Menopause Information

Just as puberty and regular menstrual cycles are natural occurrence in every women's life, so also is menopause or the change in life.

It is not an illness or disease and yet it is often feared and treated as such in our modern culture. The Greeks called menopause the climacterate or "a step in the ladder" in keeping with their understanding of the cycles of life in periods of 7 years. They considered the climacterate just another normally occurring 7 year cycle where gradually and gracefully a woman was relieved of the burden of bearing children.

For most women, the ending of her periods will occur between the ages of 45 and 55 although this can occur naturally as early as her 30's and as late as her 60's. Surgical menopause can occur at an age when a woman's ovaries are removed.

Women may or many not have problems of symptoms during their menopause depending upon the state of their health and the other things that are going on in their lives at that time. Possible contributors to menopause and the symptoms of menopause are physical stressors such as adrenal exhaustion, hypoglycemia, poor digestion and absorption, thyroid imbalance, lack of exercise, specific vitamin and mineral deficiencies, toxicity and food and environmental sensitivities as well as psychological stressors such as the onset of illness, the children leaving home, the death or illness of parents, the loss of a partner/spouse through separation, divorce or death and loss of employment. Also in a culture where young in considered beautiful, and menopause can bring about physical changes in women affecting their self image and self esteem, grief and depression can set in.

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Menopause is intended by nature to be natural and gradual process in which the ovaries gradually reduce their estrogen output with the women having few, if any, symptoms. Therefore, the natural treatment of a woman approaching or in the menopause involves optimizing her total physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. This can be done through changes in her diet, detoxification, vitamin and mineral supplementation, testing and desensitizing foods and environmental sensitivities and allergies. Chinese herbal medications and acupuncture, homeopathy and physical therapies.

These approaches assist in assessing and treating the underlying causes of as well as the menopausal symptoms of each individual woman.

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The information on this site is educational in nature and is not intended to recommend or replace the advice of a qualified health practitioner. As each person is an individual, any dietary or lifestyle recommendations or treatments can and will only be recommended after a thorough review of the individual's health history has been done and a diagnosis has been made by Dr. Seliski.