You will feel your best by having a healthy lifestyle. Healthy food choices and regular physical activity will help you to maintain a healthy weight and lower your risk of some diseases and conditions. Regular physical activity also might improve your mood and help you to sleep better. For older adults, activity can improve mental [...]
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Natural Treatments/Alternative Therapies for Menopause
You may want to consider alternatives to menopausal hormone therapy to ease menopausal symptoms. Some women decide to take herbal, natural, or plant-based products to help their symptoms. But there is not enough evidence to know if treatments like these are helpful. Tell your doctor if you are taking any of these treatments. They may [...]
MHT can help with menopause
MHT can help with menopause by: Reducing hot flashes Treating vaginal dryness Slowing bone loss Easing mood swings and mild depressive symptoms—MHT alone is not effective in treating depression Improving sleep For some women, MHT may increase their chance of getting: Blood clots Heart attacks Strokes Breast cancer Gall bladder disease Who should NOT use [...]
Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT)
To help control the symptoms of menopause, some women can take hormones, called menopausal hormone therapy (MHT). MHT used to be called hormone replacement therapy or HRT. The use of MHT has been debated a great deal since the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Hormone Study findings were released in 2002. Before this study, it was [...]
Menopause Symptom Relief
Many women are able to cope with minor discomforts of menopause. Try these tips: * Hot flashes. Keep track of when hot flashes happen. You might be able to identify a pattern or triggers, which you can avoid. Dress in layers and keep a fan in your home or workplace. If lifestyle changes don’t seem [...]
How much physical activity should I do during menopause?
An active lifestyle can lower your risk of early death from a variety of causes and help you maintain a healthy weight. It also might improve your mood and help you to sleep better. For older adults, activity can improve mental function. Health benefits are gained by doing the following each week: 2 hours and [...]
What is “bioidentical” hormone therapy?
This term means different things to different people. It’s really manmade hormones that are just the same as the hormones the body makes. There are several products with hormones like this that are on the market and are well-tested. But this term is most often used to mean drugs that are custom-made from a doctor’s [...]
Are there “natural” treatments available for menopause?
Some women try herbal or other plant-based products to help relieve hot flashes. Some of the most common ones are: Soy. Soy contains phytoestrogens (estrogen-like substances from a plant). But, there is no proof that soy — or other sources of phytoestrogens — really do make hot flashes better. And the risks of taking soy [...]
Can menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) prevent heart disease or Alzheimer’s disease?
Some research has shown that women who start estrogen or certain types of hormone therapy around the time of menopause are less likely to get heart disease. But a very large study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) had different results. The NIH research found that: Estrogen alone didn’t affect the risk of [...]
Who should not take menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) for menopause?
Women who: Think they are pregnant Have problems with vaginal bleeding Have had certain kinds of cancers (such as breast and uterine cancer) Have had a stroke or heart attack Have had blood clots Have liver disease Have heart disease MHT can also cause these side effects: Vaginal bleeding Bloating Breast tenderness or swelling Headaches [...]