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7Nov

“Hormonal” is a term that is used commonly if someone is acting moody, feeling blue or overly sexual. If you are wondering how hormones could possibly have an effect on your mood, you need to understand what hormones really are. Read more

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7Nov

Menopause Weight Control

“Life begins at forty,” so goes that much-repeated phrase.

For women, however, their forties is usually accompanied by the onset of menopause, a physiological phenomenon that basically means the end of a woman’s reproductive season. In most women, the beginning of menopause also heralds several rather unpleasant symptoms, some of which are the following: Read more

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6Nov

Menopause Women

What to do if you are often grouchy

Estrogen working together with neurotransmitters in your brain usually help keep extreme emotions in check but everything changes in menopause. Menopause is notorious for producing mood swings.

What exactly are are mood swings?

They are “extreme and unexplained fluctuations in the mood that interferes with the physical, social and professional aspects of a person’s life.” Another way to put it, they are an overreaction to life’s challenges.

When estrogen production declines to a significant degree (as in menopause), the chemical changes result in alterations in mood that may reach from episodic blowups of wrath and crankiness to intense unhappiness and depression.

Hormones and Your Mood

“Hormonal” is a term that is used commonly if someone is acting moody, feeling blue or overly sexual. If you are wondering how hormones could possibly have an effect on your mood, you need to understand what hormones really are. Read more

Weight Gain in Menopause

“Life begins at forty,” so goes that much-repeated phrase.

Eliminate Mood Swings!

What to do if you are often grouchy

So what can one do to deal with mood swings attributable to menopause?

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