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Women gain weight in perimenopause – especially around their waist and hips—even if they are dieting. Why does this happen? The culprit is the link between hormonal balance and body fat. One link is between insulin metabolism and body fat. Many people eat foods that are high in carbohydrates such as processed foods (pasta, breads, most snacks, beer, wine etc.) Eventually this type of diet can create a condition known as insulin resistance. When your body becomes resistant to insulin it will convert every calorie into fat – even if you’re dieting and doing what you can to keep the weight off. Insulin resistance will not allow you to burn fat when you exercise.

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Another link is between stress and body fat. Stress hormones block weight loss. Even if you’re eating adequately, your body will interpret stress as a famine. Your body thinks it’s necessary to store every spare calorie as fat. Many of us combine a high carbohydrate diet with a high stress lifestyle, which doubles the chances of weight gain.
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Most women think that menopause doesn’t occur until a woman is in her late forties or early to mid fifties. However, many women and I begin to experience menopause or early menopause symptoms before the age of forty. We mistakenly think we’re too young to begin menopause. So we don’t associate the symptoms we’re experiencing are due to early menopause symptoms.

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Early menopause symptoms are basically the same as symptoms associated with natural menopause. However, women who experience symptoms of menopause at an early age should consult with a doctor to ensure that the symptoms are actually early menopause symptoms, and not symptoms of something more serious. You should also note that scientists believe that women who experience early menopause tend to feel the symptoms of menopause more intensely than women who experience natural menopause later in life.
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During early menopause, a woman is experiencing both physical and emotional changes. All of these changes are greatly affected by the fluctuation in hormone levels that occurs during early menopause. Women who experience early menopause have the same concerns that women who have natural menopause at average age have. However, they do have a few additional concerns that have an effect on their emotional well-being.

For many women, sleep patterns are interrupted during early menopause. This is often caused by night sweats. This interruption in sleep patterns, along with the fluctuating hormones, can make a woman quite irritable. While this irritability has an effect on the people around you, it actually has a greater impact on your emotional health. You can feel that your emotions are out of control, and that you’re possibly ‘losing your minds.’

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Fortunately, you’re not ‘losing your minds.’ For many women, a doctor’s confirmation of early menopause comes as a great relief. It’s an explanation for the emotional roller coaster you’ve been on. However, often, it brings about new concerns that affect your emotional well-being.
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Women who experience early menopause have many health concerns that they should address with their doctors. These health concerns cover physical changes to the body, emotional changes, and the risk of greater health problems in the future.

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The emotional health concerns that women face during early menopause include:

1. Emotional distress due to the fact that the childbearing years are over
2. Feelings of being an ‘incomplete’ woman
3. Fear that you can no longer keep up with other women your age who are not experiencing early menopause
4. Depression
5. Other mental and physical changes and symptoms can add additional emotional health concerns as well
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If you elect not to use Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for treatment of your early menopause symptoms, there are natural remedies that can greatly reduce, or eliminate the most common symptoms. However, it’s important that you not mix natural herbal remedies with HRT, as this can cause serious problems by flooding your body with too much estrogen.

The most common symptoms of early menopause are: hot flashes, neat sweats, interrupted sleep patterns, mood swings, reduced sexual drive, irritability, forgetfulness, and vaginal dryness. There are specific natural remedies for all of these symptoms. However, there are many things you can do that will help alleviate all symptoms, such as drinking more water to help flush toxins out of the system.

Exercise, including Yoga, can also help alleviate most of the symptoms associated with early menopause. Try to exercise about 30 minutes each day, and you’ll notice that you have fewer hot flashes, fewer mood swings, less irritability, and you sleep better.
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In most cases, early menopause cannot be prevented. Early menopause occurs for a wide variety of reasons, including family history, viral infections, surgeries, and cancer treatments. However, some studies show that women can do various things to prevent the possibility of early menopause.

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Studies have shown that women who smoke are 40% more likely to have early menopause than women who don’t smoke. Smoking lowers estrogen levels, and changes the way that our bodies use estrogen. Some researchers even believe that smoking has an influence on the menstrual cycle. Breaking the smoking habit will greatly reduce your chances of having early menopause. Other research shows smoking intensifies the symptoms associated with menopause.
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Menopause is called the ‘change of life’ for a reason. Not only are changes occurring in a woman’s body, but changes are also occurring in her life. For women who go through natural menopause, between the ages of 45 and 55, these changes may include children leaving home, becoming a grandparent, or retirement. These life and body changes also call for a change in the nutritional needs of a woman. This is especially true if you’re experiencing early menopause.

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Early menopause can put you at risk for serious health problems, such as osteoporosis and heart disease. However, adjusting your diet, and recognizing the fact that you have new nutritional needs, can greatly reduce these risks. Food has a great overall effect on our health, and how we feel. Many of the symptoms associated with early menopause can be minimized or eliminated by adding certain foods and vitamins to our diets, while doing away with other foods.
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There are hormone tests that can easily be performed by your doctor to determine if you’re going through premature, or early menopause. Unfortunately, some doctors instantly rule out menopause in patients who are in their twenties or thirties, without doing any testing. For this reason, it’s important that you know what hormone tests to ask for, and ensure that those tests are actually done.

Begin by understanding that if you are still getting your period each month, most doctors will recommend that you get your blood work done on day 3 of your period. However, if you are no longer having periods, blood work can be done at any time. You should also know that most doctors recommend having blood work done twice, about a month apart. This is because hormone levels fluctuate. Double testing can confirm, or rule out early menopause.

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The most important hormone tests for early menopause are FSH Blood Level Measurement tests. FSH stands for ‘Follicle Stimulating Hormone.’ FSH levels rise when the ovaries stop producing enough estrogen. Therefore, high FSH levels are an indication that you’re experiencing early menopause. Normal FSH level should be 3 - 20 mlu/ml. FSH levels above 10 to 12 mlu/ml is a sign that you are in the very early stages of menopause.
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Menopause, including early menopause, can affect the quality of a woman’s life for several years, and possibly for the rest of her life. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is designed to greatly improve the quality of a woman’s life, by eliminating, or reducing the symptoms of menopause and early menopause.

The unpleasant symptoms associated with early menopause are due to the lack or reduction of estrogen that’s being produced. All types of Hormone Replacement Therapy contain estrogen, which replaces the estrogen that your ovaries are no longer producing. HRT relieves hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and other symptoms related to early menopause.

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Hormone Replacement Therapy is especially recommended for women who experience early menopause. Studies have shown that women who have early menopause are at greater risk for heart disease and osteoporosis than women who experience menopause later in life.
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Amenorrhoea: Complete absence or stoppage of periods

Angina: A disease marked by brief attacks of chest pain

Anovulation: Failure to ovulate

Benign: Not cancer (non-cancerous)

Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy: The removal of both fallopian tubes and both ovaries

Bioidentical hormone therapy: Some women visit alternative medicine doctors and get a prescription for natural products, which are made from different plant hormones that are like those in a woman’s body. Each prescription is hand-mixed, and the dose can vary from patient to patient

Biopsy: A minor surgical procedure for which a small tissue specimen is removed and examined for the presence of disease

Bladder: A sac-like organ in the pelvic region where urine is stored before it leaves the body
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