are not powerless witness, no need to take high weight Read more…

Menopause is the period which marks the end of your menstrual cycles. This is diagnosed after you have gone twelve months without a menstrual period. This is happening in the 40s or 50s. This is a natural biological process so you should not be afraid of it. The most common symptoms of menopause which you Read more…

Mature Woman Experiencing Hot Flush From Menopause A study published in Menopause found that postmenopausal women with persistent vasomotor symptoms (VMS), like hot flashes and night sweats, are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than women who never experienced VMS. The researchers included a sample of 25,499 postmenopausal women 50 to 79 years Read more…

There are a wide variety of reasons why women are unable to use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to manage surgical or natural menopause. Thus, women and the medical community are exploring a diverse array of options that may help women deal with the sometimes miserable symptoms of menopause. Antidepressants, specifically Effexor (venlafaxine), is one of Read more…

New program will look at the role of the Follicle Stimulating Hormone in obesity and osteoporosis NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 13, 2019 Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for a Read more…

Our Directory features New Jersey Menopause and Perimenopause Doctors that specialize in treating women suffering from symptoms related Perimenopause and Menopause in New Jersey. The Perimenopause and Menopause Doctors in New Jersey are experts in developing customized Bioidentical Hormone Replacement therapy Programs for women to reduce the signs and symptoms associated with Perimenopause and Menopause. Read more…