How Lifestyle Changes Can Help Women To Reduce Menopause Symptoms
Women and menopause 
A woman experiences many moments throughout her life from when she gets her first period, pregnancy, and child birth to eventually menopause. Women are always experience changes in their bodies and reproductive system. When the reproductive system ends, menopause begins. While menopause is feared by many women, what women fear even more is early onset of menopause.
Understanding this change of life can help one better cope with it and live with the changes one’s body will experience.
Transition period
Menopause is the transition period in a woman’s life when her ovaries stop producing eggs, her body produces less estrogen and progesterone, and menstruation becomes less frequent, eventually stopping altogether. Menopause is a natural event that normally occurs between the ages of 45 and 55.
The onset of menopause means that one can no longer bear a child. There comes a point in time when one’s body is unable to produce ovaries, and this change of life is nature’s way of putting a halt to the child bearing years. Although some people believe this natural restriction circumvented by using vitro fertilization and other fertility methods so that a post menopausal woman can get pregnant, it is an extremely controversial topic. Many doctors will only consider in-vitro-fertilization on a post menopausal woman if she experienced early menopause due to cancer, hormonal changes, or other non-natural occurring reasons for losing the ability to produce eggs.
Hormonal changes
Because of the horror stories many women hear, they become fearful of menopause. Most women experience some of the most common symptoms related to menopause. The body’s hormones are drastically changed due to menopause, so symptoms such as mood swings and hot flashes are common when your menstrual cycle ceases. Continued to next page


