Vitamin E has long been established for helping many menopausal problems especially hot flushes, night sweats, palpitations and vaginal dryness.
One natural way to get Vitamin E from your diet is by getting it from almonds.
Almonds are an excellent nutrient-dense food to incorporate into a healthful diet.
Even though almonds are fairly calorific - 180 calories per ounce, substituting almonds for other less nutrient-dense foods is simple.
For example, replacing three foods with three tablespoons of almonds can boost the vitamin E content of your diet significantly, enabling the average American who only gets about half of the RDA to meet their full daily recommendation (15-mg alpha-tocopherol).
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sleep Quality In Postmenopausal Women Affected by Higher Body Temperature and Hormones
ScienceDaily - In an examination of potential relationships between objective sleep measures, nocturnal sex hormone levels, and the nocturnal course of body temperature of older postmenopausal women, a new study finds that altered levels of both sex hormones and gonadotropins may contribute to sleep disturbance in older postmenopausal women and confirm the results of previous studies indicating that higher body temperature is associated with poorer sleep quality.
Further, higher body temperature prior to and during sleep was significantly correlated with poorer sleep efficiency and higher luteinizing hormone levels.
Furthermore, several studies have shown that hot flashes and other vasomotor symptoms that influence sleep continue years beyond menopause in up to 40 percent of postmenopausal women.
Thus, the sleep difficulties that emerge at menopause often do not abate and may become compounded by age-associated disruption of circadian and homeostatic processes that regulate sleep."
Further, higher body temperature prior to and during sleep was significantly correlated with poorer sleep efficiency and higher luteinizing hormone levels.
Furthermore, several studies have shown that hot flashes and other vasomotor symptoms that influence sleep continue years beyond menopause in up to 40 percent of postmenopausal women.
Thus, the sleep difficulties that emerge at menopause often do not abate and may become compounded by age-associated disruption of circadian and homeostatic processes that regulate sleep."
Thursday, August 28, 2008
You CAN get pregnant during menopause
You can get pregnant during the menopause, reports the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), a non-profit organization that focuses on reproductive health research.
Women nearing or just beginning the menopause mistakenly think they are no longer fertile because their menstrual cycles are no longer regular or have just stopped, and stop using any contraceptives.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute notes that as many as half of all pregnancies that occur in women over the age of 40 are unintended and unintentional.
Even though the menopause does mark the end of a woman's childbearing years, you can get pregnant even if your periods are irregular and you have not gone through "menopause" until you have experienced 12 consecutive months without a period.
So be warned and take those precautions!
Women nearing or just beginning the menopause mistakenly think they are no longer fertile because their menstrual cycles are no longer regular or have just stopped, and stop using any contraceptives.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute notes that as many as half of all pregnancies that occur in women over the age of 40 are unintended and unintentional.
Even though the menopause does mark the end of a woman's childbearing years, you can get pregnant even if your periods are irregular and you have not gone through "menopause" until you have experienced 12 consecutive months without a period.
So be warned and take those precautions!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Extreme Caution in using HRT
A study conducted by Olga Glinskii and her associate leads her to advise extreme caution in HRT use.
The vascular system depends on estrogen for maintenance. When the body decreases its estrogen production, as in after the menopause, the body is unable to regulate blood vessels like it did before.
This might explain why women lose the protection they get from certain conditions such as heart disease and stroke after menopause," said Olga Glinskii, research assistant professor of medical pharmacology and physiology in MU’s School of Medicine and lead author of the study.
She says, “because the body eventually will naturally adapt to the loss of estrogen, we advise extreme caution when using estrogen-based therapy in postmenopausal women.”
"Eventually, the body starts to recognize that it needs blood vessels and starts to adapt through natural responses.
If we start adding estrogen to a system that is learning to adapt without it, we upset this transition process.
What happens to the vascular system during menopause is complex on many different levels, and we do not know enough to determine the best way to use hormone therapy."
After a period of deterioration, the body learns to adapt to the estrogen loss and eventually maintains the system in a different way.
The vascular system depends on estrogen for maintenance. When the body decreases its estrogen production, as in after the menopause, the body is unable to regulate blood vessels like it did before.
This might explain why women lose the protection they get from certain conditions such as heart disease and stroke after menopause," said Olga Glinskii, research assistant professor of medical pharmacology and physiology in MU’s School of Medicine and lead author of the study.
She says, “because the body eventually will naturally adapt to the loss of estrogen, we advise extreme caution when using estrogen-based therapy in postmenopausal women.”
"Eventually, the body starts to recognize that it needs blood vessels and starts to adapt through natural responses.
If we start adding estrogen to a system that is learning to adapt without it, we upset this transition process.
What happens to the vascular system during menopause is complex on many different levels, and we do not know enough to determine the best way to use hormone therapy."
After a period of deterioration, the body learns to adapt to the estrogen loss and eventually maintains the system in a different way.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Eat Prunes to prevent Osteoporosis..
Eat Prunes to prevent Osteoporosis..
A study was undertaken where 58 post menopausal women ate about 12 prunes daily for 3 months. At the end of the study it was found that they had higher blood levels of growth enzymes and growth factors that indicated bone formation, than those who had not eaten the prunes.
This may be due to the fact that prunes are packed with bone-building phenolic compounds, boron and potassium. These play important roles in bone health.
In fact prunes are an important source of boron, a trace mineral which is thought to play an important role in the prevention of osteoporosis.
The daily requirement for boron is 2 to 3 mg.The amount of prunes you would need to get this is just over half a cup, but there are other sources (cabbage, dandelion, parsley etc) as well of course.
Avoid eating prunes if you have existing and untreated kidney or gallbladder problems beacuse of their oxalate content.
A study was undertaken where 58 post menopausal women ate about 12 prunes daily for 3 months. At the end of the study it was found that they had higher blood levels of growth enzymes and growth factors that indicated bone formation, than those who had not eaten the prunes.
This may be due to the fact that prunes are packed with bone-building phenolic compounds, boron and potassium. These play important roles in bone health.
In fact prunes are an important source of boron, a trace mineral which is thought to play an important role in the prevention of osteoporosis.
The daily requirement for boron is 2 to 3 mg.The amount of prunes you would need to get this is just over half a cup, but there are other sources (cabbage, dandelion, parsley etc) as well of course.
Avoid eating prunes if you have existing and untreated kidney or gallbladder problems beacuse of their oxalate content.
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